SwimTopia Mobile App - Pro Subscription Feature Details

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Athlete Favorites

The Favorites feature provides users with a Pro Subscription the ability to follow any athlete in a meet.  Athletes from any team participating in the meet can be added to the Favorites, and Favorite athlete selections are remembered from meet to meet. 

 

The star icon next to the athlete name signifies favorited athletes.

All events and results for favorited athletes appear in the Meet Overview page for the meet.

 

For non-Guest users with a SwimTopia login, all athletes in the same family will automatically appear in the Meet Overview as favorites, with or without a PRO subscription.

For these families a PRO subscription adds the ability to modify the set of athletes in the favorite selection. This includes adding other athletes or even “un-favoriting” other athletes in the same family. (Imagine a teenager with a SwimTopia account, who doesn’t want to be bothered by reminders of their younger siblings swims).

While athlete family members and their events show up in the Meet Overview without a PRO subscription -- including full event, heat and lane details, a PRO subscription is required to see the estimated start times or live results for those events. Additionally, to receive push notifications for results or reminders for upcoming swims a PRO subscription is required.

Learn more about our Guest Mode Access feature.

➧ Favorites Notification Settings: Reminders & Results

All notifications from the SwimTopia mobile app can be toggled "Off" in a users app notification settings. Otherwise, these settings are controlled for each favorited athlete within the app as seen below.

The default is for notifications to be turned ON. For each favorited athlete, a Pro subscriber can toggle on/off the ability to receive notifications of upcoming swim reminders or recent swim results a few minutes prior to upcoming swims.

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Swim Reminders & Adaptive Timeline

➧ Upcoming Swim Reminders

Team members that upgrade to a Pro subscription will receive upcoming swim reminders on meet days for their favorited athletes based on the estimated start time of each event as the meet progresses.

Depending on how notifications are configured in each users device, reminders can come through as a banner popup, but will also be available within the notification section of the app under the bell icon.

      

When the Live Event/Heat Bar is activated in a meet -- the current estimated start time for each swim is displayed in the “Upcoming” tab. This tab only shows events that have not yet happened. Entry times for future events and Results for past events are shown under the “All” tab (the default view).

Showing the estimated start time for all swim events in the Meet Overview makes it easier to “plan your meet day” and identify good pockets of time to grab a meal or otherwise take a break.

➧ Adaptive Meet Timeline

Previous to version 3.2, the estimated start times shown were based on the original meet timeline (the start time of the meet/session and the expected duration of each heat). Now the estimated start times automatically adjust based on the recorded actual start time of each event, based on the Live Bar updates made by a volunteer or made automatically when Meet Maestro is used with a supported timing system (such as the Colorado Time Systems Dolphin wireless timing system).

In addition to increasing the accuracy of the estimated start times shown in the Upcoming tab on the Meet Overview, the adaptive meet timeline feature also dramatically improves the accuracy of upcoming event reminders delivered to PRO subscribers.

➧ Live Event/Heat Bar Aids Start Time Accuracy

The adaptive meet timeline relies on Live Bar updates to automatically adjust the meet timeline, so using the Live Bar feature is highly recommended. Updating the Live Bar during the meet provides current event/heat information for free to all app users, and greatly increases the accuracy of estimated start times and upcoming swim reminders for PRO subscribers. For more on the Live Event/Heat Bar ➞ See SwimTopia Mobile App - Free Feature Details.

Is the meet delayed or cancelled?...While the adaptive meet timeline and upcoming reminders are made more accurate by use of the Live Bar, they do not require the Live Bar to be used. If the Live Bar is not enabled, upcoming reminders will be sent out according to the original meet timeline. However, as a result, this means that if the meet stops, due to a rain delay, or is cut short entirely, the upcoming reminders for that meet will still go out.

>>Pausing Reminders: For now, the reminders can be "paused" if either the Live Bar volunteer marks the session as complete in the mobile app's "Event/Heat Updater" screen (under the key icon), or the host team (whomever merged the meet) hides the meet on the calendar in SwimTopia (under Edit of the meet).

➧ Reminders and Adaptive Timeline are Session and Time Zone Aware

Sessions can start at different times and occur on different days, thus each Session has a separate timeline that is updated independently from other Sessions. Prior to the prevalence of virtual meets holding Sessions in different locations was extremely rare, but now in the era of Covid and virtual meets, it has become commonplace. As a result, it is now much more common for different Sessions in the same meet to occur in different time zones. 

We have added the ability to specify per-Session time zones and the Session timeline and upcoming reminders automatically use the per Session time zone. Additionally, when merging a virtual meet, in addition to loading the default pool configuration for each team into each virtual session, we now also copy the team’s time zone as the setting for that team’s virtual meet session. ➞ See our Meet Maestro - Virtual Meets article for more on this topic.

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Live Meet Results & Team Scores