Ground status
Answer Saturday morning once.
Put a Grounds open, Wet-weather call or Grounds closed band across every page of your club website, with your own wording and a time it clears itself.
Every community club gets the same question from 7am on a wet Saturday, forty times, from forty different phones. The ground status band answers it on your own website, in one place: pick the call, write a line if you want to, and a coloured band appears under the header of every page — the fixtures page, the home page, the page somebody has bookmarked.
It is set by a person and only ever by a person. No forecast, no fixture status and no automation can write it, because the call is a judgement about your ground that somebody has to stand behind — and every change is recorded in your audit log.
The call
Four calls, and one of them is “not yet”
The calls are Grounds open, Wet-weather call and Grounds closed — plus no band, for the rest of the year when nothing needs saying. The middle one earns its place: “we are looking at it, check before you drive” is what a club actually knows at 7am, and it stops the two bad options of guessing early or saying nothing.
Write your own headline and a paragraph of detail — which grounds, who is deciding, when you will know — or leave them blank and take the built-in wording. One band covers the organisation, so if the top oval is off and the synthetic is fine, that goes in your own words.
Show until
It takes itself down
Every band carries a Show until time, defaulting to 9pm tonight in your club’s own time zone — so the call you made on Saturday morning is gone by Sunday and nobody reads a stale closure on Wednesday. Clear the field and the band stays up until somebody changes it, which is what you want for a ground closed for a month of turf works.
The band shows when the call was made, in your club’s time zone, so a visitor can see whether they are reading something from twenty minutes ago or from last night.
Who sees it
On every page, for everybody
The band sits under the header of every page of your public site, including on your own custom domain, and it is there for signed-out visitors — the away team’s parents, the umpire, the person who has never heard of your club newsletter. It is painted on the server, so it works with JavaScript switched off and on the worst phone reception at the ground.
Each call takes its colour from your own theme and carries a different icon shape and its own words, so it reads correctly in greyscale, on a sun-washed screen and to a screen reader — a band nobody can decode is not a warning.
Honest limits
It changes your website — it does not ring anyone
Setting the status sends nothing: no email, no SMS, no push notification. It is a sign on the front of your site, which is what people check first. When the call needs to reach people who will not look, send it as well — an SMS to team managers, or a broadcast to everyone playing.
Ground status is on every plan, free included. The control lives on your Locations screen, so it needs the Locations module switched on for your club; if you close individual courts or nets rather than whole grounds, that is facility booking instead.
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