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Use Room Scheduling Programs to Rent Rooms in Churches and Schools

Room Scheduling Program Features to Optimize Your Business

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Churches, schools, and libraries usually have rooms that they want to rent out. Businesses can have conference rooms left empty when their employees aren’t using them. Renting them out can increase their revenue. Organizing the rentals of all those rooms can be difficult, especially when it’s the responsibility of volunteers or employees with a lot of other work on their hands. One way to easily solve this issue is by taking advantage of room scheduling program software.

Room Scheduling Program Features 

Lots of locations still use paper or spreadsheets to track their rentals. With room scheduling software, it is far easier for clients to book – they just have to visit the page online! Organizers can track their rentals and view reports on pricing and scheduling much faster. Here are some amazing features that our room scheduling software offers: 

Pricing Features

  • Peak pricing for busy times 
  • Offer prepaid or unpaid options during scheduling
  • Send invoices with payment via the web

Customization Features

  • Custom durations and pricing 
  • Offer special rates per group or scheduling rights
  • Ability to offer add-ons (such as for projectors) 
  • Limit how far people can schedule or how much notice you need

Access and Booking Features

  • Access from desktop and custom mobile app
  • No double booking
  • Offer email or text reminders
  • Get signed waivers for liability and cancellation policies 

Conclusion

Room scheduling software can be valuable for all sorts of organizations, from churches to businesses. Empty rooms can be costly for an organization, with a single empty conference room costing your business $6789 per year. In addition, these empty rooms can be used for multiple reasons by people willing to rent them. Make the organization easier for your company and start using room scheduling software.

For more information on how eSoft Planner’s scheduling and management software, including our room scheduling program, can benefit you, schedule a demo with us today. 

Players Schedule through Sports Team Management

Sports Team Management Software Benefits Coaches and Players

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Managing sports teams is a full-time job. Sports team management software can help with all the coordination:

  • fields for practices, games, and tournaments,
  • collecting and tracking payments and paperwork, AND
  • sometimes handling rentals and lessons with team equipment or spaces (e.g., batting cages, nets, balls, etc).

That’s enough work to make your head spin. Not to mention, almost everyone responsible for all this has a full-time job and family to worry about. That’s why every organization, no matter how big or small, could benefit from management software. 

Here are all the things you should get to make the most out of an investment in this software: 

Custom Player Registration Forms

When a player signs up or accepts an offer after a tryout, a sports team management software does the heavy lifting. It handles setting up the player’s account and gathering all of their information through one online form (contact info, uniform sizing/number, etc). It’s also fully customizable based on the information you need. For example, for high school/recruitment-aged players, things like GPA, ACT/SAT scores, height, etc. would be important for a coach to have on file. But those things aren’t necessary, or even possible, for younger athletes. Through this form, all liability waivers, medical releases, physical forms, and team agreements can be submitted and signed. 

Team Agreement Signatures

No more file cabinets of paperwork and tracking who has and hasn’t signed. Your software will handle it all for you. It will notify each player of documents ready to sign, organize them into team folders, and let them e-sign from their devices – or straight from their registration form mentioned above. 

Payment Schedules 

Do you offer payment plans, one-time payments per season, or other options? Then sports team management software can keep track of it. Both parents and coaches can set recurring payments or even pay additional charges for lessons and clinics throughout the season, and more. 

Build a Budget

Operating a sports team is expensive. It’s essential that each team pays its dues to keep the organization up and running. Having a budget laid out that includes fundraising, player payments, and more can help organizations see which teams are paying their part, and which teams (or parents) need to do more. It is also a great option for transparency with the parents. They get to see exactly where the money is going, and the efforts they still need to make. Some software allows you to decide to show or hide the budget from the player’s accounts (or show just parts of the budget to the parents). A great software is fully customizable to your needs. 

Build a Team Schedule

A sports team management software makes the process of coordinating a team’s schedule and their player perks with all of the other teams in the organization a simple and on-the-go process. Coaches can see available times for courts, fields, cages, and more all from their phones (or PCs). They can then build out their team’s schedule without conflicting with other teams’ reservations or rentals. It can also allow players and their parents to go online and check the team schedule so that they can plan and coordinate with their day-to-day lives. 

Security

An online, protected software is the safest collection of information for the players, coaches, and parents. It offers secure payment as well as a safe storage platform for important papers such as birth certificates. 

Player Scheduling Capabilities 

A sports team management software can also open up your facilities and equipment for rental by the players for extra practice, lessons with coaches or other staff, and clinics you offer. 

If you are on the hunt for a sports team management software that fits all of your needs, learn more about eSoft Planner.eSoft Planner is flexible, affordable, simple, and perfect for small businesses and organizations. Request your free demo today. See how we can help you consolidate effort, save time, and increase revenue.

Youth organization scheduling for urban community athletics programs with baseball fields, tennis courts, and parking lots.

Youth Organization Scheduling Software Benefits

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A youth organization is a machine with many moving parts. What’s more, each part needs a volunteer (or volunteers) to ensure they run properly. With volunteer priorities focused on the kids, organization and facilities management can fall short. That is why investing in a youth organization scheduling software is highly beneficial to all key players in the organization. 

Whether your youth organization includes indoor/outdoor court scheduling, indoor/outdoor field scheduling, or all of the above, the benefits are endless. So take a look at a few things to consider when choosing facility management software.

1. Save Field/Court Coordinator’s Time 

A Field/Court Coordinator’s workload can be cut in half. With online scheduling software, they no longer have to answer calls, texts, and emails on availability and scheduling. And, they don’t have to organize and update the calendar to avoid double booking. As a result, they can focus on facility maintenance.

2. Give Coaches Flexibility

In short, a coach’s first job is not coaching. Creating ease and simplicity will prevent headaches. Let coaches focus on their passion – teaching kids to play their sport. Most youth organization scheduling software options include many features for coaches to schedule. This includes games and practices, as well as adding on details such as field maintenance and light requests. Coaches won’t have to worry about these details on game day and coordinators will be aware ahead of time. 

3. Customize and Organize

A field or court scheduling software can be customized to fit any organization’s needs. For example, some youth organizations give each team a set number of field/court reservations and games per season. But they don’t have a tracking system in place to keep count. Scheduling software can handle this tracking. In addition, the software offers features like:

  • special field hours,
  • restrictions on booking in advance, and
  • rules for the amount of notice needed for cancellations.

4. E-Commerce Capabilities 

No more checks/cash exchanges and bank trips. A youth organization scheduling software allows coaches from outside organizations to reserve field or court space, and pay for it on the spot.  

A Youth Organization Scheduling App Makes It Even More Mobile

Choosing software with an app brings even more benefits into the mix. Coaches will be able to see the field schedule 24/7 and book their teams from a phone or tablet. Finally, the app offers automated communication. That is, it sends reminders to coaches on their field reservations, any updates from the organization, and more. 

Do you run a youth organization? Are you looking to make everyone’s jobs easier? Learn more about eSoft Planner and how it can help. 

eSoft Planner is flexible, affordable, simple, and perfect for small business owners. Request your free demo today. We can show you how to consolidate effort, save time, increase revenue, and grow your business.

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