What's new in FencR

Guides

• How to Run a College Fencing Club Team on FencR. A new guide at fencr.app/resources built for student-run collegiate teams: collect semester dues, invoice teammates for equipment orders and tournament travel, publish your practice schedule, gate membership on your university waiver, and embed your live schedule on your university club page. Like everything on FencR, it is completely free for your team and your members.
• The newest guide always leads. The large card at the top of the Resources page now always shows the most recently published article, so the latest guide is easy to spot the moment it ships.
• A clearer name for the setup guide. The flagship setup walkthrough is now titled How to Manage a Fencing Club Using FencR, a better match for everything it covers beyond initial setup.

Documentation

• Waivers, fully documented. A new documentation section covers the whole waiver flow: uploading your waiver, requiring it for membership, in-app signing (including parents signing for minors), the paper-upload fallback, and publishing a new version with an optional re-sign requirement.
• Bookable lesson blocks, explained. Another new section walks coaches through lesson lengths and credit costs, publishing blocks that tile into bookable slots, moving a single session or a whole series, and managing the block roster.
• Catch-up across existing sections. The documentation now also covers the month view and drag-to-move on the schedule, free plans, the three ways to deactivate a plan, archived members, and the schedule and join widgets you can embed on your own site. The documentation sidebar also picked up a small entrance animation.

• No more sideways drift. The dashboard no longer pans left or right when you swipe on a phone. Everything stays put, exactly where you left it.
• Every button within reach. Page actions like Send Email, Add Member, Invite Member, and the schedule view controls now sit on their own row on small screens instead of running off the edge.
• Member and plan details sized for your screen. The member and plan detail views now fit phone screens properly, with nothing hidden behind the browser bar and comfortable spacing throughout.
• Photo controls that work on touch. Removing a profile photo or club logo used to require a mouse hover. On phones and tablets the remove button is now always visible.

• How to Build a Club Using FencR. A new guide at fencr.app/resources walks coaches and club admins through the whole setup: creating the club, finishing club settings, inviting members, connecting Stripe if you charge members, designing membership plans, and publishing a bookable schedule. It also makes clear that billing is optional, so clubs that just want scheduling, communication, and member management can run entirely free with no payment setup at all.
• Better answers from search and AI assistants. Resource guides now publish step-by-step structured data, so search engines and AI assistants can point people at the exact section that answers their setup question.

• FencR is completely free. Every club gets every feature with no tiers, no member or location caps, and no upgrade prompts. Payments you collect from your athletes go directly to you.

Scheduling

• Every session type. Group classes, private lessons, open fencing, and tournaments with open sign-up. Sessions can repeat on a schedule, and the calendar offers both list and day or week time-grid views.
• Bookable coach time slots. Coaches publish availability windows that athletes claim as private lessons. Clubs set the lesson lengths they offer plus a base length, and slots tile to it automatically.
• A schedule scoped to each athlete. Athletes see the sessions for their groups and training locations rather than the whole club calendar, and every session at a multi-location club shows where to be.

Membership plans and credits

• Flexible plan shapes. Recurring subscriptions (monthly, quarterly, or annual) and one-time lesson packs, each with lesson or practice credit quotas or unlimited entitlements. Athletes can hold multiple active plans at once.
• Credits that match lesson length. A lesson at twice the base length uses two credits, and the exact amount comes back if a booking is cancelled inside the cutoff window. Coaches and admins can also grant or refund credits manually.
• Enrollment your way. Let members enroll themselves or keep assignment staff-only. Plans can require payment upfront, and coaches can assign a plan (including a private one) before a member has even joined, so it is waiting as a Set up payment prompt.

Payments and invoicing

• Stripe, Zelle, cash, or check. Connect your own Stripe account (new or existing) for card and ACH payments, or route invoices through Zelle and mark cash and check payments by hand. Funds always settle directly with the club; FencR never holds money.
• Full invoicing. Per-plan, custom, and tournament invoices, with automatic overdue reminders and invoices for minors routed to the parent.
• Refund tracking. Refunds you issue in your Stripe dashboard appear on the matching FencR invoice automatically, and revenue analytics report net of refunds.

Members and roster

• Build your roster fast. Add members one at a time or paste a list of email, name, and role. No emails are sent until a coach or admin sends the invite, and people who already use FencR are matched by email and invited rather than joined silently.
• Organize with groups and locations. Tag members into groups, assign training locations, then filter, sort, bulk-assign plans, and broadcast email by either dimension.
• Know every member. A member detail view shows plan usage, token-pack history, a participation chart, and a running activity feed of bookings, cancellations, credit changes, and plan events. Removing a member keeps their full history in an Archived view.

Waivers

• Digital waivers built in. Upload your club waiver, collect legally signed copies in the app (with the signature added to the PDF), or upload paper copies. Members who still need to sign are held in a pending state until they do.

Families

• Parents manage their children. Parents enroll their kids in plans, book sessions and tournaments for them, and pay their invoices from one dashboard. Child accounts follow a COPPA-compliant consent flow, and a child can claim their own account when they are ready.

Communication

• Message your members. Compose rich-text emails to individuals, groups, or the whole club. Automated emails cover invites, booking reminders, invoice notices, and renewal reminders, and in-app notifications keep everyone current.

Analytics

• See how your club is doing. Practice attendance, cancellation notice patterns, membership growth, and revenue broken down by line type and by coach.

Your club online

• A public club page and embeds. Every club gets a public page with its schedule and join flow, a listing in the club directory, and schedule and join widgets you can embed on your own website.
• Calendar sync. Members sync their bookings to Google Calendar or subscribe from any calendar app via an iCal feed.

Help and answers

• Ask AI about FencR. From the documentation page, open Claude or ChatGPT with a ready-made prompt and get answers about the FencR platform in plain language, or copy the docs to paste into any AI assistant you already use.
• A resources hub. Guides and articles at fencr.app/resources, including a complete walkthrough of what admins, coaches, athletes, and parents can each do.