When booking an Aceify 

• When making a booking for an Aceify client, check the Aceify credit available 
  • Malcolm to check how to access a client’s balance, and if there is a unique URL  - via the client’s email or client’s ID

Payments

• Payment system set up.  
• Stripe Login: nurse_stephen@hotmail.com

Scraping courts 

• MyCourts  (generic code that will then apply to all the MyCourts clubs)
• Duke’s Meadow – requires a bespoke scrape
• Aphrodite Hills

Tennisfinder 

• Tennis Venue entity:
  • For the 129 MyCourts clubs, can you try to convert the Longitude and Latitude data that we captured into the “embedded html” needed for the maplink, so the map-marker icon works?  
  • Can you run the postcode distance calculator for one player across all the MyCourt clubs to see if they all ok compute
  • The Map All button (showing the position of all the Active Courts on a single page) doesn’t seem to include the MyCourts clubs  
• MyCourt Scraper
  • Can you build a scraper to extract the Court (whether tennis, squash or badminton) Availability for the “MyCourts” clubs
  • Can you bring in the data as to whether it is available and the price if it is a given
• Booking a Court (ClubSpark)
  • Can we test the client emails when you book a court
  • Can you look to see if you can complete the single-click book for the courts?
• Complex reservation (multiple days where we book the first court that comes available)
  • Can we create a chron that runs through all the complex reservations and makes a booking (and cancels others) that meet the criteria. For example,
    • If the #1 preference is free it books that and cancels the others
      • Question:  Do  we wait for all the first choices to be available before ‘hitting’ a second choice?  Or do we go through each hour and hitting the best one?  (Do you see the problem?)
        • Perhaps we should make that a question :  “Would you like us to immediately book a non-first preference option if there are some courts at your first preference still to be released? Be aware if we then wait those second/third/fourth choice options might have gone?”
  • We also have to think about how we use the bidding process...  
    • For a single venue/hour…. Do we give them a choice of court, or any court?
    • And do we charge the full bid price, or the next best bid +£1? How will the client know? Do we show the current highest bid  to encourage a higher bid- Yes?  And do we tell the first bidder that they have been out-bid?
    • I think we just take the full amount and the client

Splitting the court cost bill

• One person will have to first buy the court, but the functionality I want is for that person to then be able to split the bill across the other players
  • Create a “My Bookings” link - that shows the bookings where the logged-user is one of the players (either player1, player2, player3 or player 4).  
  • This view shows who has currently paid for the court (and the split after some reallocation) and includes a button that “Pays my share”,
  • That process involves the non-paying player(s) to send their share of the cost to the kitty of the person that paid the bill.  It will shows as a like a TopUp on the account of the recipient and a debit on the Account of the sender 
  • Email functionality to send a reminder to the non-payers

ClubSpark

• Buy smart card per venue. Limit bookings to one per day and 5 per week per smart card to avoid scrutiny. 

Management statistics

• History of court usage
• The states of the court are:
  • No data => 1
  • Available => 2
  • Booked => 3
  • Closed => 4
• Lifecycle (assuming not closed): 1>2>3
• What do you need to know
  • New fields:
    • A) timeFirstScrape - Done
    • B) timeCourtReleased - Done
    • C) timeCourtTaken (ie time on a scrape  when the court was Available before but is now Booked) - Done
  • Compute
    • SnapUpTime:  (C-Max(A,B))
    • LeadTime: (PlayTime-C)  - Done

Overcome the IP blocking issue

• Proposed solution is to scrape using a local copy of the site that posts the results to the live site
• Question: How do we overcome the IP block that is applied to our site for the making of bookings?  is the IP address already blocked?  Note this will be far less frequent than the scrape, so we could use a dynamic IP address for that component of the site as the volumes will be far lower?

Complex reservations

• Allow users to book repeat reservations targeting mutliple venues, where their choice will prioritise either the venue or the times or the time on court 

Scraping

• Solve how to “prompt” a court availability scrape from the live site
• Scrape history view not working

Bookings

• Allow non-logged in users to book (ie straight to CC provider, take email)
• Email confirmation