Upcoming Trade Shows

We’ll be on the road quite a bit this Fall – if we’re in your area please stop by and say Hello!

• Florida Recreation and Park Association (August 29-September 1, 2016)   Conference Site
• South Carolina Annual Conference (September 12-13, 2016)   Conference Site
• New Hampshire Recreation and Park Association State Conference (September 20, 2016)  Conference Site
• Vermont Parks and Recreation Conference (September 21-22, 2016)   Conference Site 
• National ...

RecDesk salutes the nation’s parks and recreation departments and their members during July’s “Parks and Recreation” month. RecDesk is proud to work with so many super parks and recreation departments that genuinely care about the health, and well- being of their citizens. Thank you for promoting the health, and wellness of your community. As you celebrate the value that your organization brings to your members please feel free to share some of the images of your organization’s celebrations with us ...

RecDesk now offers an Invoice Me (Pay Later) option for those customers who would like to allow their Community Members to register for Programs, enroll in Memberships and make Reservations Online, but Pay Later. The default is Credit Card (Pay Now) Only. The options are:

• Credit Card (Pay Now) Only (Default) – this option requires ALL RecDesk Community payments to be made by Credit Card at the time the online transaction takes place.

• Credit Card (Pay Now) OR Invoice Me ...

RecDesk Community Mobile now supports Online Reservations! With this release, our RecDesk Community Mobile application is now functionally on par with the standard desktop Community Portal. This means that from Program Registrations to Membership Enrollments and League Schedule Look-ups to Reserving Facilities, community members can now do everything they need to do fro their phone or other mobile device. See below for a couple of screenshots

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Last week we rolled out the RecDesk Community Mobile platform to our clients in 39 U.S. States and Canada – and the uptake on the new platform has been nothing short of amazing. If you browse to anyone of our client sites on a mobile device, you can see the platform in action – or, you can see it in a mobile emulator here – http://goo.gl/Lgdk6Q.

It’s no secret that mobile is quickly becoming the preferred way ...

We added support for Punch Pass Memberships this weekend. This will allow customers to create Memberships that are limited not by just a time period, but also by number of visits.

The “number of punches/swipes” can be set at the Fee level – this will allow an existing or new Membership type to support one or more Punch Pass options as well.

Upon check-in to a Facility, if a member is enrolled in one pf these Punch Pass Memberships, the swipe will ...

RecDesk now offers an alternative to Mandrill for sending bulk email campaigns from RecDesk. It’s called SendGrid , and it is an industrial strength alternative requiring minimal setup. We’re not dropping support for Mandrill – but effective 4/27/16, Mandrill will require a paid MailChimp account to continue.

SendGrid offers a free version if you send 12,000 or less emails per month. See info. on Setting up your SendGrid Account and Integration into RecDesk here: http://goo.gl/H3tjL8. If ...

We’ve enhanced the Master Calendar so that you can now filter it by Tags and/or selection of multiple Facilities. Simply click the Show Advanced Filters link on the Master Calendar page (see below). Then, select the Tags and/or Facilities you’d like to Filter By and click the Apply Search button. See below for screen shots:

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RecDesk now allows you to attach documents to Members and Personnel/Volunteers. Some common use cases might be:

• Attaching a Birth Certificate to a Member profile
• Attaching a Medical Form to a Member profile
• Attaching a Background Check Verification Form to a Coach/Volunteer profile
• Whatever else makes sense for your organization 😉

The functionality goes beyond just attaching documents though. You can also do things such as define Expiration Policies and search by Document Types. The use of Expiration Policies and Document Types are ...