Use Your Own Domain / Taking Your Site Live

Your club can keep using its Clubistry-hosted tenant domain or move to a custom domain when you are ready.

Important context:

this tenant-site repo contains domain-aware website behavior
the account-management screens used to add or manage custom domains live outside this repo
because of that, the exact buttons, forms, and timing for domain setup may vary

What this repo does cover

This codebase includes tenant-aware URL handling for club sites.

At a high level, that means:

club sites have a default tenant domain
the site can run on that default domain while you build and review content
URL helpers and canonical URL behavior depend on the current tenant domain

A practical go-live sequence

For most clubs, this is a sensible order:

Finish your main content and settings on the Clubistry-hosted domain.
Start the current custom-domain setup workflow provided to your club.
Update your DNS records exactly as instructed by that workflow.
Wait for DNS and SSL provisioning to complete.
Test the public site and member experience on the new domain.

DNS and registrar reminders

When you update DNS for a custom domain:

only change the records you were instructed to change
avoid deleting existing email-related DNS records unless you were specifically told to do that
allow time for DNS propagation before assuming something is broken

If your registrar or account workflow gives you exact record values, use those current instructions rather than older examples.

What to test after the switch

Once the custom domain is active, review the main journeys your club depends on.

Good checks include:

public pages and menus
member login
/dashboard-member, /profile, and /roster
forms and payment flows, if your club uses them
HTTPS loading on the new domain

After you go live

After the new domain is working, update references that still point to the old domain where needed.

Common places to review:

social media profiles
email signatures
printed materials
any manually entered links in page content or emails

If something is unclear

Because the domain-management workflow lives outside this tenant-site repo, the safest approach is to follow the current account-management or support instructions provided to your club.

If those instructions differ from older screenshots or assumptions, trust the current workflow.