One portal per city
and a single network.
Each city has its own portal, with its clubs and its tournaments. They know about each other, and none starts from zero.
Courts were booked by message
Someone had to read the WhatsApp, check a notebook and reply. At night nobody replied, and that booking was lost.
Tournaments lived in a spreadsheet
Sign-ups, groups and brackets by hand. On tournament Saturday, only the people there knew the results.
No club wanted another’s till
A shared portal sounded good until the question of who collects came up. That was the real blocker, and it was not technical.
One city, one portal
Each city is its own site, with its clubs, its courts and its ranking. Nobody competes inside another’s portal, which is what makes a club join.
Each club charges with its own account
A court deposit goes straight into that court’s own club’s Mercado Pago. The network never touches anyone’s money.
No accounts, no passwords
Players book and sign up through a link, without registering. Every click removed is a player who does not drop off.
A new city opens with company
On opening, a city’s homepage already shows the rest of the network. Nobody lands on an empty portal, which is how these projects die.
Padel Comunidad
The network: your city’s padel in one place. Mercedes was the first and has already run real tournaments on it.
padelcomunidad.com ↗How do I get several clubs onto one booking system?
The key is that none of them has to trust another with the money. On Padel Comunidad each club connects its own Mercado Pago account and deposits for its courts land there directly. The portal is where the player searches; collecting stays with each club.
Can a sports portal be built for another city?
Yes, that is precisely the model. Each city opens its own portal with its clubs and tournaments, and from day one it shows the network’s other cities, so nobody lands on an empty site. Mercedes was the first.