It is an advantage to have a scoring system that also handles cashless tournament fees

– I am the tournament director for a group of around 40 pensioners who play bridge once a week. I also play myself.

– I had my doubts about Bridgetime when I first came into contact with the system. We had a good system for scoring and reporting the results in Excel, and I thought it would be hard for some of the pensioners to enter the results on a tablet.

– When I read a little more about Bridgetime, I came across the financial part, Bridgetime Pay, and realised how good it would be to avoid managing cash, doing the accounting and feeding notes into the ATM.

– Our club decided to test Bridgetime and it turned out virtually all the players were able to enter the results without much difficulty. When the game was over for the day, the results were also calculated and I was spared the hour or so it takes to enter the results manually.

– I have also played with other database-based systems with data entered via tablets and have found that, as far as I know, Bridgetime is the most complete system. This is because, in addition to the scoring part, it also manages various movement schedules and the financial part I mentioned before.

– Things can always go haywire with incorrect results being entered or the card boards being reversed so that the wrong card is played, and sometimes this can cause such big problems that a deal has to be cancelled. Handling this manually involves a lot of work but with Bridgetime it is easy to adjust it straight after the game is over.

– After having used Bridgetime for six months, we discovered opportunities for further improving it with clearer reporting, easily accessible tournament schedules, improved manuals, etc. We appreciate that the representatives of Bridgetime have been open to our proposals for changes.