volley.love Overview
Let's discover how to use volley.love in less than 5 minutes.
If you prefer to watch a video overview instead, check out the 120 second overview below.
Getting Started
Get started by creating your account here.
An account is only required for creating and managing events, like leagues and tournaments. Players and captains do not need accounts to use volley.love.
Create Your League
Next up, create your league. You can start this process by clicking "Host a League" in the navigation. It looks like this:
You should be presented with the start of the create league wizard. For more documentation on the full process of creating a league, check out the create league docs.
Teams Register
Once your league is created, you just have to get teams in! You can either leverage volley.love for registration or handle it yourself and add teams manually.
For more information on registration and how it works for you and for players, check out the league registration docs.
Scheduling
One of the best parts about volley.love is the custom schedules the volley.love team makes for you. Once your league fills or registration closes (whichever happens first), the volley.love team will create a schedule for you. You will receive an email from the volley.love team when a schedule is ready for your review.
All you have to do is look it over and decide if it meets your needs or not. If it does, simply approve it. If it doesn't, reject it and provide the team with more information on what you are looking for.
Here's an example:
Season Starts!
Once you approve your schedule, you're all set! At this point, volley.love becomes extremely hands-off. volley.love will email captains with a link to their individual team dashboards, which makes it easy for them to view their team matches, report scores, and check standings and stats.
As matches happen, players will report scores. When they forget, volley.love will automatically email the captains of the match(es) missing scores and remind them to enter their scores.
Standings will automatically update. If you have a playoff bracket, it will automatically get filled in at the end of the regular season matches.
The only thing you will have to do throughout the season is handle communication with players and manage things like cancellations.
Communication and Cancellations
These are less crucial to understand up-front for using volley.love, but you can read more here: