We're pleased to announce a new feature that should make using SwimTopia a little more convenient for some teams, especially those teams whose home pool is not 25 meters in length. You can now specify a default swim course in your SwimTopia team website. Specifying Your Default Swim Course For years, SwimTopia has used 25 meters, also known as short course meters (SCM) as the default swim … [Read more...]

Many teams in the southern states have already begun registration for 2016, while teams in central and northern America still have registration to look forward to. This year SwimTopia added a new registration locking feature to help teams avoid overbooking and impose their registration limits. Registration Locking and Countdown Timer Some teams have a limited quantity of available spots or items … [Read more...]

We are pleased to announce the addition of Job Templates, Item Requests and few more new features to make volunteer management easier than ever with SwimTopia. Job Templates Job Templates makes creating volunteer jobs and shifts and sharing them between swim meets and other events a snap. Copying a calendar event was previously the primary way to share jobs and shifts between … [Read more...]

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...]

SwimTopia now supports 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 custom domain with SwimTopia. Supporting … [Read more...]

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...]