You can receive/respond to invites, see who else is going, and make payments via WhatsApp. If you're a squad admin or owner, you'll get additional notifications about attendee numbers and dropouts.
If you have an existing WhatsApp group, you can keep it running alongside Squaddle (they are completely separate). Most people use Squaddle for invites, payments and important updates while keeping a WhatsApp group for general chat.
By default, Squaddle only charges players who are marked in when the activity starts – payments are refunded if a player drops out any time before this.
Alternatively, organisers can choose to "Charge late dropouts" when creating an activity. When this is turned on, players are only refunded if they drop out more than 24 hours before the activity start time (they will show as "Late" on the list of players who are marked out).
For both options, if payment hasn't been received before the activity starts, it's added to the list of Outstanding Payments – players can pay this off at any time by replying "pay" on WhatsApp, by clicking the Payments link in an email footer, or if an admin sends the squad a payment reminder.
Admins can mark players out for past activities and this will refund them if they have paid, or remove the activity from their Outstanding Payments list if they haven't.
For activities where "Charge late dropouts" is on, admins can also choose to "Remove outstanding payment" for players who dropped out late (this can be helpful to ensure fairness when a player marks themselves out at short notice after previously being on the reserve list).
No — if you don't want to use WhatsApp for Squaddle notifications you can use email instead, with all the same functionality.
Players can sign in if they want but only to do basic things like change their name/number/email and leave a squad — everything else happens via WhatsApp or email. Usually only organisers sign in to the website when they need to manage their squad and activities.
Yes — you can create or join as many squads as you want.
Organisers can create a new squad by going to 'My squads' in the account menu and using the 'Create new squad' button.
Please email info@squaddle.co.uk.
Squaddle is currently in beta, so you may encounter bugs from time-to-time — please let us know when you do. No issue is too small, and if you think something could be clearer or doesn't make sense, please let us know. We'll be really grateful for any feedback as we work to improve Squaddle.
When you create your squad you’ll get a joining link to share with others. You may want to paste this link into your existing WhatsApp group or share it with people individually.
To find the link again later, go to the Squad tab and hit the 'Add member' button.
By default, Squaddle only charges players who are marked in when the activity starts – payments are refunded if a player drops out any time before this.
Alternatively, you can choose to "Charge late dropouts" when creating an activity. When this is turned on, players are only refunded if they drop out more than 24 hours before the activity start time (they will show as "Late" on the list of players who are marked out).
For both options, if payment hasn't been received before the activity starts, it's added to the list of Outstanding Payments – players can pay this off at any time by replying "pay" on WhatsApp, by clicking the Payments link in an email footer, or if an admin sends the squad a payment reminder.
Admins can mark players out for past activities and this will refund them if they have paid, or remove the activity from their Outstanding Payments list if they haven't.
For activities where "Charge late dropouts" is on, admins can also choose to "Remove outstanding payment" for players who dropped out late (this can be helpful to ensure fairness when a player marks themselves out at short notice after previously being on the reserve list).
Yes — go to your Squad and find the person you'd like to promote. Hit the three vertical dots next to their name and select "Give admin rights". If they don't already have a Squaddle admin account, they will receive an email or WhatsApp message (depending on their notification settings) explaining how to accept the invite, after which they'll be able to log in and manage the squad.
You can message the entire squad by going to the Squad tab and hitting the 'Message squad' button.
You can also send a message only to respondents of an individual activity— to do so, head to the activity in question and hit the 'Send message' button.
You can change the title, location, date/time, or number of participants by clicking the three vertical dots next to the activity title, then "Edit details". Your squad will be notified of changes with an updated invite.
To change payment details or whether or not the activity repeats you'll need to cancel and recreate the activity.
When you cancel an activity, a message will go out to all squad members (except those who responded out) explaining that it's been cancelled. If it's a repeating activity, you'll be asked if you want to cancel just the one activity or all future activities. If anyone has already paid for the activity, they will be refunded.
Yes — if one of your players lets you know outside of Squaddle that they want to attend (or not), you can mark their response manually via the activity details page (use the three vertical dots next to their name in the respondent list).
On each activity screen, you can see who's paid, and in the Payments tab, you can see a list of outstanding payments for all activities. From there you can send payment reminders to anyone who owes money.
Yes — if you're using Squaddle for payments but one of your members pays you outside of Squaddle, you can manually mark them as paid via the activity details screen (use the three vertical dots next to their name). This will cancel the relevant outstanding payment for the player (it doesn't affect the squad balance because this only reflects payments taken via Squaddle).
If someone has paid but then drops out more than 24 hours before the activity, or if an activity is cancelled, we will automatically refund affected users (you don’t need to contact us). If you mark someone out after an activity then they will be refunded.
If someone needs to be refunded for another reason, please contact us at info@squaddle.co.uk.
Go to the payments tab, then 'Balance and withdrawals', set up Stripe Connect, and then use the 'Withdraw funds' button. Withdrawals can take up to three working days but are usually quicker.
On the Squad tab, hit the three vertical dots next to the member’s name and then"Remove from squad".
Yes — go to "My squads" in the account menu and then use the vertical dots menu next to the name of the squad, selecting 'Squad settings'.
If you use WhatsApp, you just need to respond "out" to the activity. If you use email, find the message about the activity in question and use the button to mark yourself out.
You can change your details at any time...
WhatsApp users — Reply "Settings" and follow the link to your Account Settings.
Email users — Find a recent Squaddle email and there should be a link to your 'Account Settings'.
You can leave a squad at any time...
WhatsApp users — Reply "Settings" and follow the link to your Account Settings. Hit the three-dot menu next to the squad you want to leave and select 'Leave squad'.
Email users — Find a recent Squaddle email and there should be a link to your 'Account Settings'. Hit the three-dot menu next to the squad you want to leave and select 'Leave squad'.