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This is the whole setup, in order, with nothing optional in it. Everything else in this section is detail you can come back for.
You don’t need an organization, a Stripe account, or anything else first. Anyone with a Time2Bike account can create a team.

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1. Create the team

Go to time2.bike/teams and click Create Team.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The Create Team form at /teams/create.
You become the team’s owner. You land on the team management area straight away.
Which join policy? Pick Invite Only if you’re not sure — the join code in step 2 works regardless of this setting, so invite-only is not as restrictive as it sounds. Choose Application only if you genuinely want to read something about each person before they’re on the roster.

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2. Turn on a join code

This is the step that saves you an evening. Thirty individual email invitations is how a coach loses a night; a code read off a whiteboard at the first practice is how they don’t.
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Open Settings

From the team, click Settings in the tab bar.
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Find the Join code card and click Generate a join code

You get a code like ABCD-1234 and a link, time2.bike/join/ABCD-1234.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — Team Settings with a live join code, the share link, and the Copy buttons.
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Leave 'People who use it join as' set to Athletes

This is your rider code. Don’t switch it to Coaches — every rider who used it would become a coach. Coaches get their own code, below.
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Share it

Read the code out at practice, print it on a flyer, or paste the link into your team’s group chat. Once a parent has the link they can forward it to anyone.
Riders (and parents signing up several kids at once) redeem it at time2.bike/join. See Join a team for what they’ll see.

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3. Add your coaches

Directly under the rider code is the Staff join code card. It’s a separate code, off by default, and it makes whoever uses it a coach or manager straight away.
  • Generate a staff code and hand it to your coaching staff directly. Don’t paste it in a group chat.
  • Or leave it off, turn on applications with staff applications enabled, and vet each coach yourself.
A staff code makes an adult staff on your roster with no approval step. Treat it like a key, not an announcement. Rotate it the moment it escapes.
If someone joined with the rider code but said they were a coach, they’ll be sitting on your roster as invited with a Confirm as coach button next to them. Nothing about that claim takes effect until you press it.

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4. Check the roster

Open Members. You should see everyone who has joined, with their roster role and their status.
!!-IMAGE-NEEDED-!! — The team Members roster with a mix of athletes and coaches.
Three things worth doing here:
  • Fix anyone’s role with the dropdown on their row.
  • Turn on Consent for members who are happy for you to register them for races. See Racing together.
  • Click a rider’s name to see (and fill in) their emergency contact. See Emergency & medical info.

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5. Schedule your first practice

Open Practices → New practice. Give it a name and a time, add at least one activity (a time trial, an endurance lap ride, a dual slalom bracket, a group ride, or short track), and create it. Your entire active roster is entered automatically — you don’t enter anyone. On the day, hit Time it and you’re on the operator screen. Full detail in Practices.

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6. Tidy up the public page

Optional, but it’s the page people land on when they search for your club. Open Public Page to set a header image, an about section, and whether to show the roster. See Your public page.

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What you can ignore for now

  • League — only relevant if your team races under a governing body. It’ll tell you when it matters.
  • Applications — only if you set the join policy to Application.
  • Results — fills itself in once you’ve timed a practice.

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Next

Invites & join codes

Rotating codes, staff codes, and email invites in full.

Practices

Scheduling and timing your own sessions.