Leagues that use SwimTopia to host their website* can now define league templates for meets and jobs, making it easier for teams using SwimTopia to get set up for the season. Once you've created meet and job templates, you can share them with all of your teams who are also using SwimTopia (league-wide use of SwimTopia is not a prerequisite). League Meet Templates Leagues can now define various … [Read more...]
New Features
News Post Enhancements: Bulk Actions and Email-to-Post
We’ve been working hard to improve our News Post module because many teams use their news posts heavily throughout the season to keep their members up to date. Read on to learn about our enhanced News Post features. New Functionality Allows you to "Unpublish" Posts, Plus Manage Multiple Posts at Once We’ve added a handy feature to allow you to “Unpublish” news posts so that posts can be removed … [Read more...]
Meet Templates, Meet Entry Preferences and the New-Look Swim Meet Interface
First Things First - What is a Meet Template? This season, SwimTopia has a new-look swim meet interface, and we're introducing a new “Meet Template” feature. Defining a Meet Template allows you to create a list of events and rules for different types of meets throughout the season (e.g. standard dual meets, tri meets, Divisionals, Champs, or Invitationals). Once you have defined the templates, … [Read more...]
Feature Enhancement: New Headings and Symbols on Your Schedule Page
New Headings and Symbols Visible on Your Team’s “Schedule” Page (Manage Team > Schedule) SwimTopia has a number of different settings that you can apply to meets – such as hiding the meet/event from the calendar, marking the meet as “unofficial” (commonly used for early season “Time Trial” meets), or designating the meet as “Rained Out” (if the meet didn’t get held, or only ran part way … [Read more...]
New Features: Auto Open/Close and Entries Locking
SwimTopia Can Now Automatically Open and Close Online Signups In an effort to increase the convenience factor for the head volunteers on your swim team, SwimTopia now gives you the ability to automatically open and close meet entries and attendance declarations, RSVPs to non-meet events, and online job signups. We’ve updated our user interface to include a tab titled “Status” within your swim … [Read more...]
Feature Enhancements: Calendar Subscribe and Display Options
Subscribe to the Team’s Calendar People can now subscribe to the team calendar to easily add their SwimTopia team’s meets and events to their calendar app or service. Members will then automatically receive calendar updates straight to their phone, tablet, or computer. There is a small “Subscribe” link next to the heading on the team’s public-facing calendar page (the page with the URL … [Read more...]
What’s New to SwimTopia in Spring 2018
What's New to SwimTopia this Spring? Some Handy Features For Your Team In the off-season, we’ve been busy adding some frequently-requested enhancements to our current features. Before the summer season arrives, we’ll have even more to tell you about, so watch this space! For now, here's some highlights of what's new to SwimTopia this spring: Color Picker You can now easily select team colors … [Read more...]
New Feature: Color Picker – Update Your Website’s Look and Feel with Ease!
SwimTopia swim team websites are built to be extremely easy to use – so any volunteer can take over updating the team site, even if they have no experience in web design. And we’ve added a new Color Picker feature that helps teams customize the look of their site with just a couple of clicks. Is Your Site Looking Blue? If you started your SwimTopia site prior to 2018, your site may have our … [Read more...]
New Feature: Leagues Can Now Share Roles with Member Teams for Easy Communication
SwimTopia offers the boards of summer/recreational swim leagues free websites to help them manage the teams in their league. No matter how many teams in the league use SwimTopia, any league is eligible for a free website. Whether your league manages 6 teams, or 60, it’s helpful to have a central hub for league information, documents and contacts. SwimTopia provides an easy-to-use website for any … [Read more...]
Feature Update: Specifying Registration Limits Per Form
Does your team have a limit to how many members you can accept? SwimTopia allows you to specify registration limits, by overall team and/or by age group, with the flexibility to choose how you want to count registrations on each registration form: either all athletes in the current season or only those athletes registered using the current form. Teams often have multiple registration forms … [Read more...]
