> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.uplifter-curling.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Getting started

> A club admin's first hour in Uplifter Curling — sign in, check the club's clock and season, set your words, build a league, shape the signup wizard, take payments and publish the website.

<Note>
  **Must know**

  * Your dashboard lives at `admin.<club>.uplifter-curling.com`. Members use `<club>.uplifter-curling.com`.
  * Sign-in is passwordless by default: enter your email and press **Send sign-in code**. Google sign-in is also offered.
  * A club that came from CCM starts its staff in the **classic view** of the dashboard. The **✨ Try the new look** pill in the corner switches this page to the new look; **Switch to classic view** brings it back. Members always get the new pages.
</Note>

<Steps>
  <Step title="Sign in">
    Open your dashboard address, type your email and press **Send sign-in code**. Enter the code from the email. If your club was migrated from CCM, your login already exists — there is no password to remember, and no password migrated.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the club's clock, season and words">
    Under **Settings → Club Settings**:

    * **Season starts in.** The month your season begins. Seasons are derived from this month; it also decides which season a payment or membership belongs to and the date a curler's age is measured on (see [Business rules](/product/business-rules)).
    * **Club terminology.** Pick your **Stand-in curlers** word (Subbing or Sparing), your **Schedule segments** word (Round, Draw or Flight) and your **Team groupings** word (Division or Pool). The preview reads "Your screens will say \{Subs}, \{Rounds} and \{Divisions}." Wording only — data, exports and links do not change, and the classic view of the dashboard uses the same words.
    * **Pay at club or by mail** and **Payment instructions** — turn on offline payment and say where to send the cheque.
    * **Enable the directory**, with **Show email**, **Show phone** and **Show city** — the member directory is off until you switch it on.

    The club's time zone was set when the club was created (for a migrated club, by the import). Every draw time, session time and scheduled email is shown and run on that clock.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Look at Features">
    **Settings → Features** lists every module. Modules CCM had (events, email campaigns, memberships, seasons, custom questions, reports, bookings, volunteers) are on. Everything CCM never had ships off; a superadmin can turn a module on for your club when you ask. The page says which is which.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add staff and access levels">
    **Settings → Staff** invites the people who run the club. **Settings → Access Levels** defines what each level can see and do — the replacement for CCM's fixed Joomla groups. A league convenor is granted on the league itself and gets their own portal at `/league`.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Build a league">
    **Registrations → Leagues** lists your leagues; open one to get its tabs. **League Setup** holds divisions, sessions, the result mode and the points grid (win, loss, tie, default win/loss, per end won — per round × division). **Draws** generates the schedule, lets you edit it afterwards and prints score sheets. **Teams** and the **Subs** tab (your word) complete the set. New leagues record results as **points**, the way CCM did.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Shape the signup wizard">
    **Settings → Registration Form** — "Shape your club's registration wizard — reorder steps, turn them on or off, and edit their questions. No code needed; changes apply to the public signup immediately." The same definition drives the member wizard and the staff proxy desk. The Step 1 profile fields — order, labels, required flags and club questions — live on the builder's curler-profile step.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up money">
    **Financials → Onboarding** connects card payments. **Financials → Taxes & Fees** answers "Who pays the sales tax?" — **Customer pays** puts tax as its own line at checkout; **Organization pays (tax-inclusive pricing)** hides it. A club with no card processor can still take registrations: the wizard offers **Pay at the club or by mail** and prints a registration sheet. A membership's early-bird price is set on the membership type itself, per term, under **Members → Memberships**; **Financials → Discounts** holds multi-league and other discounts.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Publish the website">
    **Website → General** shows your address, your custom domain and — for a migrated club — the **From your CCM import** checklist. Imported pages arrive as drafts under **Website → Club Pages**; review and publish them. If your site is being served as a frozen copy of your old website, only **General** and **Form Submissions** show until you press **Switch to the new website builder**. **Website → Templates** offers **Classic Club** (the look of your old CCM site) and three modern layouts you can preview and switch between without losing content.
  </Step>
</Steps>

**Related:** [Feature overview](/product/feature-overview) · [Business rules](/product/business-rules) · [What stays the same when my club moves from CCM?](/ccm/what-changes/what-stays-the-same) · [What is the classic view?](/ccm/classic-view/what-is-the-classic-view)


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