📌 Payment Plans have arrived!: Gone are the days of asking your athletes to front the full cost of a program before the season even kicks off. We know that's not how crew budgets work — especially when you're juggling dues, equipment fees, and regatta entries all at once. With installment-based payment plans, you can now give your squad flexible payment options right at checkout. Set your schedule, let them pick a plan, and collect what you need — no more awkward follow-up conversations.

📌 Discount and coupon codes: We've built a full coupon code system into payments! Coaches and admins can now create promo codes to discount registrations and program fees. Whether you're rewarding returning athletes, running a sibling discount, or comping a registration entirely (yes, 100% discounts are fully supported!), you have the tools to make it happen cleanly without any manual workarounds.

📌 A dedicated payment history view for programs: You can now see a complete payment history right from the program details page. Every transaction, installment, and coupon redemption in one place, so your admin team isn't digging through spreadsheets trying to track who's paid what.

📌 Club Settings page: Admins, your club-level settings now have a proper home. We've launched a dedicated Org Settings page to give you cleaner control over your organization's configuration.

📌 Calendar event colors 🌈 : You can now color-code calendar events in the club space! Perfect for differentiating all of your teams, schedules, or just making your crew calendar actually fun to look at in the club space. When viewing the calendar from within your team space, entries now display the origin of the event so you always know whose schedule you're looking at.

Improvements

📌 @mentions work in club chat: Fixed — @mention your crew and trust it lands

📌 Unified payments table across all products: We've consolidated payment data into a single, consistent table experience across programs, events, and other product types. Track who's paid and for what without jumping between different views.

📌 Cleaner field layout in the registration flow: The custom field layout during registration was a bit scattered. We've tidied it up so the experience feels intentional rather than like a form that escaped its container.

Bug Fixes

📌 Load Management now shows your team, not the whole team: Coaches working within a specific team were seeing the full team roster in Load Management instead of their team. Fixed: your view matches your context.

📌 Fixed ACH payments on mobile: bank transfers weren't working correctly from the app. If your athletes prefer ACH, they're good to go.

📌 Fixed payment plans not carrying over when duplicating a program

  📌 Payments! That's right, the all-in-one shop just got a supercharge. Dues, regatta fees, gear orders, camp registrations, your team can now collect it all directly inside CrewLAB with no separate invoicing tool, no buried payment links, and no awkward follow-up texts. Teams now have a dedicated product details page to manage exactly what you're selling — pricing, descriptions, and all the details in one clean view. Assign payment items to the whole squad or individual athletes, set up recurring billing, and let the real-time dashboard replace the spreadsheet for good. Automated reminders do the chasing so you don't have to — and athletes can pay however works best for them. Now available on app.crewlab.io and the latest mobile update. Everyone on the team always knows exactly where their money went and what they're paying for. Want in early? Sign up for the Innovator Cohort at https://crewlab.io/innovator/. For more information, check out https://crewlab.io/guide/payments/

 📌 Flagged Athletes and Wellness Stats: Gone are the days of sticky notes and mental post-its about athletes you need to check on. Coaches now get flag athletes for follow-up! Perfect for wellness concerns, training load spikes, or anyone who needs a closer look, never let a teammate slip through the cracks on a busy training week!

 📌 Sort & Filter Your Entire Roster We are thrilled to announce that your roster just got a serious upgrade! Click any column header to sort every athlete on your squad. Filter by any attribute. Whether you're coaching 12 or 120, finding the right athlete at the right moment just got a whole lot faster.

Improvements

 📌 Smarter Check-In After Integration Workouts — If you logged a workout through Garmin, Apple Health, or another integration the day before, the morning check-in will no longer ask "Did you work out yesterday?" It already knows! Less noise, more signal in your daily check-in.

 📌 Phone Numbers Now Display Correctly on Roster — Phone numbers across your roster are now formatted consistently: US numbers show in national format with international numbers show in international format.

 📌 Apple Health Deduplication — Syncing Apple Health? We've eliminated the duplicate workout entries that were cluttering training logs for heavy sync users. Your log stays clean no matter how often you sync.

 📌 Pagination on Roster Tables — Large rosters and data tables now paginate properly on both mobile and web. No more lag when you're scrolling through a big squad.

Bug Fixes

 📌 Android Auto-Logout Fixed: A frustrating bug was logging Android users out every time they reopened the app. Huge shoutout to everyone who reported this — it's been squashed for good. Stay logged in, stay training.

 📌 Garmin On-Water Rowing Now Logged Correctly: Rowing on-water workouts from Garmin were being recorded as rowing machine sessions inside CrewLAB. Fixed — your on-water meters are now counted where they belong.

 📌 Chat Observers No Longer Auto-Added to Group Chats: Parents added to cjats were suddenly unable to message back. Your team conversations stay with exactly the right people.

📌 Communication just leveled up with the arrival of Threads and Message Search!: Gone are the days of tactical discussions getting buried under team banter in your main feed. You can now spin off focused side-conversations within any chat, keeping the group clean while the real work happens in the thread. Additionally, with our new search feature, tracking down that training tip from three weeks ago, existing conversations, and your teammates. No digging, no scrolling, just results.

📌 Introducing Chat Read Receipts and Reminders: In a strong team, no one gets left behind. You can now see exactly who has read your messages in real-time, and set follow-up reminders so no critical boat meeting or coach callout ever slips through. We know staying in sync is everything, and now you have the receipts to prove it.

Improvements

📌 We've completely changed how you visualize your output with Concept2 Time Series Graphs: Athletes can now dig deep into their ergdata with detailed pace graphs that map performance stroke-by-stroke.

📌 Notifications are now smarter: Not only do you open to the notification you tap on now, but only thread participants get alerts for specific sub-conversations. If you're not in the thread, you won't hear about it. No more buzzing pockets for discussions that have nothing to do with you.

📌 New Message, Who dis?: We added an Unread Line Marker in chat, giving you a clean visual indicator of exactly where you left off — just like your training log tells you where you stopped. Jump straight to the new stuff without scrolling past everything you've already seen.

📌 Hover and Reply: On web, hovering over any message now reveals a quick Reply button right inline, so starting a thread from the web is just as fast as it is on mobile.

📌 Hold for love: Long-pressing a like button on any message or feed post now shows you exactly who liked it — chat, thread, and feed all covered. Because knowing your crew is hyped matters.

Bug Fixes

📌 Major shoutout to the athletes who flagged the grey screen during benchmark selections — We jumped on it and cleared that right up in time for the season

📌 Thanks to user feedback, we fixed the bug where Garmin users weren't seeing post workout reflection prompts. Those prompts will now fire the second you finish your piece, right on cue.

📌 We cleared out clutter in the Workout Details Past Results table and squashed the Wellness Check-in bug that was being blocked by unnecessary workout edits

Coming Soon

  📌 What's this new Payments Tab? 👀 — now visible to coaches and athletes across the app and web, If you've been waiting for a way to handle team finances right inside CrewLAB, stay tuned. Sign up to be first in line when it launches!

📌 Safe Messaging: We're thrilled to announce that coaches can now send direct messages to any adult member of their team (athletes, other coaches, and supporters alike) without any friction. Likewise, anyone can get in direct communication with their coach. For teams with minors, although adding a second coach to the chat would suffice, we are proud to announce you are now able to add your Parent in CrewLAB! Go to your profile, details, and you should see a new tab called Parents. From there, athletes are able to request existing supporters to link as their parent or invite their parent into the team with Coaches able to request on behalf of the athlete. The rules are clear, the guardrails are in place, and communication between your staff has never been easier.

📌 Notification Grouping: All of your CrewLAB push notifications on iOS are now organized: chat notifications group by conversation, and everything else is tidily grouped together. No more sifting through a jumbled notification stack before morning practice.

📌 Pace Charts Are Here!: We are thrilled to announce that pace charts are now live on your workout details — giving you a full visual breakdown of your split pace across every stroke of your session. Whether you're analyzing a steady-state piece or a sprint set, you can now see exactly where you surged, where you settled, and where your best work happened. Train smarter, race faster!

Improvements

📌 Tap a Chat Notification, Clear the Stack: Opening a chat — whether by tapping a notification or navigating manually — now automatically dismisses all other pending notifications for that same chat on both iOS and Android. One tap, clean slate.

📌 Chat Mention Dropdown Polished: The @mention dropdown in team chats now correctly filters out supporters (who aren't part of the chat) so you're only ever seeing the teammates who can actually receive your message.

📌 Pace Graph Bounds Fixed: Workouts with extreme pace variations or unusually long durations were causing pace graphs to render incorrectly — axis bounds were going haywire. Graphs now display cleanly regardless of how wild (or epic) your training session was.

📌 Integration Improvements: Incoming workout data from Garmin, Coros, Concept2, and Apple Health now feature improved reliability

📌Intercom is now live in the app! Communication is the heartbeat of any great squad. We’ve integrated Intercom directly into the platform to help us stay connected with you and, more importantly, to help you get the support you need instantly. Whether you have a question about your training data or need a quick hand with a feature, help is now just a tap away with the new "Get Help" button.

📌Better Insights with Integration Graphs and Pinned Messages We’ve leveled up the way you see your progress! New integration graphs help you visualize your data more effectively, making it easier to track performance trends over time. Plus, to keep your team organized, you can now pin important messages in your chats. No more scrolling through 50 messages to find the bus departure time for the next regatta, keep the vital info right at the top!

Improvements

📌 Birthday Required to use Chat: We’ve introduced a new popup that appears if your birthday isn't on file yet. This ensures your profile is up to spec for compliance without you having to hunt through settings. By keeping your date of birth updated, you’re helping your coaches and admins ensure the whole team meets regional and national safety requirements.

📌 Squad-Specific Invites: You can now create "Invite Only" events by specific squads, giving coaches more control over who needs to see which practice session.

📌 Web Performance Boost (WASM): We’ve migrated the web app to support WebAssembly. This is technical talk for "the app is now way faster" on your browser, ensuring a smooth experience even when analyzing heavy workout data.

📌 Apple Workouts Reliability: We improved how data is passed to Apple Health to ensure your workouts are created more reliably. Your rings deserve that credit!

📌 Workout Progress Tracking: Your past results will now reflect your current workout session, allowing for better real-time progress tracking as you grind through your pieces.

📌 Visual Polish & Dark Mode: We’ve been busy with the digital "boat wax." We updated calendar and analytics icons, fixed text visibility in Dark Mode, and gave the Android app icon a fresh look.

Bug Fixes

📌 Android Video Fix: We resolved a nasty crash that was stopping videos from playing or being uploaded on Android devices. Your technique videos should now load smoothly!

📌 Event Editing: Fixed an issue where editing a workout would sometimes delete attached images or fail to save the workout time.

📌 Invite Links: Resolved an issue where invite links weren't properly prompting new teammates to join the squad.

📌 Bravo Six, Going Dark (Dark Mode has Arrived): For those of you hitting the weights before the sun comes up or reviewing film late at night, Dark Mode is finally here! We’ve polished the interface to ensure high contrast and reduced eye strain. It’s sleek, it’s athletic, and it looks incredible in the boathouse at 5:00 AM.

📌 Coros Integration is Here: Gone are the days of manual entry for Coros users! You can now link your Coros account directly to CrewLAB. We’ve built in robust location tracking and smart data syncing so your heart rate, splits, and maps flow right into the team feed. It’s time to let your watch do the heavy lifting so you can focus on the next run.

Improvements

📌 Streamlined Onboarding: Gone are the days of clunky sign-ups. We’ve added invite-via-email onboarding, required birthday fields with slick new date pickers, and the ability to pull in your Apple Health workouts right as you join the team.

📌 Media Power-Ups: Your training content just got a major boost. Workouts can now feature both video and PDF displays simultaneously, and PDFs now open in a beautiful full-screen view instead of cluttering your downloads folder.

📌 Lineup Mastery: We’ve cleaned up the "shell house" with a new “Clear Single Lineup” capability and improved header behavior. No more guessing where to click with the new pointer indicators make managing your seats a breeze.

📌 Deeper Health Integration: With smarter background handling for Apple Health and more reliable data pass-through, your metrics will be waiting for you the moment you step off the bike or out of the boat.

📌 Smarter Attendance & Rosters: The Attendance Table has been redesigned for better clarity, allowing you to see summary stats and role breakdowns at a glance. Plus, the Benchmarks page now filters specifically for athletes and captains to keep your data clean and actionable.

📌 Role Safety: To keep the team hierarchy organized, we’ve added a warning dialog if you try to change your role from Coach to another position.

📌 Gone are the days of chasing post-practice logs!: Now, when an athlete RSVPs to an event and attends, they will automatically get a notification prompting them to log a workout right after that event ends. If a workout was already assigned, it will even be auto-generated for them, just like an integration log. This drastically closes the loop on logging compliance, giving coaches a real-time, accurate picture of the squad's training volume without the extra administrative lift. More data, less hassle, all for your team to win!

📌 Introducing the new Safety Button!: Located for fast access, this feature provides immediate access to vital crisis support, mental health care resources, and safeguarding guidance for both athletes and coaches. We believe that mental strength is just as important as physical strength, and this ensures your teammates always have a reliable place to turn for support when they need it most.

📌 Keep Your Events Invite-Only!: Need to run a small-group meeting or set a training session only for specific squads? You now have the control to restrict visibility and participation, ensuring your critical events are seen and attended only by the squad members who are on the invite list.

Improvements

📌 Lightning-Fast Workout Images!: We've completely overhauled how workout images are managed and displayed. They are now uploaded separately from workout creation and load faster than ever, plus we compress those massive files while still preserving the quality. This sets the stage for even bigger media enhancements across the app 👀!

📌 Smoother Onboarding for Everyone!: We’ve refined the setup flow for new athletes and coaches. Now, connecting Apple Health happens during onboarding, and we’ve added an RSVP page for athletes right away to make coach setup even smoother. Plus, you can now invite new teammates via email during onboarding!

📌 Lineups Design Refinements!: The lineup sidebar, detail screens, and teammates’ tiles have gotten a fresh UI update to improve clarity and usability for setting your starting crew. We also added a swap-icon function to make boat rigging changes even quicker and the ability to clear all lineups at once!

📌 Roster Scrolling is Optimized!: Your team roster table will now scroll much smoother, even for the biggest teams.

📌 Better Visibility for Health Data!: Apple Health now includes maps for those outdoor sessions! We've also enhanced HealthKit sync handling for more reliable data transfer.

Bug Fixes

📌 No More Daylight Saving Issues!: We squashed issues related to Streaks and the date picker in the calendar that were acting up due to Daylight Savings Time changes. Your hard-earned streaks are safe, and your calendar is reliable again!

Coming Soon

CrewLAB is going Dark 👀

📌 We have unleashed Supporter to the world in all of its glory!: This is a game-changer for building community and recognizing the vital role of everyone around the boathouse or training facility. CrewLAB is a community platform, and now we're better acknowledging the support system behind every athlete.

Improvements

📌 New Athlete Onboarding Flow!: We're kicking off new users with a new flow that immediately pushes them to connect their integrations (like Apple Health, Garmin, Concept 2.). Get your data flowing from day one without breaking a sweat!

📌 Coach Onboarding Refinements!: Multiple improvements to the Coach Onboarding flow to make setting up your team roster and schedule a quick, clean process.

📌 Post-Workout Check-Ins If you haven't filled out your daily check-in, the prompt will now appear right after you complete a workout, creating a seamless flow between training and reflection! Perfect for getting your recovery and reflection data locked in

📌 Better Integrations Experience: We've transformed the Integration Bottom Sheet into a full-page view for a much better user experience with the additional journal check-in flow for a unified experience.

📌 Unit Consistency: Your workout input units are now stored, letting you select the units you want to display on your feed. Personalize your data view!

Bug Fixes

📌 Apple Health syncing is back on track! Resolved multiple issues with Apple Health syncing, so your data is always there when you need it.

📌 We're thrilled to introduce our brand-new onboarding experience!: Your teammates joining CrewLAB will now be guided straight to connecting their favorite fitness integrations, making it faster than ever to get your whole squad synced up and training together!

📌 Check-ins are now smarter than ever!: Finish a workout and haven't logged your check-in yet? CrewLAB will now prompt you right after you're done, making it seamless to capture how you felt while it's still fresh in your mind.

📌 Did a workout with one of the fitness integrations?: No sweat! CrewLAB will automatically show you a quick look at that workout for ease of reflecting and adding a fun photo!

Improvements

📌 Link workouts directly to events with our new form field!: Planning a race or special training session? You can now connect your workouts to calendar events for better organization and context.

Bug Fixes

📌 Apple Health syncing is back on track!: We've resolved the syncing issues so your data flows seamlessly

📌 We are thrilled to announce Apple Health integration!: Your training data now flows seamlessly between Apple Health and CrewLAB, giving you a more complete picture of your workouts.

📌 The Calendar and RSVP has arrived with a brand-new look: Organizing, planning, and reviewing training cycles just got a lot easier. Your crew can now visualize training and events with clarity, making coordination a breeze.

📌 Expanded Swimming types!: Introduced stroke type logging to workouts, so swimmers and athletes can record more detailed activity data for fine-tuned analysis.

📌 New way to add your integrations!: Editing recently uploaded integration workouts is now easier with an updated bottom sheet prompt - no more hunting around!

Improvements

📌 Garmin got an upgrade! Added max and average heart rates from Garmin to workouts - perfect for tracking intensity and dialing in smarter training sessions.