Announcements
Announcements are the official word from your academy — closures, schedule changes, events, and celebrations — written once and seen by everyone. That's different from the community feed, where members post to each other. An announcement only goes one way: from you to your gym.
Write once, everyone sees it
A title and a message goes straight to every active member — no audience to pick.
Lands in their pocket
Turn on a push notification and members are alerted the moment you send it.
Not ready yet? Save a draft
Keep working on it and send whenever it's finished.
Pin what matters most
Keep the important one at the top of the board, above everything newer.
Write and send an announcement
Compose lives on the web dashboard, under Communications → Announcements — the same place owners and admins sign in to run the rest of the academy. Members read what you send from their Dashboard tab in the app.
Open Announcements
Go to Communications → Announcements in your dashboard sidebar and click New announcement.
Write it
Add a Title (up to 120 characters) and the Body (up to 5,000 characters). Add image attaches one photo, if you want one.
Set pin, expiry, and push
Turn on Pin to top of feed to keep it above everything else. Add an Expires on date if it should come down on its own. Leave Also send a push notification on to alert members right away.
Send it, or save it for later
Under Timing, choose Send now and click Publish, or choose Draft and click Save draft to pick it up again later. Nothing goes out, and nobody is notified, until you publish.
Every field in the compose windowLimits and defaults.
Who gets it, and how they see it
Every announcement goes to all active members of your academy — there's no audience to choose. Write it once, and the whole gym gets it.
If a member has turned off announcement push in their own notification settings, they still see the post in the app — they just don't get the alert. Turning Also send a push notification off in the compose window does the same thing for everyone at once: it still posts, it just doesn't ping.
Members find every past announcement on their Dashboard tab: the newest one shows as a preview card, and See all opens the full list. A pinned announcement always shows first, both there and on your dashboard's own Board.
Back on your dashboard, the Board tells you how it landed: each row shows Reach — how many of your active members have opened it, as a number and a bar — and Delivery, either Push + Board or Board only depending on whether you sent a push.
Save it as a draft
Communications → Announcements has two tabs: Board, everything you've sent, and Drafts, what's still being worked on. Choose Draft under Timing and click Save draft, and it moves to the Drafts tab instead of going out.
Open a draft any time to keep editing it. Switch Timing back to Send now and click Publish now whenever it's ready to go out.
A draft is invisible to everyone but you
Nothing in a draft reaches a member's phone — not the text, not a push, nothing — until you publish it.
Pin, edit, or delete an announcement
Pin moves an announcement to the top of the board, ahead of everything newer, with a Pinned tag.
Edit the title, body, photo, or expiry any time. Editing never re-sends the push — members already got their one notification. Once an announcement has been sent, its Timing is locked in; everything else about it stays editable.
Delete removes it for good; there's no undo.
| Feature | Owner | Admin | Instructor | Student |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See announcements in the app | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write, send, pin, edit, or delete an announcement | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
Owners and admins only
Composing lives on the web dashboard, which only owners and admins can sign into. Instructors and students read announcements from the mobile app, same as everyone else, but writing one is a dashboard job.
Pair it with a schedule change
Cancelling or pausing a class never sends a push notification or email — that's covered on the Schedule page. If members need to know a class changed, an announcement is how you tell them.
Two clicks after you cancel a class
Cancel the class first, then write the announcement. Members who check the app will already see the class marked cancelled — the announcement is what makes sure they actually notice.
See also
- Community feed — the two-way conversation among your members
- Schedule — cancel or change a class
- Academy settings — every setting your academy can change