Memberships
19 articles
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Avoiding Duplicate Members
The BowlsLink membership is integral for the running of our sport and as such maintaining good data integrity is vital. Our sports data needs to be accurate, complete and consistent to ensure we can r...
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Benefits of BowlsLink – Membership
The Membership module is a crucial component of BowlsLink in that it integrates with the majority of the other modules and functions. Membership management at member, club, district/league, region/zon...
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Creating Memberships in Advance
For some Clubs, their memberships may lapse during the playing season as they can be created for a fixed 12 month period, typically calendar year or financial, or flexible 12 months (12 months from th...
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Custom Durations for Membership Types
Examples Here are some examples of Custom durations that have been requested. In green is what would be used as the custom durations syntax. Year options: 5 Years – P5Y | 3 Years – P3Y | 2 Years – P2Y...
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Member Data
DEI Data Gender Types As part of a commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Bowls Australia want to garner a strong understanding of our participation composition to ensure we are making informed...
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Fees and Memberships Types
How membership will be handled in BowlsLink changed on 5th August 2024. Clubs will need to create a Membership that is linked to a National Participant Type moving forward. The way membership will wor...
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How do I Add Financial Members to my Club?
As a Club Administrator, adding members to BowlsLink and having them financially recorded ensures accuracy and clarity of membership records and information such as contact details, gender, membership...
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How do I Transfer Members from Club to Club?
As a Club Administrator, you have the ability to either Invite or Invite and Transfer members to your Club – Inviting a member will nominate your club as their Secondary Club. Inviting and Transferrin...
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How to create a Signup
What is a Signup? Participant Signup Membership Signup Video Guide Checklist before creating your Signup Creating a Signup Step-by-step guide What is a Signup? Signups will allow ‘non-traditional’ par...
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How to issue an Invoice for payment
This guide provides instructions for Club Administrators on how to issue Invoices for members to make payment for Memberships or Competition entries. It outlines step-by-step details that make managin...
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How to make members Financial
This guide provides a straightforward process for Club Administrators to efficiently add full memberships in BowlsLink. It outlines step-by-step instructions that make managing member memberships simp...
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How to Reactivate Archived Members for Email Campaigns
If a Member of your Club is Archived, they are also removed from the available Membership List of your Clubs’, District, Group, etc… and may need to be reactivated, should the member be unarchived and...
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Managing the loss of a member in BowlsLink
How to deal with a deceased member in the BowlsLink membership database is a common support question. Losing a member is solemn time for a club however it is unfortunately something that will happen o...
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Member Transfers
Intro to member transfers Initiating a transfer Approving a transfer Member joining as a secondary club member Transferring an Archived or Returning Member Transferring an Returning (Archived) Member…
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Membership vs Participation – Whats the difference and how to Signup?
In December 2025, BowlsLink released update v1.37 which introduced an array of significant developments and furthered the growth of the platform. Amongst these updates was the introduction of Signups…
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Membership Webinar
This training webinar is targeted at new secretaries, it steps through how to use the database system in BowlsLink.
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Participation Types in BowlsLink
When creating a Membership, it is a requirement to assign a type. There are five (5) types available throughout BowlsLink but these have been segmented into Membership and Participation to help create...
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User Manual – Club Membership
In the membership section of BowlsLink you will be able to find all basic information related to members of your club. The membership section is further divided into Members, Groups & Categories, Cert...
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User Manual – Participation (Types and Signups)
In December 2025, BowlsLink released an update (v1.37) which introduced a new and innovative module, Participation. This new module is aimed at giving clubs a digital tool which allows them to more ea...