9 posts tagged with "club-management"

Give new curlers a way to sign up for a few weeks. Someone who enjoyed a first visit may be ready to come back next Thursday without knowing whether they can commit through March.

The third podcast episode in Curling Canada's The Future of Canadian Curling series discusses shorter commitments for new curlers. A four-week learn-to-curl program gives beginners time to learn the basics and play a few games before deciding whether to join a longer league.

This post is part of our Curling IO v3 sneak peek series, where we explore some of the new features available in the upcoming version.

A member wants to spread their season fee over a few months. Collecting those payments by e-transfer and tracking them in a spreadsheet can be challenging.

Payment plans let you split selected purchases into scheduled installments. Members choose a plan at checkout, SportsPay schedules the later installments for automatic collection, and every payment stays connected to the member's order in Curling IO.

This post is part of our Curling IO v3 sneak peek series, where we explore some of the new features available in the upcoming version.

If your club uses a content management system (CMS), this might sound familiar. A staff member or volunteer sets up the website, but when they leave, no one else knows how to update it. Updates get put off, and old information stays online.

We built Website Studio to make it as easy as possible for club staff to keep their website up to date. Your website lives in Curling IO alongside your club’s programs, events, and registration. You don’t need to manage a complicated third-party website, like WordPress, or pay another provider just for website hosting.

This post is part of our Curling IO v3 sneak peek series, where we explore some of the new features available in the upcoming version.

Curling IO v3 includes optional in-app assistance for most tasks a club manager does. It appears within the section where the work is happening and uses the context needed for that work.

An assistant can investigate a problem, explain what it finds, and prepare an operation for review. It performs that operation only after an administrator explicitly approves it.

This post is part of our Curling IO v3 sneak peek series, where we explore some of the new features available in the upcoming version.

Curling clubs use rentals for practice ice, lounges, meeting rooms, and other bookable resources they define. A rental needs a product and price, but it also needs a schedule, one or more resources, public availability, and a booking record after checkout.

In Curling IO v3, an administrator defines the rental schedule and resources in the admin area. Available time slots appear on the public calendar, where curlers can add one to the cart and complete checkout. This post explains the rental options being added and how they fit into the calendar.

This post is part of our Curling IO v3 sneak peek series, where we explore some of the new features available in the upcoming version.

Curling clubs sell much more than leagues and bonspiels. They run clinics, rent ice, assign lockers, host junior camps, sell banquet tables, and collect donations.

Today, each of those offerings has to fit one of Curling IO's predefined types. That works, but sometimes only because a club picks the closest available bucket. One active junior summer camp is stored as a Product, with its August dates written into the name. A full-sheet ice rental is stored as a Program because it needs a date, capacity, and a waitlist. A donation is stored as a Fee.

In Curling IO v3, the organization decides which product types it needs. A club can create Camps, Clinics, Ice Rentals, Locker Rentals, Fundraising, or any other category that fits its operation, then choose what each type can do.

We know that many of our clubs use WordPress or Joomla for their curling websites. These are popular platforms, and for good reason: they're flexible and there's no shortage of tutorials and plugins. But that popularity comes with a serious downside. General-purpose CMS platforms are big targets, and volunteer-run clubs often don't have anyone watching the security queue. Here's what you need to know.

Imagine you're a club manager setting up next season. You open your AI agent and type (or just say):

Set up early bird pricing for the Tuesday Night League. 15% off if they register before September 1st.

Five seconds later, it's done. No browser tabs, no forms, no clicking through menus. With Curling IO v3, this is something you'll be able to do.

If your curling club is shopping for management software, or wondering whether it's time to replace what you've got, the wrong choice can mean years of workarounds. Here's what to look for.