Creating a free gymnastics registration form is easy. If you pick the right provider, your form can even come with built-in time saving features. So, don’t just settle for a dressed-up contact us form.
Instead, look for a gymnastics registration form that prevents registration errors, shows real-time class availability, comes with an automated waitlist feature, and much more.
Why is a gymnastics registration form important?
Today, many parents want to reduce touch points and unnecessary interactions. With health and safety top of mind, it’s more important than ever to bring your gymnastics registration online.
Furthermore, parents want a registration process that is smooth and easy. That’s why we designed our free gymnastics registration form with tools that allow your members to digitally sign waivers, accept club policies and give your club the ability to collect important member information to speed up registrations in the future.
For some, an online gymnastics registration form may seem like a challenge to setup. But in this article, we’ll share how easy setup can be and all the benefits that come with using our Uplifter LITE software.
What information can you collect with your gymnastics registration form?
Because our free gymnastics registration form comes as part of our free Uplifter LITE software, member registration is streamlined. This means that members do not have to re-enter their age, gender, contact information and emergency contact details. Instead, that information is quickly collected when they create their account.
As a result, your registration form is simplified for a fast and easy transaction. In many cases, all your members have to do is click ‘register’ then agree to policies or sign waivers and make payment.
How to Setup your Free Gymnastics Registration Form
We’ve had clients setup their free gymnastics registration form for all of their classes in under an hour. To do this your club administrator simply needs to:
- Fill out your club location details
- Create your categories (Eg: Competitive, Recreational, Preschool Gymnastics)
- Create your programs (Eg: Girls Rec. 5-7 years old, Girls Rec. 8-10 years old)
- Set registration dates and setup your payment gateway to accept online credit card payments
See our note at the end of this article for more information about payment gateways.
Why Can’t I Just Use a Contact Us Form?
A decade ago, clubs could try and use a contact us form for registration. They could build a form with additional fields such as “Name”, “Age”, “Gender”, “Program”, and “Preferred Class Time”. Then their members could fill out their form and submit their information.
But, after receiving all of these forms club administrators would have to sift through the submitted information and start building out a spreadsheet trying to track which students wanted to register for which aged/gender class at which time.
It created a lot of manual work for administrators, even if their members didn’t make mistakes. However, if there were mistakes or if classes filled up? That’s where big headaches came in. In these cases admins would have to send emails and make phone calls trying to correct errors and verify availability.
This caused delays, created frustrations for members and slowed everything down. Throw in class changes for members or tracking-down member payments and you can see how time consuming a “contact us” form registration could be.
Alternatively, today, a free gymnastics registration form like Uplifter LITE comes with built-in club management software. This means, your online registration automates or simplifies numerous time-consuming tasks to eliminate headaches. It’s a solution that parents and admins both appreciate!
For example, members love our real-time class availability that automatically displays beneath each class registration. When registration fills up, members are happy they can automatically add themselves to a waitlist. And if your admins need to accommodate a class change, they can complete the switch with a few clicks!
The best part is that with built-in online payments, your free gymnastics registration form can collect payments for you. But the benefits don’t end there.
Benefits of our Free Gymnastics Registration Form with Built-in Software
Create time savings for administrators and parents too! With a smooth registration process your club will make a great first impression with new members. Here’s an overview of some of the features that come with our free gymnastics registration form.
Class Availability
Sit back and let your gymnastics registration form display real-time availability for all of your classes. Parents appreciate knowing if there are only a few spots left in the class that their child wants. In this way, our real-time class availability can help create a sense of scarcity and decrease the time it takes for members to make their registration decisions.
Automated Waitlists
If a class fills up, you can still capture the information of interested members with our automated waitlists. Allow members to add themselves to a class waitlist straight from your gymnastics registration form. If a spot becomes available, your admins can quickly see who’s next on your waitlist and notify them about your new opening.
Accepting Club Policies and Signing Waivers
Your gymnastics registration form shouldn’t just be a passive experience. Instead, your form should proactively present your club policies and waivers. Using Uplifter LITE, you can ensure you club collects digital signatures on important waivers, and presents key club policies.
Today, club health and safety are top priority. Parents want to know how their kids can safely re-engage in sport at your club. For this reason, your club must be able to deliver policies, agreements and waivers upfront.
Sell Recurring Memberships with our Free Gymnastics Registration Form
Want to make your gymnastics registration even easier? Offer your members monthly recurring memberships.
Allowing your members to pay a monthly subscription can stabilize your club’s revenue. This drastically simplifies payroll projections and revenue forecasting.
Furthermore, during the pandemic monthly subscription payments are easy to pause or postpone. As a result, in the event of a regional shutdown, your admins can easily stop member payments and reactivate them when programming resumes.
A Gymnastics Registration Form That Prevents Registration Errors
Save your administrators time by eliminating registration errors. With Uplifter LITE’s free gymnastics registration form you can automatically control registrations by age and gender.
This means a parent can’t accidentally register their 8-year-old son for their 12-year-old daughter’s class. Those sorts of mistakes are easy for busy parents to make. But our free gymnastics registration form ensures the age and gender of a participant matches your class requirements.
If the member’s information doesn’t match the requirements of the class, they will get a prompt to change their class selection. This saves a ton of time for your busy admin team!
When your club enters its next season, you can even add class pre-requisites. These requirements ensure your gymnastics registration form automatically prevents anyone who hasn’t taken a prerequisite class from registering for your specialized classes.
Automate Admin Fees to Cover Credit Card Processing
Although Uplifter LITE comes with a competitive credit card processing rate, Paypal and other providers, you can allow your members to pay those fees by automatically adding a small administration fee or online processing fee to your invoices.
An Unlimited Contacts Database That Helps Your Club Scale
Don’t get stuck paying for the size of your membership database with another software provider. We have many advanced features that can help clubs of all sizes. However, if your gymnastics club doesn’t need those features, we won’t limit the size of your membership database to try and push you onto a paid plan.
Instead, our Uplifter LITE software is built to scale with your growing club. This means your gymnastics registration form can handle all your registrations even if your club of 100 members doubles in size!
Integrate Virtual Class Links into a Password Protected Environment
We’ve already written about virtual class best practice using zoom. And we’ve also provided our virtual coaching tips. Ultimately, if your club needs to run virtual classes, Uplifter is here to help. By embedding your virtual class links in Uplifter, your club can help prevent uninvited guests from entering your virtual class.
Plus, if members are logged in, Uplifter automatically notifies them when their virtual class is about to start.
Email from within your registration software
Need to make a club announcement? How about emailing the next member on your waitlist about new availability? Easily email individual members, groups, classes or your entire membership with our built-in email tool.
And don’t worry, we’ve built anti-spam features directly into our tool to help protect your domain.
Built-in POS for your Gymnastics Registration Form
When the pandemic lifts, Uplifter LITE can help reduce registration times in person. Using Uplifter LITE, your primary admin can easily use their mobile phone as a POS tool to streamline in person registrations at your club or on the go.
Summary: Get More from Our Free Gymnastics Registration Form
It’s vital for gymnastics clubs to bring their registration online today. But clubs shouldn’t feel limited to a simple contact us form. Instead, they should be empowered with a free gymnastics registration form that comes with built-in club management software.
Adopting an intuitive automated registration like Uplifter LITE will not only save your club a lot of time, it will make parents happy too. And when your membership is happy, your club will grow.
Want to learn more? Check out our case studies or contact us with any questions. We’re always happy to help!
A Note on Payment Gateway Applications: Once your payment gateway application is approved, you’ll be ready to launch your registration. Payment gateway providers take 1-3 business days to complete their authorization process.
