Overview
The Sporty platform includes online forms that clubs and schools can use to register people. You can customise these forms with your own questions, share them via a link or embed them on your website, and accept payments online. Form scan also connect with Xero or MYOB to automatically generate invoices. When a form is submitted, the person's details are automatically added to your database.
Sporty also provides pre-built forms for national sports organisations such as Netball NZ, NZ Football, Touch NZ, NZ Rugby League, and Softball NZ. These "SuperForms" are the official method for registering participants and entering teams into competitions across most organised sport in New Zealand. A new SuperForm is automatically added each year for every club or school, making it easy to manage registrations by season.
To simplify renewals, Sporty offers a "Magic Link" feature. Clubs and schools can email previous participants a personalised link that opens the new season's form pre-filled wth their existing details - no login required.
Getting Started
The key steps for taking registrations online through web input forms are:
- Ensure your web form has the question fields needed to capture the information you want. To do this, follow the instructions to Edit a Form.
- If you're letting people pay online, add 'products' and pricing to your form.
- Once you're happy with your form, let people use it to register or renew by:
- Use a link to the blank version of your online form from your website, Facebook or e-Newsletter.
- If you use a website on the Sporty platform, it's easy to display your form on a page there.
- Use Sporty to send a 'Magic Link' to everyone who registered last season, so they can see their own details prefilled in your form to easily update and submit it without needing to login.
- Manually roll registrations forward from last season to your new form/database (note this is disabled for sports codes that require participants to self-register).
- Watch your online database grow as people register/renew through your web form. You can then use other functionality from Sporty such as:
- Send your database of people a professionally formatted e-Newsletter.
- Use the TeamBuilder utility to create Teams for entry into competitions.
- Manage your people through SuperCRM member management system.
- Export your database to Excel if you wish.
There is a place on the Sporty.co.nz platform already reserved for every club and school in the country. If you don't know the address for yours, please use this Club / School Search. If yours is not listed, just let us know at support@sportsground.com and we'll add it for you.
Once you've found your organisation on the Sporty.co.nz platform, login by clicking the Admin Login link at the bottom right of the screen. If you are unsure of your login details, check with someone else who has login details already or contact us at support@sportsground.com.
Once you've logged in, click the Dashboard link at the top left of the screen. This takes you to the central dashboard area where there are buttons leading you to the Online Registrations area, along with other functionality of Sporty such as TeamBuilder, e-Newsletters and SuperCRM member management system.
For more detailed instructions on Online Registration forms, please click here.
Note:
1) Although Sporty provides methods such as Magic Links and an Autofill Wizard to automatically pre-fill forms for people to save them time and effort, they can still simply complete a blank form if they wish. If a person who has registered with your organisation in the past submits a new registration, Sporty will automatically recognise them and match their details from the new record to avoid creating a duplicate person in your database. This relies on the person accurately entering key information for person matching, such as correctly entering their surname and date of birth.
2) If a person has previously completed a registration then completes another registration with the same person details but with a different email address, the email address will be updated when person matching to be the most recent entry. An email will be sent to the original email address notifying them that the email has been updated and to be in touch if there are any issues or concerns.