A new home for WNP booking

We have built our own booking system, and everything is booked here now. Whichever you are, one of these two is for you.

Start here

Booking anything from now on

Sessions, courts, coaching and events are all booked on the new WNP system. It is quicker on a phone, and it remembers you.

Everybody needs a new account — including members This is a completely new system, so no login has carried over from the old site. It does not matter how long you have been with us or whether you have booked before: the first thing to do is set one up, and it takes about a minute. Use the same email address you use with us now, so your membership comes across with you. If you would rather use a different address, set the account up anyway and let us know — we will move your membership over by hand.

Create my new WNP account Already created your new account? Sign in

Our old site

Looking for a booking you made before?

Our old website has moved to westnorthamptonshirepickleball.co.uk and is still there. Your old login still works on it.

Use it to look at anything you booked on the old system. Everything from here onwards is booked on the new one.

Go to the old site

We will help you move across

Nobody has to work this out on their own.

We are putting together simple guidance on using the new WNP, so you can follow it at your own pace.
We are arranging a drop-in session where anyone who would rather be shown around the new system in person can be. We will confirm when and where as soon as it is arranged.
Our volunteers are being briefed on the new system too, so there will be someone to ask at sessions.

Details of the drop-in will be added here once confirmed.

The new WNP is built around how this club works, which is why we can keep improving it. There is more below if you are curious, but you do not need any of it to book a session.

Why we are changing

WNP has grown well past what an off-the-shelf booking tool was meant to handle. We kept running into things we could not change and could not fix, and it was our members who felt it.

The new WNP is built around how this club actually works, rather than the club being bent to fit somebody else's software, with Lobbd providing the technology behind the scenes. Both are developed in-house by Kate, which gives us far more freedom to improve things as WNP grows.

What that means for you is booking that behaves properly on a phone, and a club that can act on a good suggestion instead of waiting to find out whether an outside provider happens to support it.

You might see the name Lobbd

Lobbd is the technology that powers the new WNP behind the scenes. You are joining WNP, not signing up to something else — there is nothing extra to learn and nothing else to log in to.

West Northamptonshire Pickleball Your club, your bookings, your account

Lobbd The technology working behind the scenes

That is why some automated emails — booking confirmations, account messages, reminders — arrive from lobbd rather than from WNP, and come from an address ending @lobbd.com.

If you get one of those, it is legitimate and it is us. Your details have not been passed to another company, and you have not signed up for anything else. Anything mentioning your booking or your account relates to WNP.

From where you are standing, it is all just WNP.

What is next

And we are not stopping here. September booking is the foundation for a lot more.

We are already developing our own WNP app, with plans for booking and your upcoming sessions, useful notifications, club information, summaries of your games and playing, and more of your WNP activity in one place on your phone.

We are not putting dates on any of it yet — it will arrive as it is ready. What comes after that depends partly on what you tell us would actually be useful.

Spotted something that does not look right?

The new system is genuinely new, and new software always has corners nobody thought to look in. If you find one, we would rather hear about it than have you quietly work around it.

Take a screenshot of what you are seeing.
Send it to Kate.
Say what you were trying to do.
Say what happened instead.

If you can, mention whether you were on a phone, tablet or computer. It is often the quickest way to work out what went wrong.