The Sample Canoe Club has been tailored specifically for canoe clubs.
Using this template to create your trial organisation will provide you with a pre-made set of subscriptions and example events, together with tailored content.
Subscriptions
The Sample Club comes with 6 types of subscription:
- Individual adult membership: an annual subscription
- Family membership: a group subscription
- Student membership: Reduced rate subscription
- Junior membership: A junior subscription, which requires parents to provide their contact details
- Club BCU membership:
- Boat storage: This has a form attached to collect boat information, and allocate storage space
You can change or remove these, and add new ones to suit. Note: If you want to change from a fixed end date subscription to a fixed period (or vice versa), you will need to remove the subscription product, and add a new one.
Events
The Sample Club has 6 event categories and various sample events set up:
- Pool sessions, multiple dates with/without boat hire
- Training sessions: Taster, improver and beginners sessions
- Assessment, BCU 2 Star Kayak assessment
- Day Trips: Trip to Derwent River
- Multi day trips: Trip to N Wales - a 3 step booking process, including accommodation and boat hire
These sample events have been designed to illustrate what is possible, and can easily be adapted. You can also remove the events and add new ones.
Click here for details on how to add, change or remove the event categories.
Forms
Membership Form
The Sample Membership Form is an interactive form, including:
- Gender and age group
- Experience. Dropdown options of different levels
- BCU Membership and qualifications
- Coaching/Leadership qualifications
- Parental consent for Under 18s
- Declaration and consent
The information provided in this form, can then be used to identify particular groups of members, e.g. juniors, coaches
Course/Trip Form
The Sample Course/Trip Form is an interactive form, including:
- Medical conditions
- Emergency contact details
- Declaration
Boat Form
The Boat Form is attached to the boat storage subscription, and includes:
- Manufacturer
- Model
- Colour
- Boat storage space (viewable but not editable by the member)
- Declaration (risk and insurance)
To view/edit any of these forms, click on the Edit link next to the form in the Forms section. Click here for details on creating/editing forms.
Payment Methods
When you create a trial organisation, based on one of the templates, the trial will have cheques enabled to get you started. You can add other payment methods.
Content
The sample organisation has content/wording that is relevant for a canoe club, ready for you to tailor to your particular organisation. Click on edit in Customise your organisation. We recommend you go through each of the tabs in this section, and update the content where relevant. See details here.
What Next?
Great. So you now have a working trial. We suggest that you now:
- Place some test orders, so you can see how the process will work for new members
- Import your members (ask us to run the cleardown script first if you have added test members/orders)
- Ask us to import your current subscriptions for you
- Share it with your Committee and/or members
- You may also want to embed WebCollect within your website.
