Your team has just signed up for this amazing new swim team management platform and you want to help team parents make use of all the great features. How can you help team parents get the most out of this exciting treasure trove of features and information? For the main functions of SwimTopia that your parents use (registration, meet and job sign up, website and account login, and viewing … [Read more...]
Swim Team Management
Making the Most of Your SwimTopia Reports
The power of SwimTopia is in the integration of your team’s information; to harness that power you need to be familiar with our reporting options and capabilities. SwimTopia reports give you the flexibility you need, to find the information you want. During the swim season SwimTopia added some reports and upgraded the functionality of others. We have a great selection of reports; read on to … [Read more...]
Encourage Signups for Your Next Meet with “Upcoming Events” Snippet
Many of our teams have begun their seasons, and meets are well underway. Make it easy for your parents to sign up for meet entries and volunteer shifts for your next meet by embedding the next swim meet option of our Upcoming Events snippet on your page template. The Upcoming Events snippet offers two options: Display several upcoming events (you can set the number) Display the next … [Read more...]
Best Practices for Meet and Event Setup
Summer swim season is ramping up, registrations are coming in, and practices have begun in our warmer states! As you launch into your summer season, we’d like to make sure your meet and event setup is correct from the get-go! Meet and Event Setup In the SwimTopia world, we have two kinds of events: 1) Swim Meets – complete with swim events (i.e., Girls 6 & Under 25 Free, Boys 7-8 25 Back, … [Read more...]
Efficient and Powerful Swim Team Management for High Schools
High School Swim Team Management Software Efficient, Powerful, Seemingly Effortless Training your swimmers to be all that is easy compared to the “behind the scenes” work of communicating with parents and swimmers, creating meet line ups, generating relays and selling spirit-wear. But now managing your High School team can be like that too. SwimTopia‘s high school swim team management software … [Read more...]
Team Mascots and Nicknames – Where Do They Come From?
At SwimTopia our staff is often entertained when we hear about unusual swim team nicknames and mascots... We thought you might be too, so we decided to run a series of blog posts on the topic! Stay tuned to hear which team mascots are the most common among SwimTopia teams, and later, which are the most unique, along with some of the interesting stories behind them... Creating Team Identity Most … [Read more...]
New Feature: Addressable/Editable Age Groups
At SwimTopia we're always looking for ways to improve, to listen to our customers, and to offer more flexibility in the way our system works for your team. If there is one thing we have learned over the years it's that no two swim teams are run the same exact way; there are hundreds of variations on how people manage their swim teams! This new feature, that allows the user to directly edit their … [Read more...]
Taking it to a New Level: Swim League Management
Free Websites for Swim League Board's Looking to Streamline Swim League Management Over the years swim teams have gradually been coming around to Cloud based software to help manage their teams and eliminate the paper trail. Now SwimTopia provides features specifically designed for leagues to help with their swim league management - so they can climb out from under the mountains of paper and … [Read more...]
5 Tips to Make Volunteer Management Easier
One of the great things about working at SwimTopia is being able to work with and learn from swim teams from all across the country. After working with hundreds of teams of all shapes and sizes, we've noticed that some teams really struggle with volunteering while others seems to have parents who are eager to help. We've taken these tips on how to make volunteer management easier from our most … [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...]
