Email Invites
When you send an email invite from Snap! Spend, each participant and parent receives an email with a private signup link just for them. They can only sign up for that group and the payments that you've specified ahead of time.
To send an email invite, you can add the participant to the group and provide the parent's email address.
Sign-up is only completed once the guardian adds a payment method and approves the invoices for AutoPay or Pay in Full.
After the participant has completed sign up, the parent email cannot be changed. If they have already completed sign up and need their email changed, the guardian will need to change the email on their end by following the steps in this article.
An email invite will expire after 45 days. To resend an invite, follow the steps in this article.
Link Signup
With link signup, you share a general link that is specific to your Snap! Spend account, but not to any particular group associated with your account. You can put this on your website, in an email, or wherever works for you. Parents follow the link and choose the group they want to sign up for from a drop-down list. You can control what appears here by enabling/disabling link signups for specific teams.
We suggest using link signup for the following:
- Tryouts
- Camps and clinics
- Lessons
- Teams with open signups
Example 1: Tryouts
Create a team that players are trying out for and add a tryout fee. Parents can register to tryout using the signup link and pay the fee online. When tryouts are over and you know who is on the team, you can remove the players that didn't make the cut. You can rename the team. You can also edit the payment schedule to include the current season's registration and team fees. The upshot is that since parents have already signed up, all they need to do is approve the new payments, not signup again.
Example 2: Camps and clinics
Most of the time camps and clinics are open to the public to sign up for. Create a team and name it as a camp. Set the payments and then enable link signup. Parents can then use the link to signup and pay.
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Utilizing Email and Link Sign-Up
You can actually have participants and parents sign up both ways! The most common reason for doing this is if you want most participants to sign up using the link, but you want to add some participants individually to customize their payments and send them a private invitation.
Alternatively, you could add all the participants to the group ahead of time and turn on the link signup. If a guardian follows the link signup and uses the same email address you provided for that participant, we'll link the account to that participant. If they use a different email, we'll add a new participant to the team.
Still have questions or need help? Please reach out to us directly at spend.support@onsnap.com or by phone at 276-531-9260.
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