Scheduling & Events
Plan sessions ahead with the Scheduler: create events and recurring leagues, auto-invite subgroups, collect player RSVPs, and manage partners and waitlists.
The Scheduler plans your sessions ahead of time, so you're not herding people by group text the day of. Create a one-off event or a whole recurring league, invite your group, and let players RSVP from a link. They don't need an account to do it.
What it does
- Events & recurring leagues — set courts, capacity, and a date range, and every occurrence in the range gets created for you.
- Auto-invite — open sign-ups to subgroups in waves: your core group first, then everyone else a day later.
- Waitlists — for sessions that fill up, Lottery and Take-Turns modes drop the click-racing advantage so a slow finger doesn't lose the spot.
- Partner selection — two players can request each other, and the pairing only locks once both sides agree.
- RSVPs & reminders — players respond from the email. You see who's in.
- Launch into the Mixer — start a live session from an event with its players already loaded.
In this section
- Creating an event — set the date, courts, and capacity for a one-off session and invite your group.
- Recurring leagues — spin up a whole season at once with every occurrence created automatically.
- Bulk editing events — change or reschedule many events at once, including extending a league's date range.
- Auto-invite — open sign-ups to subgroups in staggered waves so your core players get first pick.
- Waitlists — handle overflow fairly with Lottery and Take-Turns modes instead of a click race.
- Partner requests — let players mutually lock in a fixed partner for an event.
- Announcements & chat — message your players from an event and post notices they'll see on their schedule.
- Booking jobs — assign setup tasks players can volunteer for.
- Reminders & notifications — automatic game-day reminder emails and player push notifications.
- Calendar subscription — let players subscribe to your schedule in their own calendar app.
- Creating an event Plan a session ahead of time: set the date, courts, and capacity, invite your group, and collect RSVPs — then launch the Mixer with everyone already loaded.
- Recurring leagues Set up a recurring league from one form: define the weekly schedule and date range once, and PickleFriend creates every occurrence — no re-entering each week.
- Auto-invite Auto-invite sends event invitations on a timer, days before play. Stagger the waves so regulars get first crack and the wider group fills remaining spots.
- Waitlists Fair handling for oversubscribed sessions: RSVPs collect during a window, then Lottery or Take-Turns mode decides who gets in — no click-racing advantage.
- Partner requests With fixed partners on, players request who they want to play with from the RSVP page. A pairing forms only when both people pick each other — no brokering.
- Bulk-editing events Select multiple events at once to update shared fields, reschedule dates, trim a range, or extend a series — all previewed before anything commits.
- Calendar subscription Subscribe to your PickleFriend schedule so events appear automatically in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.
- Announcements, chat, and notices How to send targeted email blasts, exchange messages with players through event chat, and post bulletins that show up on the event page.
- Booking jobs Attach named tasks to an event so players can volunteer to handle them — court bookings, ball retrieval, or anything else the session needs.
- Reminders and notifications How game-day reminder emails work — sent automatically before each event — plus the browser push players get for chat, partner interest, and mixer rounds.