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About SmartRoots

RecLite is a parks and recreation management platform: one system for programs, registrations, memberships, facilities and payments, built so the public website in front of it can be genuinely modern.

Most recreation software was designed when a family’s only option was to phone the office or drive over with a paper form. It still shows — multi-page carts, screens that assume a desktop, and a public site the department cannot change without raising a ticket.

RecLite was built the other way round. Staff configure a...

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Residents

  • One household account for everyone at your address — register your whole family from a single screen.
  • Sign up in one step. Choose, fill in what the program needs, pay. No cart maze, no page-by-page wizard.
  • Built for a phone first, because that is where most of you are when registration opens.
    Real availability — what is open, what is full, and where you sit on a waitlist.
  • Your records stay yours — registrations, waitlist offers, documents, receipts and membership card, all in your account.

District staff

  • Build a season without fighting the form. Resident and non-resident dates set through a guided flow, not a grid of duplicate fields.
  • Write descriptions that read well — formatted text, a short blurb with the detail behind it.
  • Control what the website shows and what it is called, without a developer.
  • Custom forms and waivers collected at the moment of registration, not chased afterwards.
  • Facilities that cannot double-book, with rules the system enforces rather than trusting to memory.

Built to a standard

WCAG 2.1 Level AA

Keyboard navigation, screen reader structure, colour contrast and labelled forms, designed in from the first page rather than patched before an audit.

Mobile first

Around 60% of park district traffic arrives on a phone. Registration, payment and schedules are designed for that screen first and scaled up.

Multilingual ready

Content is structured so a district can serve its community in more than one language as its population needs it.