Paddles Up Docs

Welcome to the Paddles Up documentation. Whether you're a player tracking your matches, an event organizer running a tournament, or an organization owner managing your club — this guide has you covered.

Who is this for?

• Participants — Browse events, follow competitions, and track your results.
• Event staff — Create and manage events, competitions, phases, and match scores.
• Organization owners & admins — Manage your org, members, and roles on the platform.

Where to start

• New to Paddles Up? Read Getting Started to sign in and find your way around.
• Want to understand the platform? Read the Core Concepts to learn how organizations, events, competitions, and phases fit together.
• Ready to do something specific? Jump to the Guides for step-by-step instructions by role.

Platform overview

Paddles Up is a tournament and competition management platform for pickleball. At its core:

• Organizations are clubs or groups that run events.
• Events are tournaments or leagues organized by a club.
• Competitions are divisions or brackets within an event (e.g., Mixed 4.0, Men's Open).
• Phases define how a competition is played — a bracket draw or group play round-robin.
• Matches are the individual games played within a phase.
• Listings are the public registration surfaces for events, served from the Register app at https://register.paddlesup.io.
• Options are the divisions or sessions a registrant can sign up for.

Registration & Payments

Looking for registration, Stripe, or refund flows? Start here:

• Listings and Listing options
• Payments and Stripe
• Creating a listing · Linking Stripe · Issuing refunds

This documentation covers how to use the platform in alignment with current app behavior, including role-aware access and public/member/staff view-level rules.