Quick Guide

Running a Session with PadBoard

Everything the app does and how to do it. Print this or save it as a PDF — it fits on one sheet, front and back.

PadBoard — Quick Guide

PadBoard decides who plays next, on which court and with whom, and keeps score. It runs in a browser and keeps working with no internet at the venue.

Subscribing

  • Create a free account at audrim.ph/register. Anyone can sign up — no invitation needed.
  • In the portal, open Order Service and press Order on the plan you want: ₱250 a month for up to 4 courts, or ₱500 for up to 8 courts plus saved rosters, templates and club branding.
  • We send you an invoice, usually within one business day.
  • Pay by scanning the GCash / Maya QR code shown with the invoice, then upload a screenshot of your receipt as proof of payment.
  • Once we confirm it, PadBoard is activated on your account and your receipt is emailed to you.
  • It renews monthly. Your dashboard shows the date access ends and warns you during the final week.

Getting in

  • Sign in at audrim.ph and click PadBoard under Subscribed Tools, at the top of your dashboard.
  • There is no separate PadBoard login — your portal account is the login.
  • Once it has loaded, it keeps working offline for a week without signing in again.
  • Add PadBoard to your home screen. On Android or a laptop, use the browser's install option; on iPhone or iPad, use Share → Add to Home Screen.
  • This matters most on iPhone and iPad: Safari clears a site's stored data after seven days without a visit, and home screen apps are exempt. Your saved sessions stay put.

Starting a session

  • Fill in session name, venue, and number of courts.
  • Choose a rotation and a scoring level (both explained below).
  • Set a game timer in minutes. It starts at 0, which means no timer — games run to the target score.
  • Paste every player's name into the Players box at once — separated by commas or one per line.
  • Everything here can be changed later, mid-session, from the Settings tab.

Running the rotation

  • Fill courts — puts the next players on every free court.
  • Auto-fill — off by default, so you decide when players go on. Switch it on in the top bar and courts refill the moment they free, the way a paddle rack does.
  • End game — records the game and frees the court.
  • Tap a team — what this does depends on the scoring level: it either records them as the winner, or awards them the rally.
  • Undo — reverses the last action, including a whole game ending.
  • Put four on — fills one specific court.

Choosing a rotation

  • Paddle rack — strict first in, first out. Exactly like the rack on the fence.
  • Fair rotation — whoever is owed a game plays next; among equals, it picks pairings nobody has had recently.
  • Skill tiers — courts reserved for a skill level.
  • Winners split — winners stay on but split up and take new partners.
  • Challenge court — winners hold the court as a pair against challengers.
  • Round robin — strict rotation through a fixed group.
  • Winners split and challenge court both have a hold limit, so nobody can occupy a court indefinitely.

Scoring — four levels

  • None — a match timer only. One tap to end a game.
  • Winner only — tap the winning team. One tap per game.
  • Points — tap a team to award them the rally. Undo point reverses the last one.
  • Points with server tracking — as above, plus the server number, court positions, and the score called the way it should be said aloud (4 - 2 - 1). A green dot marks who is serving.
  • Side-out and rally scoring, target score, win-by-two and a hard cap are all set in Settings.

Calling the score aloud

  • On by default. The Announce button in the top bar is the master switch for everything spoken.
  • Calls follow a referee: “Point”, “Second server” or “Side out”, then the score as three numbers.
  • One court at a time. Pick which in Settings → Announce on court. Several courts calling at once would only talk over each other.
  • Settings → Announce score chooses every point, or only when the serve changes hands.
  • Settings → Voice picks any voice installed on the device, with a Test button. Voices that need an internet connection are deliberately not listed.

The five tabs

  • Up next — the queue. moves someone up one place, moves them to the front.
  • Players — add one player or paste a list, pause someone sitting out, mark them Left when they go home, and nudge a rating with / +.
  • Fairness — games played, time waited and consecutive sit-outs for everyone, with a spread summary. This is the screen for settling "when am I next?".
  • Settings — every rule, changeable mid-session. Also the session report and ending the session.
  • Diag — build number, activity log, and the diagnostics export.

On a court

  • Edit — swap one player for someone waiting, or replace all four by hand.
  • Edit → Partners — four players have three possible pairings, so pick the one you want. Only before the first rally: once points are on the board they belong to a side, and moving somebody across would rewrite who won them. After that, abandon the game and refill.
  • Abandon — for an injury or a washout. Recorded, but not counted as a win or loss.
  • The timer turns amber when a game runs past its expected length, and red when it runs well over.

Finishing and reports

  • Settings → Session report — a printable record of the session so far: every player, every game, scores and results.
  • Settings → End session and start a new one — closes running games, backs the session up, and returns to a fresh start screen.
  • Past sessions — the second tab on the start screen. Reopen and print any earlier session, including ones still only on this device.

If the internet drops

  • Nothing changes. Games, scoring and the queue all keep working.
  • The session saves continuously on the device and survives the tab closing or the lid shutting.
  • It backs up to your account automatically once there is a signal again.
  • Ending a session with no signal is safe. It is kept on the device and uploaded the next time you open PadBoard with a connection.

On the larger plan

  • A Club tab appears beside New session and Past sessions.
  • Save roster keeps a list of names; load it next week instead of typing them again.
  • Save as template keeps a whole setup — courts, rotation, scoring, timer — under a name like “Weeknight”.
  • Set your club name and logo and they print at the top of every session report.
  • All of it is kept on the device and backed up to your account, so a replaced tablet does not lose it.

What we would like you to judge

  • Did the rotation ever feel unfair? When, and to whom?
  • Did you always know when you were next?
  • With server tracking on — was the app's call ever wrong? This is the one we most want checked.
  • Was anything harder than it would have been with a paddle rack?
  • Was there anything you wanted to do that the app would not let you?
  • Would you want this at your regular session?

If something goes wrong

  • Tap Flag in the top bar and describe what happened. It takes a few seconds and marks the exact moment.
  • Then Diag → Export diagnostics and send us the file. It contains everything needed to reproduce the session exactly.
  • If the app ever shows a red warning banner, stop trusting the screen and tell us — that means it has detected its own fault.