Four reasons Swimming Clubs should head to the Cloud
In the way that people have taken their music collection to the cloud – with stack of CDs sitting idly in a cupboard or basement – the ACTIVE Network suggest that swimming clubs should do the same, highlighting the benefits of cloud-based swim team management software and the efficiencies it offers to managers, swimmers, parents and volunteers.
ACTIVE Network General Manager of Swim, Tom Taylor explains “swim parents and their swimmers live in a ‘right now’ world and they want the kinds of technological bells and whistles that cloud-based swim team management software provides.
“It goes beyond online registration - it’s about being able to offer your customers a pleasant user experience, from registration to payment to communication.”
Taylor suggests the following four reasons for swim clubs to take their management to the cloud:
1. Reduce Administration Work with Online Meet Entries: Completely streamline the meet entry process for your organisation and for swimmers and parents with online meet entries. Parents can indicate which events/meets they want their children to swim and then pay online with no paperwork involved.
2. Communications Centre Eliminates Back-and-Forth: Send mass messages to swimmers and parents with the simple yet effective communications tools in the communications centre.
3. Assign Volunteer Roles and Track Participation: A swim club can’t be run without dedicated volunteers that come back year after year. Cloud-based management helps organisations do just that by prompting parents to sign up for volunteer roles during registration and allowing you to easily track participation.
4. Safely Collect Online Payment: Credit card security is top-of-mind for everyone these days after high-profile data breaches. A good cloud-based management system will come backed with industry-leading security features, so parents can be confident submitting online payment information. For example, ACTIVE Hytek’s Swim Manager allows concurrent access for coaches, treasurers and others with restricted access so data stays out of the wrong hands.
Taylor explains that the “bottom line (is) ... cloud-based swim team management alleviates many of the administrative tasks that suck up your time and keep you out of the pool.”
For more information on cloud-based swim team management software, click here to ACTIVE Hytek’s Swim Manager on-demand webinar.
Click here to contact ACTIVE Network® via their entry in the Australasian Leisure Management Supplier Directory.
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