Turn requests on for a program
Requests are off by default and switch on one program at a time. The setting covers every registration group in the program.
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Open the program from Payments → Programs, open its More actions menu (⋮) and choose Edit Program. On the program’s Cancellation requests tab, Go to Program Settings does the same.
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Confirm Edit Program.
Editing puts the program into draft: hidden from your members and closed to new registrations until you schedule it again. Existing registrations and billing keep running. Plan the switch for a quiet moment, or set it while you build a new program.
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Open the Program Dates step. Under Registration Settings, turn on Cancellation requests.
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Click Schedule to put the program back live.
Review a request
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A new request shows up three ways: a dashboard alert (“1 new cancellation request for [program] to review”, moved to the top of your alerts), a count on the Cancellation requests tab under Payments, and the same tab inside the program itself. The Payments tab lists every program; the program tab lists only that program.
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Filter by Status or Request type, or search by athlete, program, or group. Click a row to open it.
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The request shows who sent it and when, the resume date for a pause, and the parent’s note.
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Choose an answer:
- Accept & apply marks it accepted and makes the billing change.
- Accept without applying tells the family yes but changes nothing. Use it when you’ll set up the change yourself, for example with a different date. The swimmer isn’t paused or canceled until you do it.
- Deny declines the request.
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With Accept & apply, set the details in the same window:
- Pause: Pause until starts on the family’s resume date. Change it if you like. All invoices until that date are voided.
- Cancel: leave Cancel associated billing plans ticked to stop billing, then pick At the end of the current period or Immediately. Immediately adds a Refund choice: No refund, Last payment, or Prorated amount. Also remove from the linked training group(s) starts ticked and takes the swimmer off the group too; untick it to keep them in the group. If the registration has no billing, the swimmer is removed from the program.
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Optionally click Add note to parent. The note goes in the email and shows on the family’s request.
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Click Confirm. See pause, move or cancel an enrollment for what pausing and canceling do to billing.
In the Commit Swimming - Team app, tap More → Payments and open the Cancellation requests tab, or tap the dashboard alert. Tap a request to review it. The same choices open in a sheet from the bottom of the screen.
What the statuses mean
| Status | What happened |
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| Pending | Waiting for a coach. |
| Accepted | Accepted and the pause or cancellation was applied. |
| Accepted | Not applied | Accepted, but billing wasn’t changed in Commit. |
| Declined | Denied. |
Families only see Pending, Accepted, or Declined. They don’t see whether billing was applied.
Common questions
Why is Accept & apply grayed out? There’s nothing to change. For a pause, billing for the registration is already paused, or it has no billing plan that can be paused yet (see “Can I pause a plan that hasn’t started billing?” in pause, move or cancel an enrollment). For a cancel, the swimmer is no longer registered. Accept without applying or deny instead.
Can I change my answer? Yes. Open the request again and choose differently. If it was already applied, changing the answer doesn’t undo the billing change; resume or re-enroll the swimmer from the registrant list.
Can a family send several requests? One pending request per enrollment. Once you answer it, they can send another.
Who can do this? Seeing requests needs the Finances permission; answering them needs Finances set to Edit.