What's new in FencR

• 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.