FencR 2.0 Is Here: Host Camps, Run Your Club Store, and More

FencR 2.0 is live for every club, and it is our biggest release ever. Clubs can now host camps end to end, from the public signup page to the payment, and run their own club store with inventory that takes care of itself, with every dollar going to the club. Underneath those two headliners, the schedule is rebuilt around how coaches actually work, and two long-standing requests finally have answers: can we run without membership plans, and can our emails just reach the parents?

Host camps, start to finish

Clubs can now run their camps entirely on FencR. Build a camp page with photos, coach bios, pricing tiers, and a daily schedule, publish it with one click, and it appears on the public camps directory, your club page, and your calendar automatically. Families sign up and pay online, or request a spot for you to approve first, and anyone can register, member or not. Every signup lands in one list with age, weapon, rate, and payment status, with Approve and Deny right in the row. Families browsing the directory can even sort camps by distance from their address.

And the money is yours: FencR takes no cut of camp registrations. Card payments land in your connected Stripe account at full price. There is a full walkthrough in Announcing FencR Camps.

Run your club store, inventory included

Your club now has its own online store. List anything the club sells, t-shirts, blades, body cords, snacks, with sizes, prices, and photos, and members shop straight from their dashboard and pay by card or Apple Pay. Money goes directly to the club, FencR takes nothing. Stock manages itself: sold-out sizes gray out automatically, every sale and restock is recorded, members get a receipt with a pickup code, and you get an orders list to fulfil at practice. Because the store is card-paid, it stays gently grayed out until your Stripe account is connected, so you never build a catalog nobody can buy from.

A calendar that reads like your club

Practices are now colored by their group. Beginner, Competitive, Open Bouting, whatever levels your club defines, each gets its own color everywhere the calendar appears: week, day, month, the overview, even the athlete's view. Lessons stay red, tournaments purple, so a glance at the week tells you what kind of day it is. Every practice card also carries both tags, the Practice label and its group, and hovering any session pops a card with the time, location, who is coaching, and who is booked into each lesson slot, so you get the full picture without opening anything.

See the day by coach

The Day view has a new lens: By coach. One column per coach, their sessions stacked in it, sessions with several coaches appearing in every involved column with an Assisting note. It is the fastest way to answer "who is free at 5?" And clicking an empty spot in a coach's column starts a new practice at that time with that coach already set as the lead.

Build the practice once, schedule it forever

Pre-built practices capture the setup you repeat every week: title, description, group, weapon, location, lead and assistant coaches, default length. Build them in Club Settings under Practices and lessons, or save one right from the Add to Schedule modal with one click. Next time, pick the template and the whole form fills itself.

Scheduling that keeps up with your hands

Adding and moving sessions got faster in every view:

• Adds start at the time you clicked. Hover the calendar and a 15-minute marker follows your pointer; click and the new session starts exactly there, not at a default.
• Drag across weeks. Hold a session near the edge of the week view and the calendar flips to the next or previous week, with a ghost of the session following your pointer until you drop it.
• Drag on the month view. Move a session to another day and it keeps its time.
• Booking a lesson always shows the calendar. Athletes picking a lesson time now always get the month grid with available days dotted, no matter how few open days a coach has.

Run your club without membership plans

Some clubs just assign athletes to practices and lessons and handle money their own way. FencR 2.0 makes that a first-class choice: flip Membership plans off in Club Settings under Getting paid and every plan surface disappears. No plan pages, no credit chips, no "you need a plan" prompts. Coaches assign, athletes book, done. Invoices, camps, and tournaments keep working, and the switch protects you from mistakes: it will not turn off while any member still holds a live subscription, so nobody can end up billed for something they can no longer see.

Every existing club stays exactly as it is. Plans are on by default, and nothing changes unless you change it.

Emails that reach the family

Young athletes on FencR never had a real inbox, and club emails to them quietly went nowhere. Now everything a child would receive goes to their linked parents: broadcasts, booking confirmations, invoices, all of it. The club can see exactly where a child's mail is delivered, right on the member's profile.

Families can also add additional email recipients. A parent adds the other parent's address in their own Settings, or a club admin adds it from the member's profile, and from then on every email that account receives is delivered to both. And FencR is careful about duplicates: one message, one copy per unique address, even when a parent is selected as themselves and as two children's contact at once.

Everything else

The composer's recipient list now shows children routed through their parents instead of hiding them, with one-tap pills for All Athletes, All Parents, and All Staff. The members list shows a child's parents at a glance, and searching a parent's name finds their children too.

Beyond that: cancelling a card-billed plan now goes through Stripe's own billing portal with a clear "Cancels on" date and an undo. Logging in and signing up start by asking whether you are club staff or an athlete or parent, and remember your answer. And the documentation is no longer one endless page: it is organized into topic pages with search across everything and quick starts for new clubs.

FencR 2.0 is live now for every club, free as always. Sign in, open your camps page, and start building.