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  • Released Saturday, September 26, 2026.
  • Payment plans arrive for clubs whose plan includes them. Check Settings > Organization > Features. A feature marked Not included needs Uplifter support.
  • Club staff see these updates in Uplifter too, under What’s new at the bottom of the admin dashboard sidebar.
  • Some items need a plan feature, such as Gift Cards, Seasons, Memberships or Training (achievements and evaluations).

For club staff

Payment plans on programs. A one-time, full-enrollment program can offer a deposit (which can be $0) plus set installments on one schedule every family shares. Families pick Payment plan at checkout. Each later installment is its own invoice, charged to the card on file or paid from the family’s billing page. Families get one grouped email when installments fail their last retry, and a heads-up three days before each. If Payment Plans shows Not included on Settings > Organization > Features, contact Uplifter support. See payment plans. A step-by-step notification builder. Add notification under Settings > Communication > Notifications opens a five-step builder: Trigger, Scope, Audience, Content, Review. Rules can target programs, seasons, categories or sessions, and System Rules lists every automatic email to reword or switch off. See notification rules. Change a sold membership’s pricing. Edit a membership’s price, billing interval or dates after members join, then choose what happens to members billed automatically: Keep them on their current terms, Move them onto the new terms or Stop their automatic renewal. See editing memberships. Attendance from the athlete profile. On the Attendance tab, Add Attendance pre-marks an upcoming class, and past marks can be corrected, showing who last edited each. See athlete records. Achievements wait to be published. New awards wait for someone with the Publish Achievements permission unless Publish awards automatically is on. Staff can award many athletes at once, levels can require achievements, and families get an Achievements page. See achievements. Seasons and closures. Seasons can be archived and given an Age cutoff date. Program lists, reports and your club website filter by season, and rollover keeps coaches and teams. A closure can cover some facilities or spaces, or a time window, or be a Calendar note that closes nothing. Closures show on your club website; calendar notes do not. See seasons and closures. Waivers in more places. Waivers can be required at signup or login and on passes and store products, and limited by age. Receipts can include signed waivers once you turn that on. See requiring waivers. Invoice lines that take effect when sent. On a manual invoice, a program or membership line whose Takes effect is When the invoice is sent enrolls the athlete or starts the membership on sending, not on payment. See invoices. Staff roles set a minimum. A role’s own permissions show Granted by the role and stay on. You toggle extras only. With Custom, which grants nothing on its own, you can switch every permission on or off. See staff roles. Discounts for whole seasons. The discount wizard’s Whole seasons picker covers a season’s programs, including ones added later. See discount targets. Blocked addresses get no automatic emails. Addresses blocked after bounces or complaints are skipped, and a skipped invoice email shows no Email failed label. See bounced emails. More accurate reports. Tax Collection subtracts refunded tax, Revenue by Program has a GL Code column, and Participants has Age and Born filters. Dates follow your club’s time zone, several finance reports are corrected, and capped reports say so. The Class Lists print can also put each group on its own page (One page or tab per group). See financial reports. Credit, gift cards and copies. Add credit is now Adjust credit, which can also deduct, with Undo (see guardian profiles). A Gift Card Activity report lists every value change, gift cards can hold a Staff note, and Copy from Existing brings a program’s coaches along. See gift card balances and creating a program. React to updates. React with an emoji to What’s new updates and bell announcements, and see each update’s Feature requests in this update. See what’s new.

For coaches

Registers show more. Medical details sit behind Show medical information, Trial and First class badges appear, and a label flags anyone owing a waiver. See taking attendance. Evaluation dates and release timing. You choose the evaluation Date (never a future day). A template’s When families see these evaluations setting publishes results by hand, immediately or after set days, and families can open Attempt history on skill cards. See creating an evaluation and evaluation templates.

For families

Pay part of an invoice with a gift card or credit. Use part of a gift card or account credit and pay the rest by card. Partially paid invoices can be paid online. Staff can do the same from Take payment. See paying with a gift card. Pay off a payment plan early. On your billing page, Pay off plan pays the installments you pick, up to all of them. A notice warns if your card expires before an installment. See paying an order. Receipts that add up. Subtotal, tax, service fee and surcharges add up to the total, in your club’s time zone. See receipts. Custom questions on one step. Account, order and per-athlete questions appear together at checkout, and each required answer is checked. See registration details.

Smaller fixes

  • The athlete Programs tab shows Enrolled apart from Start Date.
  • Whole-day event tickets stay valid until the day ends.
  • Switching one-time billing to a repeating one clears the old one-time price.
  • Take payment appears on partially paid invoices.
  • Analytics cards that would show only zeros are hidden.
  • The website cookie notice is shorter: essential cookies and analytics, never advertising.
  • Set Active on a waitlisted enrollment asks how to bill first.
  • Failed refunds on invoices from your previous system say why and suggest another destination.
  • Invoice status filters match their badges, and a Charged back filter is new.
  • Cash or e-transfer checkout orders can later be paid online, paying the card or bank fee.
  • Family custom questions work in the family portal, even at clubs without a public website.
  • The campaign guardian balance merge field shows only what the family owes your club.
  • The event form drops an unsaved Price field; ticket types set the price.
  • The Guardians list loads for very large clubs.
  • Session-picked campaign audiences include full-program athletes.
  • Imports from Uplifter 1.0 or another system are faster, stop safely, and carry fees, waitlist order, per-class programs and session times more faithfully.
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