Running a multi-crew club

Running a multi-crew club

One club account runs several crews: A boat, B boat, a recreational squad, a women’s crew. One subscription covers them all, since billing sits at club level.

Structure:

  • Each crew has its own roster, schedule, sign-ups, and lineups
  • Boats and regattas are shared club-wide
  • Paddlers can belong to more than one crew, and their profile follows them
  • Admins can be delegated per crew, and a club admin reaches every crew

Naming. Set a convention before you create the second crew, because renaming later confuses everyone. “Club Name — A Boat” and “Club Name — Women” scale better than nicknames only the committee understands.

Delegate per crew. Give each crew’s manager admin on their own crew. Central control of every schedule becomes a bottleneck by week three.

Watch for these:

  • Event collisions. Nothing stops a paddler claiming seats at two crews’ practices at the same time. Coordinate schedules between crew managers.
  • Boat collisions. The app does catch these — two lineups can’t hold the same hull across overlapping events.
  • Shared paddlers between A and B boats. Decide the rule in advance: does A boat have first call before B boat sign-ups open? Software won’t decide this. Write it down and tell people.
  • The wrong invite link. With several crews this is the most common support issue you’ll field. Label links clearly when you share them.