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Recreation & Facility Booking

Programs fill, waitlists run themselves, and the fees land on one ledger.

Registrations and facility requests without the sign-up sheet.

Recreation lets your parks department publish programs with a capacity and a registration window, take registrations, run the waitlist and keep rosters. Paid programs charge through the same ledger as every other city fee. Residents can also request a facility slot, which staff approve or decline.

Programs with capacityWaitlistsRosters & check-inPaid registrationsFacility requestsSwitched on per city
City of Fort Meade
Recreation
Fall programs
Youth soccer
Sat mornings · Oct to Dec
8 of 12 spots left
$45.00
Senior water walking
Tue and Thu · Community Center
2 of 2 spots left
Free
Adult pickleball
Mon evenings
Full, join the waitlist
$30.00
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Facilities
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Paid and free programs show how many spots are left.

Step 1 of 5: Browse programs
Illustrative screens with demo data
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Open a program, fill it, run the waitlist

Create a program with a title, category, season, schedule, location, capacity, registration window, price and photo. Programs move through Draft, Open, Closed and Archived, and you can clone one to a new draft for next season. When a program is full, residents join a waitlist and are never turned away; the oldest waitlisted resident is promoted when a spot opens.

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Capacity claimed safely: two residents cannot take the last spot
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A real waitlist: the oldest is promoted when a spot frees
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Clone to next season: start a new draft from the last one
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Auto-release of unpaid holds: a spot is not held forever
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Rosters, fees and discounts

Staff see the roster with filters, export it to CSV, check people in and out, transfer a registration and cancel one. Paid programs charge through the billing engine, with early-bird and promo-code discounts and payment plans. When a paid registration is cancelled, staff decide what to refund.

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Rosters with filters and CSV export: for staff and instructors
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Early-bird and promo-code discounts: and payment plans
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Paid and free programs: free programs skip billing
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My Registrations: residents see theirs across groups
City of Fort Meade
Pay
Fees and statements
Fence permit fee
Due Oct 20
$60.00
Pay
Community Center rental
Sat, Oct 25 · 4 hours
$120.00
Pay
Youth soccer registration
Fall season
$45.00
Pay
Water and sewer
Service address statement
$48.20
Pay
Home
Alerts
Pay
Me

Permit fees, facility rentals, registrations and service statements in one list, each payable from the same place.

Step 1 of 5: Fees and statements
Illustrative screens with demo data
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Facility requests, approved by staff

Add a facility with a description, rules and hours. A resident requests a slot, staff approve or decline, and approval puts an event on the calendar. Only approved bookings count toward conflicts. Facility fees are not charged in the app today; your office handles them.

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Facilities with rules and hours: pavilions, fields, rooms
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Request, then approve or decline: a clear status for each request
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A calendar event on approval: visible on the public calendar
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No in-app facility fees yet: handled by your office
Approved
bookings create calendar events
Overlapping approved bookings at the same facility are blocked.
Questions we hear

Common questions

Can residents register a household member?

Yes. A resident can register themselves or someone in their household, or several people at once.

Do facility rentals charge in the app?

Not yet. Staff approve the booking and your office handles any fee.

What do we need for paid programs?

Your city is onboarded to a payment processor first. Free programs do not need it.

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