HY-TEK Meet Manager runs most of the swim meets in the US It's now easy to load Hy-Tek meet events files directly into SwimTopia as you set up your swim meets. SwimTopia already offers comprehensive support for Meet Manager integration—exporting Team Roster and Meet Entries files (.hy3 format) for getting your team’s info into Meet Manager for a meet and importing Meet Manager Results files for … [Read more...]
SwimTopia Announcements
Merge Duplicate Athletes Easily
Retaining your swimmers’ information safely It’s very important that SwimTopia keeps your athletes’ time history and other information accurate and also retain it for easy access. When managing this data we are very careful to only connect new swimmer info to existing swimmers when all the information matches precisely. We have seen plenty of teams where kids from different families have the same … [Read more...]
Enhanced Custom Domain Support
SwimTopia has enhanced our custom domain support. We now have a new, enhanced method to support custom domain names for team web sites. While every SwimTopia account comes with a custom subdomain in the form of teamname.swimtopia.com, many teams have paid to register their own custom domain name like www.teamname.com for use with their team website -- and they want to continue to use their … [Read more...]
2015 Pacific Swim Coaches Clinic
2015 is almost here, and we are looking forward to kicking off the new year by attending the Pacific Swim Coaches Clinic in Napa California again this year. Sponsored by our friends at NorCal Swim Shop, the Pacific Swim Coaches Clinic is a great event. We always look forward to the opportunity to meet with existing customers and to meet new swim teams and show them how SwimTopia can save time … [Read more...]
New Feature: Flexible Permission System
SwimTopia's new flexible permission system gives teams the ability to tailor access permissions precisely to each volunteer role. Using a new simple-yet-powerful interface, Teams can now assign "read" or "manage" permissions independently for each area team management functionality. With this new feature, Teams can now let more volunteers help with the team and data management without having to … [Read more...]
New Feature: SwimTopia for Your iPhone
Launching SwimTopia for your iPhone: SwimTopia’s new iPhone app allows you to check your team commitments anywhere and at any time. SwimTopia is available, right now, today from the App Store! Introducing SwimTopia Mobile - SwimTopia for Your iPhone We are thrilled to announce the immediate availability of SwimTopia Mobile, SwimTopia for your iPhone. The app allows you to view your family’s … [Read more...]
Heartbleed Security Update
SwimTopia would like to provide a Heartbleed security update. Earlier this week security researchers made public their discovery of a serious security vulnerability known as the Heartbleed Bug, which at the time of the announcement affected an estimated two-thirds of all secure internet websites. The Heartbleed Bug was caused by a flaw in OpenSSL, a popular software library used by thousands of … [Read more...]
Improved Email Delivery
At SwimTopia, we send hundreds of thousands of emails each season on behalf of our customers. We've improved email delivery by putting a lot of thought and effort into making sure each message reaches its intended recipient's inbox and doesn't end up in the their spam folder. Today SwimTopia is rolling out a change to the way that we send email that should even further improve our email … [Read more...]
New Registration Features: Conditional Fees and Discount Codes
Just in time for summer registration, SwimTopia now supports conditional fees and discount codes. These two powerful features can make your registration forms even more flexible for supporting several situations. Often swim teams have complicated pricing. And as we know, no two swim teams are alike. Building flexibility into SwimTopia is key to us keeping our customers happy. Our discount codes … [Read more...]
New Feature: Athlete Roster Groups
We are excited to announce a new feature that will allow your team to create athlete roster groups, in addition to the automatic age or school year groups created during registration. Now teams can organize athletes into completely custom and unique groups. Some examples include practice/workout groups, pre-team training groups, Varsity/JV designations, and club affiliation groups. When … [Read more...]