Your page in the app
Players find your pitches, facilities, prices and opening hours in Bibs. They follow you, message you, ask to book, and hear when a game at your venue needs players.
Bibs for venues
Fill the dead hours.
A pitch hour you don't sell today is gone forever. Bibs fills your quiet hours with weekly games, keeps them going when people drop out, and gives you one place to run the venue: the timetable, the front desk, the money and your players.
Email us to get set up
The problem you already know
Peak evenings sell themselves. It's the off-peak hours, the 4pm Tuesday and the Sunday morning, that sit empty, and the bookings you do have that quietly die: an organiser can't replace two dropouts on WhatsApp, so the whole game cancels.
Fill more of your hours
Bibs brings local players to your pitches, and keeps the games you already have from cancelling.
Dropouts covered from the bench
Every game has a bench of four. When someone drops out, the bench is told straight away and the first to take the place gets it, so the game goes ahead and the hour is still paid for.
Quiet hours become weekly games
Offer a free hour, and Captains ask to make it their weekly game. Say yes and it's theirs every week, run by them in the app. Players can ask to book a pitch from your page too.
Tell players when a pitch is free
Message your followers and everyone who's played with you: a free pitch tonight, a closure, an offer. Up to three a week, so players keep reading them.
Run the whole venue from one page
Your staff sign in at venues.bibs.football with their own Bibs account, on a computer, a tablet or the phone in their pocket.
- Every pitch by the hour, for the whole week: weekly games and how full they are, bookings, free hours and closures.
- Click a space to book it, offer it as a free hour or close the pitch that day.
- Bookings without the clashes: one-offs or the same time for up to 12 weeks. Nothing double-books a pitch, and nothing is booked outside your opening hours.
- Close a pitch or the venue for a day or up to three months. Its games are called off and every player is told; reopen and they're back.
Check-in by QR code
Print the poster and put it up at the pitch. Players scan it with their phone's camera and they're checked in, or the front desk ticks them in. Turn on "no scan, no show" if you want it.
Late drop-outs count
Set a cut-off, from 2 hours to 3 days before kick-off. A player who drops out after it gets a no-show, and repeat no-shows are suspended. Players see the cut-off before they drop out.
Know your regulars
Everyone who's played at your venue: their games, no-shows and late drop-outs, who's a regular and who follows you. Keep a private note on anyone, or ban them.
The right access for each of your staff
Owners, managers and the front desk each sign in as themselves. The front desk sees the day's games, who's here and who's paid, and nothing else.
Get paid before kick-off
No more chasing fivers in the car park.
Every player knows what they owe, and how to pay it
- Put a fee on each weekly game, and players see it before they join.
- Add your payment link, from Monzo, PayPal, Revolut or your own card-payment page, and every player gets a Pay button.
- Players tick "I've paid", and your front desk ticks the rest as they arrive.
- One tap reminds everyone on the pitch who still hasn't paid.
- The money goes straight to you, never through Bibs.
Know how the venue's doing
The dashboard counts it all as it happens, so you can see where the empty hours are and fill them.
- How full every pitch is, by day and hour, and the quiet hours worth offering as free hours.
- Money ticked as paid against the fees due.
- No-shows, late drop-outs and check-ins, and players new and coming back.
- Any dates you like, and an export for your accountant.
Leagues, and a screen for the bar
Run a league on a quiet night, and show it off on the TV while people wait for their game.
- Bibs draws the season over your pitches and kick-offs, and every game goes on both teams' calendars.
- The table keeps itself, from the results both sides send in. You settle anything they don't agree on.
- The clubhouse screen puts tonight's games, your league tables and the week's players of the match on the TV in your bar, and keeps itself up to date.
- Nothing to install: open its address in the TV's web browser.
See your pitches on Bibs
Drop us an email and we'll talk through what Bibs can do for your pitches and set your venue up, usually the same day. Nothing to configure yourself.
Email venues@bibs.footballThe screens on this page show Riverside Fives, an example venue.