What you would do yourself, but to the exact second.
Most clubs release their courts a fixed number of days in advance, at a fixed time, for example exactly seven days ahead. The popular slots are taken within seconds of that moment. CourtCatch does exactly what you would do by hand: log in, pick the court, add your partners, submit. Only at exactly the right moment, every time.
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Link your KNLTB ClubApp account
You search for your club and log in with the same details as in the KNLTB ClubApp: your federation membership number and your password. CourtCatch checks them with the KNLTB right away, so you know immediately whether the link works.
Your password and the session token are stored encrypted. They are used to sync your club data and to send the reservations you asked for — nothing else.
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Sync your courts and buddies
Once the account is linked, CourtCatch fetches your club's courts and your playing partners from the KNLTB. Courts keep their own details: court number, surface and whether there is lighting. That way you pick exactly the court you want instead of "a court".
You can re-run the sync whenever your club adds a court or you add a new playing partner.
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Build a booking schedule
A schedule is the description of the slot you want. You set it up once and it keeps working.
- The court you want, plus an optional fallback court.
- The buddies who should be on the reservation. You are always included.
- The start time of the court itself — the hour you actually want to play.
- How many days ahead your club opens the slot. Seven is common; your club rules decide.
- The clock time reservations open at your club. That is the moment CourtCatch fires.
- Whether this repeats: once or weekly, between a start and an end date.
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The moment itself
Shortly before the opening time, the job for your schedule is already waiting on CourtCatch's servers. It waits for the right moment, and your reservation request goes out to the millisecond. All that is left for you is to show up and play.
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- Logged in and everything set up
- 0.000s
- Reservation sent on the mark
- Then
- The outcome lands in your dashboard
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When something is in the way
Two things typically go wrong at the opening second, and CourtCatch reacts to both without you being there.
The court is already gone
A court can already be booked before the club releases it, for example for a lesson or a club social. CourtCatch can't book that court for you then, but if you set a fallback court, the reservation is immediately retried on that court.
A playing partner is already booked
Many clubs don't allow booking courts back to back, so the KNLTB ClubApp refuses a reservation when someone on it is already playing around that time. CourtCatch takes that person out and tries again, with an available partner from your list or from a selection you picked in advance.
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What you get back
After every attempt you get a notification in your dashboard telling you which court was booked, or why it did not work out.
What you need
An active KNLTB ClubApp account at a club where you book courts online, and a club that releases its courts a fixed number of days in advance. If your club releases courts at irregular moments, there is no fixed moment to aim for and CourtCatch cannot help you.
You keep using your own KNLTB account, and you can keep booking by hand exactly as before.
Ready to set up your first schedule?
The Free plan lets you run a real booking before you pay anything.