How players join and score (QR codes and claiming names)

The join flow

Print the QR poster from the share page and put it on carts, the first tee, and the pro-shop counter. Scanning opens the event in the browser; the player picks their name and starts scoring. No camera? The short join code typed at the site does the same job.

Anyone with the link can watch the live leaderboard without claiming a name - spouses, sponsors, and the beer cart included.

Per-player QR cards

From the roster admin you can print a personal QR card per player. First scan claims that exact roster slot - no picking from a list, no claiming the wrong Dave. If someone grabs a teammate's card by mistake, the take-over page sorts it out; scores always belong to the team, not the phone.

Event PINs

If your join QR is on every clubhouse screen, set an event PIN in setup. Players then need the PIN to claim a name or add themselves. It prints on the per-player cards but never on the public poster or the TV.

One phone for the whole event (field scoring)

Set "Who can enter scores" to "Anyone in the event" on the Event setup page and one phone can keep every card - good for a small trip with one scorekeeper, 8 to 16 players. The scoring page shows your own card first, and an "Everyone else" list opens any other cart's card, hole by hole or as a full scorecard. The organizer can score from their own account with no claimed name at all. Two people entering the same hole is safe either way: the newest entry wins, and every entry is recorded with who typed it.

What the scoring screen looks like

The hole you are on fills the screen: the hole number, par, yardage and stroke index, then the score with a big minus and plus either side of it. Under the number it says what that score is - Birdie, Par, Bogey - and there are one-tap buttons for those three. Anything else is a tap or two on the stepper.

Above it, every hole in the round is a numbered chip: green for holes you have posted, gold for the one you are on. Tap any of them to jump - which is how you start on hole 12 in a shotgun without hunting for it.

A card for every player in the cart. On events scored per player - grouped stroke play, Stableford, best ball - every player in your group gets their own row with their own minus and plus. Nobody has to fight the phone keyboard, and the row you are claimed as is outlined so you cannot enter your score in somebody else's line. If the event is set to "own score only", the other rows show their numbers without controls.

Your card is always one tap away. At the bottom of the scoring screen is a "Your card" bar showing your running OUT, IN and TOT. Pull it open for the whole round at a glance; tap any hole in it to go straight there, or open the full card to edit several holes at once. It counts scores still waiting to sync, so the total is right even in a dead zone.

Bigger text and bigger buttons

The A A button in the corner of any player page steps through four sizes: Standard, Easy, Large and Gloves-on. It grows the buttons along with the text - the stepper goes from 52 to 78 pixels - so it genuinely helps in bright sun, in the cold, or with reading glasses in the car. The setting sticks on that phone for every event.

Dead zones don't stop scoring

Scoring is offline-first: every score saves to the phone instantly and syncs when signal returns, and the scoring page keeps working through a rural back nine - even after a page refresh. A status chip shows saved-on-phone vs. synced, so nobody wonders whether the 4 counted.

Frequently asked questions

Does every player need their own phone?

No - one phone per group is plenty. Most scrambles have one designated scorer per team; anyone else who joins just sees the live board. With field scoring on, one phone can even keep every card in the event.

What if someone claims the wrong name?

They can release the name and claim the right one, or the organizer can substitute or free the slot from the roster admin. Scores stay with the team either way.