HuisPunte

The explanation

How HuisPunte works

A residence runs on points it awards, events it expects people at, and the record of who turned up. HuisPunte is one place for all three - and it is built so that nobody has to take a number on trust.

The short version

Your residence decides what earns points and what costs them. Your leaders create events and mark which ones are compulsory. When an event runs, a QR code on the screen records who is there. Afterwards your leaders review that record - and only then does anything touch anyone’s points.

HuisPunte does not decide any of it. It holds the rules your house already has, and it makes them visible to the people they apply to.

If you live in res

You sign in with your university address - there is no password to invent and no app to install. HuisPunte installs to your home screen if you want it there, and works as an ordinary website if you don’t.

  1. Join your residencePick your house, give your name, student number and room. If your residence asks for approval, a leader confirms you before you can earn anything.
  2. See what is requiredYour home screen leads with what needs you now: an arrival scan you missed, the next compulsory event, and what missing it costs.
  3. Scan when you arrivePoint your phone camera at the code. It opens HuisPunte, and the scan is attributed to whoever is signed in on that phone - so forwarding the link to a friend achieves nothing.
  4. Read your own ledgerEvery entry carries a reason, a category and a date. If one is wrong, raise it - a correction is a visible reversal sitting next to the original, not a deletion.

If you run res

Leadership is not one job, so it is not one switch. Permissions are granular - activating a QR code, awarding points, approving residents, closing a point period - and they are grouped into roles your house defines. A Section Leader can be given authority over their own section and nothing else.

  1. Build the eventTitle, time, venue, who it applies to, whether it is compulsory, what attendance is worth and what absence costs. Duplicate last term’s and shift the dates.
  2. Run the doorOpen the live screen and the code rotates on its own. Scans arrive as they happen, so you can see the room filling without counting it.
  3. Review before you penaliseHuisPunte proposes an outcome per resident from the scans, the exemptions and any manual override. You see exactly what will be applied before it is applied.
  4. Finalise onceFinalising writes the points. It refuses to run twice, and reopening an event reverses every entry it created rather than deleting them.

Why the numbers can be trusted

The point ledger is append-only. Nothing in it can be edited or removed - not by a leader, not by us. A mistake is fixed by adding an equal and opposite entry that links back to the original, so the total corrects itself and the history stays readable.

Closing a term does not wipe anything. The old period is marked closed and a new one opens; totals are always scoped to a period, so everyone starts at zero while every historical row survives.

Group points and personal points are separate entries. A section’s total and your own total can never double-count the same event.

Colour is never the only signal. Every amount also carries a sign, a direction and a word, so a deduction reads as a deduction whether or not you can tell red from green.

Who can see what

Your housemates see your name, photo, room, section and points. They never see your student number, your e-mail address or your phone number. Your leaders see the full roster, because administering a residence requires it.

One residence cannot read another’s data at all - not its points, not its events, not its roster. That boundary is enforced by the database, not by hiding buttons.

The people who operate HuisPunte verify residences and resolve leadership disputes. They deliberately have no automatic access to your house’s point data.

The full detail is in the privacy notice.