The Family hub
Today, at a glance
My kids across every team and club, what is on today, the latest announcement and each team’s chat and game-day threads, grouped by child. Kids can play on several teams and in several clubs; they all land here.
Family hub · Team tools
Run your whole club on Eggbeater.
Schedules, replies, team chat and the contact sheet, in the same app families already open for the live score. One place for every child, every team and every club, instead of a different app for each job.
- My kids
- One family calendar
- Team chat built for safety
- Contacts once per child
For families
Every child, every team, one hub.
The Family tab is where a family’s week lives: the kids, the calendar, the announcements and the chats, grouped by child.
The family calendar
One calendar, a reply for each child
Every game and practice for all your kids lands on one family calendar, by child or by team. Reply going, maybe or not going for each child, with a note for the coach.
Coaches + parents
Announcements nobody misses
Coaches post announcements in Coaches + parents, and a tap on Got it tells the coach you read it. The day before each game, a game-day thread opens with the time and the pool.
My kids
Contacts entered once
Phones, emails, an emergency contact and anything the coaches should know, entered once per child and shared with every team that child is on. Only the coaches and the club admin see them. With Premium, add a photo of each child too.
Joining
A parent, a player or a fan
Use the team code or the coach’s invite. A coach approves each family, a player’s chat stays off until a parent or guardian turns it on, and a fan follows with no approval at all.
Fans
Grandparents follow the games
Fans get the games, the results and the team news a coach shares with fans, with directions to the pool. Never practice times, never chat.
Chat, built for safety
The right people in every conversation.
Each team gets three channels, and none of them puts a coach alone with a player.
Team chat
The coaches, the players and one monitor parent the coach chooses.
Coaches + parents
Announcements with Got it, and questions for the coaches.
The parent section
Families only: topics for carpools and gear, and a thread for every game day.
Families chat
For a team not on team tools yet: the families who claimed their kids. No players, no coaches.
No private messages
A coach never messages a player one to one, and a player’s chat waits for a guardian.
The club admin sees it all
Every channel is visible to the club admin, who can hide a message and mute or remove a member. Anyone can report a message.
For the club
One system instead of a patchwork.
Most clubs juggle an app for the schedule, another for messages, a spreadsheet of phone numbers and a group text for game day. On Eggbeater it is one system, tied to the rosters and games your scorer already keeps.
Practices and events
Recurring practices, meetings and team events beside the games. Cancel or move one and families hear about it.
Replies and reminders
Going, maybe or not going for every practice and game, with reminders before and Remind Now.
Attendance
One tap per cap at the pool, and each player’s season attendance on the roster.
Families and fans
Join codes and email invites; a coach approves each family, and fans need no approval.
Coach accounts
Every coach signs in as themselves; the head coach sees every age group.
The club view
The club admin sees every team’s families, fans and join requests, and moderates chat across the club.
Team by team
The club admin or the head coach turns team tools on for each team when it is ready.
Games stay public
Schedules, live scores and stats keep working for everyone, with no account.
Before team tools
Families can start before the coach does.
While a team’s tools are off, a family can claim their child: games, scores, stats, a private reply of their own and a families chat with the other families who claimed theirs. When the coach turns on team tools, each claim becomes a request the coach approves, and practices, team replies, contacts and team chat open up.
Public is self-serve. Private needs the team.
The fine print
What this is, today
- The Family hub is rolling out: it is in the Eggbeater web app now, and reaches the iPhone, iPad and Android apps with their next update.
- Following games, scores and stats stays free and needs no account. Signing in is what links a family to a child’s team.
- Kid photos are part of Premium for spectators.
- Eggbeater does not collect dues, registration or waivers.
- The pictures are captures of the iPhone app with Eggbeater’s demo club, Bay Area Big Splash, and demo school, Markleeville High, with sample data.
Questions
Questions families and clubs ask
Do families need an account?
Not to follow. Schedules, live scores and stats work for everyone with no account. Joining a child’s team, replying and chat need a sign-in, so the coach knows who is who.
My kids play for different clubs. Can I see them together?
Yes. My kids groups each child across every team and club, and the family calendar shows every game and practice for all of them in one place.
Who sees our phone numbers?
Only the coaches of your child’s teams and the club admin. Contacts never appear to other families or on any public page.
Can my child use team chat?
Only when a parent or guardian turns it on, and only in team chat, which always includes the monitor parent the coach chose. Coaches never message a player one to one.
What does a fan see?
The team’s games, results and the news a coach shares with fans. Never practice times or chat.
Put your whole club on Eggbeater.
Start with the scoring and the public pages, then turn on team tools team by team. Coaches run it from Eggbeater Coach, and families from the app they already have.