tcteams.com is pleased to introduce our new Merchandise Center, where clubs and leagues can sell merchandise to their members and visitors through their own online stores.

The Merchandise Center is an optional add-on to your club or league website. For only $99 per year, your Merchandise Center includes these great features:

• Unlimited products
• Drag-and-drop store management
• Feature products on your home page
• Real-time order history
• Automated e-mail order confirmations
• Online payments using your own credit card merchant account
• Easy payment processing for offline payments
• Refund management
• Easy e-mail communications to customers who have placed orders

To sign up for a 30-day FREE trial of the tcteams.com Merchandise Center, log in to your club or league site and go to your "Store" page.

As the rainy season begins in the northern hemisphere, we thought you might appreciate an easy way to communicate the status of your game and practice venues to your members.  Add the Venue Status widget to your club or league home page and update it by simply clicking the status box next to each of the practice and game venues that you have listed on your Directions page.

Log in as the club or league site administrator and go to your Home page.  Click the "Add a widget" link and then select the Venue Status widget from the list (be sure to enter the description for your venues -- like "stadiums", "gyms", "fields", or "pitches").

Edit the widget from your home page to update the status of each practice and game field that you have listed on your Directions page:

Your members and visitors will then be able to easily see if their games or practices are on for the day:

Long a feature of our team sites, SMS text messaging is now available on all tcteams.com club and league sites.  When your members register on your site, or join your mailing list, they can provide their mobile phone numbers and mobile carriers.  Club and League administrators can use the Communications page to send text messages to these members in just moments to get out important and timely information.

When club and league administrators add or update their team lists, they can also include the team contact's mobile phone information to send SMS text messages to just the team contacts, too.

To send SMS text messages, log in as a club or league administrator, go to your Communications page, and click the "Add an SMS text message" link. Enter a message (no more than 120 characters) and select from your available list of recipients. You can also send a draft of the text message to your own mobile phone before broadcasting it to your distribution list.

Please note that the list of mobile phone carriers currently available for SMS text messaging is limited to U.S. and Canadian carriers. If you have other mobile phone carriers that you would like us to add to the list, please send an email with the carriers' names to support@tcteams.com

tcteams.com has added a Sponsors page to its team site solution.  Now teams can post sponsors' ads and links to sponsors sites on their Sponsors page.   For team sites that are not part of a club or league site solution, the sponsors' ads will also appear on the right-hand side of every team site page.  A great fundraising opportunity for your team!

tcteams.com team websites now let coaches and team managers add "to-do" or "to-bring" sign-up lists to your team events.  Among other uses, the Sign-up lists enable you to ask your members to bring items to your event or sign up for a task.  For example, if you need volunteers for the concession stand, you can set up a Sign-up list for specific shift hours.  Having a team party?  Use the Sign-up list to ask your members to bring items for the party. 

When you add a Sign-Up list for an event, your members will see a sign-up icon in their event list (green if they've signed up for an item; orange if they have not).  Coaches and team members can view the event attendance list to see what everyone else has signed up for.

Just another way that tcteams.com makes it easier than ever for you to manage team events!

tcteams.com has launched its stand-alone online registration system solution today.

The online registration system site is perfect for any organization that already has its own site and would like to offer online registration for membership, events, orders, and more. 

The online registration system site also offers an optional merchandise center, which enables you to build your own online store and take payments for your merchandise online.

The online registration system is also great for our existing tcteams.com club and league site users who would like to offer additional online registration programs. When you sign up for an additional Online Registration System site through your current club or league site, you get the following additional benefits:

• Universal member log-in: No matter where your members are registering, they can log in to any of your registration programs using their existing e-mail addresses and passwords.
• Complete site customization: Use the same look-and-feel as your club site, or create an entirely different look for your online registration site.
• Easy e-mail and SMS text messaging to all members who have registered through the Online Registration site.
• Additional administrative security: set up separate Registration Administrators for the new Online Registration System or create a new master web administrator password for the Online Registration System site.

Each Online Registration System site costs only $129.95 per year.

We just added Facebook Like Box and Twitter Profile widgets to all team, club and league sites.  If you have a Facebook or Twitter page for your team, club or league, you should consider adding these widgets to your site to add new followers and build connections with your current followers. 

To add these widgets, log in to your tcteams.com site, go to the Home Page, and click the "Add a Widget" link.  Then select the Facebook or Twitter widgets from the "Social Connections" or "Communications" widget categories.  Be sure to enter your Facebook page URL or Twitter Username where requested.

We are delighted to announce that at 4am EST today, we've moved to new, faster servers to keep up with our rapid growth.  Enjoy the speed!

tcteams.com is pleased to announce the release of our new club and league website solutions.  Our new site solutions are available immediately to new subscribers and has been rolled out to all current subscribers.

For more information about our new club and league website solutions, please visit us at www.tcteams.com.