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Furbol — How It Works

I'm hosting my first game — what should I know?

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I’m hosting my first game — what should I know?

You’re about to host your first game on Furbol. You’ve been a player, now you’re flipping sides. What’s different, what’s the same, and where are the decisions that actually matter?

The short version: Furbol handles most of the logistics for you — the wallet, the roster, the notifications, the cancel logic — so your job is smaller than you’d think. You pick the pitch, the time, the price, the size, and you tell Furbol who can join. The rest happens on its own.

What Furbol does automatically

You don’t have to:

  • Track who’s booked. The roster updates itself; players, their followers, their guests all appear on their own.
  • Collect fees for online games. Each player’s wallet carries the hold. Once the game happens, Furbol transfers the money from them to you.
  • Tell players the game’s happening. Confirmations and pushes run themselves — quorum reached, sold out, last-hour cut, kickoff reminders, all automatic.
  • Cancel a game that didn’t fill up. If the game hasn’t reached quorum by the last hour, Furbol cancels it for you and releases everyone’s holds. See the game I’m hosting didn’t fill up.
  • Lock the roster at kickoff. You don’t need to “close” anything; the game’s state moves forward on its own clock.

So you can post a game and go to work. The admin runs without you.

What’s yours to decide

The creation form asks a handful of questions. The ones that matter most for a first-time host:

  • Minimum players. Set this to the lowest number you’d still run the game with. If you set it at 10 and only 8 confirm, the game auto-cancels at the top of the last hour. If that’s too risky for you, lower the minimum. You can also turn on game on, no matter what, which tells Furbol to run the game regardless of headcount.
  • Pay method. Cash, online, or free. If you’ve never used Furbol’s wallet as a host before, starting with cash is the simplest path — money changes hands in person, Furbol just tracks the lineup.
  • Kind. Public, private, or secret. Most first-time hosts do better with private — only people you share the link with see the game. It grows into public later if you want.
  • Teams. 1 to 8. Furbol splits the quorum and max across teams for you, so you don’t have to do the math.

For the full creation flow, see Creating a Game.

What you control during the game’s life

Once the game is up, you can:

  • Edit almost anything except the pitch, kick-off, and pay method.
  • Cancel the game — it unbooks everyone, releases all online holds, and pushes them. See Cancelling a Game.
  • Invite specific people — whether or not the game is public. See Game Invitations.
  • Confirm any player yourself if they haven’t confirmed by the last hour and you know they’re coming.
  • Unbook any player — same effect as if they’d left themselves.

What you get at the end

If the game actually happens:

  • Cash. Nothing moves in the app. Money was in-person, Furbol just has the attendance record for ratings.
  • Online. After the game and its feedback window close (kick-off + duration + 3 hours), the money that was held against each player becomes your earnings. See Host Earnings.
  • Free. No money involved.

You also get a log entry on your profile for having hosted the game, and the ratings players gave can feed into your host reputation over time — but nothing is held against you for a first game that didn’t quite go as planned.

What happens if things go wrong

  • Not enough people. Auto-cancel at the last hour, no penalty. See the game I’m hosting didn’t fill up.
  • The pitch falls through. You cancel the game yourself via the dots menu — every player’s hold releases and they get pushed.
  • You can’t be there yourself. You can still host remotely — the lineup and the game’s life continue. But if the host doesn’t turn up in practice, it’s worth cancelling; the game without the host is usually unworkable.

The first one is the hardest

Your first game is the one where you’ll second-guess the settings. Minimum too high? Price reasonable? Enough time between kickoff and now? Posting a second or third game in the same format is easier — Furbol remembers most of the setup, and your regulars start showing up on their own.