NFC Paddle ID

Four identical paddles
in the stack.
One of them is yours.

Every PAKANG looks the same on purpose — crimson edge, gold carbon, the same warrior mark. That is exactly why each one carries an NFC chip sealed under the butt cap. Tap it with your phone and the paddle tells you whose hand it belongs in.

Tap your paddle

Hold the butt cap against the back of your phone.

No NFC on this device? Enter the serial below.

Try a sample tag:

Tap a paddle or enter a serial and the owner card appears here.

Why it exists

The paddle stack is where mix-ups happen.

Four identical PAKANG paddles stacked together
Four paddles. One stack. No way to tell them apart by eye.

You stack your paddle to call next game. Three more PAKANGs land on top of it. Twenty minutes later somebody lifts the wrong one off the pile — same crimson edge, same gold weave, same two stripes — and walks onto the court with your paddle.

Most of the time nobody notices until the weight feels off. Sometimes nobody notices at all, and a paddle goes home in the wrong bag.

The NFC chip settles it in under a second. No app, no account needed to read one — hold a phone to the butt cap and the paddle says who it belongs to.

  • Sealed under the octagonal butt cap — nothing added to the face or the swing
  • Passive chip: no battery, no charging, nothing to fail
  • Reads through the grip in about a second
  • Survives sweat, humidity and the odd paddle tap
Three steps

Register once. Settle it forever.

  1. 01

    Register your paddle

    Tap the chip the day you get it and put your name on it. Takes about fifteen seconds, once.

  2. 02

    Stack it with confidence

    Your paddle goes in the queue like everyone else's. The difference is it can now answer for itself.

  3. 03

    Tap to settle it

    Two players reaching for the same paddle? One tap names the owner. No argument, no guessing.

NFC questions

About the chip

Where exactly is the chip?

Sealed inside the octagonal butt cap at the end of the handle. It sits outside the core and the face, so it changes nothing about how the paddle plays or how it balances.

Does it need charging?

No. It is a passive NFC tag — it draws the tiny amount of power it needs from the phone reading it. There is no battery and nothing to replace.

Does my phone support this?

Most Android phones read NFC tags natively, and Chrome on Android can scan from this page directly. On iPhone (XS and newer) tags are read by the system camera-free background scanner — hold the top edge of the phone to the butt cap and a notification appears. If your phone cannot read NFC at all, type the serial engraved on the cap instead — same result.

Can somebody re-register my paddle to themselves?

A registered paddle can only be transferred by the current owner, from the phone number the paddle is registered to. If you sell or hand on a paddle, release it first and the next owner can claim it.

Do I have to register it?

No. An unregistered paddle still reads as a genuine PAKANG with its serial. Registering is what turns that serial into a name, which is the part that settles a stack.

What if the paddle is stolen rather than mixed up?

Mark it lost from your paddle card. Any tap after that shows a lost notice with your contact number instead of the normal owner card. It is a courtesy system, not a lock — it is built to fix honest mix-ups, which is the overwhelming majority of them.