Points Master is self-hosted software, not a paid product — an instance is run by one club (or one person) for their own weekly game night. If you're seeing this on someone else's instance, ask them about their own arrangement; there's no central signup or subscription.
The live session screen is built to keep working offline: the schedule is cached ahead of time, results you tap in are queued on your device, and everything syncs automatically once the connection comes back. Setup and admin screens do need a connection.
Each session, the app generates a sequence of matches that minimises how unevenly any two players end up as teammates or opponents across the night — not just avoiding an exact repeat, but spreading pairings out fairly. It reshuffles this every game, the same way the paper sheet always intended, just without the manual tally.
It stays on the instance your club runs on. There's no shared database across clubs and nothing is sold or shared with third parties — it exists to keep your own attendance and points history, nothing more.
The paper sheet is a fixed, pre-printed schedule that repeats the same handful of matchups every week. This generates a fresh, fairness-optimised schedule live, totals points automatically as you tap in results, and keeps a running leaderboard across every session — no manual tally, no photocopying.
From the club's Players screen, add a name and they show up on the attendance list for the next session. They don't need an account until you want to hand them a login — issuing a claim code from that same screen turns a name into a real member.
Mark who's attending, confirm the number of courts and match length, and start — the app proposes a schedule and each court's result gets tapped in as it happens. You can finalise at any point to lock in the standings for the night.
Yes, while the session is still running: results can be adjusted up until you finalise. Once a session is finalised its standings are locked and can't be reopened, so it's worth double-checking before that final tap.
Yes — promote any existing member to admin from the Players screen. A club with only one admin will see a reminder banner suggesting a second, so the club is never one missed session away from being locked out.
Use "Forgot your password?" on the sign-in screen if your account has a verified email on file. If not, ask a club admin to issue you a reset code from the Players screen — no email needed.
A one-time code a club admin issues you that turns your name on the roster into a real account with your own username and password, so you can sign in and see your own history.
Any of your club's admins can add players, issue you a claim or reset code, or fix a result — check with whoever set your club up, or ask around; a club can have more than one.
Yes — it only shows itself automatically the very first time your account signs in, but you can reopen it here any time.