Sharing and Access — Who Can See and Change What

Links, not accounts

There are no invitations to send and no accounts for anyone to create. Every scorecard and every event comes with three links, and what somebody can do is decided entirely by which one they were given.

Send the right one to the right people and you are finished. Nobody signs up, nobody installs anything, and nobody is ever locked out because they forgot a password they never set.

The three links

They nest: anyone who can score can also follow, and the organiser link does both.

The usual setup for an event

A sixteen-player event on four boards works like this, and it is worth understanding because it is the arrangement almost everybody wants:

• The event's follow link goes in the group chat. All sixteen players, their partners, and anyone at the club can watch the leaderboard.
• Each group gets its own board's scoring link. Group 1 can enter Group 1's scores and nobody else's.
• You keep the organiser link. Ideally alongside one other person, in case your phone dies on the 4th.

That is the default: the event link lets people watch, and scoring comes from each board's own link. It is why sharing the event link widely is safe.

Letting the event link score too

Sometimes you want the opposite — a small trip where all eight of you should be able to type into any card without juggling four links. Settings has a switch for it, under What the scoring link reaches:

• Each group scores its own board (the default). The event link follows the whole event; entering scores needs that board's own link.
• Anyone with the scoring link can score any board. One shared link can then edit every card in the event.

Small trip among friends: the second. Club event with strangers in the field: the first.

Passwords, when a link gets out

Any link can be given a password, and each of the three has its own — so the follow link can stay open while scoring needs a word your groups know.

You can set one at any time, not just at the start, which is the case that actually matters: the moment a link has reached someone it should not have. Setting a password locks out everyone who has not already opened the link.

The password is checked by Eagle Sheet itself, not by the page in front of you — so it is a real lock, not a prompt somebody can click past.

Why the link is safe to send

The secret part of a share link sits after the #, and every browser treats that part as private. It is never handed on to the next site someone visits, never written down in the records a website keeps of who visited, and never picked up by the services that build link previews.

That is what lets your event link show a proper preview card in the group chat without the preview itself handing out access to anyone who sees it.

Treat a link as the thing it is: possession is permission. Anyone holding your organiser link can do everything you can, so send that one deliberately.

What happens on the phones

• Opening a link remembers it. A player follows the link once and their phone keeps that access — they do not need to dig the message out again next day.
• An account is optional — it only adds a safety net. Signing up keeps your events reachable on your other devices, and if you ever clear your browsing data. It grants nothing a link does not.
• Making an account keeps what you already had. Boards you created as a guest come with you rather than being stranded.

Common questions

Can a player edit someone else's score? Only on a card they hold the scoring link for. On the default setup, that is their own group.

Someone signed for a card too early. A signed card locks to stop accidental edits, and an organiser can reopen it.

Do spectators cost me anything? No. Following is free and unlimited — only the organiser needs Premium. How events fit together →