We’re all finding that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find enough parents to volunteer to run swim clubs. I’m exploring options for bringing affordable paid support into club admin. I’m seeking your input please. My outline idea is to hire an offshore admin manager / virtual assistant, and share the cost across a number of […]
How to link an external website to the Swimming Australia APT online race entry system
Many swim clubs use the standard websites provided by Swimming Australia via APT. The online race entry system is available within these websites via a popup box. To get external websites to link to the online race entry system use this URL: https://connect.swimming.org.au/sal-wrap-public/workflows/MEMBER.EVENT.DETAIL&dbWorkflowKey=XXXXXX XXXXXX should be replaced with the 6 digit code for the meet […]
Easier volunteer rostering with Sign Up Genius
We recently calculated that a major 2-day meet requires 1,000 hours of volunteer time to run. That’s an average of 2.5 hours for every single swimmer entered. We owe it to ourselves as organisers and other volunteers to make things as easy and time efficient as possible. One particular challenge is rostering officials and other […]
Super easy club night registration using your website
Organising swimmers and volunteers for club nights has always been a challenge for us. We used to do this using a grubby piece of paper in the pool office (which sometimes went missing, often contained difficult to read writing, and everyone regularly forgot to fill it in whilst they were at the pool). Then we […]
How to update the development squad bookings section of the SMNE website
This post is for the SMNE webmaster. It contains instructions about how to update the development squads bookings section of the website. It is recommended that this work is done by someone familiar with WordPress, PayPal and Gravity Forms. Context The booking system uses an online form built on “Gravity Forms” linked to a PayPal […]