We've worked hard to make the process as simple as we possibly can for clubs, in fact, if they already know they are happy to accept, they can do the whole job in only 2 clicks.

How does it work?

• As soon as you add a club to your county board 'affiliated clubs' list with a primary affiliation, the clubs action centre will immediately start displaying a new task at the top of their actions list.
• The new action centre task is labelled 'Affiliation T&Cs requiring acceptance'.
• Clicking 'view' on the action centre task will take the club to a page where they can see who has issued them T&Cs and when they were issued.
• They are then able to view the T&Cs document, download it, and either accept or decline the T&Cs.

Similar to the walkthrough you would have seen when this feature launched, a guided walkthrough also exists to hold clubs' hand throughout the process and make sure they know what they need to do.

Is it legally binding?

If they accept or decline, a robust audit trail is capture by Play-Cricket recording who took this action and when. This process has been approved as legally sufficient by the ECB legal team who drafted the T&Cs document.

What if someone else from the club signs the T&Cs rather than a committee member?

Ultimately the club are responsible for their own users and those users' actions within the system. Clubs can control who has the system access to carry out this action, and multiple messages are displayed to the club user warning them only to proceed if they have authority to do so on behalf of their club. 

This was deemed a sufficiently robust process to ensure proper acceptance while balancing the desire to remove blockers to clubs accepting. Limiting this action to particular roles, who may not yet hold Play-Cricket admin accounts was considered, but would likely have resulted in  low adoption of the process amongst clubs.

Any questions? Let us know below