Ordallo and TeamSideline for practice time: how they work together

What TeamSideline does

TeamSideline describes itself as software for sports leagues and clubs, associations, parks and recreation departments, YMCAs and Catholic Youth Organizations, and says it has been in business for more than 15 years.^[1] Its home page lists:^[1]

• player, team, volunteer and staff registration;
• automated game and practice scheduling;
• text, email and chat notifications, and a free mobile app;
• team websites;
• payments, with facilities, officials and tournament tools.

Its plans are priced by the year:^[2]

Add-ons are priced separately, including Facility ($299) and Advanced Scheduling ($499).^[2]

How practice time works in TeamSideline

Its help center describes three ways practices get onto a team's schedule:

• An admin adds them. One practice or a weekly recurring series per team, for up to 180 days, in 5-minute steps. This is on all plans.^[3] With conflict warnings on, TeamSideline warns when a practice overlaps something else booked at the location or one of the team's games. These are warnings only, and the practice is saved.^[3]
• A rolling practice. Teams rotate through up to 10 fixed practice slots, moving down one slot each week, so that with 10 teams in 10 slots every team gets every slot once over 10 weeks. This is on all plans.^[3]
• Coaches add their own. With Practice Changes turned on (Enhanced, Elite and Enterprise plans), a team's coach can add, change and delete its practices. With conflict checks on, TeamSideline won't save a coach's practice that overlaps something else at that location or one of the team's games.^[4]

An admin can also upload a season's practices from a CSV file: one division per file, with date, start and end time, location and team name. Team names must match exactly, and importing the same file twice adds the practices twice.^[5]

The difference: deciding the split vs choosing in turn

None of those methods is a turn. In the help articles we read, either the split is decided first and entered (by an admin, or by a fixed rotation), or coaches enter their own practices, and with conflict checks on, the first coach to save a time keeps it. We found no pick order set in advance and no turn that opens for one team at a time.^[3][4]

For many programs that's fine. Where it strains is the gym where the best weeknight times are worth arguing over:

• A split decided offline (by email, a spreadsheet or a meeting) looks like a favor to whoever didn't get Tuesday.
• A rotation is even, but nobody chooses.
• Coaches saving their own rewards whoever logs in first, whatever order your program agreed.

Ordallo's job is the part in between: the organizer sets the team order before sign-up opens, and when a team's turn comes, its coach picks from what's left. Then the next team goes.

Side by side, as of October 2026

Using both today

1. Keep TeamSideline for the season: registration, games, messages and team sites.
2. Leave game nights out of the times you offer in the Ordallo sign-up, so no team picks a practice on a night the gym hosts a game.
3. Run the practice sign-up in Ordallo. Each pick lands on the calendar, and calendar invites update when plans change.
4. Put the finished practices into TeamSideline, so families see them with the games: add each team's recurring practice there, or upload one practice import file per division. Can Ordallo send them there for you? Not directly. Ordallo doesn't create that file for you today, so use TeamSideline's own format and match team names exactly.^[5]

Which should you use?

TeamSideline on its own is enough when

• an admin is happy to decide the practice split and enter it;
• a rotation through fixed slots is fair enough for your teams;
• coaches can enter their own practices without a race for the best nights.

Add Ordallo for the practice sign-up when

• several teams share a gym and the best times are worth arguing over;
• your program agreed an order (by grade, in-season status or a published draw) and you want it to decide who picks first;
• full courts and half courts have to stay consistent, with nothing double-booked;
• you want a record that answers "why did they get Thursday" in February.