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10 Minutes to Tryouts Nirvana
Posted by John Spinner on Aug. 17, 2009 Updated by John Spinner on Aug. 17, 2009 | 
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Have you ever found yourself paying for field/gym usage for holding a tryout and have a no-show? How about the stress of not knowing how many athletes will show up and cancelling prematurely?

Just in time for tryout season for fall & winter sports, ...

 
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HTML Emails Are Here. Yay!
Posted by John Spinner on July 30, 2009
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Express yourself on the website and Emails 

See the formatting above? Good news.. it will be same in the emails.  

You will be delighted to learn that we have made all the emails as HTML enabled. This means that all your hard work in ...

 
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Want to turn off and on the RSVP option in the event? Well now you can. We are very excited to launch a much awaited RSVP feature enhancement within the calender. You can now add/remove RSVP option when adding the event.

Have a Tryout coming up and would ...

 
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Volunteer and Meet Signup A Huge Success: Now you can update too
Posted by John Spinner on June 14, 2009 Updated by John Spinner on June 14, 2009 | 
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The volunteer signup and swim meet signup feature was a huge success! Thanks to everyone for using the feature and providing your feedback. Well, we listened to your valuable feedback and added the option to change or delete the signup entry. 

How does it work?

 
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Volunteer Sign Ups Just Got A Whole Lot Easier!
Posted by John Spinner on June 3, 2009 Updated by John Spinner on June 3, 2009 | 
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Volunteer Sign Up - Need 5 dozen sesame seed buns and 10 Timers for your event? Increase the volunteer participation by providing your volunteers the ease of online sign up using this nifty feature.

 Key highlights

-You can set up unlimited number of ...

 
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Meet Sign Up - Are your running a summer swim team? Are you tired of tracking meet sign ups on paper? Well we just made your life easier and given you more pool time.

Now you can use the cool new feature to sign up swimmers online ...

 
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1. Online Registration - Optional Costs - Did you want to sell team t-shirts or ask for donations while athletes are doing online registration? Now, you can show any number of additional sales items for registering athletes to purchase in addition to paying for the registration fee.

 
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Payment Gateways and Merchant Accounts: How, What, Why and When?
Posted by John Spinner on March 3, 2009 Updated by John Spinner on March 3, 2009 | 
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How to get Started?

To collect money online you need to establish two important steps.

1. Internet Merchant Account: This will be provided by your bank or any national bank. It is different from a regular merchant account. 

 
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Simple Payments. Simple Feature
Posted by John Spinner on Nov. 15, 2008
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  • Want to get your players t-shirt sizes and collect money from everyone?
  • Your team is going for a tournament and want to collect the money from teammates?
  • You have season end party want to collect money for it?
  • Want to collect money from your ...
 
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Go Green. Save Paper....  Do stuff online and maintain your sanity

We are very excited to launch the online registration and payment feature on Vikaza. Thanks for your great feedback on the website features. We applied the same mantra of easy to ...

 
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Go Crazy! Create Pages
Posted by Charu Chundury on June 26, 2008
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Last week was an important milestone in the Vikaza product. We released a new feature to create your own menu tabs and content web pages. You can now create any number of menu links to talk about your team history, hall of fames or cups and awards your team won. ...

 
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Attach Attach Attach!
Posted by Charu Chundury on June 11, 2008 Updated by Charu Chundury on June 11, 2008 | 
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Well, did we make a point? Yes, you can now attach files to your team news and calendar events. We have been fielding many requests from you about uploading documents. So, here it is. We are excited to release the new feature as we begin to make your team site ...

 
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We welcome the new swimming teams onto Vikaza. After talking to many swim team coordinators and coaches we have identified that they are not terribly thrilled to add the roster information on the website. Reason? Well, there are about 100+ swimmers in each team and it is not an easy ...

 
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Invite administrators and parents separately
Posted by Charu Chundury on May 11, 2008 Updated by Charu Chundury on May 11, 2008 | 
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We inching awaying into complete automation of team management. We launched a feature this week where team coordinators can now invite their volunteers/administrators and parents/players separately. As the members join, their access levels are set automatically. So, you don't have to manually provide any rights to new members anymore.

So ...

 
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Many of you can’t access personal/home emails at work and vice versa. You had asked if you could get team news and schedule change emails on multiple email accounts not just one.

From now on, you can add two more email accounts to your personal profile and ...

 
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A coach has a tough job. Not only you need to coach but also coordinate all team activities and be responsible for keeping everyone in loop. Every team has a couple of players and parents who have been ignoring your requests to join the team community on Vikaza to ...

 
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Red Hots, an 8U team in Loudoun County (LLGSL) scooped up the second team sponsorship. With their fiery red logo, they definitely have a spirit to succeed. Check them out at http://www.vikaza.com/sponsorships/winners/redhots/ 

 
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Tell a coach feature
Posted by Sastry Chundury on April 14, 2008
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We launched the tell a coach feature on the site today. After a long wait this feature is finally here. You would think that should be the first thing to develop right? Oh well.. priorities. However, with launch of the new version and enhanced features for a team and league ...

 
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For every commissioner and coach who has been waiting to add scores for spring season, your wait is over. Here is the list of features we have released today.


Spring Scores and standing:
The ability to add spring season scores and standings has been added. Highlights are below.
-Scores ...

 
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Congratulations are in order for Burke Bolts, a U8 girls travel basketball team based in Burke, VA for winning the $250 team sponsorship. They are the first recepiet of Vikaza sponsorship program.

The team is blessed with the dedicated team of coaches in D'Anna's and has done a tremendous ...

 
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Bold & Beautiful Vikaza
Posted by Charu Chundury on April 3, 2008
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Today, we did a major code release updating the design and layout for virtually every page on the website. Make sure you send us your feedback.

Team pages: Team pages for baseball, basketball, cricket, lacrosse, rugby, softball, soccer, swimming and tennis now have sporty and fun custom ...

 
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Looking for team sponsorships? Look no further. Any team created on Vikaza by April 11th can win $250 cash in team sponsorship. We will be announcing multiple prizes throughout the spring sport season. To learn more about what it takes to win the team sponsorship, check sponsorships page.

 
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Division Schedule and News
Posted by Charu Chundury on April 2, 2008
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First, we would like to thank all commissioners and coaches who have been using Vikaza for last three months and gave us tons of feedback. We heard you and have added following features to simplify division management.

Division Level Schedule: The highlights for the recently released schedule feature ...

 
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Why didn’t we think of it before?

Announcement: Did you always wanted to announce an important news and wanted it to stay on the top of your team’s homepage for a while e.g. tryouts and registration information? We have added an announcement section.

-Add important news ...

 
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Vikaza on radio podcast!
Posted by Charu Chundury on March 25, 2008
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Hi!! I wanted to announce that we were interviewed this Monday morning by Joanne Quinn-Smith, President of National Association of Women Business Owners's Pittsburgh chapter for her show to bring new technologies to baby boomers. The episode is called 'Using Web 2.0 to Rescue Soccer Moms and Coaches'. You can ...

 
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What did we do during the holidays?
Posted by Charu Chundury on Feb. 6, 2008 Updated by Sastry Chundury on Feb. 6, 2008 | 
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Can you guess among the following options?

1. Spent a week soaking at beautiful Hawaian beaches
2. Visited the family and had awesome food
3. Caught up on sleep
4. Wrote another 10K lines of code and released more features

The ...
 
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We are very excited to release the much awaited Scores and Standings feature on Vikaza. We believe that this feature will drastically cut down everyone's post-games email traffic. Now, coaches can add the game scores directly on their team profiles and the data is rolled up to the division profile ...

 
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A click a day...
Posted by Charu Chundury on Jan. 15, 2008 Updated by Charu Chundury on Jan. 6, 2008 | 
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We understand the frustration of informing everyone about changes in the team’s schedule or simply keep them loop about the tournament on a Saturday. We, at Vikaza, have reduced your work to just one click. Now by updating the schedule, you can: 

1. Email the update to all the ...

 
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Photos are here
Posted by Charu Chundury on Jan. 15, 2008 Updated by Charu Chundury on Jan. 6, 2008 | 
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You have shared schedule and done all things practical during the season. It’s time for fun now. We have been working hard at it and finally just launched photo sharing option on Vikaza. Go ahead and share pictures of your daughter hitting a homerun  with her team members as ...

 
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