Connecting your player record to an account

Your organizer added you to their group by name, and maybe with your email address. Your personal schedule link works from that record alone, with no account needed. If you create a PickleFriend account (or already have one), it connects to that player record through one thing: the email address.

How the connection works

Your account sees every player record, in any group, whose recorded email address is the same as your account's email address. That is the whole rule. There is no link to click and no claim step; the connection happens on its own, and it keeps happening for any group that records your email later.

It also means the connection only holds while the two addresses match:

• If the organizer never recorded an email for you, nothing connects.
• If the organizer has a different address than the one on your account, nothing connects.

The fix is the same either way: ask your organizer to put your account's email address on your player record. As soon as it matches, the record shows up in your account.

Signing up or logging in from your schedule page

Tap your name in the header of your schedule page. The menu offers Sign up and Log in. Sign up pre-fills your name and email from the organizer's player record; log in pre-fills the email. Both pages show a banner naming you and the group.

Those links expire after one hour. If you open one later and the fields are blank, go back to your schedule page and tap your name again.

The pre-fill is a convenience, not the connection:

• Signing up: keep the pre-filled email if you want the new account to see this group. Sign up with a different address and the record stays unconnected until the organizer updates it.
• Logging in: what matters is the email on the account you log in to, not what is typed in the field.

What a connected account gives you

• All Events at /dashboard/player: one list and calendar of every event across every connected group, with a link into each event.
• One private-message inbox across those groups instead of one per schedule link.
• Email preferences managed from one place.

What it doesn't change

The player record still belongs to the organizer's group. The organizer manages your name, email and rating there, and nothing moves into your account.

A connected account does not show your rating or game history. Those appear only on the group's public ratings page, and only if the organizer has turned public ratings on. When they are on, anyone with the link can see them, with or without an account.

What's next

• Your event dashboard (All Events): what the account-wide events page shows.
• Accounts and your data: what a free account saves and what stays in your browser.