Question 1

Football Referee Affiliation

Accepted Answer

To verify yourself as a Football Referee on YesRef, the information we require, very much depends on your involvement in Football and how you would like to use YesRef.

Add/Update my Football Referee Information

Adding or updating your information on YesRef for verification is simple. Login to YesRef

go to your Profile > select Account > Sports > choose Football. This page will provide you with the option to update your Football Referee information.

Finding the Information

We have broken down below, the different steps required to find the information to update your account on YesRef. The first thing todo, is to sign in to your account with The FA. To do this, visit this link: https://myaccount.thefa.com.

Qualification

Before verifying your account on YesRef, we require evidence of your Football Referee Qualification. This can either be a copy of the certificate you received upon completing the course or affiliation evidence, as described below.

Affiliation

As a Football Referee, The FA require you to affiliate with your local County FA every season. Typically, your affiliation will expire on 30 June each year. To become an affiliated Football Referee on YesRef, all you need to do is upload your affiliation screenshot.

You can find your affiliation information by logging into your account with The FA on the link above, scroll down to Referee section and this will highlight if you are registered for t

Question 2

How do I invite a Parent/Guardian?

Accepted Answer

||| A Parent/Guardian must be linked to any Sports official's account if the Sports Official is under the age of 18. || If you are over the age of 18 and have incorrectly added your age to your profile, you can use the chat function in your profile to speak to a member of our Customer Success Team. You will need to provide evidence of your correct date of birth in order for our team to update this.

Log into your YESREF Account.

Click the initials in the top right corner or if your using our App, click profile in the bottom right hand corner.

Click "Manage Profile"

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Question 3

How to add Credit

Accepted Answer

Log into YESREF

Click your initials in the top right-hand corner or profile in the bottom right if your using the app

Click "Manage Profile"

Click "Manage my {entity}

Click "Credit"

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Question 4

YesRef Availability explained

Accepted Answer

Bored of updating forms, spreadsheets, emails, WhatsApp groups and more?

Meet YESREF Availability, the single place to populate your Availability and share with multiple Competitions, Clubs, Governing Bodies and more.

||| YESREF will assume you are Available unless you have added Closed Dates or the Game/Event is outside of your Daily Availability.

One Platform

Q: Football Referee Affiliation

To verify yourself as a Football Referee on YesRef, the information we require, very much depends on your involvement in Football and how you would like to use YesRef. Add/Update my Football Referee Information Adding or updating your information on YesRef for verification is simple. Login to YesRef go to your Profile &gt; select Account &gt; Sports &gt; choose Football. This page will provide you with the option to update your Football Referee information. Finding the Information We have broken down below, the different steps required to find the information to update your account on YesRef. The first thing todo, is to sign in to your account with The FA. To do this, visit this link: <a href="https://myaccount.thefa.com/">https://myaccount.thefa.com</a>. Qualification Before verifying your account on YesRef, we require evidence of your Football Referee Qualification. This can either be a copy of the certificate you received upon completing the course or affiliation evidence, as described below. Affiliation As a Football Referee, The FA require you to affiliate with your local County FA every season. Typically, your affiliation will expire on 30 June each year. To become an affiliated Football Referee on YesRef, all you need to do is upload your affiliation screenshot. You can find your affiliation information by logging into your account with The FA on the link above, scroll down to Referee section and this will highlight if you are registered for t

Reduce your admin overnight with a single platform to populate your Availability. See all your Games, Events and Closed Dates on one Calendar and share it with multiple Organisations. Update your Availability from anywhere at anytime and provide Sports Organisations with real-time information on your Availability.

Quick and easy

We've made updating your Availability quick and easy. Add, change and remove Closed Dates on-the-go. No more sending emails, updating spreadsheets or filling out forms, update your Availability in YesRef and that's job done.

| YESREF advises that Sports Officials update their Availability weekly to ensure that Notifications of the #LiveGamesList are accurate and so Sports Providers completing their Appointments can do this in a hassle free way.

Question 5

How to add/update accreditation documents to your profile

Accepted Answer

Navigate to https://app.yesref.com/settings/account/sports or if you already logged into your account, Profile > Account > Sports > Select your Sport.

Click "Upload" on the section you wish to upload a document, you may need to remove a document if one already exists and you wish to update it.

Find the document from your computer or from the photo gallery if you are updating this via the App.
Update the expiry date of your accreditation after every upload.
Repeat this process for each document you wish to update
Click Save when you have uploaded all of your accreditation documents

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Question 6

The YESREF Glossary

Accepted Answer

Trying to understand something that's not defined here? Ask us in a message — and we can add it to the list 😄

Access Level

An Access Level is applied to Sports Provider user which changes the level of functionality and access that the user has in an Organisation.

Account

A personalised record including a username and password that identifies a user within YESREF. It is possible to have multiple accounts of any combination with one username.

Additional Contacts

Additional contacts are other Admin Sports Providers that can be included in automatic notifications when invoices or credit notes are generated and will receive a notification when the minimum credit level has exceeded the required level.

Affiliation

Affiliation applies to Sports Officials and forms part of their profile. Sports Officials can upload their affiliation information to demonstrate their affiliation to the Sport they officiate.

Appoint

Appoint is a way in which Sports Officials can be allocated to Roles. When choosing Appoint, the platform looks up all Sports Officials part of the Organisation, taking into consideration their Affiliation status, Availability, Age, Category, DBS status, Safeguarding Information, Sports Official Level and Travel Distance. Categories such as availability and Requires a parent or Guardian can NOT be overwritten however preferences can be. You can also type to search and allocate your own official.

The Appoint function is available to O

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