When you login you will be presented with an empty league setup screen. We’ll explain what all of these fields mean and why they are important. You can;t proceed without filling these in, but you can return back to this screen any time using the menu. Your Organization > League Settings.
Organization Name – The name of your league or company
Contact Name and Contact Email – The primary contact person in your league. This could be yourself, or a group email account/list. But this is how people new to the league get in contact with you
Facebook URL - The URL to your facebook page or group
Location - Enter your postcode to provide us with the location of your league. This helps us plot a map of where your league is so that we can help players find you.
Custom Domain – Set up RackEmApp to use a custom domain name. If you are new to RackEmApp, skip this for now. More details here
Friendly URL – This provides the address to your league. This URL is where you will point your captains players and other visitors as its where you’ll find all the fixtures, results, league tables, competitions and pretty much everything else you need people to know.
If you don;t use a custom domain you'll access it at https://www.rackemapp.com/leagues/{yourfriendlyurl}
Bank Account and Sort Code – This will be made visible whenever you offer payment by bank transfer, for example when registering a team or a competition entry.
Currency – If you want to add online payments to your registration processes, then you need to select a currency
Require Phone Number– This makes the phone number a required field on all player registrations for your league.
Hide Doubles - If you don't play doubles in your league formats, you can disable the visibility of doubles rankings pages with this
App Only League Matches - There are multiple ways to score matches in RackEmApp. The main one is for captains to use the traditional scorecard with frame approvals. However, it is possible to use the Tablet scoreboard by entering the match code. This means users can bypass the approval system, or make edits. This is a valid use case, but if you would prefer that this is not possible, check this box.
Startup Checklist - When you first register this will display a startup checklist to guide you through all the steps you need to get going. It can be hidden once you are live, but checking this box will re-enable it.
Break Decider – The method you use to determine who breaks. If you choose “Lag” then it tracks this as a statistic.
This section allows you to set some branding to your website
Logo - Allows you to upload your league logo. It will always try and make it square, so upload a square file if you want to avoid any stretching.
Background Image - Applies a background image to your website
Website Theme Colour - Will change the primary accent colour of your website (Buttons, links etc)
Use custom stream overlays - This is for when you have paid RackEmApp for a custom overlay to be built. Do not enable this if you have not done so.
Various settings relating to the mobile app
Fairest Player - WIll allow you to choose the fairest player. This is an untracked statistic at this time
Hide reverse dishes - This will hide the reverse dish column form the app and rankings pages
Set referee - Allows you to choose which player in the match was the main referee
Multi League is a special setting for a single organization running multiple,segregated league nights. More details can be found here.
Match Days – The day(s) you usually play. It uses these to generate your season calendar.
Multi League – This is for when you want to operate different leagues on different days of the week. For more information, click here.