Running Your Pool

Who can join

Two independent settings control this, both in the pool's admin Settings tab:

• Registration Open: the hard gate. Off, and no one new can join with the invite code or link, full stop - existing members are unaffected.
• Maximum Members: an optional cap. Leave it blank for unlimited. With Enable Waitlist also on, anyone who joins once the pool is full lands on a waitlist instead of being turned away, so you can bring them in later if a spot opens up.

Members Can Invite

By default, every member of the pool can see the invite code and gets a one-tap share prompt on the pool page to bring in more people. Turn Members Can Invite off in Settings and only you and any co-owners can see or share the code - regular members no longer see it on the pool page at all.

This is separate from Registration Open: turning off Members Can Invite doesn't close the pool, it just means only the commissioner team is handing out the way in.

Co-owners & ownership transfer

Co-owners get full commissioner access - members, competitions, payouts, broadcasts, chat moderation - without becoming the real owner. Add or remove them from any active member in the admin Settings tab. Only the actual owner can transfer ownership, delete the pool, or manage who's a co-owner.

Transferring ownership hands full control - including the ability to delete the pool - to another active member. You stay on as a regular member afterward, and it can be undone by having the new owner transfer it back to you. This is also how you hand off a pool you no longer want to run instead of deleting it: see Your Account for why account deletion requires owned pools to be transferred or deleted first.

Broadcasting to members

From the Members tab in admin, send an email to some or all of your pool's active members - a reminder that picks lock soon, a note about a change to the payout structure, whatever needs to reach everyone at once. Every broadcast email includes an unsubscribe link, same as any other update email Moving Day sends.

Pool chat & moderation

Every pool has a members-only chat on its pool page - trash talk, side bets, reactions to a bad Sunday, whatever your group wants to say to each other. It's only visible to active members of that pool, never to the public even on an otherwise-public pool.

• Deleting messages: anyone can delete their own message. You, any co-owner, or a Moving Day admin can delete any message in the pool.
• Reporting: every message has a report flag any member can use. A report doesn't remove anything automatically - it queues the message for the Moving Day team to review, on top of whatever you decide to do yourself as commissioner.

Prizes & payouts

Moving Day computes who's owed what automatically once you set a payout structure, and separately tracks who's actually paid their entry fee - but it never moves money itself; settling up still happens directly between your group. Full detail, including how ties are split and how entry tracking works, is in Payouts.