The onboarding journey

From first call to fully live.
We set your whole club up with you.

Sportify is not an app you download and figure out on your own. A named team walks your organization through setup, connects your own payment account, configures your fees and policies, builds your clubs and teams, trains your admins and coaches, and stays close through a dedicated hypercare period, before handing over to steady state support backed by a written SLA.

01 Discovery 02 Organization 03 Payments 04 Configuration 05 Clubs & fees 06 Teams 07 Enablement 08 Hypercare
The journey, phase by phase

Eight guided phases, with a named team beside you at each one

Every phase makes clear what we handle and what we need from you. It is a partnership, not a handover, so nothing important gets missed and no one is left staring at an empty dashboard.

01

Discovery & fit

Week 0

Before anything is built, we learn how your organization actually runs today, so the setup fits you rather than the other way round.

Sportify does
  • Map your structure: clubs, teams, age groups and segments
  • Understand your fee model and how you take money today
  • Scope the migration and agree a realistic timeline
You do
  • Tell us how your clubs run, and what you charge
  • Share your current tools and payment setup
  • Point us at who will administer the platform
02

Organization & administrators

Day 1

We capture your organization details and the people who will run it. That is all it takes to create your organization on Sportify.

Sportify does
  • Create your organization and administrator accounts
  • Apply your logo and contact details across the platform
You provide
  • Organization name, main email, main contact number, official logo
  • One or more admins: first name, last name, email, contact number
  • Mobile number per admin (optional)
Milestone: your organization now exists on Sportify.
03

Payments: connect your own account

Day 1 to 3

You link the Stripe account you already own (or a Paystack account in South Africa) over a secure Connect authorization. Our configuration team then wires Sportify to it.

Sportify does
  • Configure the platform to your connected account
  • Verify a test charge end to end before you go live
You do
  • Authorize the Connect link to your own account
  • Confirm payout and bank details in your own dashboard
Your money stays yours. Member payments flow directly into your own Stripe or Paystack account. Sportify never creates the account and is never in the flow of funds; your account bears the standard gateway processing fees, exactly as it would anywhere else.
04

Configuration workshop

Week 1

We sit with you and configure the rules that make Sportify behave like your organization: how much you charge, who gets a discount, and what happens when people join or leave.

Sportify configures with you
  • Fee structure and tax: organization default, then club and member overrides
  • Discount policies: siblings, loyalty, volume, attendance, promotions, cross club and more
  • Withdrawal policy: notice period and whether it needs approval
  • Required documents members must supply, plus join and approval settings
You decide
  • Your fee amounts, discount rules and policies
  • Your welcome message and any custom documentation to distribute
05

Clubs & fees

Week 1

We create each club under your organization. Where clubs charge differently, we apply club level fee overrides so each one bills correctly.

Sportify does
  • Create every club under your organization
  • Apply club level fee overrides where clubs differ
You confirm
  • How many clubs sit under the organization
  • Whether different clubs charge different fees
06

Teams & structure

Week 1 to 2

Under each club we build the team structure: the age groups, and where several teams share an age group, a unique suffix to tell them apart.

Sportify does
  • Set up teams by age group under each club
  • Add kit colours and team logos
You provide
  • Your age groups
  • A unique suffix per team where an age group has more than one (e.g. Lions, Rhinos, Panthers)
  • Kit colours
07

Enablement & training

Week 2 to 3

We set up your schedule and show your people how to run the club day to day, so the platform is genuinely in use before we step back.

Sportify trains you on
  • Setting up the schedule, team training scheduling and private training
  • Admin: basic billing tasks and club administration
  • Coaches: managing teams, and setting up sessions, events and polls
  • Badges: we design your achievement badge structure with you
You bring
  • The admins and coaches who will use Sportify
  • Your badge idea, if you use them, e.g. juggling: 50 = first tier, 100 = the next
Schedule setup Team training scheduling Private training Admin billing basics Coach basics Sessions · events · polls Custom badge tiers
Badges are a fully custom, tiered achievement system you name and rank yourself; they are an optional extra, not every club uses them. Later phases add setup for the club shop, tournaments and the rest of Sportify when you are ready.
08

Hypercare: your dedicated WhatsApp channel

1 to 2 months

For the first one to two months you are not on your own. We run a dedicated WhatsApp group for your organization and facilitate support in real time while everyone finds their feet.

Sportify does
  • Immediate, hands on support directly in your channel
  • Facilitate anything urgent as it comes up
You do
  • Ask anything, no ticket required
  • Lean on us while your team builds confidence
Then: we transition you to steady state support, backed by the SLA below.
Life after hypercare

Steady state support, backed by a clear SLA

Once hypercare ends we move to a traditional ticketed support system with a written service level agreement. Priority is driven by impact, chiefly how many users an issue affects, so the most disruptive problems are always answered first.

Priority What it means Target response Resolution target
P1 · Critical Platform down, a billing run failing, or payments broken. Affects the whole organization or many users, with no workaround. 1 hour
24/7 target; guaranteed within business hours
Workaround within 1 business day; fix pursued immediately, with updates every 2 to 4 hours.
P2 · High A major feature is broken for a club or team, or a significant issue with a workaround available. 4 business hours 3 business days, with daily updates.
P3 · Normal Minor or cosmetic issue, a single user affected, a question, or an enhancement request. 1 to 2 business days Scheduled into a future release.

Standard coverage is Monday to Friday, UK business hours. P1 incidents carry a round the clock target response, guaranteed within business hours and best effort overnight. Business days and hours follow the UK working calendar. While a hypercare period is active, it overrides these targets: urgent issues are handled immediately in your WhatsApp channel.

The support commitment

A real person who knows your club, not a ticket lottery.

The biggest risk in adopting a new platform is being left on your own. We remove it. Every organization gets guided setup, a named point of contact, and a dedicated channel from day one, backed by the SLA above once you are established.

★ Our commitment to you
  • Guided setup, done with youWe configure your fees, clubs, teams and policies alongside you.
  • Named point of contactA real person who knows your organization, from day one.
  • Dedicated hypercare channelImmediate WhatsApp support for the first one to two months.
  • An SLA you can hold us toWritten P1, P2 and P3 targets once you move to steady state.

Ready to get your whole club live?

Tell us how your organization runs today and we will map your onboarding from first call to go live, with a named team beside you the whole way.

Start on WhatsApp Email the team Guided migration included

Sportify onboarding journey. Prepared for client discussion, September 2026. Phase durations are indicative and depend on the size and complexity of your organization. Capability descriptions are drawn from the shipped Sportify platform. Payments are processed through your own Stripe or Paystack account; Sportify does not hold client funds. SLA targets describe Sportify's standard service commitment and may be tailored per agreement.