Registration
Your club exists
the moment it is paid for
Not before, not after. So there is nothing to fill in "in the meantime", no application to approve, and nobody to chase. Here are the five steps, in order.
The journey
Five steps, ten minutes
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You describe the club
Five fields: the name, the sport, the town, the time zone and your email address. That is all, and it is the only point where we can still turn you down — a name already taken, a sport outside the catalogue. You find out here, not after the money has moved.
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You confirm your address
A six-digit code goes to your inbox and you type it back here. Thirty seconds that pay for themselves: this address becomes the club's owner, and it is how you will sign in afterwards. One letter out of place and the club would be created — paid for — in the name of an inbox you cannot open. Better to notice now than later.
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You pay, on Stripe
The amount and the billing period appear on that screen. The invoice is in the club's name, at its address, with its VAT number if it has one, and the debit comes from its account — not from the treasurer's personal card. That is exactly why payment happens here and not in a mobile app.
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The club is born
Stripe confirms the payment and the club is created, with you as owner and the committee thread already open. Immediate by card, a few days by SEPA direct debit — the time the bank takes to answer.
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You go in
You sign in with the address you just used, and the club is there. From your browser or from the app's Club tab, as you prefer: same account, same club on both sides, nothing to install to get started.
The recurring question
Why an account, and why only afterwards
You have nothing to create before paying
Plenty of services ask you to sign up, pick a password, fill in a profile, then choose a plan. NOR asks for none of that: your address is enough. The owner account is born with the club, at the address you gave. If you already had a NOR account as a player, it is the same one — you will not end up with two.
The only thing asked before payment is that you confirm that address with a code — because it is the club's lock, and a typo would cost you the club and its payment. It is not a sign-up: nothing is created, and there is still no password to invent. Signing in happens through a link sent to your address, for everyone on NOR, officers included.
But the club does need an account
A club with no identified owner would be a club nobody can administer, whose memberships nobody can approve, and which nobody can hand on to the next committee. The account is not a data-collection formality: it is the lock.
It commits you to nothing else. The subscription belongs to the club, not to your account: the day you hand over, the subscription stays with the club and you go back to being an ordinary player.
One club, one sport. The disciplines within one sport — singles, doubles, mixed — always count as one. A multi-sport club registers one club per sport.
Over to you
Register your club
You pick the billing rhythm, you describe the club, and these fields travel to Stripe along with you. Nothing is written down at NOR until payment goes through: closing this tab leaves nothing behind.
Before you decide
The questions we get asked
What happens if I give up at the payment step?
Nothing. No club, no account, not a single row: the five fields travel with the checkout session and vanish with it. You can start again later with nothing half-finished hanging around.
Do our members have to install an app?
No. The club is run from a browser just as well as from the app's Club tab — same account, same club. An officer who signs up on their computer never has to reach for their phone, and a member can read everything without installing anything.
The chair changes every few years. What then?
The owner hands over from inside the club, and the subscription follows — it belongs to the club, not to their account. A club always has exactly one owner, never zero: that is what stops it ever being orphaned.
Can the invoice be in the club's name?
That is precisely why payment happens on the web rather than in the app. Stripe collects the billing address and the VAT number where there is one, and the debit comes from the club's account. An in-app purchase would be invoiced to a personal Apple ID and would die with the treasurer's account.
Do my members have to pay as well?
No. The subscription belongs to the club. A member keeps their free NOR account, with their sport and their ranking, exactly as if they were in no club at all.
Does NOR collect our dues?
No, and it is not planned. You carry on with whatever you already use — cash, transfer, cheque — and an officer ticks "settled". NOR notes who is paid up and what the club has fronted; it is a treasurer's notebook, not accounting software.
What if the subscription stops?
The club goes read-only: the calendar, the noticeboard and the chat history stay readable, nothing new gets written and no member gets added. Nothing is deleted — not the memberships, not the sessions, not the messages. Starting the subscription again reopens the club exactly as it was.
We are a multi-sport club, how does that work?
Register one club per sport. A NOR ranking only makes sense sport by sport, and the groups, sessions and threads of a badminton section have no business inside those of a table tennis section.
A question that is not here? Write to contact@nor.app — we answer before you pay, it is simpler for everyone.