Managing multiple communities

There are a number of reasons why you may need or want to create more than one Community to deliver your sport and activity:

• You are managing competitions across different sport types. As referenced in Organising multiple types of sport and activity you cannot mix competitions for different types of sport in a single Community i.e. if you want to run tennis and football competitions you will need one Community for tennis and another for football.
• You are a private members club but also run public Activities e.g. taster sessions to attract new members or children's camps in the holidays. You would want to keep one Community private while making the other one public.
• Your club may have different Memberships e.g. a tennis & croquet club or a snooker and billiards club. Although you can service both sports in a single Community for the delivery of sessions you may want to keep the members separate so that tennis players don't see all the croquet sessions and news.

You can create as many communities as you want. It's easy to do - simply click on + Organise in your profile menu followed by Create a Community or Venue.

People can join one, many or all of your communities. Any that they join will appear in their home screen and they'll easily be able to switch between them. If they participate in Competitions and Activities in your communities they'll all appear together in their home screen too. For participants it's really easy to navigate membership of multiple communities.

If you are set up as a Payment receiver in one Community you just need to add yourself as a Payment receiver in any other communities you want to take payments in. You won't need to register another Stripe account - it will already be linked to your Playwaze account. Payments from all your communities will be deposited together into your Stripe account.

Playwaze also offers the ability to centrally manage multiple communities. This allows you to centralise the management of data collection, payment collection, rules, and reporting across any number of linked communities. You can find out more about Community Networks here.