Platform updates: Parents join the club, member management and more

Parents and guardians belong to the club now

From now on a parent has access to everything their child belongs to — their teams, their groups, their events and their clubs. They do not have to join as a player to get it.

They can reply in those chats as themselves, tagged as their child’s parent.

Coaches can see who stands behind each child

The other half of that is knowing which adults belong to which child. A club, group or team’s people list now carries the parents and guardians alongside the members, so a coach can see at a glance who to contact about whom.

A parent can be silenced in a group’s chat, kept out of that chat altogether, or have their access to the group removed — per club, per group, per team. The child’s place is untouched by all three. The decision shows in the people list with the reason attached, and can be lifted whenever.

Organise your household

You can now invite a co-guardian — a second parent, a grandparent, a carer — to help manage your children’s activities, and choose which of them that person can see.

Teenagers can start this themselves. A 13–17 year old can name a parent by email while setting up their profile, or later from Settings › Family. The named person signs up as normal and finds the request waiting in their own app. The invitation sits on the teen’s family screen until it is answered, and they can withdraw it — secure and controlled from both sides.

Manage a roster without repeating yourself

Any club, team or group list now lets admins and managers pick several people and act on all of them at once — assign them to a team or group, set their skill level, or remove them. Every row also carries a single menu with everything you can do to that person.

It works the same on the phone, where a long press starts picking.

Events that fill in their own people

Start an event from a team, group or club and the people are already there: its coaches arrive as hosts, each with a role, and its members arrive invited. Untick anyone who should not be.

You can select players, staff and parents separately — parents stay off unless you turn them on. You can also build the teams inside the wizard, names and colours included; they exist the moment the event does, and anyone dropped into a slot is invited automatically.

Reach exactly the right people, and know who read it

Staff can mention @guardians in a post or a chat to reach every parent behind a club, team or group. Any group mention — @guardians, @everyone, a position — can be tapped to see precisely who it covers.

Authors, coaches and admins see how many people a post reached, and can open the count for the names. An event’s member list shows who has opened it, and flags anyone whose last look came before you changed the time or the place.

Strangers ask before they arrive

We have made the app safer and stricter. Strangers can no longer message you directly: only members of the same club can message each other. Reaching someone in another club means sending a message request first — one message, no attachments, no links, until they reply. Accept it, decline it, or block and report, each in one click. Requests are answered on the web for now.

Also in this release

• Editing a post gives you back everything you had when you wrote it — attachments, mentions, emoji, video links and pinning — and attachments can be swapped in and out without starting the post again.
• The coaching tools have been redesigned. Your own drills, training plans, exercises and evaluations are on the home screen; everyone else’s are under Discover.
• Apple Pay and Google Pay are on the payment sheet on the phone.
• A lineup board for team rosters: six seats, each with its own depth chart, and a serving and receiving switch that brings the libero on.
• A fullscreen form builder, which now says why a form cannot be saved.
• Polls you can change your mind on — switch your vote, or take it off.
• A deleted message can be undone on the web, with the window counting down.
• Alerts can be filtered by posts, teams, registrations, family and coaching, and show a photo of who they are about.
• Events lists open on what is coming, not on everything that ever happened.
• A member can hold several roles at once on the phone.
• Clubs are listed publicly once verified.

Fixed

• Parents never received push notifications for their child’s chats. Every one was dropped before delivery.
• Adding several people to a team added only the first. The list now says who was skipped and why.
• A parent could read a post in their child’s group but not reply, and a removed player stayed in the team chat.
• A club member outside a private group could read its posts through the feed.
• Events created from the planner could not be joined — they had no registration window — and the planner squeezed seven days into whatever width was left.
• A fee paid by a parent was recorded as paid by the child, in the app and in Stripe.
• Filtering plans by skill did nothing, and four of five sort options quietly returned newest-first.
• Accepting a second family invitation could split a parent across two families. One household per person now.
• Signing in to a second account in the same browser sent the first back to profile setup.
• Suspended accounts still appeared in profile search.
• Dates rendered month before day in places.
• Email verification links worked more than once. They are single-use and expire after 24 hours.
• A drill with a variation crashed its page, as did a drill with no skills.
• “Added you to a team” said “Admin” rather than naming who did it.