Athletify provides a unified scheduling and staff management platform built specifically for Parks & Recreation departments. The platform consolidates shift scheduling, drop/claim/time-off request handling, age-based compliance rules, and team messaging into a single system. It helps rec centers reduce planning time by managing programs like youth basketball, adult basketball, and aquatics with features like saved views and automated scheduling warnings.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Parks and Recreation departments and community centers often juggle multiple staff members, programs, locations, and shift types across fragmented systems, leading to hours lost each week on manual scheduling. Coordinating shift swaps, time-off requests, and staff communication across different program areas such as basketball, soccer, and aquatics creates administrative overhead and increases the risk of understaffed shifts.
Solution
Athletify provides a unified scheduling platform that brings all programs, staff, and locations into a single, filterable calendar. The system centralizes scheduling requests—drop shifts, claim shifts, and time-off—into one shared admin inbox with smart filtering and automatic routing to the appropriate admins. Built-in team messaging connects directly to schedules, letting staff communicate via channels or direct messages without leaving the platform. Athletify also includes age-based scheduling limitations and automated warnings to help organizations stay compliant with youth labor regulations. The platform supports customizable saved views and per-program filtering so admins can access the exact schedule they need quickly.
Target Audience
Primary customers are Parks and Recreation departments, community centers, and organizations running youth and adult sports programs such as basketball, soccer, and aquatics, including their scheduling administrators and staff.
Features
- Unified organization-wide schedule with filters by program, location, position, and employee
- Saved views for quick access to frequently used schedule configurations
- Shared admin inbox for drop shift, claim shift, and time-off requests with smart filtering and automatic routing to relevant admins
- Age badge indicators on restricted staff avatars with configurable limitations for maximum shifts per day/week and shift start/end time restrictions
- Built-in team messaging with channels, direct messages, file attachments, and one-click messaging to staff on specific shifts
- Content moderation built into messaging for staff safety