Organisations
An organisation is a club, a works council, an association — a structure that organises for others, not just among friends.
What sets it apart from an ordinary group
A group states what it is; an organisation can, in addition, contain other groups and delegate. A structure's type is permanent: a group of friends converted into an organisation stays one. What it is allowed to do, however, depends on its product, which can expire.
Internal groups
An organisation can create groups within itself — a competition section, a team, a department. Those groups never appear outside the organisation, even when marked public, and their join code answers « invalid code » to anyone not already in the organisation. One level only: an internal group contains no others.
They inherit their organisation's product. The business rule is simple: the club or the works council pays for its members.
Delegating
An organisation can open to its members the right to create groups, and the right to create tournaments. The two settings are independent, and their defaults deliberately differ: creating a group consumes nothing, creating a tournament commits the organisation’s spending. This is how a club offers the service to its players: the tournaments a member creates within the organisation are covered by its product, and do not count against the limit of the member’s own account.
When the subscription ends
Nothing is destroyed, nothing is degraded. An organisation whose product has lapsed keeps its features: its TV broadcast links still answer, its documents still generate. What it loses is the right to commit anything new — create a tournament, add a member. Taking out a subscription again reopens everything, as it was.
Club communication
Next to “Share QR”, an organisation finds everything it shares with its players: the A4 poster, a square visual and a story for social media, in its colour and with its logo, and the texts of the post, the email and the WhatsApp message, ready to copy, its join link already in place. The club colour is chosen in its settings, among colours that stay readable, with a suggestion taken from the logo. Every organisation has access to it, with or without a product; its admins are the ones who use it.
Who writes in the discussions
The club chooses whether all its members write in the organisation’s discussions, or only its admins.