For clubs
Run your sports club
where your members already are
The website nobody reads twice, the WhatsApp group where an announcement sinks in thirty seconds, the noticeboard in the sports hall: NOR replaces all three with one place. Here is what is in it, before we ask you for anything.
What you get
Nine things, one place
None of it asks your members to install one more piece of software: it is the app they already use to log their matches, with one more tab.
Calendar
A pattern, not a list of dates
"Tuesday 8–10pm, Vaugreneuil hall, 6 courts, Social group" is true thirty-five weeks in a row: you write it once. School holidays close in a single line without touching the rest. Your member sees their week — not a month to decipher.
Venues
The right address, written once
A club plays in two or three halls. Each has its name and its address, written once — and that is the one a member opens in their satnav on the evening they are heading somewhere they have never been.
Groups
Social, competition, juniors
The club does the sorting, never the member — and a member can be in several. Everything else follows from it: which sessions concern them, which announcements reach them, which threads they can write in.
Noticeboard
What the committee announces
Written by the committee, read by everyone, pinnable — the AGM stays at the top. An announcement can target one group or the whole club. You cannot reply to it: a noticeboard you can reply to is a chat, and the club has three.
Chats
Three threads, each its own room
The committee among themselves, the general thread for every member, and one thread per group. Each is muted individually without leaving the club. A member can flag a message to the committee, who decide — NOR does not decide for them.
Events
Dated, and tested before they are set
Ladder nights, internal tournaments, the end-of-season dinner. One "like" is enough to know whether the idea lands, before committing a hall and two volunteers.
Directory
The players looking for you find you
Someone who has just moved, someone coming back after ten years, someone who has just found NOR: they search for "badminton club" and their town. Your club appears in the public directory — name, town, number of members — and requests arrive with a required few words of introduction. Being listed opens nothing: an officer approves, as for any membership. Untick the box and the listing is gone the same day.
Members
Who is here, and who has paid
The list, everyone's groups, and where their dues stand — a box an officer ticks, never a payment NOR collects. A member who leaves takes their account and their ranking with them; the club keeps its list.
Running tab
"Léa took two tubes of shuttles"
The book of what the club fronts, and nothing more: a catalogue so the price is written once, one line per item taken, and an officer who ticks "settled" once the club has been paid. The price freezes on the line — putting the tube up from 15 to 17 next year does not rewrite last year's tab. Everyone sees their own; officers see what is still to collect.
NOR takes no money. Not your dues, not your tubes of shuttles: you carry on with whatever you already use — cash, transfer, cheque — and an officer ticks "settled". It is a treasurer's notebook, not accounting software.
Who can do what
Three roles, and a club that outlives its chair
In a volunteer club the chair and the treasurer change every few years. The club cannot die with the account of whoever got their card out: ownership is handed on, and that is designed in from day one.
| Role | What they can do |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything an officer can, plus: appoint and remove officers, hold the subscription, delete the club, and hand over. A club always has exactly one owner, never zero. |
| Officer | Groups, sessions, venues, events, the noticeboard, memberships, dues, and the committee thread. |
| Member | Read the calendar and the noticeboard, write in the club thread and in their groups' threads, like an event, see their own tab. |
How you get in
Never without both sides agreeing
You scan a player's QR code
At registration, at the side of the court. The membership is created pending their agreement: a code can be photographed over a shoulder and left lying in screenshots — knowing it must not be enough to drop someone into your threads and your notifications.
A player scans the club's QR code
You share a link or put a poster up in the hall. The player asks to join, an officer approves. A club is not an open door: scanning a poster does not get you in — you have to be known and paid up.
What membership opens
The calendar, the noticeboard, the club thread and the threads of the groups you belong to, the member list.
What it does not open
Private messaging between two players, and logging a match. Those two stay behind a connection accepted by both people, whether they are in the same club or not. Being in the same club gives you no rights over anyone.
A refused membership remembers no "no": someone who was not paid up in October asks again in January with nothing hanging over them.
Straight up
What NOR does not do
Better read here than discovered after paying.
The limits
Three things
- It does not collect your dues. You carry on with whatever you already use; NOR only notes who is paid up
- It does not book courts. The calendar publishes sessions — it holds no slot and does not say who is coming
- It replaces neither your licence, nor your federation, nor your official ranking
And for your members
Nothing to pay
- The subscription belongs to the club, not to its members
- A member keeps their free NOR account, with their sport and their ranking
- There is nothing to install to start: NOR opens in a browser
Next
Where do you want to go?
Three doors, and each says what is behind it.
Set up my club
Five fields, then payment. Nothing is created until it goes through — and you have no NOR account to create first: it is born with the club.
See how it worksI already have a club
You have paid, or an officer appointed you. Sign in with the address you used: the club is waiting, there is nothing to set up again.
Open my clubMy club invited me
You are a member, not an officer, and someone sent you a link or showed you a QR code. You have nothing to pay.
Join my club