ASA Membership has its privileges, announcing discount ski tickets to Sunday River, Sugarloaf and Loon.

Amesbury Soccer Association has joined Sunday River's, Sugarloaf's and Loon's Corporate program to offer ASA members discounted lift tickets!

Sugarloaf and Sunday River

• Adult Lift Ticket $63  per person/day
• Young Adult Lift Ticket $55 per person/day
• Junior Lift Ticket $44 per person/day

What you need to do to take advantage of the Sugarloaf and Sunday River lift ticket discounts:

This is a very inspiring article about a soccer team made up of people living in a homeless shelter in New York City. 

"The idea behind homeless soccer is something like this: Take a group of poor people, disconnected from the regular rhythms of life, lacking both physical exercise and much to look forward to. Add soccer." 

For the full article, click here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/nyregion/03homeless.html?_r=1&em

Access Sportspilot backend

To access the sportspilot backend use the URL http://www.sportspilot.com/isis
Use the same login and password as you would to access your sportspilot Spring Travel team area.  For organization put "amesbury". 
Bob your login is HAZBOB, Ed yours is EDCAMPBE1.   If you forgot your password, you can go to https://www.sportspilot.com/Login/PasswordUtils/ForgotPassword.asp and fill in your email address and bithdate to have it sent to you.  If this does not work, send me a email and I can set the password for you and send it.

To see who is registered in each league (age group)

Select the "Registration" link in the top menu bar
Select the "Teams" tab
Select Program "Summer-soccer-2009"
Using the Leagues pull down menu you can scroll through each age group to see the coaches and players who have registered for that age grouip.
Note that the players will have a $ amount next to there name, it will show how much their transaction fee was.
Note the "U3" following the $ sign amount, this means that they selected "Alternate Payment" as a checkout choice and their invoice needs to be marked paid, see below.

To see if or what a player has ordered merchandise (shirt or sock)

In the registration dialog, "Teams" tab; Double click on the player
select "View Payment Info."
This will show everything that the player ordered.

To move a Coach or Player to a different age group

In the registration dialog, "Teams" tab; , select the coach or player and select move.
In the next dialog, select the league and team you want to move them to.

To get a quick report over everyone who has registered

In registration, select the Reports tab
Select "Total number of registrations by league and program"

To view who paid by check and mark them paid

Select the Administration Menu
Select Invoices (in Miscellaneous Functions section)
In Program Filter, select Summer-Soccer-2009
Coaches and players will be listed
Select the link under the description column for the invoice you want to mark paid
Change Paid Status to "Paid"
Select Apply Payment
Select the appropriate Payment Type
Put in your initials
Select "Save and Email"

Process for registrations in "Shopping cart registration" and PaidStatus is "Pending"

If you look at the invoices and see that there are invoices in the group "Shopping cart registration" and their PaidStatus is "Pending".  This means that they have not gone through the checkout process and applied a payment type.
If the invoice is more than a day old, open the invoice and change the status to "Submitted but not paid", email the participant and let them know that they can login using the participant name login and password and select  "Add payment to account" to finish the transaction.

 To refund a player

In registration, double click on the player you want to give a refund to
Select "View Payment info"
Select the ID of the transaction you want to give a refund for
Select Refund at the bottm of the transaction
Select the Refund check box
Put in the amount of the refund next to the transaction type
Verify the Amount of what the original transaction should be and the  account is is action against.
Select the "Refund" button at the bottom
Put your initials in the  Confirmation Page and select "Charge back and back to transaction edit"

Created to help with Admin functions

1. When the Drupal User does not match up with the correct Civicrm user, you can change this my doing a sql query in the civicrm database to table civicrm_uf_match.
1. for example 

   update `civicrm_uf_match` set contact_id = replace (contact_id, '720', '907'); 

   Where 720 is the civicrm Contact_ID of what it is connected to and 920 is the civicrm contact id you want to change it to.  you can find the contact_id by doing a civicrm search and selecting the contact, the contact id will be in the URL .   The uf_id in the civicrm_uf_match corresponds the drupal user id which can be seen the the URL when viewing the user.

Mass Youth Soccer has developed and produced an outstanding video focusing on the issues of sideline behavior of adults, and specifically on how that behavior is affecting the retention of qualified referees. While many have talked about the issue of adult sideline behavior, Mass Youth is the only organization to turn the talk into a valuable tool that teams, towns, clubs and leagues can put into immediate use to help curb unwanted noise along the sidelines.

You can watch the video by clicking on one of these links: