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Bring members in

Your organization is set up and has something to offer — time to fill the roster. This page walks the third group of the setup checklist: create a season, share your join links, open public registration, and import members you already have.

Create a season

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Seasons scope your membership tiers to a date range and give you staged signup phases — early renewals for returning members, then open registration. Each season gets its own shareable registration link.

  1. Click Seasons, then New season.
  2. Set the season’s dates, attach membership tiers, and click Create season.
  3. Use each season card’s Registration button to grab its shareable link, and Manage to control its phases.

The Seasons page showing the Summer 2026 season, active and open for registration, with Registration and Manage buttons

Skip this step if your club runs year-round — members can join your default tier directly. The lifecycle and phases are explained in How seasons work, and season links in Registration codes & invitations.

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The Share links panel at the top of the member roster gives you two links, both opening your branded portal:

  • The invite link carries your invite code, so new members can join even when public registration is off — and joining through it waives the application fee, if you charge one.
  • The login/join link is your portal’s front door: existing members sign in, and prospects use its Join tab when public registration is on.
  1. Click Members.
  2. In the Share links panel, copy the invite URL, or click Copy login/join for the portal link.
  3. Use the Invite code active checkbox to switch the invite code off; inactive invite links fall back to plain sign-in. Only owners can change this.

The member roster with the Share links panel above it, showing the invite URL, the Copy login/join button, and the Invite code active checkbox

When a season is open, the portal’s public Join goes to that season’s membership picker instead of your default tier.

Turn on public registration

Section titled “Turn on public registration”

To let prospective members sign themselves up without an invite code:

  1. Click Settings, then Features.
  2. Turn on Allow org-wide public registration.

Alternatively, open a season — each season’s registration link is always reachable and reflects the season’s current phase, whether or not org-wide registration is on.

Import an existing roster

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Moving from spreadsheets or another system? Bring everyone over in one CSV:

  1. Click Members, then Import. The button is enabled once you have at least one membership tier.
  2. Upload a CSV with at least name and email columns, then review the preview before finishing the import.

The full walkthrough — file format, expected columns, and fixing flagged rows — is in Adding & importing members.

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