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The marker is a tablet-sized scoring screen for a single snooker frame. A member of staff — or the players themselves — taps each pot and foul as it happens, and the running score appears live on the table card, on any spectator screen, and in the frame’s final result.

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Opening the marker

Start the session with the game type set to Snooker (see Starting a session). The active session panel then shows Open marker, which opens the scoring screen for the current frame.
Snooker marker with coloured ball pad, score header and action buttons

Scoring a frame on the marker

The header shows the frame number, both players, the current Break, which ball is On, how many Reds are left, the Highest break so far, and a Free ball flag when one is in play. A connectivity chip sits alongside it, because the marker often runs unattended for an hour at a time.

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Scoring a frame

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Record pots on the ball pad

Tap the ball that was potted: red (1), yellow (2), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6), black (7). Balls that are not legally on are dimmed and cannot be tapped, so the break stays valid.
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Record a foul

Choose Foul and pick the reason:The modal shows the Ball involved, the calculated Penalty, and who plays next, ending with Confirm — Bilal Khan plays. The scoring engine on the server has the final say and may raise the penalty if it sees more balls involved.
3

Handle a free ball

After a snooker foul, choose Declare free ball. The Free ball button on the pad becomes tappable so you can score the nominated ball. If the fouled player is offered the shot again, a Play again (replace) button appears.
4

Record safeties and misses

Safety and Miss end the visit without a pot and pass play to the opponent.
5

Place the cue ball when it is in hand

When the cue ball is in hand, the marker locks input and shows an overlay — at frame start, after the cue ball was potted, or after it left the table. It says “Place cue ball anywhere inside the D”, names the ball-on, and unlocks when you choose Ready — record next shot.
6

Correct a mistake

Undo last removes the most recent shot. It is disabled when there is nothing to undo.
7

End the frame

End frame asks to confirm: “This closes the frame and triggers session billing for it.” Accepting closes the frame, charges it to the loser, and shows the Frame ended banner with the winner and final score. Back to tables returns you to the floor.
Ending a frame here is what bills it. The result also raises a Frame Finished alert for the rest of the club to acknowledge — see Running a session.

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When the camera says the frame is still open

Forgetting to press End frame before racking the next one is the easy mistake to make: the open frame quietly absorbs the next frame’s pots, and the loser-pays total goes wrong. On a table with a camera, where your branch has opted into the re-rack watchdog (the Camera re-rack watchdog box on the branch form — see Branches) and your deployment has it switched on (see Settings), the camera catches it. It cannot see who won a frame — it can see the reds racked up again, and a rack means the last frame is over. The camera gives the marker a couple of minutes to catch up before saying anything. Movement just after you open a frame does not count — that is you racking up the frame you just started, so open the next frame on your way to the table if that is your habit. The prompt only ever appears while a frame is still open in the marker; a table that merely looks still never raises anything by itself. Where the camera has a rack zone marked on it — a box drawn round the triangle spot in Settings — it gains a sharper trigger: it waits until it has watched the reds sitting racked, scattering out of the triangle, and then coming back into it, all while the same frame is open in the marker. Balls only make that round trip when the frame they were broken for has finished, so it prompts about a minute after seeing it. Movement stays on alongside it as the fallback, for the re-racks the zone could not read — a player standing over the spot, say. Opening the next frame in the marker before the balls are gathered is fine — that frame’s own setup rack is not counted, because nothing had scattered yet. When that happens while the marker still has a frame open, a Frame Still Open prompt appears on every signed-in device:
This table looks racked up, but the frame below is still open in the snooker marker.
It names the table and frame it means — Snooker 1, Frame 3, Bilal Khan vs Usman Tariq — and offers two buttons.
A nudge never records a result. No winner is chosen, no frame is added, nothing is billed, and no score moves. It is a reminder to go and finish the frame in the marker, which stays the only place a snooker frame ends.
Ending the frame in the marker clears the nudge everywhere by itself. The moment the engine records the result, the prompt disappears from reception, the manager’s phone, and every other till — the same way a recorded frame alert does. You never have to dismiss a nudge you have acted on.
Nudges only ever appear on snooker tables. A pool table gets the Record Frame Result dialog instead, because it has no marker to end the frame — see Running a session.
Staff can also fire one deliberately from Management → Cameras with the bell icon, to check the prompt reaches the screens it should.

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The spectator scoreboard

Spectator view in the marker header opens a second, read-only screen sized for a wall display or projector. It shows both scores at full height, the current break, the ball on, reds left, a free-ball indicator, a foul banner as fouls happen, and a cue-ball-in-hand overlay — all driven live from the marker with no input of its own.
Full-screen spectator scoreboard with large scores and current break

The spectator scoreboard on a wall display

Nobody has to sign in on the spectator screen: the link carries its own access, so you can open it once on a club display and leave it running. If it loses its connection it says Reconnecting rather than leaving a stale score on the wall. The link’s access is limited to watching that one frame. It can’t record shots, open other frames or tables, or reach anything else in CueManager, and it stops working 6 hours after you open it. Each frame needs its own link. When you start the next frame on table 3, press Spectator view again for the new frame.
If the screen shows Spectator session not authorized (for example after a display was left on overnight), the link has expired. Reopen the spectator view from the marker to get a fresh one. Even so, open the link only on screens the club controls. Anyone who has it can watch that frame’s score until it expires.

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Scoring offline

The marker keeps accepting shots with no connection. Completed frames are held on the device, counted by a pending badge on both the marker and the session panel, and sent when the connection returns. The offline chip in the header tells you when that is happening — see Offline and sync.