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what one player did recently after withdraw- ing from a congress and receiving credits back into her account – ask for a refund saying she couldn’t use credits only to then enter a differ- ent congress and pay with a new bridge cred- its transaction (thus incurring new fees) some THIRTEEN DAYS later!
And last but not least: Clubs facilitating congress and club session payments via their own EFTPOS fa- cilities will typically incur similar or even higher fees from their payment provider.
We hope this clarifies the uncertainty that continues in our club community. We would be happy to ex- plain and discuss further.
Overall guide to bridge credits
For players wanting to understand more about Bridge Credits a new guide was published recently. It covers what they are, how to view your transactions, how to top-up, etc. It’s available here:
https://www.abf.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ MY-ABF-WHAT-ARE-BRIDGE-CREDITS- AND-HOW-DO-THEY-WORK.pdf
Tips and Tricks: Entering for someone else
Sometimes, in addition to your own entry, you want to enter for someone else in an event (a typ- ical scenario might be playing a weekend congress with pairs on Saturday and teams on Sunday – one person may well put in the teams entry and then want to put in entries for both pairs).
There are two ways you can do that:
The first (less intuitive) way is to enter the other pair first. Start an entry and it will initially come up with your own name as the first player.
But you can change that name to someone else by clicking on the dropdown arrow and choosing someone else instead. Once you’ve put an entry in for others, you can still start another for yourself.
But in practice of course it’s much more natural to put your own entry in first. That’s fine too. Although you can’t now start another entry from the Program of events, just open your entry and there is an orange “Enter for Someone Else” button at the top right:
That allows you to add another entry. Once you’ve done that your own entry will also make reference to any other entries you have made (so you, as well as the players in the entry, can later edit them).
Julian Foster, MYABF Project manager julian.foster@abf.com.au
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