Padel 247 is now running Padlo.co scoreboards. They are our second venue customer, and they are using the system slightly differently to the first.
Padelkeskus put the screens to work at tournaments. Padel 247 wanted them for ordinary club play as well: the Tuesday evening doubles that nobody records, the internal ladder, the sessions where four people book a court and play three sets.
That is a harder case in one specific way. At a tournament, someone is already responsible for the score. On a Tuesday evening, nobody is. The scoring has to be light enough that a player will actually do it between points.
How it runs day to day
Each court has its own named screen. A player opens the match on a phone, scores it as they go, and the court display follows the same record. When the match ends, the screen clears and the next booking can start its own.
Nothing needs to be configured per session. The club sets up the screens once and they keep working.
Why a club bothers
Two reasons come up.
The first is that the score on the wall settles arguments. Padel is a social sport played by people who are concentrating on the ball, not on bookkeeping, and the set score genuinely does go missing.
The second is that a venue with live screens reads as a serious venue. Members notice. So do the people they bring along for their first game.
Two venues, one system
Having a second club on the platform is useful beyond the obvious. Padelkeskus stress-tests the tournament path. Padel 247 stress-tests the everyday path, where the person scoring has no training and no particular reason to be careful. Both are the real product.
If you run courts and want to see how this works during normal club hours rather than in a demo, get in touch.