The Club is implementing a new member management system and associated website on or about 1st July 2020. Members will be receiving emails shortly to establish their access to the new system.

Why introduce a new system?

• member self service – members can update their own details and add a photo of themselves.
• Member only content
• booking of boats and oars for club, social and masters rowers and scullers – the purpose being to get more use out of our equipment and to provide wider access to equipment to all members
• safety management improvements through boat bookings
• member communication system to enable more and better targeted communications with members
• e-commerce and payments gateway
• a Mercantile on-line shop
• if we can overcome some functional changes, members statements and financials all on-line.
• calendar function for events at Clubhouse

This is an important step forward in making the Club’s facilities more accessible to members and improving member communications.

As part of the migration to the new system, all member profiles have been migrated to the Australian Rowing History website, all 180 or more of them. The number of profiles grow by the day and will reach 200 shortly. If you want to be recognised on the Australian Rowing History website, send your profile to the Secretary at secretary@mercantile.org.au.

So what does this mean to me?

• When you receive your login details by email, please set your password and logon to update your details. Also, please add a photo. Your member account is also online.
• Membership level - are you on the best membership level for your needs?
• If you want to go for a row, book your boat and oars online - high performance squad do not have to book equipment set aside for the sole use of that group.  
• Online shop - go shopping and kit yourself out with Mercs gear.
• Have a look around and see what the new website offers.

Boat booking rules.

• Boats and oars not used within 15 minutes of booking time are then available for anyone to use.
• Boats and oars not used when booked is not good form given that the equipment cannot be used by others. Disciplinary action may be taken for regular breaches.
• Permission is required to use boats set aside for sole use by the high-performance group.
• As others will be using the equipment after you, any breakages need to be remedied immediately. Rob Manning needs to be advised immediatley and also noted on the notice boards set up for that purpose in the boat shed.

We hope that the new website and the additional functionality will assist your membership.