Swim Central is our new whole of sport administration system. The following video and screenshot guides will help you navigate your way through administering your club in Swim Cental. You'll also find general FAQs on this page that relate to administering club programs.
Additional Swim Central help guides that are particularly helpful for members can be found here.
Need Training?
Use this EOI form to let us know the parts of Swim Central in which you'd like to improve your knowledge. We'll use this information to create a Zoom online training session for you and others like you who've requested training.
For further support from Swimming NSW contact us at any time: admin@nsw.swimming.org.au.
We've moved to the Club House!
All club-focused content has moved to the Club House (clubhouse.swimming.org.au) - Swimming NSW's new digital support resource created solely for grassroots administrators.
We invite you to explore the Club House today to see what's available there for clubs, and to learn your way around.
Webinars and videos
- SNSW Membership Categories 2022-2023
- Swim Central Registration Webinar - 10/08/22
Clubs, are you ready for the 2022-23 registration season?
The video above was from the 2021 State Forum, introducing our new membership products on offer. These products still apply for the 2022-23 season, with slight changes in price points, so the video above is still helpful in covering off the intricacies of each product if you're not yet across it.
Bringing you up to date with Swim Central ahead of the 2022-2023 registration season.
Topics covered this webinar include: Creating membership products for sale, making them replacement products, setting up and approving Active Kids Vouchers, purchasing membership products, accessing and updating your club information, and comprehensive Reporting features.
Registration-specific
- 2022-2023 Swimming NSW Membership Products and Fees
- 2022/2023 Registration Checklist and FAQs
- Creating membership products for your members to purchase
- Linking my club's membership products to the Active Kids Program
- Approving Active Kids Vouchers
- How to Set up a Secondary Membership product
- How do I apply product discounts to my memberships?
- How do I apply Volume Discounts so families joining can receive an overall discount?
- How can I keep tabs on who is trying to join my club?
- How to make membership products available/unavailable for purchase
- How to send a Purchase Order
We at Swimming NSW are proud to present our new membership options and applicable fees for the 2022-2023 season. These memberships were carefully designed to better align with the ever-changing needs of families in our modern society.
In our NEW 2022-2023 Swimming NSW Membership Brochure you will find all the info you need regarding our upgraded range of membership products suited to our vast range of members, so you can utilise them to the best of your ability at your club this season.
Click Here for the checklist
Click Here for FAQs
Click Here to view how to create a membership product for your members to purchase - Updated September 2021.
Click Here - Updated October 2021
Click Here for further information if your club has a membership/document requirement as a condition of purchase.
This is now exactly the same process as creating a regular membership product - see here for specific instructions.
Please note this membership only applies to those who already hold a full SNSW membership.
Click Here - Updated June 2021
This applies when clubs wish to offer pro rata amounts to their component of the fee. For example a $50 club fee to join at the beginning of the season may be discounted to $25 when joining at a certain point later in the season.
For discounts to multiple family members joining at the same time, see the accordion below.
Click Here - updated June 2021
Click Here to discover how to set a requirement for a document to be uploaded by a user, so that you as the club can verify this before they officially become a member - Updated September 2021.
Ensure you communicate the exact requirement to your club members so they are expecting to have to upload a document, and know what it is they must upload.
Click Here - Updated June 2021
Click Here - Updated June 2021
Club Administration
- Updating Club Bank Details
- Viewing a List of Online Payments & Transactions
- Updating Committee Positions in Swim Central
- Adding Terms & Conditions for Members upon registration
- Initiating a refund request for a member
- Approving refund requests
- How to create a Merchandise Product
- Uploading ID documents for Stripe
- How to Apply for an ABN
- I want to know who a swimmer's parent/guardian is but they're not a member of the club
- Exporting your Membership List
- Expired Member Visibility Report
- How do Clubs and Areas pay their Affiliation fees in Swim Central?
- How to View and Download a Full Members Report
- Gateway Dashboard
- How to Read the Reporting Dashboard
Click Here- Updated June 2021
View a list of recent transactions for my entity
Click Here- updated January 2021
View a list of deposits made to my club bank account by Swimming Australia
Click Here- updated January 2021
Click Here - updated August 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Upon setting up membership products, clubs have the option to choose if refunds can be permitted for that product. For products that permit refunds, members will be able to initiate a refund process (request) themselves. The refund will then need to be approved by the club, and only then will Swimming NSW be able to approve it. If approved, the funds will be returned to the member through the online payment gateway.
If SNSW declines the request, then none of the refund will be processed through Swim Central.
Click here to read Swimming NSW’s current full Refund Policy and Procedures.
Click Here to learn how a member would initiate a refund request (updated January 2021)
Click Here - Updated June 2021
Click Here to learn why there is a requirement for upload of identification documents, to ensure your club receives payment.
Click Here to access the specific steps on how to do this (bottom of the document). Please note: Only the user chosen as 'Club Contact' in Swim Central, is required to upload these documents. Nobody else is required to do this.
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here - updated September 2021
Click Here to access the Affiliation Checklist
Click Here - Updated April 2022
Click Here- updated September 2021
Click Here- updated September 2021
Click Here- updated October 2021
Membership FAQ
- Life Members
- Joining Swim Central as a new member
- Making a Dependent user of Swim Central Independent so that they can take care of their own membership and entries (Graduating an account)
- Transferring Clubs
- How to Allow Debit Negative Balances
Life Members are members who have been nominated by their club committee to receive lifetime membership at no cost. The predetermined nominations for Life Members are generally voted on according to the Club’s constitution, normally at an Annual General Meeting or Special General Meeting with majority vote.
The Life Membership is transferrable to any club, however if a Life Member becomes a First Claim member of a different club where they have not received Life Membership, they incur the club portion of the Swimmer or Non Swimmer membership cost. If a Life Member joins a club as a Second Claim member, they incur the club portion of that club’s membership fee.
If your club has recently awarded a member with Life Membership, inform Swimming NSW at admin@nsw.swimming.org.au and we will help you move them into the Life Member membership category, which is a perpetual membership (no need to renew).
Joining as a brand new member & adding a new member to an existing family group
Click Here- updated June 2021
This can only occur once your child has turned 18. If the original independent member is going to remain a participant/member, the new independent member must uses their own email address (i.e. different to any other Over 18 user's email in the system)
Click Here- updated August 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here- Updated August 2021
General FAQ
- Cheat Sheet for Members
- What do I need to consider when accessing Swim Central?
- Resetting Passwords
- Entering a meet in Swim Central
Click here to download a useful help guide for Members of common tiles, icons, and terminology used in Swim Central, which may differ slightly from what you may be used to in the previous system.
Updated January 2021
Swimming Australia requires that all users have an email address as this is the main method we use to distribute important information. This could be as part of a family group, where the parent/guardian 's email address is used to monitor/look after the dependants' own accounts.
In other words, every member aged 18+ MUST have their own email address. That is, no email addresses can be the same as any other member over the age of 18.
This occurs most often when clubs use one central email address to add members on behalf of those members, and can also occur when there is more than one parent/guardian signed up to the club, who may be using the same email address. To address this issue, we encourage one of those parents to either create a new email address, or use a work address, so that it become unique.
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Meet/Event FAQs
- Linking a venue to your entity
- Setting up a meet in Swim Central
- Adding membership & relationship requirements to your meet
- Creating direct entry links for your meet
- Associating an external meet with my club
- How do I enter a team into a relay event?
- Creating an Event Entry Ticket
- Viewing a List of Meet Attendees
- Results Upload Process
- Meet Approval/Results verification process
- How to Set Up Multi Class QTs for an Event
Click Here- updated January 2021
Click Here - Updated June 2021
Click Here - Updated September 2020
Click Here - Updated June 2021
As an entity, you may wish to ensure an external club's meet is showing on your members' calendar, so that they can register for this meet.
Click here to learn how to do this - Updated June 2021
Refer to bottom section of this page.
Click Here- updated January 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here- Updated June 2021
Click Here- updated June 2021
Click Here -Updated July 2021