Group Messaging

• Function: Enables real-time communication within teams, leagues, and groups, ensuring everyone stays informed and connected.
• Related Features: Includes tools for polls, media sharing, and direct messaging to facilitate comprehensive communication needs.
• Integration: Seamlessly links with Dynamic Scheduling and Sports Management, allowing for efficient coordination and dissemination of information.

Dynamic Scheduling

• Function: Automates the scheduling of games, events, and tournaments, adapting to changes in real-time.
• Related Features: Features automatic updates and social media sharing prompts, incorporating advertiser branding within shared schedules
• Integration: Integrates with Group Messaging for communication and Community Engagement, plus Business Integration for event advertising and management.

Sports Management

• Function: Provides a structured approach to managing leagues, teams, referees, including live scorekeeping and game management.
• Related Features: Includes social media prompts for sharing game scores, enhancing the visibility of sports events
• Integration: Ties into Group Messaging and Dynamic Scheduling, streamlining the coordination of sports events.

Community Engagement

• Function: Serves as a digital bulletin board for announcements and news, centralizing community communication.
• Related Features: Offers social media integration, extending the reach of community news and announcements.
• Integration: Complements Group Messaging and Dynamic Scheduling by facilitating broad communication with the community.

Business Integration

• Function: Provides advertising spaces and promotional opportunities for local businesses, integrating them into the sports community.
• Related Features: Features include Social Sharing Analytics and HERD QR Code tracking, allowing businesses to gauge the effectiveness of their advertising.
• Integration: Works in conjunction with Dynamic Scheduling and Community Engagement, offering targeted advertising and valuable analytics.

Game Scores

• Function: Encourages users to share game scores on social media, promoting community engagement and support.
• Related Features: Integrated with Sports Management for access to real-time scores.
• Integration: Enhances the Sports Management feature by providing a social aspect to game scorekeeping.

Schedules and Updates

• Function: Prompts users to share event schedules on social media, tagged with advertiser branding.
• Related Features: Schedules include branding elements like “Brought to you by [Advertiser]” alongside the HERD logo.
• Integration: Links with Business Integration and Dynamic Scheduling, blending advertising with communication.

Ratings/Reviews

• Function: Allows users to rate and review experiences, then share these on social media.
• Related Features: Engages the community through user-generated content, increasing visibility.
• Integration: Supports Community Engagement and Business Integration by leveraging user feedback for greater community interaction and business visibility.

Social Sharing Analytics

• Function: Enables businesses to monitor the effectiveness of their social media shares through the app.
• Related Features: Analytics include data on HERD QR Code usage for promotional offers.
• Integration: Integrates with Business Integration, offering advertisers insights into their marketing campaigns' performance.