Help & docs

Create a free account, then either start an event (you become its Event Director) or accept an invite to join one someone else created. An event is a shared workspace - everyone on the committee works from the same schedule, roster and settings instead of passing spreadsheets around.

Some tools - the button maker, pit signs, and the judging schedule generator - also work standalone, with no event or account required.

Each event member has one role, which decides what they can see and change:

• Event Director - the event’s creator; full access to everything, including deleting the event.
• Event Admin - full access alongside the Director.
• Volunteer Coordinator - full access to the volunteer roster, check-in and the staffing plan.
• Emcee - the event's scripts and schedule; no volunteer roster access.
• Check-in - can open the volunteer roster and check people in, including running a kiosk.

Invite people from an event’s Members tab; you can change anyone’s role later.

Upload a volunteer roster (a CSV export from your registration system) on the check-in tool’s Roster tab. Contact details are hashed on our server and never stored - see the Privacy Policy for how that works.

Kiosk mode turns a tablet or laptop into a dedicated check-in station: large touch targets, a PIN lock, and a search-first volunteer picker. Open the Kiosk page while signed in to see every event where your role can run one, and start it from there.

Offline-first. A kiosk keeps working on venue wifi that drops out - check-ins save to the device and sync themselves once the connection returns. If two devices disagree about the same volunteer, nothing is silently overwritten; a manager reviews and picks.

• Match schedules - generate a schedule, check for back-to-backs, drag to fix, publish to teams.
• FLL Schedule Builder (beta) - robot game and judging for a FIRST LEGO League Challenge day, free and without an account; sign in to save schedules to your account.
• Judging schedules - panels, rooms and interview slots that don’t collide with a team’s match.
• Button maker and pit signs - print-ready sheets from your team list.
• Volunteer roster / staffing plan - roles, shifts and coverage gaps for an event, visible before the day starts.

See the Privacy Policy for what we store and for how long, and the Terms of Service for the rules of using the service.

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We want everyone to be able to use Tactical Panda. Our accessibility statement explains what works today, what we’re still improving, and how to tell us about a barrier.

Questions or something not working right: info@tacticalpanda.app. For privacy rights or data deletion requests, use privacy@tacticalpanda.app instead.

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