PRODUCT FOCUS

How our customers use SignupSolutions' online registration

SignupSolutions is a versatile tool that allows you to...

• do online credit card payment processing
• register participants online for an event such as a tournament
• sign up membership online
• register golf league players online
• create online surveys
• have optional and fixed fees for varied payments

Want to see actual customer uses of this online registration feature? Take a look: survey, pay with credit card, membership signup, varied pricing and pay with check.

PRODUCT FOCUS

Finding the answers for your GolfSoftware.com program questions

For another year the busiest season is now behind. We apologize if it was difficult for you to contact us by phone during March through June. As always, you have many options for finding the right answer for the GolfSoftware.com product you use.

• Open our context sensitive help in your program on your computer by clicking on the question mark [] icon.
• Search the program Help System on your computer (Help menu to Help Manual) or online. Learn how best to use Help System.
• Email your questions to tech@GolfSoftware.com at any time. We typically reply within 24 hours or better during the week.
• Call Tech Support between the hours of 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM Eastern time (USA).
• Refer to our knowledge base (also under the Help menu of your program).
• Ask fellow software users in the Support Forum.

LEAGUE MANAGER

Dear Debbie

Dear Debbie,

This is my first year as league secretary. I got the software set up and running great during our first month of golf. Now some league members want to be a subs instead of a regular players. Or they want to drop out of the league altogether.

All these changes are messing up the team scores and positions/rankings. It's a nightmare....

Help!

Too many moves in Motown

Dear 'Moves',

Before you start moving players around, it's ALWAYS best to make a backup. Really, I insist!

You probably want to lock your scores FIRST, so any points that have already been rewarded won't be refigured/redistributed. You'll need to do this in each event that has already been played. (Look under 'Tools')

The program will give you many options for moving players - permanently/temporarily, swapping between teams or moving to the substitute list.

• To permanently replace players with another player or sub, check out this article on the knowledgebase:
• To permanently remove a player from your league, go to Event #1, highlight the player you'd like to remove and click on 'Edit' on your toolbar, then select 'Remove (player) from league'.
• To swap players between teams, see this article:
• After you get everyone moved/removed, you may need to reduce the number of teams in your league. (Remember, the program insists on an even number of teams!)

Get your groove back,

Debbie

LEAGUE MANAGER

Your league has split...

Seasons that is! Some leagues play their seasons in two halves...sort of like an academic semester system. There's no reason a league couldn't have tri-mesters! League Manager provides the ability to have event by event results as well as cumulative results for any portion or the whole season. You could provide winners for the first half, the second half, and the season as a whole. It's very simple using the option, "Range for split season," under the Setup menu.

TOURNAMENT mANAGER

Make a change for multiple players

Sometimes you want to make a global or multiple-player change in Tournament Manager. Luckily it can be done. Suppose you have players in different Tee Groups? You can sort the players, highlight a group of players and then put them all into the same Tee Group. Or set the group of selected players to all appear in the same roster. Any field of information that is available to you by double clicking on a player's name can be changed for more than one player at a time. Please see How can I find golfers quickly and change information for multiple golfers quickly?.

HANDICAP sYSTEM

Golf handicap formula in plain English

Many golfers play in leagues and tournaments and leave the "complex math" to others whom they trust most of the time until something makes no sense. Calculating a handicap is a tiresome task, if done by hand. But it's not higher math. Most people could do the math, but understandably don't bother. If you're curious enough to know how handicapping is done, we have an article that will explain the USGA method to you in plain English. Take a look. GolfSoftware.com's Handicap System can provide a USGA Index, RCGA Factor or a custom handicap.

WEB DESIGN TIPS

Web design tip #1 - Add video to your website?

Do you have some video footage from your league or tournament? Maybe there are some golf-related YouTube.com videos that you would like to add to your website. There are two methods for both Website Designer users and for Website Builder users; one very simple method and one less simple, but cooler...like this:

Find out how to put video on your Website Designer or Website Builder created site in our knowledge base article, "Putting video on your website."

Web content tip #2 - Less putts, more accurate drives, better short game...

What do the players in your golf group need most to improve their golf game other than get a younger body? Do they need...

• a better short game?
• a golden putter?
• to drive straighter or longer?
• to have their golf funny bone tickled?
• more mulligans?

Help your players with video lessons, humor and shows available at YouTube.com. The above article tells you how to include a video on your golf website. Go to the golf section of YouTube.com to find some videos to add to your website.

GOLFBYTE'S CUSTOMER WEBSITE RECOGNITION

Myerlee Golf & Country Club

Nice use of YouTube of their appearance on a local TV station. Their liberal sprinkling of photos throughout livens up their pages. Navigating through their site is clean and easy. A very informative website for their membership.

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GOLF QUOTATIONS

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

- JOHN UPDIKE

I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game:  it's called an eraser.

- ARNOLD PALMER

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

- MICHAEL GREEN