New! E-Commerce for Your Clubistry Website
12/19/2024
This week Clubistry launched their E-Commerce feature. You can now sell merchandise on your club's website, and this feature is already available for all Clubistry sites.
Clubistry E-Commerce allows you to manage products from one location, but display them on any page of your site. Some of the data you can set up for products includes:
- Name
- Image
- Description
- Options (sizes, colors, or other choices)
- Price
- Inventory Count
- Inventory Method
Users can add items to their shopping cart, and then complete their purchse right on your website with a credit card payment.
In addition to the main Store page, you can add products to any other page on the site. This allows you to show featured products on the home page, to help drive traffic to your store. You can also use this feature to show related products on an event page, for example.
Check out the article Ways to Use Clubistry E-Commerce for more ideas.
NOTE: Use of Clubistry E-Commerce requires that your club have connected to your Stripe account.
Thanks!
Clubistry thanks our client clubs for reporting issues they find, and things they would like to work differently. Please continue to let us know when you have any issues!
For media inquiries, please contact: Lee McConnell media@clubistry.com 800-707-0106 x:338
About Clubistry and Dialogs:
Clubistry is an affordable and easy-to-use club management system designed to empower clubs of all sizes with an all-in-one platform for membership management, communication, and website building. With a mission to making it as fun to run your club as it is to participate, Clubistry is here to ease the burden of club administration.
Dialogs Apps Inc. has been providing web-based software solutions for over 25 years. Established in 1995, Dialogs has worked with a large variety of companies, including 7-Eleven, Yum Brands, and Wondr Health, to create custom solutions for their biggest business challenges, increasing efficiency and profitability.
Clubistry is excited to announce a couple of new features, and some updates, which are already available for your website.
New in Clubistry!
Photo Albums
You can now add photo albums to any page on your Clubistry website. This feature launched with a couple of layout options.
- Slideshow
- Thumbnail Grid with Cropped Square Thumbnails
- Thumbnail Grid with Uncropped Thumbnails
The Thumbnail Grid albums open up a modal popup with a slideshow when any of the thumbnails are clicked.
Photo albums are simple to set up and add to any of your pages.
Payments for Custom Forms
You can now add a payment option to a Custom Form. This will allow clubs to collect a payment in addition to information from a given form. Payment options for clubs can be configured to be open about the amount (member figures out how much they need to pay, or are told how much they need to pay, and they enter that amount into the form), or you can set a fixed amount. You also decide if you want to add a processing fee or not.
Here's a few ways you can use this new feature.
- You can set up a page for a special event, providing information about the event. Then add a form for registering for the event, complete with a payment option. (And then you can link to it from your Events listing for that event.)
- Creat a page for accepting payments from people submitting online membership applications. You can set the ammount based on your club's needs -- a fixed amount, or maybe you pro-rate depending on time of year or have an application fee, so you might prefer a form that you tell them how much to pay. And you can present the form at the appropriate time, linking to it from the application form itself, or sending the link to it in an email.
- Set up a Donations page, and add a custom form that contains an open-amount payment option.
- Accept payments for auctions or raffles on the website.
- If included on a form, payments are required in order to submit the form. If you want users to be able to fill out the form but not be required to make the payment through the website, you can create two forms. The first with the main information you are collecting, then link to the payment form on a separate page.
To add Payment to a Custom Form, when editing/creating a form, look below the area where you add fields to the form. There you will find the options for Payments. Just click the "Active" checkbox for the payment options to be included.
NOTE: Use of Payments on Custom Forms requires that your club have connected to your Stripe account.
Currencies
Clubistry can now handle currencies other than the US Dollar. Setting up a foreign currency will mean that payments through Stripe will be in the correct currency, and the labels for payment options will indicate the correct currency.
At this time, if you need to set up a different currency on your site, please contact us, and we'll set it up for you.
Clubistry Updates!
Media Library
Clubistry now offers more details to be managed for images uploaded to your Media Library.
- Title: This field is used to identify the image in the library. Use a name that will help you with searching images. If you have multiple versions of the same image (perhaps one cropped very small, and another that's larger), it will be helpful to indicate this in the Title, e.g., "Park image 2024 cropped" and "Park image 2024 800x1200".
- Alt Text: Description of image used in the website, important for search engines, screen readers, and other assistive technologies. Learn about Alt Text.
- Caption: This may be displayed on photo album slideshows.In this screen, you can set the following details for this image.
- There is also information about the image displayed in this screen, including original file name, file size, and a link to the uploaded image.
At this time, the information provided is used in the new Photo Albums. In the future, using images elsewhere in the site may pull information like the Alt Text from the data provided in the Media Library for that image.
Document Library
Some improvements have been made in the Documents Library, specifically in regards to document sorting for front-end display.
- Document Categories will display on the front end sorted by Order, then alphabetically by Name. Additionally, you can now assign Document Category to a Document in the regular edit screen.
- Documents on the front end will sort on the front end by Order, then by Date Published (newest first), then alphabetically by Name.
- Published Date has been addes as a field for documents. This allows you to keep track of when a document was last updated, and provides another field for sorting or filtering documents in the back end.
- Front End Display of documents has been cleaned up, and you can apply Color Selection to the content section to affect the color of the category blocks. If a category happens to be empty (or the documents in it are not available to that user because special permissions have been set), a "no documents" message appears.
- Displaying a Single Category on the website is now a little cleaner, because the first category will always start opened up.
- Displaying All Categories on the website is now easier. Instead of selecting all existing categories, you can just leave the category selection empty. This means that when new categories are added, you don't have to circle back to include them for the front-end display.
- Filters on Documents now includes Category and a date range on Published Date.
Renewals & Membership
- You can now search Transactions by First and Last Name, and Email.
- We've updated the "Active" Membership Status to "Paid", to match the Dues Payment Status. So the Membership Statuses are now Paid, Unpaid, Late and Lapsed.
- Clicking to make your payment now takes you to a new browser window/tab, so you don't lose where you were on the club website.
Thanks!
Clubistry thanks our client clubs for reporting issues they find, and things they would like to work differently. Please continue to let us know when you have any issues!
For media inquiries, please contact: Lee McConnell media@clubistry.com 800-707-0106 x:338
About Clubistry and Dialogs:
Clubistry is an affordable and easy-to-use club management system designed to empower clubs of all sizes with an all-in-one platform for membership management, communication, and website building. With a mission to making it as fun to run your club as it is to participate, Clubistry is here to ease the burden of club administration.
Dialogs Apps Inc. has been providing web-based software solutions for over 25 years. Established in 1995, Dialogs has worked with a large variety of companies, including 7-Eleven, Yum Brands, and Wondr Health, to create custom solutions for their biggest business challenges, increasing efficiency and profitability.
New Features on Clubistry
08/16/2024
Clubistry is excited to announce new features for your club’s websites. These features are already available on your sites.
New Theme Settings
In your Settings area, you’ll find the new Theme section.
- Show Club Name in Header: The toggle for showing the club name in the header has been moved to the new Theme settings area. And if checked, a new option to add a tagline will appear.
- Choose primary and secondary colors: The color pickers have been moved into the new Theme settings area.
- Choose a header style: The original header style is the Default style, and we’ve introduced the first new header style, which is a Compressed style perfect for sites with only a few primary navigation items.
- Choose background colors for your header and footer: You can now customize the colors in your header and footer, using the generated shades of your primary and secondary colors.
- Live Preview: You can see a simplified version of the header and footer, complete with your logo in place, and test out the layout and color options before hitting save.
New Section Block Design Options
Clubistry has also rolled out additional options for content section types.
- Color Selector: The following section types now have a color selector like the ones found in Site Settings/Theme for header and footer colors.
- Simple Text Section
- Hero Video Section
- Promo Blocks Section
- News Teasers Section
- Events Teasers Section
- FAQ Section
- Other New Options: In a few of the section types you’ll find new settings.
- News Teasers - Border settings for each teaser item
- Events Teasers - Border settings for each teaser item
- Promo Blocks - A new block layout option.
Review New Features for Your Site
As always, Clubistry is working to ensure that the site you build holds together, looks good, and is as accessible as possible. So the text colors and hover/active states for any interactive elements are automatically generated based on the color you’ve chosen. Each section type will automatically adapt to either a landing page or 2-column page layout.
You should not have to do anything with your existing page sections until you go to edit them next. However, we encourage you to look over your pages to make sure everything is converted smoothly. If you see a problem with a page section, you can go into it and edit it to select from the new options, which should resolve any issues. And of course we’d love for everyone to play with some of the new options, and let us know if you run into any complications!
Quick Note to Existing Customers
If you see a situation where a pre-existing section on a page doesn’t show you the color selector, and it is one of the section types that should be showing it, the best way to resolve the issue is to create a new section, add the content from the old section to the new section, then delete the old section from the page. If you need some help with this, please reach out to us.
For media inquiries, please contact: Lee McConnell media@clubistry.com 800-707-0106 x:338
About Clubistry and Dialogs:
Clubistry is an affordable and easy-to-use club management system designed to empower clubs of all sizes with an all-in-one platform for membership management, communication, and website building. With a mission to making it as fun to run your club as it is to participate, Clubistry is here to ease the burden of club administration.
Dialogs Apps Inc. has been providing web-based software solutions for over 25 years. Established in 1995, Dialogs has worked with a large variety of companies, including 7-Eleven, Yum Brands, and Wondr Health, to create custom solutions for their biggest business challenges, increasing efficiency and profitability.
Clubistry featured in Pure Dog Talk podcast
12/18/2023
We are excited to have a couple of our team members featured in the recent episode of the Pure Dog Talk podcast (puredogtalk.com).
If you're in the dog club world, you may already know about this podcast. Give Laura Reeves a listen! She was a delight to speak with.
What did you think of the episode? Come join our free community of club leaders and admins, and share your thoughts.
We are excited to announce the launch of Clubistry’s Community of Club Admins and Leaders!
If you run a club, or you know someone who does, you’re too familiar with the challenges we all face—from wrangling members during renewal season, to navigating board and committee politics, to managing club growth and fighting attrition. Come join our community today and learn from others who are fighting the same battles.
This free community is dedicated to bringing together club administrators, leaders, and enthusiasts from all around the world. It is a platform for sharing knowledge, best practices, and experiences in managing and leading clubs of all types and sizes.
By joining the Clubistry Community, you will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals, participate in discussions, and gain valuable insights to improve your club management game. Whether you are a seasoned club administrator or just starting out, this community is the perfect place to learn, grow, and network with others who share your passion for clubs.
We’re building our community on top of Circle, a platform built specifically for great group communication. With member-focused topic areas, real-time chat, and live events, Circle offers a variety of features for authentic communication that we felt was a great fit for bringing together such a diverse group. Bonus: our roadmap includes offering the same Circle features as an affordable addon to Clubistry subscribers!
Topics include:
- Asking for help from the broader community
- Sharing your wins and celebrating each other’s successes
- Promoting your club and inviting feedback
- Live events for sharing and learning
Come check out the Clubistry Community. It’s free to join, so you’ve got nothing to lose. We can't wait to see you there!
Announcing the Launch of Clubistry’s First Closed Beta: Bringing clubs of all sizes into the digital age.
[Dallas, August 29, 2023] – Today marks a significant step forward in the world of club management as Dialogs Apps Inc. proudly announces the launch of a closed beta for Clubistry. Clubistry is an application designed to empower clubs of all sizes with a comprehensive online platform for efficiently managing their membership and enhancing their digital presence.
In a world where community engagement and digital connectivity are more crucial than ever, Clubistry emerges as the solution that bridges the gap between traditional club operations and modern technology. This intuitive platform offers clubs the tools they need to streamline administrative tasks, engage members, and create a robust online presence.
Key Features of Clubistry:
- Membership Management: Say goodbye to cumbersome spreadsheets and paperwork. Clubistry's user-friendly interface enables clubs to effortlessly manage memberships, track renewals, and keep member information up-to-date.
- Website Builder: A strong online presence is vital. With Clubistry's built-in website builder, clubs can create professional, customizable websites to showcase their activities, achievements, and upcoming events.
- Club Administration: As leadership transitions and roles change Clubistry make it easy to adjust access to its secure admin portal, making sure you never lose access to the club’s website.
- Ecommerce: Centralize and streamline your club’s revenue channels with the ability to take donations and sell club merchandise and event tickets to members and non-member supporters*.
Clubistry's closed beta launch marks a pivotal moment in its journey towards redefining club management. The closed beta phase will allow a select group of clubs to experience the platform firsthand and free of charge, providing valuable feedback that will shape the future of the application.
"We are thrilled to introduce Clubistry to all variety of clubs through our closed beta launch," said Brent Wiethoff, Director of Service Delivery at Dialogs. "Clubs play a crucial role in fostering communities and driving positive change. With Clubistry, we aim to empower these clubs with the tools they need to thrive in the digital age."
Clubs interested in participating in the free closed beta can apply for access on the Clubistry website at www.clubistry.com. The team is excited to collaborate with these early adopters to refine the platform and ensure it aligns perfectly with the needs of various clubs.
*Digital payments for dues and making donations will be made available during the closed beta at a later date. Event payments and merchandise sales will follow in subsequent updates.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Lee McConnell
media@clubistry.com
800-707-0106 x:338
About Clubistry and Dialogs:
Clubistry is an affordable and easy to use club management application designed to empower clubs of all sizes with an all-in-one platform for membership management, communication, and website building. With a commitment to enhancing community engagement, Clubistry is reshaping the way clubs operate in the digital age.
Dialogs Apps Inc. has been providing web-based software solutions for over 25 years. Established in 1995, Dialogs has worked with a large variety of companies, including 7-Eleven, Yum Brands, and Wondr Health, to create custom solutions for their biggest business challenges, increasing efficiency and profitability.