Many of BTM-2017 features are features CDE and its BTM product line have been doing for years. Such features include:

• Manage as many tournament as you wish on the one computer.
• Authentic support for Microsoft Windows using digitally signed applications for security and authentication purposes which follow software industry standards.
• Built-in tournament treasurer module to manage finances for a tournament.
• Manage men, women, mixed and youth tournaments.
• Tournaments can have up to 6 events, which can be singles, doubles, trios or teams.
• Up to 4 All-Events to combine scores from events ran.
• Support – CDE provides the largest opportunity for support for your program via online chat, message boards, email, fax, mail and phone
• FREE- Extended Product Downloads – As long as the the program has not reached end-of-life, the installers are available for download FREE without any special passwords or confusing security codes.
• WHY WAIT – When purchasing the software on our online store, the invoice will contain a temporary registration code for you to download and begin using the software FULLY while waiting for the permanent registration code sent the next business day. [Preorders excluded]
• Additional features available beyond what is listed.

A sample of some of our general features include:

Tournament Types:

• Up to 6 events per tournament
• Up to 4 All-Events per tournament
• Up to 12 games per event.
• Up to 500 squads per tournament
• Singles Events
• Doubles Events
• Trios Events
• Team Events
• Derived Singles or Doubles events, where scores from a different event also count for the derived event.
• Linked Events – Such as Singles and Doubles are linked together where bowlers must bowl both and they bowl back to back.
• Scratch or Handicap Tournaments.
• Bowler Divisions – Based on one or a combination of items, such as gender, average or age.
• Team Divisions – Based on one or a combination of items, such as gender, average or age.
• Men, Women, Boys and/or Girls support.
• Bowl multiple times in an event, limiting the number of times they may be in the top specified places.
• Multiple sets. A 6 game squad could be broken up into two different sets of 3 to bowl in the AM and then the PM.

Handicap Control:

• Game or Series Handicapping
• Divisional handicaps
• Maximum handicap limiting support.

Squad Setup:

• Assignable squad codes.
• Date/time bowled
• Limiting of range of lanes allowed per squad.
• Which squad is linked to bowl next.

Lane Assignments:

• Manually assign to squad and lanes
• Automatically assign to a lane within specified squad.
• Checks to verify bowler isn’t already in a squad or lane.

Additional features include:

Registration:

• Registration screen mimics typical city/state tournament entry forms.
• Easy to register bowlers
• Easy to assign bowling order for multiple player events
• Easy to assign into All-Events
• Confirmation letter generation

Reports:

• Check-in Sheets
• Recap Sheets on blank or preprinted recaps.
• Tournament results
• Event results
• Squad results
• Game and Series Highs
• User definable reports

BLS-2019 supports the USBC, CTF and TNBA for the 2016/17 bowling season with the following features:

• USBC Certified Leagues with award detection and forms, membership forms, sanctions forms and more.
• Playing rule changes.
• CTF awards changes
• Prints TNBA awards

Some of the report features include:

• Tournament results
• Event Results
• Squad Results
• High Scores
• Custom user definable reports
• Check-in sheets
• Add graphics and watermarks from our bowling clipart CD-ROM’s or your own creations. You control size, position and effects
• Fonts customization within multiple reports, changing font style, size and color.
• Print plain paper recaps
• Print on available laser, inkjet and dot matrix printers using forms officially approved by CDE Software with our official recap partner Databar.

Some of the Internet enabled features include:

• Single one-click upload to your websites comes standard with all editions of BTM
• Download program updates from within the program.
• Web uploads – Upload results to your own website

Some of the features for the financial management portion of BLS include:

• Record payments and manage treasurer duties with the built-in treasurer module to manage tournament finances.
• Event fee management
• All-Event fee management.
• Track sponsor money.
• Prize fund calculations.

• Free integrated bracket module to run brackets for your squad(s). [For a dedicated Bracket product solution, checkout TBRAC-2018]
• Use to run brackets for fun, to make additional money for yourself, the tournament, the youth program or your favorite charity.
• USBC allows brackets to be offered for USBC youth tournaments, providing winnings go to scholarship fund.
• Eight different bracket groups can be offered.
• Each bracket group can be either scratch or handicap and can be a different price.
• Each bracket group can either be offered for individual bowlers or teams.
• Each individual or team can be entered up to 99 times for a total of 999 brackets per group.
• New and improved bracket registration screen

• Expanded number of games per event to 12.
• Print prize checks.
• Additional report capabilities available only to Pro editions.
• Compatible with CDE Software’s Aleksis Bowler’s Kiosk, to export leagues and interactive bowler histories.
• PDF Export of reports, including standing sheets.
• Import bowlers from Bowler Trac / BITS format
• Export bowlers from Bowler Trac / BITS format
• XHTML / HTML Export of reports, including standing sheets. XHTML 1.0 is the first major change to HTML’s last major change was back in 1997. XHTML takes advantage of the newer features provided by the latest and most common browsers, including Internet Explorer 6 and the upcoming 7 as well as Firefox and Opera. It provides richer web pages as provides a larger compatible base of browsing platforms including cell phones, televisions, cars, handheld wireless devices and more.

The following are systems requirements to install and operate this software:

• Operating System: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows 2016 Server, Windows 2012 Server and Windows 2008 Server (with Service Pack 2). Supports 32 bit and 64 bit versions of these operating systems.
  (Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server , please see the Important Notes About Discontinued Operating Systems.)
• Hard Drive Storage: 150-200 megs free space on hard drive (95 MB additional hard disk space required for installation. Space used may be less depending on prerequisite installs already present)
• Display: 1024×768 or higher display resolution with greater than 256 color depth (16 bit color recommended) with 32 MB of graphics memory.
• Display Fonts: Display font size to Small Fonts (100%)
• Processor: Minimum operating system requirements, 1.4 gigahertz or faster recommended
• RAM/Memory: Minimum operating system requirements, 2 gigabytes or more recommended.
• Optical Drive: CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive 4x or faster (compatible with reading CD-R’s) – Not needed if installation via download.
• USB Port: Not needed if installation via CD-ROM or electronic download from destination machine.
• Printer: A physical printer or printer driver must be installed.
• Pointing Device: Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device
• Software Prerequisites:
  • Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 8.0 or later
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 or later (free from Adobe.com website)
  • Internet connection to use built in Internet features

Important Notes About Discontinued Operating System:

No software company can effectively support any software for an operating system that the vendor is no longer selling, providing patches, addressing security issues, documenting or supporting.

Windows Vista Customers

On April 11 2017, Microsoft officially discontinued all support and updates for Windows Vista. Because of this, CDE Software can no longer offer official support for Windows Vista, nor will continue doing any internal compatibility testing with this operating system. We do expect that this product will be able to install on this operating system and function as designed, provided it has been updated to Service Pack 2, Internet Explorer 9, Windows Installer 4.5 and Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable and that necessary updates have been installed. For best compatibility and computer security, it’s suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows.

Windows XP customers

On April 2014, Microsoft officially discontinued all support and updates for Windows XP. Because of this, CDE Software can no longer offer official support for Windows XP, nor does any internal compatibility testing with this operating system. However, this product should be able to install on this operating system and function as designed, provided it has been updated to Service Pack 3, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Installer 4.5 and Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable and that necessary updates have been installed. For best compatibility and computer security, it’s suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows.

Windows 2003 Server customers

On July 2015, Microsoft officially discontinued all support and updates for Windows 2003 Server. Because of this, CDE Software can no longer offer official support for Windows 2003 Server, nor does any internal compatibility testing with this operating system.  However, this product should be able to install on this operating system and function as designed, provided it has been updated to Service Pack 2, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Installer 4.5 and Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable and that necessary updates have installed. For best compatibility and computer security, it’s suggested to upgrade to a newer version of Windows.