Choosing a club app: 10 questions for your committee
What to ask before your club moves its squads, players and parents onto an app.
Moving a club onto one app is worth doing once and doing right. These are the questions that matter most for a Gaelic games club.
- Does it handle children properly? Parents should approve under-18 accounts, younger children shouldn't need logins, and coaches shouldn't be able to message children one to one.
- Who can see medical information? Ideally only the physio and first aiders, with coaches seeing status only.
- Does it work at the pitch with no signal? Registers and live scores need to.
- Is it built for our codes? Hurling, camogie, Gaelic football and ladies football, in proper scoring notation.
- Can every squad use it, from nursery to Masters, without paying per squad?
- Do players and parents pay? They shouldn't.
- What does it really cost? Ask for the price after any launch offer, and what's an add-on.
- Can we try it properly first? A free trial with your own squads beats a sales call.
- Who owns the data, and can members download or delete theirs?
- Does it connect to the county? Trials, fixtures and referees are easier on the same record.
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