Website or app: what to do where
TorMatch works on tormatch.com and in the app with one account: what each is built for, which tasks belong where, and how to move between them.
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Website or app? With TorMatch you don't have to choose. The website, tormatch.com, and the TorMatch app for iPhone and Android use the same account and show the same tournaments, so what you change on one shows on the other.
What differs is what each one is built for:
- The website is the full toolkit. Organisers do the detailed setup there, and it's the only place to choose a plan for a tournament.
- The app is the everyday companion: a quick setup and match days for organisers, reminders on your phone, and scoring that keeps working without a connection.
Coaches, players, officials and fans can do what they need in either.
Organisers can run a whole tournament on the website. The app covers the common tasks and match days, and guides you through the setup step by step.
| Task | On the website | In the app |
|---|---|---|
| Create a tournament | Create it, then set up each part in its own editor | A short create flow, then the quick-start builder: divisions, teams, format, draw, fields and days, schedule, publish |
| Teams, players and officials | Yes, and import them from Excel or CSV | Yes |
| Format | The full editor: build every stage, edit single slots, save versions | Guided: groups, knockout or both, who goes through, two legs, placement matches |
| Schedule | A board to drag matches on, scheduling rules, import and versions | Auto-schedule with a preview; on match day, delay, move, postpone or swap matches |
| Results and live matches | Yes | Yes, also without a connection |
| Registrations | Review them and design the form | Review them |
| Announcements, news, photos and sponsors | Yes | Yes |
| Public site | Logo, cover and links, plus the menu, the homepage, widgets for your own website and match graphics | Logo, cover, social links and documents |
| TV screens | Create and design them | Copy a screen's TV link |
| Staff | Yes | Yes |
| Plan and billing | Yes, only here | A link to the website |
Plans are chosen and paid on the website only: open the Plan box at the top right of Manage's dashboard. See Plans and upgrading.
Where a task belongs on the website, the app links to the exact page, with a button such as Fine-tune on web or Open on web. In Manage, the More tab also has Plan & billing and Full manage on web, which open the website.
Creating a tournament works differently in the two: Create a tournament covers both, and The quick-start builder in the app goes through the app's guided setup.
Your space, your personal page in a tournament, works in the app and on the website, with the same tabs and the same rules: what to do next, your matches, your team, your lineups and your assignments. On the website, open Your space in the tournament's menu. In the app, tap Open your space on the tournament's overview.
| In the app | In your browser | |
|---|---|---|
| Your space: to-dos, matches, team, lineups, results | Yes | Yes |
| Live match editor | Yes, and it keeps working without a connection: your changes are sent when you're back online | Yes, with a connection |
| Reminders | Push notifications on your phone | |
| Live scores | Update straight away | Update while the page is open |
| Starred matches and teams | Yes | No |
Everything you need works in your browser. Install the app if you want reminders on your phone, or to score a match where the connection is poor. Get the app and first start helps you install it.
A tournament's public page shows the same teams, matches, results and standings on the website and in the app, and anyone can open it, with or without an account. You can follow a tournament on both. In the app you can also star single matches and teams, and get push notifications about them. See Follow a tournament and Notifications.
Links from TorMatch, for example in an invitation email or a message from your organiser, open in the app if it's installed on your phone, and on the website otherwise. That works for a tournament, a match, a team, an invitation and Your space.
Links in the app such as Open on web always open the website. Sign in there with the same account, and you see the same tournaments.
Can I do everything on the website?
Nearly everything. Organisers can run a whole tournament on tormatch.com, and coaches, players and officials have Your space there too. Only the app sends push reminders, lets you star matches and teams, and keeps scoring without a connection.
Can I buy a plan in the app?
No. A tournament's plan is chosen and paid on the website, through the Plan box on Manage's dashboard. In the app, Plan & billing opens that page on the website.
Why does the app send me to the website?
Some tools need a bigger screen, such as the schedule board, the full format editor and the design of your public site. The app opens the right page on tormatch.com instead of leaving you at a dead end.
- What is TorMatch?: the platform and the three places in every tournament.
- Who's who in a tournament: the roles and where each of them works.
- Get the app and first start: install the app and sign in.
- Your manage home in the app: what organisers see first in the app.