For parents
What you’ll achieve: all your children on one account — you book and pay, each of them keeps their own group, level and results.
You don’t need a special account type. Children are added to a normal Volley World account.
Adding children changes nothing about your own account. If you play yourself, you keep your player profile, your own trainings and your own level exactly as they were. The children sit alongside it, and one login covers all of you.
1. Add your children
Section titled “1. Add your children”There are two moments where this happens.
When you join the club. If your club’s membership form includes a children question, you add your children right there while applying. They are created, linked to you and filed in the club in the same step — with the training group you picked, if the form asked for one.
At any time from your profile. Open your profile and tap Family, then Add Family Member:
- Enter First Name and Last Name.
- Decide about Email and Password — this is the choice that decides whether the child can use the app themselves (see below).
- If that email already belongs to an existing Volley World account, you’ll be asked for that person’s Family Join Key before the accounts can be connected. This is deliberate: nobody can be pulled into a family without their consent.
- Choose which of your clubs to share the child with, then Create or Link.
Full step-by-step detail lives in family accounts.
2. Decide whether each child gets their own login
Section titled “2. Decide whether each child gets their own login”This is the main decision, and it’s per child.
- With an email and password, the child has a real login. They can open the app themselves, see their calendar, their group and their level. You set the password when you create the account, and you can always send a password reset from their card.
- Without an email, the child has a full player profile but no way to sign in. Everything runs through you. This is usually the right choice for younger children.
You can start without a login and give the child one later as they get older.
3. The club assigns each child to a training group
Section titled “3. The club assigns each child to a training group”Each child is a member of the club in their own right, so each one sits in the group that matches their age and level — the nine-year-old in the beginners’ slot, the fifteen-year-old in the competition group. You don’t need separate accounts to manage that.
Your club decides which group each child belongs to and assigns them to it. Once that’s done, the child’s calendar shows the sessions that group trains, and those are the ones you can book for them.
4. Book and pay
Section titled “4. Book and pay”Buy the arrangement your club uses — a membership or subscription, a session pack, single classes, or a licence — for each child. At checkout a Who is this for? step lets you choose yourself or one of your children, so three children on three different arrangements still run through your one account.
For the sessions themselves, opening a training on a parent account gives you a Family Sign Up sheet: tick who’s coming, choose how each person pays, and confirm. Several children go through in one payment.
You don’t have to include yourself. Leaving your own row unticked signs up the children alone, which is the usual case for a youth session.
On the event screen, the family bubbles show each child’s sign-up and payment status at a glance, and that’s also where you cancel a child’s spot.
5. Their results stay theirs
Section titled “5. Their results stay theirs”Everything a child plays is credited to the child, not to you: their level, their wins and losses, their level evolution and their ranking position. That’s what makes the record useful to their coach next season.
The first time you open a newly created child’s account, the app asks you to run the level questionnaire for them so they start at a sensible level.
To see the app the way one of your children sees it, tap their avatar in the drawer to switch into their account, and tap the banner to switch back.
6. Set the privacy of each child
Section titled “6. Set the privacy of each child”A child account you create starts on the standard settings. An existing account you link as a child is switched to private automatically — statistics, profile photo and chat close to non-followers the moment it’s linked.
From there, privacy is edited on the account itself, under Profile → Privacy. A child with their own login can adjust their own settings; a child without a login keeps what their account was created with. See privacy.
Two things are handled for you: Partner Up, the tournament partner finder, is always off on a linked child account whatever the child’s age, and children never appear in anyone else’s partner search.
7. Keep your own join key private
Section titled “7. Keep your own join key private”Your own Family Join Key is shown at the top of your Family screen. Whoever enters that key becomes your parent account — so only share it with someone you actually want to be linked to.
Leaving the family
Section titled “Leaving the family”Tap a child’s card to unlink them or to unlink and delete the account; both ask for your password. Unlinking releases the account — it stops being a minor account and the child keeps playing on their own, which is the natural step once they’re old enough.