Parents can say yes — and now they can say no. Following an invite used to end at a button that sat there doing nothing, with no explanation. That's fixed. A parent can now set up their account, approve their child, and start them training in one go. They can also turn the request down. If the account only ever existed for that invite, it goes, along with everything we were given. If a parent already has children with us, nothing of theirs is touched. An invite nobody answers now expires on its own after seven days. Also in this version: a family without a club can sign up on their own — you no longer need a team code to get a child started. Passwords tell you when they don't match, and let you see what you've typed. An expired link offers you a fresh one instead of a dead end. And when something goes wrong, the app now says so in words that make sense.

Your bench, not just you. A head coach can now add assistant coaches, goalie coaches, trainers and team managers to their team. They get a read-only view of the roster, the program, and the training the players have logged — so the people who are already at every practice can see the same picture the head coach does. Staff can't change anything, and they can't message players. Private messages stay between the player, their head coach and that player's parent. Also in this version: if you sign up before your coach has added you, the app now tells you exactly what's happening, what to do about it, and always leaves you a way back.

Smoother team invites — the parent invite now links straight to gethonesthockey.com to download the app.