MyKidsCalendar.com

How much does the MyKidsCalendar Service Cost?

MyKidsCalendar is completely free for all parents. Leagues and teams using the system are entitled to employ all its features and capabilities for a monthly subscription fee based on the number of youth athletes in its program:

1 to 25 Players/Participants - $5/month (Total - Not Per Participant)
26 to 150 Players/Participants - $10/month (Total - Not Per Participant)
151 to 500 Players/Participants - $15/month (Total - Not Per Participant)
Greater than 500 Players/Participants - $20/month (Total - Not Per Participant)

Subscriptions are only purchased for the months your Group uses MyKidsCalendar. For example, if you have 3 baseball travel teams, each with 15 players, using MyKidsCalendar for the spring season from March through June, your Group’s total cost for MyKidsCalendar would be $10/month (for 45 total participants) x 4 months or $40.00 for the entire season.

What is your email privacy policy?

The MyKidsCalendar service asks for your email address to use as a convenient log-in name, and also to automatically build your children's coaches' email lists for in-season communication. Our email privacy policy is unambiguous: we will not sell, give away, trade, or otherwise distribute your email address to any organization, company, or individual under any circumstances. We do plan, however, to send the users of MyKidsCalendar email notifications of changes to our system, upgrades, or new features on rare occasions as necessary, and may use your email address for that purpose.

How long does it take for parents to register?

Parents register for free by providing their name and email address (providing mailing address information is optional), which takes less than 1 minute. Once a parent registers, they never have to do so again.

What is my "Personal Calendar"?

Every user of the system is provide their own empty calendar to start. You populate your calendar with the specific schedules in which you're interested (i.e. the schedules for the teams your children play on). If your son plays on the 7-Year-Old Red Intramural Team in the Kansas City Youth Soccer League, you're not really interested in the schedule of the other 20 teams in that league, just your son's. Therefore, you would "Add" your son's team to your personal schedule. Your daughter might be on the 11-Year Old Travel Team of the Kansas City Girls Softball Club, so you would download that schedule as well, combining the two (or more) into your "Personal Calendar".

Can I Put My "Personal Calendar" on My Microsoft Outlook at Work?

Absolutely. Just quickly install our Outlook Synchronization plug-in on your PC once, and then synchronizing your kids' sports schedules with your work schedule is as easy as one click of the mouse.

What If All My Children's Schedules Are Not on MyKidsCalendar?

Clearly, we'd like parents to encourage coaches/league officials to post their schedules on the system. Once they try the service, they will most likely agree that it is the easiest scheduling software to use, and the process of building their schedules is an annual requirement for them anyway. Indeed, we designed MyKidsCalendar with coaches and league administrators in mind first and foremost. However, if they are reluctant to do so, you can manually input your own events (i.e. practices, games, etc.) into your "Personal Calendar" to unify all your children's activities onto one calendar. Without question, however, the best scenario by far is that your coaches all take advantage of MyKidsCalendar, more for their benefit than even their parents.

As a Coach, How Do I Build My Parent Email List?

It's done automatically for you. As parents register on MyKidsCalendar.com, they "Add" schedules to their "Personal Calendar". If they add your team's schedule, their email address - which they use to register - is automatically added to your team's email list. Thus, if you make changes to that team's schedule, they are automatically emailed. Also, if you use the "Email All" button, you can send a custom email that you prepare and send it to them. You can also post that same information on a message board they will see every time they log onto the system.

How Do Parents Use the System to Get Directions to Events?

When parents register, they have the option to provide their home address. When coaches insert a schedule event, they identify the location with the address. When a parents clicks on a particular event, the directions function uses their address and the address of the event location to automatically link them to an on-line directions site. Parents can simply print out the directions at that point. If coaches desire, they can insert directions for certain events in the "Notes" section of each event.

Can Other People Access My "Personal Calendar"?

Yes, as long as they know your email address. So if one parent builds the "Personal Calendar", the other can access it from any on-line computer by knowing the email address. One parent at work can log on to check the time and location of the game tonight without having to call their spouse or the coach (or better yet, they can download their "Personal Calendar" into their work Outlook and the game will be on the same schedule as their staff meeting). Or, if grandparents are scheduling a visit, they can log onto your "Personal Calendar" from across the country and check to see which weekend the grandchildren are playing, and schedule their trip appropriately.

How can I learn more about the MyKidsCalendar Service?

We first recommend you take a quick look at our overview movie by clicking here. Also, we encourage coaches or administrators to register for our free 30-day trial and take a few minutes to read through our “Getting Started” guide that you’ll see after you’ve finished registering. And at any time, we encourage you to contact us at either support@mykidscalendar.com or (908) 872-8560 with any questions or feedback.