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Changes in Version 9.1 - 2017 Edition

What's New in HandicapMaster 9.1

CONGU Handicapping

You may now add nine-hole golf courses. These may be used for CONGU 9 Hole qualifying competitions, or 9 hole non-qualifying competitions, supplementary scores and away scores.
Add 9-hole course

CONGU® UHS 2017 Changes

'One Stroke Limit' rule

In Ireland, from 2017, where players' handicaps cannot be increased by 0.1 because they have reached the 'one stroke limit' in the calendar year, the following changes apply:
  1. The CONGU Three Letter Identifier 1SL is no longer included for entries in player's records that have been prevented from increasing because of the 'one stroke limit' rule. Instead, the first time a players' handicap hits a limit, an additional entry is written into the players' record, with the description 'One Stroke Limit' and confirmation of the limit value.
  2. Where a player's handicap is increased by manual adjustment, this now has the effect of raising the lowest handicap achieved marker, used for the purpose of applying the one stroke limit rule. The limit that a handicap may be increased in any one calendar year under this rule becomes:
    (lowest handicap achieved) + (sum of any manual increases to handicap) +
     1 stroke
  3. Scores that have not been increased by 0.1 because of the 'one stroke limit' rule now count towards the Continuous Handicap Review (seven or more consecutive 0.1 increases in handicap). Players with seven or move consecutive scores outside buffer zone (excluding 'Reduction only' competitions) are now included on the Continuous Handicap Review report, whether or not they have reached the one stroke limit.
A new report is added listing all players whose handicaps have reached the 'one stroke limit'.
This 'one stroke limit' rule does not apply to players with Home clubs in England, Scotland or Wales.

Bookings

A 'Bookings' button is added to the main HandicapMaster desktop.
Bookings button added to main toolbar

Configuration

The FILE | OPTIONS | BOOKINGS Tab options are amended.
When linking to an external bookings service, you may now elect which of the 'upload membership details' or 'download competition entries to a Start Sheet' facilities are enabled.
A facility to import bookings from the eTee Sheet service onto a Start Sheet is added.
BRS Golf account details are moved from the 'Integration' to 'Bookings' Tab in FILE | OPTIONS.

'General' Bookings

A new service is introduced allowing you to solicit bookings online to any facility. A facility may be a golf course (i.e. Tee Times) or anything else that may be booked by time, such as Golf Lessons, The Snooker Table, etc.
General Bookings
You may request payment from the member or visitor at the time they place their booking.
To take payments, you will need a Merchant account with either SagePay or PayPal to receive the money. HandicapMaster Ltd applies no transaction charges for these payments, but an additional subscription charge is levied per 12 month's use.
Without taking payments or paying the additional charge, you may operate up to 5 schedules at any one time, each with a facility booking price of Nil, in a 'trial' mode. You may do this indefinitely.
Bookings times may be defined with different charges and availability applied to each time within a schedule, based upon Members, Members Guests and/or Visitors.
When creating schedules for golf tee times, these may be set up to automatically take account of daylight hours (avoiding times too early or too late in the day).
You may choose to add Discount Schemes to your General Bookings schedules. Examples of Discount Schemes may be '2-for-1' vouchers, County Cards, etc. Where a customer elects to book online using a discount scheme, their purchase amount is automatically reduced by the configured discount.
A new item titled 'General Bookings' is added to ClubWebsite program enabling you to add links to general bookings into your public website pages.

Competitions

Support for booking into multiple tee (otherwise called 'Shotgun') starts is added. You may now identify the competition to be booked as being subject to a multiple tee start in the Bookings Template. You may ask players to either book into a single list (and therefore be drawn with random partners) or into Groups.
You may now add additional Blocks to the beginning, or end, of any existing bookings arrangement, where the booking is by Blocks.
You may choose to add Discount Schemes to Open Competitions online entries. Where a customer elects to book online using a discount scheme, their purchase amount is automatically reduced by the configured discount.

Distribution Lists

Distribution Lists; When viewing distribution list when you double click on an entry you may now edit the member, club contact, or other recipient details.
Other Recipient distribution lists; it is now possible when selecting entries to be included in this type of distribution list to add new 'Other Recipients'.
A new 'Edit Entry' option is added to the pop up menu on the distribution list entries lists. Note this is now the default option replacing the previous default of 'Add Entry'.

General

When you undelete a member record that was deleted more than 12 months previously, you will now be asked whether you wish to restart the player's handicap record.
You may now re-order columns in lists, by dragging column headings into a different order, to allow for ease of viewing data. The new order is also remembered and is used the next time the list is viewed.
A 'Set Columns to default order in Lists' facility is added; see FILE | OPTIONS | GENERAL tab.
In HandicapMaster and ClubWebsite programs, presentation of the Tasks and Places lists in the left-hand column is updated to improve usability.

Competitions

New Handicapping allowances 90% Handicap and 1/2 Handicap are added for singles competitions.
New Handicapping allowance Defined fraction of Combined Handicap is added for Pairs Scramble competitions.

Start Sheets

When reordering players on a Start Sheet for a competition with a Multiple Tee (Shotgun) start, you may now elect to retain players in the same groups when reordering (effectively randomising the Tees the groups will play from).

Opening new Competitions

When opening a new competition, or amending an existing competition, a tick box 'Adjust Competition Handicaps (Competitors playing from different tees)' is added where there are two or more tees in play. This allows the adjustment to be changed for the selected competition, overriding the competition template setting.

Competition Templates

The description of some of the competition formats available is improved.

Best-of Series

You may now set player eligibility criteria for a Best-of Series. Eligibility can be restricted on the basis of Gender, Age Group, Membership Category and Handicap Range, in line with competition eligibility criteria. Only eligible scores are used from each competition.
When results are split into Divisions, you may now start each division on a new page of the results report.
You may now show a list of the competitions included in the series. This can be included in the results report or printed separately.
You may now show a breakdown of each player's score. This can be included in the results report or printed separately.

Eclectics

You may now set player eligibility criteria for an Eclectic. Eligibility can be restricted on the basis of Gender, Age Group, Membership Category and Handicap Range, in line with competition eligibility criteria. Only eligible scores are used from each competition.
You may now show a list of the competitions included in the Eclectic. This can be included in the results report or printed separately.

Order of Merit

You may now set player eligibility criteria for an Order of Merit. Eligibility can be restricted on the basis of Gender, Age Group, Membership Category and Handicap Range, in line with competition eligibility criteria. Only eligible scores are used from each competition. Where points are being awarded based on where players finish in the competition, the places are recalculated for the eligible players and OOM points awarded according to the recalculated position.
You may now copy an existing Order of Merit points plan into a plan in the current Order of Merit.
When results are split into Divisions, you may now start each division on a new page of the results report.
You may now show a list of the competitions included in the Order of Merit. This can be included in the results report or printed separately.
You may now show a breakdown of each player's score. This can be included in the results report or printed separately.

Central Databases of Handicaps (inc. GOLFNET in Ireland)

You may now request CDH Lifetime ID's for players with 'Club' handicaps (handicaps above 28 and 36) and publish these player's records to your CDH (England, Scotland and Wales only).
Where you have searched for a player on the National System using the 'Find a Player on CDH' option, you may now copy a player's National ID to your clipboard, ready for pasting somewhere else, using a new 'Copy National ID' button.
Copy player CDH ID
Golfnet ID; When entering an Ireland Golfnet ID number for a new member or visitor, additional validation is added to ensure the Golfnet ID number is from the player's home club (Ireland only).
HandicapMaster will now accept data that contain player's Year of Birth as 1900 from CDH's, without reporting this as an error condition.

Player Entry

Competition fee deduction at sign in; Where competition fees are deducted and the player's balance is displayed, if the balance remaining is less or equal to the most recent fee deducted then the balance message is now displayed in red text to highlight to the player that a top up will soon be required.

Letters

Within letters you may now include these new field codes: 
  • <HomeClub>
    The member's Home club.
  • <Signatory>
    Club official signatory for Letters
  • <CompetitionPurseBalance>
    This will embed a member's competition purse balance where competition purses are being used (Subscriptions option only).
  • <FeeTransactions>
    This will embed a member's competition purse transactions where competition purses are being used (Subscriptions option only).

Reports

Handicapping Reports

A new report One Stroke Limit is added to CONGU Handicapping editions that lists members whose Handicap has reached the limit for increase under clause 4.5(c) (one stroke in a calendar year). Ireland only.

Subscriptions, Invoicing and Payments option

Competition Purses

'Competition Fee Purse' is renamed to 'Competition Purse'.
You may now record an adjustment to a member's Competition Purse as a 'Prize'.
Record competition prize
Receipts may now be printed or e-mailed. When adjusting a Competition Purse Balance this can be configured to happen automatically.
The following new reports have been added:
  • 'Competition Purse Historic Balance'
  • 'Competition Purse Prizes (summary)'
  • 'Competition Purse Prizes (Detailed)'
  • 'Competition Purse Account Statements'
  • 'Competition Purse Account Statements - With Limit'. This allows the report to be limited to those members with a specific purse balance value or less. Useful to identify members who may need to top up.
  • 'Competition Purse Income Received'. This displays a summary of Competition Purse credits, deductions, refunds and prizes for the selected time period and selected member criteria.
Both of the Competition Purse Account Statements reports support the e-mailing of the Account Statements to those members who have elected to receive invoice, receipts and statements by e-mail.
The 'Competition Purse Transactions in current Accounting Year' and 'All Competition Purse Transactions' lists no longer include past member fees.

Purses

A new Purse Balance (Summary) - With Limit report is added. This allows the report to be limited to those members with a specific purse balance value or less.
The Purse Transaction History report now lists the names of members without transactions in the selected time period in a multi-column table at the end of the report rather than as previously in the main body of the report, saving paper if printed.

Other

Various selection lists now include the Age Group of the members to assist with selection.
You may now run the Audit log between specific dates.
The Payments Received wizard is improved to include payment due date in list of payments available. Also the window is now re-sizable to allow for a larger list to be viewed.

Master Scoreboard

A link to the Master Scoreboard Control Panel is added to the HELP menu in HandicapMaster.
The time required to extract data for sending to Master Scoreboard is slightly reduced.
When displaying results for single round team competitions, the order of players' names shown for each team is now consistent with the results generated through HandicapMaster.

Other

The APPLY button is removed from FILE | OPTIONS.
Golf Courses; A new 'EDIT' task is added.
Golf Courses; A new 'EDIT' menu option is added to the GOLF COURSES pop up menu.
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