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Must know
  • Three units. Years, Months, or Years and months. A decimal year is rounded to the nearest month.
  • Pick the measuring day. Choose Age at program start (or the season’s Age cutoff date) or Age at a specific date.
  • Birth date required. An athlete with no birth date on file can’t register for an age-restricted program.
  • Maximum age counts months. A maximum of 9 years refuses a child who is 9 years 1 month. Use Years and months (9 years 11 months) to include the whole year.
Where to find it. On the Requirements step of the program builder, switch on Age Restriction. On an existing program, open its row menu on Registrations > Programs, click Configure and choose the Requirements tab. You need permission to create or edit programs. Application Required programs have no Requirements step, so they can’t have an age restriction.
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Choose the mode

Pick By age or By birthdate.
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By age: set the limits

Choose a Unit: Years, Months, or Years and months (a years box plus a months box). Set a Minimum Age, a Maximum Age, or both. Leave one blank for no limit. In Years, a decimal such as 5.3 shows = 5 years 4 months below the box.
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By age: choose the day athletes are aged at

Below the limits, choose Age at program start (it reads Use the season default when the season has an Age cutoff date) or Age at a specific date and pick an Age reference date. A box headed Athletes are aged at shows the day used and where it came from.
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By birthdate: set the window

Set Born on or after, Born on or before, or both.
Which day counts. A date set on the program wins. Next is the season’s Age cutoff date (Settings > Registration > Seasons, on the season’s Overview tab, when Uplifter has turned Seasons on for your club). Otherwise per-class and drop-in programs use each session’s own date, and all others use the program start date. Tick Use the later of this date and the registration date (shown once you pick a specific date) to age athletes at the registration day when it is later. Someone who reaches the minimum age after the date still qualifies. Someone past the maximum by then does not. Limits. Ages run from 0 to 100 years (1200 months). The minimum can’t exceed the maximum, and Born on or after can’t be later than Born on or before. Choosing a specific date and leaving it empty is refused. What families and staff see. The registration page lists a refused athlete with the reason and the day measured, such as “Age - requires ages 7 years - 10 years on Dec 31, 2026 (11 years on that date)”. An athlete with no birth date is listed as “Birth date missing - required for this program”, and checkout refuses them. When you enroll an athlete from the dashboard, an age failure is a warning you can knowingly override. Many programs at once. Bulk Edit > Requirements > Age restriction sets the mode, Unit and limits, but has no choice of the day athletes are aged at. See How do I edit several programs at once?. Related: How do I restrict a program by level, gender, membership, or achievement? · How do I change the requirements on an existing program? · How do I organize programs into seasons and categories? · Why can’t I register my athlete for a program?