Currently dates are hard coded to US formats. That is another modification I could do, although it will take time to identify all the places where dates are displayed. What I see happening is your assistance to help locate where AU formats should be shown, and what the AU format should be. Some are easily found such as on the calendar. Other places are more obscure such as in emails and messages. Below is a plan I would use to modify Crew Manager for use in Australia. I would need your help to identify where changes need to be made, and testing any updates incorporated.
1. Pass me via
admin@crew-mgr.com your email address, mobile carrier and mobile phone number. I will start a private conversation with you so the email to SMS text method may be completed first. If it turns out that the AU cell carriers do not have SMS gateways or block them (some do), an alternate solution might be to subscribe to a third party text forwarder that could be interfaced with Crew Manager. They would charge you per text message and I would need to build the interface and setup with the forwarder.
Note: The email function in Crew Manager will work "as is" with anyone's email address. It is only the SMS feature for the phone that requires additional work for Australia.
2. What I found via web search are the following potential Email to SMS formats for the 3 AU mobile phone carriers with all mobile phones using 10 digits. This can easily be tested using your email client to a someone who has a mobile number registered with the associated carrier:
3. I will code the option to enter US or AU phone numbers and properly format them to display on the User's profile and Crew Roster. Both of these require being logged in to see. If an email to SMS gateway is required, I could work with you so you may subscribe to a third party SMS Gateway service and I could write the software that would interface your Crew Manager account to the API offered by the SMS gateway service. The SMS gateway would only be needed to send messages automatically from Crew Manager.
Note: There is an existing SMS interface built into Crew Manager that allows manually initiating SMS messages to crew, either individually or in pre-defined groups. It is described in the Crew Manual on the
Crew Roster page and in the Calendar section on the
View Season page.
The number of people on the boat for an event is determined by the skipper and currently done manually. The process is for crew to set their availability for events, then you the skipper assign crew positions. There is a position designated as "Stay Ashore" for times when you are oversubscribed with crew. There is also a position called "Standby" that has a person who is available on call. Depending how you run your program, you may just use a generic position of "Crew" or assign positions such as Foredeck, Spinnaker Trimmer, etc. There are a number of positions already available. You may modify these position names, add your own or delete the positions not used.
Once you get a chance to try Crew Manager, feel free to put in suggestions in the
Request a Feature section on the support forum. If you browse that you'll see most features requested by subscribers have been incorporated or addressed.