Guide

Make an Event That Needs a Join Code

A join code is a word or a number that a player must type to sign up for an event. Use it for an event that only some players can play, for example a final for the players who qualified from a league.

What a Join Code Does

An event can have its own code. A player must type it to sign up for the event on the Events page.
The club gives the code to the players who can play, for example the players who qualified from a league.
Capital and small letters are the same, and spaces do not count. A wrong code signs up nobody.
The code does not decide who plays. The desk still approves each player when they arrive.

Switch On Join Codes for Your Club

Open Club Settings. Then open the Features page.
Under Join Codes for Events, turn on Use Join Codes in This Club.

Join codes are off until the owner or a director switches them on. Only the owner and the directors can set the code of an event.

Join Codes for Events

An event can need a join code, for example a final for the players who qualified from a league. A player must type the code to sign up on the Events page. You set the code when you create or edit the event.

Use Join Codes in This Club

Club Settings, Features: join codes are on for the club.

Give an Event Its Code

Press New Event on the Events page. Then choose Extended or Template.
Under The Field, tick Players Need a Join Code to Sign Up.
Type the code in Join Code. Then create the event.
Give the code to the players who can play.

The code can have up to 30 characters, for example FINALE 2026.
To add, change or remove the code of an event, open its Edit page. To remove the code, clear the tick.
The quick event has no join code.
A template and a copy of the event do not keep the code. Type a code for each event.

The Field

Players Need a Join Code to Sign Up

Join CodeFINALE 2026Give this code only to the players who can play. Capital and small letters are the same, and spaces do not count.

The event form: the event needs the code FINALE 2026.

What the Player Sees

The player opens Events and presses Sign Up on the event.
PokerSjef asks for the join code.
The player types the code and presses Sign Up.

The Events page does not show which events need a code. PokerSjef asks for the code only when the player presses Sign Up.
When the code is wrong, PokerSjef says so and signs up nobody.
When the event is full, the player goes on the waiting list, as for any other event.

Type the Join Code

This event needs a join code. Type the code that the club gave you.

Join Codefinale2026

Sign UpCancel

The player typed finale2026, and the code is FINALE 2026. They match, because capital and small letters are the same and spaces do not count.

Ways onto the List Without the Code

The invite link and the QR code of the event sign up a player without the code. The invite card on the Registration tab also shows the code.
So share the invite link only with the players who can play. If it reached the wrong people, press Make a New Invite Link. The old link stops working at once.
The desk can add any player, with or without an account.

Way onto the List	Join Code
The player presses Sign Up on the Events page.	Needed
The player opens the invite link or scans its QR code.	Not needed
The desk adds the player.	Not needed

Only a signup on the Events page asks for the code.

Good to Know

When you switch join codes off for the club, no event asks for its code. The codes stay, and they work again when you switch join codes on.
The audit log shows who changed the code of an event, and when. It never shows the code.
The club code, the join link and the poster let a person join your club. A join code lets a member sign up for one event.
Today’s Code of Sit & Go is a different code. It lets a player join a Sit & Go list.

A join code is not a password. A player can give it to a friend. At the desk, make sure that each player can play.