Account & Dashboard
Your dashboard is home base: manage groups and their settings, add or bulk-import players, organize subgroups, invite collaborators, and control your data.
Your dashboard is home base once you have a free account. Everything that survives between sessions lives here — your players, the groups you sort them into, and the settings each group runs on.
What lives here
- Groups — each group is a roster of players with its own settings (mixing defaults, team mode, ladders). Switch between groups from the group switcher.
- Players — your roster. Add, edit, or bulk-import. A player who has games on record gets deactivated instead of deleted, so the history stays attached to them.
- Subgroups — sections within a group (flights, squads, divisions) that mixing and auto-invites can target.
- Collaborators — hand off some of the organizing. A sub-organizer (the dashboard's label for a collaborator) runs the same group from their own account.
- Profile & email preferences — manage your account, timezone, and which emails you receive.
In this section
- Creating and switching groups — separate rosters, each with its own settings. Jump between them from the group switcher.
- Group settings — the per-group controls: rating rules, game defaults, the mixer launcher config, and your league policy.
- Adding and importing players — one at a time, or paste in a whole roster at once. Edit them later as the group changes.
- Subgroups and squads — carve a group into flights or divisions for mixing and auto-invites.
- Collaborators — invite sub-organizers to help run a group.
- Notices — send a broadcast email to your players, filtered by subgroup or division.
- Managing games — recalculate every rating or clear a group's game history.
- Email preferences — pick which emails reach your inbox.
- Sign-in and security — registration, email verification, password reset, and how login sessions work.
- Notifications reference — every email and push the system sends, and how to control each one.
- Timezones — how your timezone, the group's, and each event's fit together.
- Creating and switching groups Each group is a saved roster with its own settings. Create them, switch between them, and configure their defaults.
- Adding and importing players Build your roster — add players one at a time, bulk-create, or paste a list. Store each player's DUPR ID for match export, and see how renames work and why players with recorded games are deactivated, never deleted.
- Subgroups and squads Organize players into sections — skill tiers, squads, availability — used for mixing and staggered auto-invites.
- Collaborators Invite collaborators — sub-organizers with their own accounts — to help run a group. Who can do what, how many each plan includes, and how invitations work.
- Email preferences & profile settings Control which emails you receive — product emails from PickleFriend and organizer emails separately — and manage your username, timezone, and referral link.
- Free years & gifting How referrals earn free years, how they're delivered, and how free-for-life accounts gift a year to a friend on a paid plan.
- Group Settings reference Every setting in the Group Settings modal — ratings, game defaults, launcher config, policy, and sub-organizers — explained with its range and effect.
- Sending group notices Send a one-off broadcast email to everyone in your group outside any scheduled event — a venue change, a fee reminder, or a welcome note to new players.
- Managing your games history View, add, edit, and delete recorded games from the dashboard, export them as a spreadsheet or a DUPR club match-upload file, and use the advanced rating tools when you need a group-wide reset or fresh start.
- Sign-in and security Creating a PickleFriend account, verifying your email, resetting a forgotten password, and how login sessions expire — plus fixes for common sign-in snags.
- Notifications reference The complete catalog of every email and web push notification PickleFriend sends — what triggers each message, when it goes out, and which setting stops it.
- Timezones Three separate timezone settings govern how event times display, what default is used when creating events, and how calendar entries and reminders are stamped.