Inviting Participants and Parents

Email Invites

When you send an email invite from Snap! Spend, each participant and parent receives an email with a private signup link just for them. They can only sign up for that group and the payments that you've specified ahead of time. 

To send an email invite, you can add the participant to the group and provide the parent's email address. 

After the participant has been added, the parent email cannot be changed. If they are unable to sign up with the email originally added, the participant will need to be removed and re-added. For more information on how to remove a participant, visit this article. 

Link Signup

With link signup, you share a general link that is specific to your Snap! Spend account, but not to any particular group associated with your account. You can put this on your website, in an email, or wherever works for you. Parents follow the link and choose the group they want to sign up for from a drop-down list. You can control what appears here by enabling/disabling link signups for specific teams.

We suggest using link signup for the following:

• Tryouts
• Camps and clinics
• Lessons
• Teams with open signups

Example 1: Tryouts

Create a team that players are trying out for and add a tryout fee. Parents can register to tryout using the signup link and pay the fee online. When tryouts are over and you know who is on the team, you can remove the players that didn't make the cut. You can rename the team. You can also edit the payment schedule to include the current season's registration and team fees. The upshot is that since parents have already signed up, all they need to do is approve the new payments, not signup again.

Example 2: Camps and clinics

Most of the time camps and clinics are open to the public to sign up for. Create a team and name it as a camp. Set the payments and then enable link signup. Parents can then use the link to signup and pay.

The Pros and Cons

	Email Invitations	Link Signup
Pros	You can track who has not signed up in addition to who has signed up Snap! Spend can automatically send signup reminders, upcoming payment reminders and past due payment reminders to those who have been invited but not signed up. (You can customize these notification settings in the Settings page) You can customize participant payments before they sign up by applying for scholarships and discounts or splitting payments between separated parents	Easy to set up, very little data to enter Great for open signups for tryouts and camps or groups that aren't invite-only Can put it on your website
Cons	You have to know participant names and parent emails ahead of time Not good for tryouts, camps, clinics or groups where you don't know who wants to join the team ahead of time A little bit more upfront work	Harder to track who hasn't signed up Snap! Spend can't send automatic reminders to people not on the roster Anyone can signup Guardians could sign for the wrong group

 

Utilizing Email and Link Sign-Up

You can actually have participants and parents sign up both ways! The most common reason for doing this is if you want most participants to sign up using the link, but you want to add some participants individually to customize their payments and send them a private invitation.

Alternatively, you could add all the participants to the group ahead of time and turn on the link signup. If a guardian follows the link signup and uses the same email address you provided for that participant, we'll link the account to that participant. If they use a different email, we'll add a new participant to the team.

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