Getting started for coaches
From sign-up to your first week with the team: account, invites, practices, matches and analysis.
1. Create your account
As a Coach you create the team. You can sign up in two ways:
- With Google or Apple: sign-in starts right away; if you're a new user, "Complete your profile" appears, where you choose the Coach role and enter the team name.
- With email and password: first name, last name, email and password (at least 8 characters, with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter and a number). You receive a confirmation email: open the link within 48 hours, or ask for it to be resent.
The first two fields are nationality and app language: the screen switches language immediately, without losing what you typed. Details in Account and security.
2. Create the team
After sign-up a guided flow starts. Everything can be changed later from Settings.
- Team details: name, gender (men's, women's or mixed) and league.
- Logo: PNG or JPG, square is best. You can skip it and upload later.
- Plan: the 15-day free trial with Pro plan features is already active, no card required. See Free trial, Pro and Club.
- Quick invites: create the invite link to share.
- Roster: the flow ends on the team page, where you add players.
The Dashboard shows the First steps checklist: each item opens the right screen and ticks itself off. When you no longer need it, close it with the X.
3. Bring in athletes and staff
- Open More → Settings → Invite new users and share the invite link or the team code.
- Each person signs up choosing their role (athlete or staff) and requests to join.
- Approve requests: create a roster card, link to an existing card, or approve only.
- In Settings → Members and permissions decide who can use each feature: events, documents, videos, scouting, attendance, roster, polls, weight training plans and physical tests.
Access by invite and by permission. Joining the team doesn't mean seeing everything: each feature follows the permissions you assign and the app's privacy rules. For example, without extra permissions athletes see their own statistics and tests, not their teammates'; physiotherapy and absence reasons stay private. Details in Invites and members.
4. Your first week: before, during and after the match
Before: prepare the practice
- Create practices in the calendar, one by one or importing from Excel (Events and schedule).
- Open a practice and tap Prepare the exercises: write exercises with focus and duration, check available players by position and publish the plan. Guide: Practice planning.
- Note absences reported in advance in Attendance → Planned absences.
During: organise the match
- Create the match and link it to the calendar; the whole roster is already included, call-ups are optional (Matches).
- On the bench, start live scouting from the match page, or rely on your scout.
After: analyse and move on
- Import the .dvw file into the match and upload any box scores you received (Statistics).
- Open Game analysis, save a private note and link it to your next session.
- Record attendance for the week's events (Attendance).
Practice planning, the match page, Game analysis and the monthly dashboard are part of version 2.2.0: web app available now; iPhone and Android available after updating the app to 2.2.0.
5. Free trial, Pro and Club
- Free trial: 15 days with Pro plan features, no card required.
- PRO for coaches with one team: up to 18 athletes and 6 staff members, 50 GB of video storage.
- CLUB for coaches who train two teams: 18 athletes and 8 staff per team, 120 GB of video storage and quick switching between them.
Prices, payment and invoices are explained in Subscriptions and billing.
6. Other features
- Documents: general archive and match documents (guide).
- Video analysis: match videos with clips from the .dvw file, playlists and export (guide).
- Physical preparation: physical tests and weight training plans.
- Physiotherapy: agenda and bookings with the physio (guide).
- Polls: votes and questionnaires for the team (guide).
- Season: end-of-year archive (guide).
You use the same account on iPhone, Android and the web app at www.volleycontrolcenter.app.