You keep your address
Point your existing club domain at SwimWin and it stays your address. Families never learn a new URL, your printed flyers do not go stale, and your search results survive.
Until you do, your club is at yourclub.swim.win, which works perfectly well —
and is how you read the finished site before you move your
domain.
Two hostnames, not one
This is the part clubs get wrong, so it is stated plainly.
| Example | Serves | |
|---|---|---|
| Web | swim.yourclub.org | The club site, signing in, and every staff and family screen |
| API | api.swim.yourclub.org | The SwimWin mobile app |
Both are required. A SwimWin session is bound to the club that owns the address
it was created on, and in a browser that is the web address — you sign in on
swim.yourclub.org and stay there. The mobile app signs in on the API address,
so without it the app cannot reach your club at all.
How to do it
Talk to SwimWin support. Attaching a domain to a club is a platform operation and there is no self-service screen for it — creating and configuring clubs is a read-only console today. You will be given the DNS records to add.
Changing or retiring a domain
A retired domain does not 404. It answers "temporarily unavailable" with a retry header, because a 404 on a domain that used to be a club's poisons the club's search results for months. Tell SwimWin before you change anything.