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Must know
  • Categories live in Settings → Registration Setup → Categories and are always available. Seasons live in Settings → Registration Setup → Seasons and are available on plans that include Seasons — if Create Season is greyed out, ask your Uplifter contact.
  • You pick a program’s category and season while building the program, on its first steps. A season can also have an existing program attached from the season’s own settings page (its Programs tab); categories have no such linking page.
  • A recurring season renews into the next year and carries each program’s category forward, so category-scoped holiday closures keep applying to the renewed programs.
Categories and seasons are two independent ways to group programs. A category is a lasting bucket (“Recreational”, “Team”, “Camps”) for organizing and filtering; a season is a dated window (“Spring 2026”) programs belong to.
1

Create categories

Go to Settings → Registration Setup → Categories and click Add Category. Give it a Name and optional description, then save. Drag the cards to set the order families see. Categories also group your events and competitions on the marketing site.
2

Create seasons

Go to Settings → Registration Setup → Seasons and click Create Season. Set a Name, Start Date, End Date, and Status (Draft or Active). Turn on Recurring Season to have it renew automatically, and set the Renewal Lead Days to control how far ahead the next season is generated.
3

Assign them to a program

In the program builder, pick the Season (on the first step, when seasons exist) and the Category on the General step. A program can sit in one season and one category.
Once assigned, categories power the filters on your dashboard calendar and your public program listings, and they let a holiday closure target just one group of programs. When a recurring season rolls over, each program’s category rides along so those scoped closures keep working. Related: How do I create a new program? · How do I schedule holiday closures? · How do I view and filter the class calendar?