How Do I Create a New Season?

1. To create a new season, you will need to log in to the Playbook Back End of your website. (mywebsite.playbookapi.com/control_panel).
2. From the top navigation bar select Programs then Seasons.
   
3. Once you are on the Seasons page, you can create a new season by clicking Create Season and then selecting 'Create Season' again from the dropdown menu.
   
4. You will have the option to Start From Scratch or Clone an existing season. This will create a copy of an existing season containing all the same descriptions, settings, restrictions etc. 
5. For now select Start From Scratch. This will open a pop-up where you can enter some basic information about your program
6. After filling out the required boxes fields (name, start date and end date) click save to be taken to the newly created Season Card and finish setting up your program
   
7. The program card will open on the Settings
   1. The Main tab is an expanded view of the Start From Scratch pop-up
      1. You can add what Sport/Activity the season falls under
      2. You can also set an Early Signup Deadline
   2. The Payments tab is where you can set all things related to cost and price
      
      1. You have the option of choosing the type of Team Payment Method
         1. Standard Team Pricing - You can give the option for groups of people to register as a team
            1. Set the Price, as well as the Team early discount
            2. You can also select specific add-ons you want to make available for purchase
         2. Don’t Allow Teams - You can select this if you do not want registrants to create their own teams, and you would like to build the teams yourself instead
         3. Variable Team Pricing - See the article
         
         
      2. You also have the option of allowing individual sign-ups
         1. Simply click the Signup as Individual Player to toggle it on/off
            1. If on, you can set the Price, Individual early discount and any add-ons
         2. You can also toggle on/off Signup as Player Group
            1. Note that you can only select this option if Individual Player signups are also available
      3. You can toggle the Show Price option, as well as allow or not allow credits to be used for registration
      4. You can also toggle Allow partial to allow players to be verified without paying the full fee immediately
   3. Next is the Optional Info tab, here you can provide more information for your program that will display on the front-end, to the people signing up to your programs
      1. You can apply various Tags, for further information refer to the Tags article
      2. The Description can be used to let people know more about what your program will offer
      3. You can choose to list out a detailed address for the Location Summary and an outline of the program’s schedule for the Time Summary
      4. If you click on the (Advanced) Optional Info Settings, you will see various Registration Notes that front-end customers will be able to see during the corresponding steps of the registration process
   4. The Notifications tab is for admins who would like to be notified every time someone signs up for the program via email and/or text
   5. The Custom Email tab is where you can set up more detailed email templates to include things such as attachments, header&footer images and even the email address that will be used to send out the emails
   6. Fields is where you can add custom questions to be shown during the registration process. You can choose specific fields to only show up in the respective Free Agent, Captain, Team and Join Team types of registrations
   7. The Waiver section is where you will be able to select the waivers you would like to upload for the registrations. Note that you will have to upload waivers in the Site Settings before you can add them to a program