Dink
Dink provides a management platform and companion mobile app for beach volleyball clubs, academies, and event promoters. The system automates tournament scheduling, court bookings, athlete records, and championship ranking calculations, while the free athlete app shifts administrative tasks to players. The platform has managed over 40,000 tournaments and connects with a community of more than 10,000 athletes.
- Sports Technology
- Events
- Software Only
- Applications
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Sports clubs and academies often struggle with the manual, time-consuming tasks of managing events, court bookings, athlete data, and communications. This administrative burden diverts resources away from coaching and athlete engagement, leading to inefficiencies, errors, and lost revenue opportunities.
Solution
Dink provides a comprehensive digital platform that combines a management system for clubs with a dedicated mobile app for athletes. The platform automates key processes like tournament scheduling, court reservations, and attendance tracking, while the app gives athletes a central hub for finding events, booking courts, and managing their own profiles. For championships, Dink automatically calculates rankings after each tournament and synchronizes results across multiple organizations. By shifting administrative tasks to the athletes and automating workflows, Dink reduces the workload on secretariats and helps organizations operate more efficiently.
Target Audience
Primary customers are beach volleyball clubs, sports academies, and event promoters seeking to streamline their operations and improve athlete engagement.
Features
- Tournament manager with automatic registrations, match scheduling, bracket management, and a bulletin board for participant communications
- Automatic championship ranking calculation with configurable scoring criteria, including support for shared championships across multiple organizations
- Facility manager with smart court booking, customizable price lists by time slot and season, manual or automatic booking approval, and advance fee collection
- Academy manager for athlete records, document management with expiration reminders, subscriptions, transaction history, attendance tracking, and automatic make-up options
- Free iOS and Android app for athletes to find events, book courts, track progress, follow friends, and view real-time results and rankings
- Coach mode for managing training groups, marking absences, and scheduling make-ups directly from the app
- Smart scheduling algorithm that displays only available slots to eliminate booking errors and overlaps
- Online athlete registration and payment collection with full transaction history and payment status matching to training groups