TeamSnap for Clubs & Leagues Kicks it up a Notch
If you’ve ever been a sports parent, you know all that goes into it: the driving to and from practices and games, keeping your calendar straight, making sure your kids are wearing the right jersey to the right game, and more. For managers and coaches—many of whom are also sports parents—there’s an even bigger layer of moving parts. Finding the practice fields and times, keeping the team informed of the same, ensuring paperwork and fees are paid, and getting everyone registered, carded, and good-to-go come season time are all part of the equation. That’s not even mentioning your full-time job and other duties. It’s enough to make you toy with throwing up your hands and walking away.
That’s where Eric Anthony, an organizer of Belles Lacrosse Club in Southeastern PA, found himself a few years ago. Getting a new club off the ground is almost a full-time job in and of itself, and Eric volunteered for the duty. His first approach to managing it all proved unwieldly. “One of our biggest challenges was registration,” says Anthony.
The club was importing data from one form to another, reconciling fields in a variety of formats and manually validating entries. “It became a total nightmare,” says Anthony.
So too was communicating with players and the seven club teams. Managing the lines of communication through slow, cumbersome email proved more than challenging, with out-of-date or incorrect addresses. Says Anthony: “There were always some recipients who never got the message.”
As a result, Belles struggled with all of the back end organizing and messaging necessary to launch a successful club. Looking for a solution, Anthony found TeamSnap. Having experienced TeamSnap first as a parent for his son’s lacrosse program, Anthony already had familiarity with what it could deliver. But implementing TeamSnap for Clubs & Leagues took his appreciation for the tool to the next level.
One of Anthony’s favorite features as a club organizer was the seamless integration with the U.S. Lacrosse database. “Having a single point of integration is huge,” he says.
Now, clubs like Belles Lacrosse have more reason for their enthusiasm, as TeamSnap releases its next gen TeamSnap for Clubs & Leagues.
Grow, scale, retain
After a decade delivering solutions for clubs and leagues to streamline all their administrative processes and tasks, TeamSnap is taking its capabilities up a notch. With the idea that managing member information could be even easier, the new system has mastered program management in a way that is seamless for organizations of all sizes. In one central location, organizers can launch new programs, sign up participants, collect money, create and share schedules, and set all of their teams up with the incredibly popular TeamSnap app and coaches, managers, and parents have loved for years.
In a centralized hub, the new TeamSnap for Clubs & Leagues tool provide soup-to-nuts team management. Among the tasks under this new umbrella, users will find an easier registration process, which allows administrators to create, customize and publish registration forms, including flexible payment plans quickly and easily. Once members have registered, managers can quickly lay their hands on every player’s information thanks to advanced filters and rapid-fire loading. This extends to creating teams as well, too, which is now assisted by an easy-to-use drag-and-drop feature.
Other upgrades include auto-scheduling to simplify the complex process of creating schedules at the click of a button. Communicating to teams and across the program is improved, too, with the ability to create and send professional emails. Because all your data is centralized, you can extend this to former players and their families as well, alerting them to events like upcoming tryouts.
TeamSnap’s offerings now integrate website design, as well. The team of professionals will design your website to showcase all your club has to offer. Coaches can include information like registration, schedules, and field locations, and tie it all back to the app for ease of use and great first impressions.
Completing the suite of features in the new system is an incredibly popular capability to use unique bank accounts for each program which is extremely valuable to managing finances.
With the new features in place, you’ve got all you need to grow your clubs and leagues, supporting it with the infrastructure TeamSnap provides. Players and their families will return, year after year, thanks to the best-in-class experience you’re providing them.
Best of all, TeamSnap is a household name for most players and their families. They’ve been using the app for years and are familiar with its ease of use. With the upgrades, the app will make their lives that much easier and more organized. The next level experience as sports parent, coach, team, or league manager has arrived.
