Singapore Cricket Club · Proposal v1.8

From implied to explicit.

A modern experience and communication layer that unifies how every section serves its members, retires the WhatsApp group sprawl, and gives your staff one place to work from, built on top of the systems you already run.
Prepared by WiBiz Club Charter July 2026 In response to the Member Portal Audit and our meeting of 6 July
What the audit found

The portal works. The experience does not.

Your June 2026 audit was clear: the right functions are in place, but the member sees implied design rather than stated information. Five issues create friction and push members back to the front desk.

P1
🏁
Booking grid ambiguity

Slots are encoded by colour alone. Members cannot tell open from unavailable, and blank cells do not always open a booking.

P1
❓
No confirmation layer

Bookings commit with no review of rules, required fields, cancellation policy or who receives the confirmation.

P2
🚫
Communications absent

No inbox, no confirmations, no reminders, no club announcements. Communication defaults to ad hoc email and the front desk.

P2
🔗
A navigation dead-end

Pickleball appears in the menu but renders "no area found," prompting members to doubt the rest of the portal.

P2
📋
Thin reservation history

No reference numbers, no clear status, no self-service cancellation. Every dispute returns to staff.

Every one of these is a trust gap. A member who cannot tell whether a court is free, or whether their booking went through, is a member who calls the front desk, or stops booking online at all. The cost is not a software bug.
Our approach

A layer on top, not a system to replace.

You have invested in a core platform. We do not ask you to tear it out. We add a dedicated experience and communication layer that sits above whichever backend you ultimately keep or replace, unifies how every section communicates with its members, and gives your staff a single place to work from. We deliver it in phases so value arrives early.

1
Sits above your backend

The layer integrates with whichever core platform you keep or replace. No rip-and-replace, no disruption to what already works, no lock-in to that decision.

2
One ecosystem, every section

Cricket, tennis, squash, lawn bowls, pickleball, gym and more, brought into one communication and booking flow instead of scattered apps and separate chat groups.

3
Built for staff, felt by members

A single console for outstanding enquiries and response times removes the manual coordination that slows staff down. Happier staff, faster answers, a better member experience.

4
Phased, and live in weeks

Begin with the highest-impact fixes; the rest follows once scope is confirmed. The first visible improvement is measured in weeks, with no member app to download.

What we build

Four workstreams, mapped to your findings.

Each workstream answers a finding from your own audit. Together they turn an implied portal into an explicit one.

A
Booking UX hardening

Explicit slot states with labels and tooltips, and a three-step flow: select, review the rules and cancellation policy, then confirm.

Resolves 3.1 & 3.2
B
Communications centre & staff console

Member inbox across WhatsApp, web and email, booking confirmations with reference numbers, opt-in reminders (24h and 1h), statement notices and a club announcement feed. Behind it, a staff console that routes every enquiry to the right section and shows what is outstanding and how fast it is answered.

Resolves 3.4
C
Navigation hygiene

Every menu item audited against live functionality. Nothing leads to a dead-end. Pickleball restored as a bookable facility.

Resolves 3.3
D
Reservation audit trail

Full history with reference numbers, player names, status, cancellation deadlines and a self-service cancel action.

Resolves 3.5
The elephant in the room

202 WhatsApp groups. Zero of them the club's.

The sports department alone administers 202 WhatsApp groups. Nothing in them is on the club's record, permissions do not exist, and every match, list and bill lands back on staff. Social chatter can stay on WhatsApp; anything that engages the club moves into rooms the club runs.

1
What already works, kept

Bookings, dining and facilities keep working as they do today. The layer improves the experience on top and writes back to your core system, which remains the source of record.

2
Member to member

Section, team and match rooms with opt-in membership and role-based rights. Captains create matches, squads reply once, standby lists fill themselves.

3
Member to department

One place to ask, one queue that routes to the right department, with response times on record. Not one staff member's personal phone.

4
Club to member

Notices targeted by section, team or opt-in list, delivered to the member's pocket with read receipts. Not a poster by the washroom.

💬
Club Chats

Rooms scoped to a section, a team or a single match. Posting rights follow club roles (convener, captain, member). Every room is mirrored to its department, so there is a record instead of a screenshot war. Match rooms retire themselves at the final whistle and stay searchable.

Replaces the group sprawl
⚽
Captain-run matches

A captain posts a match; the squad gets a one-tap In or Out on WhatsApp. Capacity, standby and no-reply lists manage themselves, and the captain nudges stragglers without touching a phone list. The sports department administers none of it.

Takes the admin off staff
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Charge sheets, straight to Finance

After the match, the captain enters the chit number, ticks who shared it, and the split goes to Finance for posting to member statements. The sports department is out of the loop entirely.

The end of bill-chasing
🏘
Requests, straight to F&B

The Green Room, Dining and Billiards & Snooker are not an instant hold. A member's request is reviewed by a named F&B owner and lands directly in that team's own workbench, alongside the phone and email bookings that make up most of their real volume.

Member to department, working
WhatsApp stays the doorbell, never the filing cabinet. Members get a nudge with a one-tap link into the club's room, already signed in. And this is not a stylistic choice: WhatsApp's own business platform caps automated groups at eight participants including the admin. A squad cannot live there. The club's rooms have no such ceiling, and the club owns the record.
The other half of the story

A console for the people who run the club.

Members feel the front of the system. Staff and committee get the back of it: one role-based console where each department signs in to only its own tools, from a desk or a phone.

What does not change: the signing book stays. Phone and walk-up bookings stay, handled by the desk in the same system. Answers are contextual and hand to a person with full context, never a phone tree. Nobody is replaced. Workload is. And every section moves at its own pace, football first, the rest when they are ready.
The full capability set

The audit fixes are the start, not the ceiling.

The same layer that resolves the audit carries the full toolkit of a modern member organisation. Each capability below is activated as scope requires, in phases, on the same foundation.

Omnichannel communications

WhatsApp, web chat and email in one thread per member, replacing scattered apps and section-by-section chat groups.

A concierge that never sleeps

Intelligent, 24/7 answers to member enquiries, drawing on a knowledge base each section maintains for its own rules and programmes.

Unified enquiry management

Every enquiry routed automatically to the right section, tracked to resolution, with nothing left unanswered in a forgotten inbox.

Guest QR passes to any mobile

Members send guests a QR gate pass on WhatsApp. No app, no printout, scanned at the gate, logged against the booking.

A staff console with analytics

Outstanding enquiries, response times, booking trends and bottlenecks in one view, so staff manage the club rather than chase messages.

A record of every interaction

Every conversation, booking and request captured against the member, PDPA-compliant, and portable to whichever core system the club runs next.

Club Chats with roles and audit

Section, team and match rooms, opt-in, role-gated, mirrored to the department, and self-retiring after the event. The WhatsApp sprawl, retired.

Captain tools & charge sheets

Match creation, one-tap availability, standby lists and after-match bill splits routed straight to Finance, with zero sports department hours.

Events, ballots & registrations

Ticketed events with per-member limits and fair ballots, non-ticketed sign-ups, section membership applications with a pre-screened approval queue.

See it working

Two working prototypes, in your colours.

Walk the member side: book a court in three steps, open the Club Chats, reply to a match with one tap, then raise the after-match charge sheet as the captain. Then open the staff console and watch that same charge sheet land in the Finance queue for review against controls, scan a guest pass at the front desk, and send a targeted notice through broadcast approval. These are the real screens each team would use, working end to end on synthetic data.

💬 Club Chats with roles ⚽ Match RSVP + standby 🧾 Charge sheets to Finance 🏘 Banqueting workbench 📢 Broadcast studio 🎫 Guest QR passes 🏁 Explicit booking grid
Open the member prototype → Open the staff console →
How we proceed

A phased plan that earns trust before it asks for scale.

We start with a short, paid discovery that confirms exactly what is possible and locks a fixed-price build. Value arrives in phases, never in one large leap of faith.

Phase 01 to 2 weeks
Discovery, department by department

Structured conversations with the department heads and all 14 sections, using pre-filled questionnaires so nobody starts from a blank page. Scope locked in writing. In parallel, the club requests interface documentation from its incumbent vendor.

Nothing is built before the scope is signed
Phase 1Weeks, not months
Everything that needs no integration

Club Chats rolled out section by section (football first), the communications centre, broadcast studio, guest QR passes, events and registrations, and the staff console. This entire phase runs with zero dependency on the current vendor.

Phase 2After interface confirmation
The deep connections

Charge-sheet posting into the club's accounting, member-data sync with a single login, and booking write-back so your core system remains the source of record.

Scoped and priced only once the vendor's interfaces are confirmed
Phase 3Roadmap
One club, one login

Section-run portals and sites brought under the club's roof, reskinned rather than rebuilt, at each section's own pace. On the roadmap, not in today's scope.

OngoingPlatform & support
Run, monitor, improve

Hosting, a PDPA-compliant message log, monthly usage reporting and continuous support. The experience layer is maintained, not abandoned at launch.

The commercials

Priced like a subscription, not a systems project.

One setup fee, one monthly subscription, both fixed before anything begins. The deep integrations are priced separately once the incumbent vendor's interfaces are confirmed, so there is never an open-ended commitment.

One-time

Setup & launch

SGD 19,350
Discovery through to a live Phase 1, phased section by section.
  • Discovery with every department and section
  • Club Chats, comms centre, broadcast studio
  • Guest passes, events, staff console
  • Training plus video walkthroughs, every module
Monthly

Platform & support

SGD 2,560/month
Everything Phase 1 delivers, run and supported.
  • Hosting, uptime and the WhatsApp channel
  • Unlimited rooms, notices and passes
  • PDPA-compliant interaction log
  • Monthly reporting and continuous refinement
Phase 2

Deep integrations

Quoted on scope
Once the vendor's interface documentation is confirmed.
  • Charge-sheet posting into accounting
  • Member-data sync, single login
  • Booking write-back to the core system
  • One-time fee plus a subscription step
All amounts in Singapore dollars. Each phase is fixed in writing before it begins; no open-ended scope at any stage.
Why WiBiz

Built for member organisations, not adapted to them.

The experience is the product

We do not sell software access. We deliver a working member experience and stay accountable for it, phase by phase, with proof of completion.

It fits your governance

PDPA-compliant logging, a full audit trail, role-aware access and data you own. Built to satisfy a committee, not just a user.

No disruption to what works

The layer supplements your existing portal. Members keep what they know and gain clarity, communication and self-service on top.

Fast, visible value

The first improvement lands in weeks. No member app, no member training, no quarter-long rollout before anyone sees a benefit.

Proven with clubs and institutions

The same platform runs member, event and concierge operations for private clubs and for bank-run golf and leisure programmes spanning thousands of courses across multiple countries. Named references are provided privately on request.