Jackrabbit Swim Features

Jackrabbit continues to make improvements and make life easier and automating running children's activity centers.

The parent interface is tricky for parents to navigate and find what they want.

Overall, Jackrabbit swim is easy to use. Tracking is easy for a multitude of things such as attendance, skills, and payments.

The Staff Portal is difficult to use. It is not user friendly and glitches a lot.

I just use it as an instructor so, I don't know the backdoor and how management uses the software. It is fairly easy to use.

I don't think have anything that I least like about it

CRM, Billing, Staff, Payroll, class scheduling

lack of flexibility and the site could better use AI to make tasks simpler without as many clicks

It's easy to use for administrators and cliental.

I like everything about the software. I have not found a con thus far.

We love using Jackrabbit Swim for multitude of reasons. It keeps our instructors, schedules, and family accounts organized. We run multiple programs through our software; children's and Adult swim lessons, clinics, lifeguarding, safety courses and summer league. We were excited to implement Jackrabbits new policy agreements, we have been able utilize and integrate different agreements for our individualized programs. The overall blanket policy agreement was not not working for us and now with multiple policies our clinics and Adult programs do not have to agree to our "Double Diaper Policy".

We have issues with double booking instructors, the ability to post credits to family accounts for a specific day (ie; Thursday classes were cancelled and we were unable to provide make-ups, so we had to post credits to all the Thursday families through each class) and there's no "Class Cancelled" button on the staff portal attendance with the option to set a make-up date and the class show in the portal for attendance.

We love the ease of use for customer information tracking and scheduling of classes. The ability to see important stats on our dashboard and be able to pull varieties of reports is extremely helpful as a small business owner.

While we can individually or mass email customers- this is the area I wish would have an overhaul. We are unable to make “fancy” emails and feel very stuck in the early ages of email marketing. Also, my team can send emails from the staff portal, but they cannot access our template emails from there. Another small thing, but would help the efficiency of my instructors.

So easy to manage all aspects of business. Students, staff and finances. It's intuitive. I do love how responsive the development team is to new ideas and launching improvements.

The scheduling ability for staff that aren't assigned to a class. I wish there was a function for this. Would really love a more professional way to integrate our newsletter. Exporting email addresses into another product is bulky. Current functionality doesn't allow for the end product to look sleek and professional.

Web based and easy to email from. Wish the text button was an automatic as it gets skipped over frequently. Also, if we need to send a quick text for an emergency (last minute weather closure) we can’t text all of our students for that day as it’s over 200.

There are some features that are not easy to sync with our programs. Classes can be overbooked-human error yes but still able to happen. Reporting side is lacking and accounting reports never match so are difficult to use and be accurate.

The website is easy to navigate. I really like the newer calendar link that is available no matter what screen you're in to click on. Used to be you could only access the calendar button on the home page which was a pain to go back and forth to.

Nothing really. It's all pretty easy to learn and navigate through

I love the functionality to tie registration through our website resulting in a seamless user interface that is not only easy to use, but also family friendly.

Transferring students is overwhelming displaying classes in a list view.

I love that using JackRabbit has taken on the administrative duties of my new small business. The registration form, auto data entry and ability to communicate with all clients at one time is amazing! I love that everything is very streamlined and easy to navigate. Most of my questions get answered if I just search the program myself for a few minutes. There are so many more features that I am not even utilizing but the ones that I do use have made my small swim school business so much easier to run!

There are some features that I don't use or still don't know how to use. My class schedule didn't show up exactly how I wanted it to look but I had a hard time changing the settings and columns for that. I also don't know how to manually enter a student into a class that has already begun.

We love that we can reach out and get a response and solution to any problem quickly. With more than 500 families that we are serving on any given day, it is super important to be able to troubleshoot fast.

No coupon code. We would love to have the option to offer a coupon code to families.

Class management is smooth and easy with Jack rabbit. Parents are able to create their account and find classes for the children, or the managers can quickly navigate the account creation and class assignment. Classes are then easy to manage with reporting of absences and make ups through the parent portal.

The platform is frequently evaluated and updated by the team at JR, so any challenges I’ve encountered are quickly addressed and positive changes implemented.

I found Jackrabbit years ago before I even had an indoor swim school with two pools. I so wanted to offer online registration to my families and found Jackrabbit about two weeks before Summer registration. The owner helped me list all the dates, times, and locations of my summer pools. Registration was flawless. Then when I went indoors to my newly built swim school, it truly helped to already have this piece working effortlessly. After using it for over 10 yrs. I had a hiatus and came back to Jackrabbit. Love it!

There is NOTHING about this software that doesn't help me as the owner run my business well.

I first loved the ease of set up for our business. I was able to set up registration and approximately 100 classes in a matter of hours! The ease of use is fantastic. Their staff responded to all of my questions quickly and helped me to work around some issues that their software couldn't handle at the time I set everything up. Nowadays, I LOVE the prorating feature.

There are a few things I wish I could do with Jackrabbit Swim: 1. Sort daily schedules by instructor or skill level 2. Generate more customized reports for internal use 3. Maintain a history of instructors for classes 4. Be able to add a substitute instructor to the schedule when regular instructors are out

I love that registrations are electronic...that you can access remotely...reports are easily generated...seamless transactions with credit card processor...super fast response time to questions or concerns about the software. Loving the prorating for tuition. We use the software for swim lessons and swim team.

The daily calendar of events does not allow for sorting by instructor or show students on a print out. We end up having to copy and paste into our own daily print out. Entering swim meet fees is time consuming as it must be done by loading each individual family.

I like that JackRabbit allows me to easily set up my class schedule, enroll students, manage them as they move from class to class and smoothly bill them each month. All the core functions of my business run through the system and it also helps me manage my staff time clock and creates an easy report for me to submit payroll hours every two weeks. The dashboards and to do lists also make it easy to keep track of things like student birthdays, new enrollment processing, etc.

The learning curve was a little challenging and I still struggle sometimes if I'm trying to customize something as there are often 2 or 3 different places to adjust certain settings, for example permissions that control what a staff member sees when they log on to the staff portal. The help content is good though and I receive quick responses if I need to reach out for further help.

We have over 800 students year round and the flexibility to open/close/move classes helps us build classes to meet immediate enrollment needs or current movement of existing swimmers. Weekly calendar is a great tool for a quick snap shot of what classes are open/full and where adjustments need to be made to help with movement.

We would like to be able to utilize the parent portal more for notes/updates to the customer. Currently they can only see their skills and level. We have to give personal updates or emails to give more specific details. The transaction page can get a little confusing sometimes when there are credits applied or changes made to linked transactions. We have made it a practice to put detailed notes in so we can track any changes easier.

I like the staff portal! Super user friendly.

I don’t like how there’s not a calendar with all classes on it. On other softwares I’ve used, it was super easy to find a class simply by clicking on a calendar. You only get this view on jackrabbit when scheduling a makeup.

The customer service is incredible! They pair you up with someone to help you start out and let you use all the features on a trial to see if you like it. The scheduling features and skills tracking sold it for me! Great software.

We have an extensive waitlist right now. Jackrabbit charges per student and it gets pricey. I don’t like this feature as much because it causes me to not use the online registration and have to frequently update my leads if a family doesn’t sign up. It also doesn’t save all their information once you put them into the lead file. I also wish we could set a time for registration to open. Not just a date. Our parents are crazy so we have to allow their access one at time.

We love that Jackrabbit is so progressive and responsive to user feedback and ideas. Over the past decade that we have been using it, we have seen the enhancements made allow us to run many of our practices from, registration, to skills tracking, to billing, far more efficiently.

I would love to see an option for improving waitlist notifications/enrollment to open classes!

Everything is in one place. I can bill, schedule, see class history, print rosters, track skills and attendance, email and text families all in one place. I can quickly see a family's transaction and class history. I can mass post tuition fees and process batch credit cards which saves a lot of time.

I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to post annual tuition fees when everybody has different start dates.

Thank you for sharing your experience with Jackrabbit! It's our hope that you continually find value in our features and functionality. We are always listening and seeking out ways to assist you in continuing your success, so please let us know how we can help.

It is user friendly and I appreciate the video tutorials in the help section. Much better than having to email someone and wait for a response, so they are thorough and cover almost every single topic you could be looking for. Parents have found the Parent/Portal easy to use as well.

There is some information I need to order to run each session that is not collected so I have to email participants to collect that necessary data (such as parent/guardian DOB is needed to enter them as members of the facility). Also I wish when pulling transactions to process payments, it would pull those that have paid already as well (and label them as paid) so I don't think I have missing payments....

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