Getting started

Accounts, organisations, and roles

Before you build a competition, it helps to understand three things: how you sign in, what an organisation is, and who on your team can do what. This page covers all three and points you to where organisers spend most of their time.

How GripRank fits together

Two ideas do most of the work. Get these straight and the rest of the guide makes sense.

Competition

The behind-the-scenes event where you set up categories and routes, and where judges enter scores. Each discipline (boulder, speed, lead) has its own setup and judging pages.

Public hub

The shareable public page — at a friendly URL like griprank.com/c/your-event — where athletes and spectators follow startlists, schedule, and live results. A hub is linked to one competition and only shows what you choose to publish.

Note

You build and score in the competition; the public sees the hub. Keeping these separate is what lets you fix things privately and publish only when you are ready. Both are covered in detail in The public hub.

Signing in

Organisers and staff sign in with a GripRank account. Judges do not — they use a passcode instead.

1Go to griprank.com/login and sign in with the email your account was created under.
2The first time you open a staff or admin page, GripRank finishes signing you in behind the scenes — if a page seems to hang on a loading screen, give it a moment or refresh once.
3If you manage more than one organisation, confirm you are working in the right one before you edit anything (see Organisations below).

Judges never sign in

Judges reach their scoring page by scanning a QR code or opening a judge link and entering the competition passcode — no account needed. See Judges & devices.

Organisations

Every competition belongs to an organisation (org). An org is your club, gym, or event company — the container that keeps your events, staff, and data separate from everyone else's.

1Your account is a member of one or more orgs. Competitions you create are owned by the org you select when you create them.
2If you belong to several orgs, the app tracks an active org. Switch to the correct one before creating or editing a competition so it lands in the right place.
3Org owners and admins can invite teammates and manage who has access — see Roles below.

Organisers home Hub management

Note

Only org owners and admins can manage members. Member management lives under your org's admin area (/o/<your-org>/admin/members). If you can't see it, ask whoever set up your org to grant access.

Roles: who can do what

Access comes from two places — your platform role, and your membership in an org. In practice you only need to know a few levels.

Org owner / admin

Full control of their org's competitions and members. This is the typical organiser level: create events, set up scoring, invite staff, publish hubs.

Staff

Can run competitions they are given access to. Useful for chief judges and scorers who help operate an event without managing the whole org. Staff can be scoped to specific competitions.

Superadmin

GripRank platform-level access across all orgs. Reserved for the GripRank team and trusted operators — you generally won't need this.

Judge (no account)

Not a sign-in role at all. Judges are authorised per competition by a passcode and can only enter attempts for the station they are on.

Give people the least they need

Hand judges only the judge page and passcode. Keep organiser and chief access with a small, trusted group. If someone's access looks wrong after a change, have them sign out and back in — roles are refreshed at sign-in.

Where organisers work

A quick map of the pages you'll return to. Each has its own section later in this guide.

Build & score

Set up a discipline and let judges score it.

Boulder setup Speed Lead setup

Publish & share

Create the public hub, set event info, and publish results.

Hub management Organisers home

Your first-time checklist

1Sign in at /login and confirm you can reach an organiser page without an access error.
2Check which organisation is active, and switch if you manage more than one.
3Confirm your role lets you create competitions — if not, ask your org owner to upgrade you.
4Read Create a competition next, then work down the recommended path on the guide home.

Getting started

Accounts, organisations, and roles

How GripRank fits together

Two ideas do most of the work. Get these straight and the rest of the guide makes sense.

Competition

The behind-the-scenes event where you set up categories and routes, and where judges enter scores. Each discipline (boulder, speed, lead) has its own setup and judging pages.

Public hub

Note

Signing in

Organisers and staff sign in with a GripRank account. Judges do not — they use a passcode instead.

1Go to griprank.com/login and sign in with the email your account was created under.
2The first time you open a staff or admin page, GripRank finishes signing you in behind the scenes — if a page seems to hang on a loading screen, give it a moment or refresh once.
3If you manage more than one organisation, confirm you are working in the right one before you edit anything (see Organisations below).

Judges never sign in

Judges reach their scoring page by scanning a QR code or opening a judge link and entering the competition passcode — no account needed. See Judges & devices.

Organisations

Every competition belongs to an organisation (org). An org is your club, gym, or event company — the container that keeps your events, staff, and data separate from everyone else's.

1Your account is a member of one or more orgs. Competitions you create are owned by the org you select when you create them.
2If you belong to several orgs, the app tracks an active org. Switch to the correct one before creating or editing a competition so it lands in the right place.
3Org owners and admins can invite teammates and manage who has access — see Roles below.

Organisers home Hub management

Note

Only org owners and admins can manage members. Member management lives under your org's admin area (/o/<your-org>/admin/members). If you can't see it, ask whoever set up your org to grant access.

Roles: who can do what

Access comes from two places — your platform role, and your membership in an org. In practice you only need to know a few levels.

Org owner / admin

Full control of their org's competitions and members. This is the typical organiser level: create events, set up scoring, invite staff, publish hubs.

Staff

Can run competitions they are given access to. Useful for chief judges and scorers who help operate an event without managing the whole org. Staff can be scoped to specific competitions.

Superadmin

GripRank platform-level access across all orgs. Reserved for the GripRank team and trusted operators — you generally won't need this.

Judge (no account)

Not a sign-in role at all. Judges are authorised per competition by a passcode and can only enter attempts for the station they are on.

Give people the least they need

Where organisers work

A quick map of the pages you'll return to. Each has its own section later in this guide.

Build & score

Set up a discipline and let judges score it.

Boulder setup Speed Lead setup

Publish & share

Create the public hub, set event info, and publish results.

Hub management Organisers home

Your first-time checklist

1Sign in at /login and confirm you can reach an organiser page without an access error.
2Check which organisation is active, and switch if you manage more than one.
3Confirm your role lets you create competitions — if not, ask your org owner to upgrade you.
4Read Create a competition next, then work down the recommended path on the guide home.