Must know
- Released Thursday, September 10, 2026. This page also covers the smaller releases around it, September 7 - 13 (versions 1.5.6 and 1.5.8 to 1.6.1).
- Families and shared access are new. Households can share access to their athletes, and sibling discounts count only athletes in the same Family.
- Some changes depend on your plan. Settings > Organization > Features shows what your club has. A feature marked Not included needs Uplifter support.
For club staff
Sibling discounts move to Discounts. Set them up only under Settings > Financials > Discounts, where Orders per owning Family uses one allowance per order for all qualifying siblings. Existing program rules moved there. See automatic discounts. A recurring billing register. Financials > Recurring Billing lists one row per athlete and product (Active, Paused, Failed, Cancelled or Completed) with only the actions that apply: edit, pause with a restart date, cancel now or at period end, Resume or Retry now. Each charge has a Cycles ledger, and filters cover program, next billing date and payment method. See recurring charges. Card-reader terminals. If your plan includes Store, use Order a Terminal under Settings > Financials > Terminals, then take cards at the point of sale or with Charge on terminal on an invoice. See card terminals. Refunds cover memberships, passes and custom items. Per line, choose how much goes back and what happens to the item, such as End access now or Remove unused credits. See refunds. Clearer membership cancellations. End a member now or at period end, choose what happens to the money, and whether to notify the family. Cancelled is its own status, and Remove from membership fixes a wrong add. See cancelling a membership. Per-session pricing. A full-enrollment program can charge Per session, so holidays and cancelled classes lower the bill. It bills on your Monthly billing day, and when you change that day you now see which charges move first. See program pricing. Change days and dates after families register. A dialog on save covers affected sessions, refunds and notifications. Cancelled sessions send families a Program Schedule Updated email. See program schedules. Purchase conditions. A program, store product, event ticket type or competition category can require an earlier purchase within a time window. Staff can always override at checkout. See requiring an earlier purchase. Requirements work the same everywhere. Bookings now enforce level, age and waiver rules at checkout, and age can be measured at program start or a chosen date, in years, months or both. See age restrictions. Enroll in Program asks how to charge. The tray ends with a payment step: Card on file, Send invoice, Gift card, Cash or Comp, plus when recurring billing starts. See enrolling an athlete. Chargebacks explained. A pulled-back invoice shows Charged back with a plain reason, and a dispute in progress shows Chargeback pending in payment history. Alert emails include the reason when given. See invoice statuses. Program applications replace the interest form. The no-login interest form is retired. Application Required is offered only when your plan includes Program Applications, and the programs list shows athletes awaiting review. See reviewing applications. Also new for staff. An Activity tab on the athlete profile records each enrollment and membership change and who made it. Manual invoice lines take any price, with Reset to list price. Cancelling a session lets you return Family pass credits separately from refunds. Cancel card on a gift card writes off its balance, refunds no one and can’t be undone. See the athlete record.For coaches
The Programs list starts with this week. It opened on Rest of this week and shows sessions loaded out of the total, with Load more. Since Uplifter 1.7.1 it opens on Upcoming. See browsing classes.For families
Families and shared access. From Family in the family portal, add athletes, invite other adults (who must accept) and share selected athletes outside the household. Each purchase and pass now belongs to a Family. Since Uplifter 1.7.0 every account has a named Family. See inviting someone. New cards and bank accounts are saved. At checkout and when paying an invoice, a signed-in family’s new card or bank account is saved for future billing, with a notice. Guest checkouts never save one. See saved cards. Coming up and declined payments. On Billing Details, Due soon becomes Coming up, covering the next 30 days. A declined payment shows a red banner with Update card and Pay now. See orders and charges. Google and Microsoft sign-in. From a club website it creates the account as a club member. Elsewhere, an address with no Uplifter account sees We don’t recognize this email, and nothing is created. See logging in.On your club website
Find your club. uplifter.app is now a public directory, searchable by club name, city, sport, region or postal code. The Directory listing card under Settings > Website > General controls your listing (published websites only). See directory listing.Smaller fixes
- Guardians can sign program waivers from registration and order pay pages again.
- Deleting an athlete in a Family no longer fails.
- New families can check out for a just-added athlete, memberships included, before your club links them.
- Checkout pricing errors show their reason, and sign-in sheets and rosters list every enrolled athlete.
- Signed-in invited guardians can add athletes, and staff-created athletes join a Family.
- Receipts list each payment method on part-credit or part-gift-card orders.
- Cash, bank or e-transfer payments on a manual invoice enroll the athlete right away, and can be recorded on balances carried over from a previous system.
- The program schedule preview counts only real sessions, and schedule builder locks explain themselves on tap.
- A Reload payment form button appears if the card form stalls, and no decline banner shows mid-typing.
- Editing an allergy keeps the emergency contact.
- Guest attendee ticket purchases no longer fail at payment.
- Guardian profiles explain the account balance and next charge.
- Canadian clubs can pay their Uplifter subscription by pre-authorized debit or Google Pay.
- Staff who are parents at another club are no longer stuck in the family portal.
- The payout summary shows refund fees only for refunds to the original card or bank.
- Paying for a spot an admin placed no longer triggers the program-full refund.
- Moves from Uplifter 1.0 carry over emergency contacts, medical and custom questions, required governing-body plans (now as memberships), and whether each family and staff member had set up a login, more completely.