Seasons, swaps, pause a court and an announcer in your language
PickleNext dresses up for the season: Christmas, New Year, Valentine's, Independence Day and Halloween. The logo changes shape and the public pages take the season's colours. Game Control, the live board and Play now stay calm.
Swap players in Game Control and Play now: trade someone on court with a player who is waiting, change partners across the net, or trade players between two courts.
Pause a court for a broken net, a wet floor or a lesson. Nothing new is dealt there until you resume it, and a game already on it plays out.
The announcer speaks Taglish, Tagalog or Bisaya, plus more languages for clubs outside the Philippines.
Your match history shows how much each game moved your own rating.
2026-11-03
Fairer queue, singles rating, session report and a bigger Game Control
Session awards: Night's awards are now Session awards, because plenty of sessions run in the day. Players see the awards they won on their profile.
Singles and doubles now have separate PickleNext ratings, with a Doubles and Singles switch on Rankings. A level the desk sets in Game Control counts for that session only.
A fairer queue: two players who come off court together are no longer put in the same game again and again, Up next keeps its game while a requested battle waits, and moving a player up re-deals the games lined up.
Game Control is larger on laptops, challenge courts are big tiles, Up next shows each player's wait as a bar, and Replace lists who waited longest.
Cash at the desk: type what a player handed over and the change owed stays on screen until you tick it given.
Session report: every game, the standings, the awards and the payments on one page you can save as a PDF.
The live board plays a versus intro when a battle, challenge or final starts. And there is a new Feedback button: tell us what to fix or build next.
2026-10-28
Night's awards
Every finished session now hands out Night's awards: Heat Check (most wins in a row), Dink Dynasty (best pair), Court Marathoner (most games), Bagel Baker (biggest win), Ice Veins (most wins by 2), The Wall (fewest points allowed) and Mix Master (most partners). Nobody takes more than two.
They show on the results page, the shared results picture, the live board when the session ends, the session Overview, and at the end of Play now, including the text you share to the group chat.
2026-10-27
A fairer PickleNext rating, session numbers, safer delete and liquid glass
The PickleNext rating is rebuilt: everyone starts at 2.0 and every past game was replayed under new rules. Beating a stronger team, a bigger score margin and your first 10 games all count for more, and the stronger partner moves less. See how it works, with a calculator, at picklenext.app/rating.
The level picked at sign-up or by the desk now only helps matching for a player's first 5 rated games. Rating history charts now show losses as losses.
The Sessions page opens with this month at a glance (sessions, games, players, average a night) and a chart of players each night.
Admins can delete a session that is not live. It waits under Pending delete for 3 days, where Restore brings it back, then it is gone for good. Payments are always kept.
The dashboard shows players and games a week for the last 8 weeks, and how much each court was used today. Peak hours, retention and money stay in Advanced analytics.
New Liquid glass look, on by default: clear frosted panels with a soft glow behind them, in light or dark. Prefer solid panels? Turn it off in Settings. The live board is glass on phones and tablets and stays solid on TVs.
Club referral links now show who invited you on the sign-up page, and someone who already has an account goes straight to making their club.
2026-10-27
Refer a club, fix any result, and a mark for every match type
Fix result on Game Control and Play Now: pick who really won, or type the real score. Standings, wins and ratings follow.
Gone home is no longer goodbye: they are listed under the queue with a Came back button that puts them at the back of the line, games and payment kept.
Sit out this round now ends by itself: once a game has finished on every court, the player is back in line at their old place.
Every match type, the challenge court and request a battle have their own mark, on the live board, Game Control, Play Now and the match types page.
Long names no longer push the Play Now buttons off a phone screen.
Refer a club: Billing has your own link. The club you send gets ₱100 off its first month, and once it has paid and 30 days have passed you get ₱150 credit toward your plan and add-ons.
2026-10-26
No more same four all night, auto-end and two sessions at once
Matchmaking no longer puts the same four back together. When the only players free are the four who just played (16 players on 4 courts, 8 on 2), the court waits for the next game to end and both groups are mixed. The desk sees "Waiting to mix groups" with a Play anyway button. Same in Play Now and Game Control.
Up next games picked while every court was busy are dealt again once a court frees, so the players coming off court mix in.
Skill courts and Ladder on one court now mix the room instead of alternating the same two groups.
Sessions nobody finished end on their own two hours after their end time. Games still on court close with no result.
A game left behind by an old session no longer blocks a court, so Generate always uses a free court.
Going from 2 courts to 1 mid-session moves the game lined up for the removed court back into the line instead of stranding its four players.
Game control can switch between two sessions running at once, and never puts two games on one court.
Play Now: entered scores now count. Ties on wins are broken by point difference, then points won, and the table shows +/- points.
2026-10-15
Fairer winners and losers, reservation notices and a tidier menu
Winners & losers no longer lets the pair who just won jump the line. The person who has waited longest always plays next, with others from the front of the line who had the same result. Same in Play Now and Game Control.
Play Now says why: each game shows a line like "Ana waited longest (14 min). All 4 won their last game.", and every waiting player shows Next or Game 2, 3 and how long they have waited.
Bookings that close at 12:00 AM now offer the evening up to midnight. Before, a club open 7:00 AM to 12:00 AM had no times to book. Rates that end at 12:00 AM save too.
Asking the page chat for the price lists your time-of-day rates, for example 7:00am to 5:00pm and 5:00pm to 12:00am.
Customers hear when you confirm, move, take payment for or cancel their booking: in the app, in the same Messenger or web chat they booked in, and by SMS when it is on.
Optional on-the-day reminder for confirmed bookings, and a list of today's bookings in the bell for admins and staff, each at the hour you pick in Club settings.
Reservations: drag a booking to another time or court, drag its bottom edge to make it longer, a month view, filters by status and court, and colours for pending, unpaid and paid.
Taking payment for a booking asks how, like the session list: cash, online or bank (GCash, Maya) with a reference number, a pass, or card.
Add a Google Maps or Waze link to your club in Club settings. It shows as Open in Maps on your club page and booking page, in booking confirmations, and under a new Location button in the page chat menu.
Customize menu: each person can hide the menu items they do not use. It follows them to every device and changes nothing for anyone else.
Play Now shows what the same night looks like run as a club, with pictures of the live board, Game Control and the player app.
Making a booking longer or shorter re-prices it, and what is still owed follows. A price you typed by hand is kept.
Court prices no longer round up by a centavo on longer bookings.
A club open all day shows "Open 24 hours" on its booking page, and long map links wrap inside the chat.
2026-10-14
Live board you can watch, and sessions at a rented venue
Each live court on the board is drawn as a pickleball court, with a rally on it: paddles for every player, shots at random, and a "Sorry!" and "Nice!" when the ball goes out. Partners tap paddles after a winning point in doubles.
Scores reach the board within about three seconds, even when the board is in a background tab, and each new point pops.
The board lists everyone waiting, with their wins and losses tonight and how long they have waited.
Each team stands on its own side of the court card with the score on the net, in larger type on phones.
Game control: the suggested game and Up next are now one list, with a game ready for every court. Suggest another really picks four different players.
Naming only the winner keeps the score that was counted on court.
Sessions can say where they are played, for clubs that rent courts: a venue name and an address or a pasted Google Maps or Waze link. It shows on the session page, the session list, check-in, the live board and in your page chat.
2026-10-14
Page chat that answers like a person, in English or Tagalog
The booking bot asks a new customer's name once, on their first message, and remembers it.
It answers questions about your club from what you have entered: where you are with a map link, open play, courts, hours, prices, amenities, cancellations and membership.
Anything it has no answer for, it says so and leaves for your staff, without guessing.
Customers who write in Tagalog or Taglish are answered in Tagalog, through every booking step.
The page chat menu now shows for every customer, not only for the page's admins.
Photos and stickers sent in the page chat show as pictures in the Inbox.
The home page shows the real app on a TV, a laptop and a phone.
2026-10-13
Messenger inbox and Billing now agree
Billing shows whether a Facebook page is connected beside the Messenger inbox module, and warns if one is on without the other.
If the module is switched off while a page is connected, messages still arrive in the Inbox, and replies and the booking bot pause until it is switched back on.
The page chat asks what time of day before listing free times, and asks for a name when Facebook does not give one.
A booking's reference now shows at the desk.
New footer on the public site.
2026-10-13
Page chat: book in chat or on your booking page, and cancel there too
Book a court in your Facebook page chat now asks: here in chat, or on your booking page. It sends the link if they choose the page.
My reservation lists a customer's bookings with numbers, and they can cancel one in the chat within your cancellation notice.
Talk to staff no longer silences the bot for good. It stays quiet until the customer uses the menu again.
A club that is open around the clock now shows its free times on the booking page and in chat.
The desk can make or move a reservation of any length. The longest-booking limit now applies to customers only.
New Privacy, Terms and Data Deletion pages.
2026-10-13
Book several courts in one go, and a menu in your page chat
The desk can tick more than one court when making a reservation. Each court gets its own booking.
Customers on the club's booking page can add more courts for the same time, with no account needed.
If one of the courts is already taken, nothing is booked and the message says which court.
Facebook page chat: turning on the booking bot now adds a menu with Book a court, Available times, My reservation, Price and Talk to staff.
2026-10-13
Bigger halls on the Live Board, and bookings around the clock
The Live Board and Game Control now lay out up to 12 courts on one screen, with names kept whole.
A club whose opening and closing time are the same is treated as always open, so bookings are no longer refused.
Settings, Billing, Integrations and other pages now use the full width of the screen.
A session's Courts tab counts only the courts that session uses.
2026-10-13
Scores, bookings, fairer queues and a simpler menu
Count points live on each court with + and - buttons, if you want to. The Live Board shows the running score.
Fix any finished game: change the winner or the score, even after the session has ended.
Standings now break ties with point difference.
Players list: undo Arrived, rename or remove a player, and add a reference number to an online payment.
Players who never arrive are marked no-show when the session ends.
Skill separated matching is fairer when one level has only a few players.
New players start at level 2.0. Club staff can set a player's level, and a DUPR rating can be typed in and shown beside it.
Club Wars can now be played between up to six clubs, each with its own name.
Scan a pass with the camera on iPhone as well as Android.
The Live Board shows the two sides face to face, and a finished board can be shared.
The club menu is grouped into Today, Compete, Sell, Money and Setup, and pages use the full width of the screen.
Edit a session after creating it, and run sessions up to 12 hours long.
Court bookings: tap a free hour on the day grid to book it with just a name, tick Paid now, and tap any booking to mark it paid, move it or cancel it.
A Courts only switch in Club settings for venues that rent courts and do not run open play.
Analytics: a report for any dates with attendance, no-shows, most active players, regulars who stopped coming, takings by payment method, and a spreadsheet download.
A name typed at the desk can be linked to the player's own account, once that player approves it.
The matching type is announced in the hall when staff change it.
A wallet guide explains prepaid credit and passes.
Tap a player's name in Game Control to see their night: record, points, partners and opponents.
Club Wars in Play Now can also be played between up to six sides.