Once an event has started, you can record who attended, who didn't, and — when someone is absent — the reason why. Attendance data flows into the Statistics dashboards so you can see trends across the group, the season, or a single player.
Who can mark attendance. Admins and staff in the group can mark attendance for anyone. Players and parents can update only their own (or their child's) RSVP response, not the post-event attendance.
How invitations turn into attendance
When an event is created, invitees are either prompted to Accept or Decline, or — if "Send invite" was unticked when the event was saved — automatically added as attending.
When the event starts, the platform pre-fills attendance based on those responses:
Anyone who accepted is marked Attended.
Anyone who declined is marked as not attending, carrying their decline reason if one was given.
Anyone who never responded is left as Requires action for the organizer to resolve.
Update attendance manually
Open the event from the Calendar.
Go to the Participants tab.
Click a participant's status to change it.
This is how you handle the "Requires action" rows after the event, override a wrong RSVP (a player who said they'd come but didn't), or record a specific absence reason that a parent texted you after the fact.
Absence reasons
When marking someone as absent, you can choose a specific reason. These show up in reports so you can tell injury patterns apart from "couldn't make it" patterns:
Illness — sick.
Injured — out due to injury.
Not fit to play — present but not in condition to participate.
School — school commitments.
Work — work obligations.
Travel — traveling.
Technical decision — coach or staff decision to leave the player out.
Suspended — match suspension.
Permission — given permission to skip.
Playing for another team — committed to another team that day.
Selected for representative team — called up to a representative side.
Other — anything else; add a comment to explain.
Updating a participant's RSVP for them
If you need to change a participant's response (not their post-event attendance), open the event, go to Participants, and change their response to Accept or Decline. For recurring events you can apply the change to a single instance or to the whole series.
View attendance data
From the group, click Statistics and then Attendance. You'll see overall attendance rates and a breakdown of absence reasons. Three report types are available:
Individual report — one participant's attendance over a date range.
Event report — attendance rates across events in a date range.
Group report — comparison across sub-groups (for organizations with multiple teams).
Absence reasons are grouped by color in the dashboards: illness and injury share one color, school/work/travel another, and coach-side reasons (suspension, technical decision, etc.) another — so you can quickly spot whether absences are health-driven, logistics-driven, or selection-driven.
Related
For how invitees see and respond to the invite itself, see How to respond to an event invite. For editing or cancelling the event, see Edit, cancel, or delete an event.