FAQ

Peninsula Soccer Referees Association's basic mission is supported by a variety of people, systems, and mechanisms. We offer the following series of topics in the Segment of our site to explain, document, and describe how we operate:

• How to change Referee Ranks--DRAFT
• Ideas for Pensra expansion
• Peninsula Soccer Referee Association Assignor Expectations DRAFT
• Referee Ranks Expectations/Maintenance/UpGrading--DRAFT

Adminstrator Tasks

• Administrator Tasks
• Flow Chart for Send Off Questions
• What to review when addressing new registration requests

Broadcast

• Assignor/Client Broadcast
• Broadcast, what is it?
• DEPRICATED Assignor/Client Broadcast
• How to customize Broadcast messages
• How to Suspend Notifications Upon Changing Assignments

Client

• Client Assignor Contract
• Pensra Assignor Code of Conduct Ideas

Continuing Education

• CNRA Presentation regarding USSF PDI
• CYSA Policy Statement Regarding Concussions
• Questions and Answers 2020 Referee ReRegistration
• USSF Policy Statement Regarding Concussions

Corporate Governance

• Attributes of the Pensra assigning system
• Certificate of Liability Insurance
• Contact Us
• Contracts and Memorandums of Understanding
• Insurance Carriers
• List of Pensra Accounts
• List of Required Annual Reports and Tasks
• Pensra History
• Questions regarding RidgeStar and Pensra

Corporate Governance - Documents

• Articles of Incorporation of a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation
• By Laws
• PENSRA Mission Statement
• Privacy Policy

Corporate Governance - Goverment

• Calif. Sec. of State Statement of Information
• California Exemption Request
• California Franchise Tax Board NonProfit Determination Letter
• Internal Revenue Service 501(c)3 Determination Letter
• Internal Revenue Service EIN Assignment Letter

Files

• Uploading Agenda and Minutes Files

Futsal

• Futsal Laws of the Game
• How to become a Futsal Referee

Info for Novice Referees

• Copy of the Current Welcome Message to New Users - formatted
• Copy of the Current Welcome Message to New Users - unformatted
• How to Get Games
• Introduction to the Pensra Website
• Introduction to the Pensra Website - How to Series
• Introduction to the Pensra Website - NorCal Premier STAR
• Introduction to the Pensra Website - YouTube Video
• USSF Information for New Referees
• Where to get Referee Gear?
• YouTube Videos for new Referees

Links

• Referee Camp Article
• Referee Camp Video
• Useful Links

Match Assignment

• Bar graph of Overall Assignment Status
• Compare Arbiter Group Ranking to Pensra Ranking
• Default Match Difficulty and Referee Capability Ranks
• Google Travel Durations
• Guide to Referee:Inquiry page symbols
• How can I create Match Report for a Referee?
• How can I print a wallet card for my game?
• How can I print my refereeing schedule / assignments?
• How can I prune the available referee pulldown list?
• How does SelfAssign and Manual Request symbols work in Referee:Inquiry?
• How does SelfAssign work?
• How does Turnback work?
• How to Edit Referee Capability Ranks
• How to Establish SelfAssign Rules
• How to Establish Team Specific SelfAssign Rules, Methods, Durations, Ranks
• How to Get Better, Get Recognized and work Higher Level Matches
• How to Get Games via other referee assignment systems
• How to Manually Request Matches
• How to use relative dates?
• How to Withdraw a Manual Request
• One Page Rule Summary
• Referee Ranks
• Referee:Inquiry Requested Matches
• Referee:Inquiry Similar
• TouchLine Mobile Application
• What happens when a Referee Declines a Match?

Match Management

• California Youth Sports Concussions Law
• Charges to use the Pensra Website
• Copy of the Pensra Coach Sportsmanship PreGame Card
• List of Playing Leagues / Tournaments
• Northern California Air Quality Index
• What a Referee should know/realize about Evaluations?
• What are the Field Closure phone numbers?
• What if there are not three referees?
• When are Notifications on Match Changes sent to Referees?

Match Management - Advanced

• How far did I drive to get to my assignments?
• How to add a field to the database
• How to add a Match.
• How to add a NEW Tournament or Competition
• How to control when an Assignment can be changed
• How to Coordintate with External Match Databases
• How to download matches for upload to Arbiter
• How to Print Referee / Match Day Schedule
• How to schedule to maximize referee coverage
• How to suspend Notifications - Match Status = Pending
• How to Upload Schedules
• How to Upload Schedules via a csv spreadsheet file
• How to Upload a GotSport CSV Schedules Club
• How to Upload a GotSport CSV Schedules Tournament
• How to use Anchors to require/restrict Match data choices.
• In Assignment, what does Pulldown and Active reference?
• Options to add matches to Pensra
• Tips to make GotSoccer/Demosphere/LeagueApps/AffinitySports Load work
• What are PlayingLeagues? When are they shown in dropdowns?

Match Management - AffinitySports

• AffinitySports Field mapping
• AffinitySports Gender mapping
• AffinitySports Level mapping
• AffinitySports Venue mapping
• How to move AffinitySports Match data to Pensra

Match Management - BYGA

• DEPRECATED How to Import Matches from BYGA - Administrator
• DEPRECATED BYGA API Permission errors
• DEPRECATED BYGA API Writeerrors
• DEPRECATED How to Import Matches from BYGA
• DEPRECATED How to Import Matches from BYGA - Administrator

Match Management - Demosphere

• Demosphere AgeLevel mapping
• Demosphere Bracket mapping
• Demosphere Class mapping
• Demosphere Client mapping
• Demosphere Domains
• Demosphere Field mapping
• Demosphere Gender mapping
• How to find a Demosphere Club ID Number
• How to find a Demosphere Event (SeasonKey) Number
• How to find a Demosphere Field Number
• How to find a Demosphere TEAMGROUPKEY Number
• Overview of Demosphere Match Data Integration
• URL to Demosphere Documentation

Match Management - GotSoccer

• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Bracket mapping
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Client mapping
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Field mapping
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Gender mapping
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Level mapping
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Load and Check Overview
• DEPRECATED GotSoccer Test page URL
• DEPRECATED How to add a GotSoccer Field
• DEPRECATED How to find a GotSoccer Club Name for a Team
• DEPRECATED How to find a GotSoccer Event Number
• DEPRECATED How to find a GotSoccer Field Number
• DEPRECATED How to find a Pensra Field Number
• DEPRECATED How to find ClubAccount or HomeClub GotSoccer values
• DEPRECATED How to move GotSoccer Match data to Pensra

Match Management - GotSport

• DEPRECATED How to move GotSport Match data to Pensra - Prior to September 2023
• GotSport API Documentation
• GotSport Bracket mapping
• GotSport Gender mapping
• GotSport Level mapping
• GotSport TeamName Character String replacement
• How to find a GotSport Club Number
• How to find a GotSport Event Number
• How to find a GotSport Pitch Number
• How to find a GotSport Team Number
• How to find a GotSport Team Number for a specific GotSport Event
• How to Import Matches from GotSport- Administrator
• How to move GotSport Match data to Pensra
• How to request Pensra access to GotSport data
• How to reschedule a GotSport Match
• How to Upload Downloaded Matches from GotSport

Match Management - LeagueApps

• How to add a LeagueApps Field
• How to find a LeagueApps Field Number
• How to find a LeagueApps Program Number
• How to move LeagueApps Match data to Pensra
• LeagueApps Field mapping
• LeagueApps Load and Check Overview

Match Management - LeagueLineUp

• How to move LeagueLineUp Match data to Pensra
• LeagueLineUp Field mapping
• Upload match data from LeagueLineUp to Pensra

Match Management - SFYSTimeSlots

• TimeSlots Client mapping

Match Management - YourSoccerLeague

• YourSoccerLeague API Documentation

Payment

• 1099-NEC vs 1099-K
• Generating 1099-NEC forms
• How to file a LATE or MISSING Match Report?
• How to file a Match Report?
• How to file a match report? PART 2
• Independent Contractor Status
• Match Pay Rates - Fee Schedule
• Matches Table versus the Accounting Table
• My match was cancelled. Will I get paid?
• PayPal 1099-K forms Q&A
• W9
• When & How will I get paid?
• Where can I see a list of my Match Reports and payments?

PayPal MassPay

• How to use PayPal MassPay/Payouts via CSV Upload - Details

PayPal Payouts

• How to access past PayPal Payouts data? Who got paid by whom and when?
• How to query PayPal as to who was paid? How to find PayPal errors or failures?
• How to set up PayPal Payouts? 2022 Version
• How to set up PayPal Payouts? 2023 Version
• How to use PayPal Payouts - Details
• How to use PayPal Payouts - Overview
• What is PayPal Payouts?

Payroll

• How to obtain data for 1099-NEC forms
• How to run payroll? (Detailed)
• How to run payroll? (Flow Chart)
• How to run payroll? (Summary)
• How to upload data to ArbiterPay

Referee Management

• How to add a Referee Evaluation or Record a No Show?
• What does the Client Referee Coordinator do?
• What does the referee coordinator do?

Referees

• Books for Referees
• California North Referee Administration Resources
• Can I borrow a referee communication system from Pensra?
• First steps to referee with the Peninsula Soccer Referee Association
• Gil Weber's Pregame - A complete PreGame Discussion
• Goal safety
• How to become a referee
• How to cross register from AYSO to USSF
• How to cross register from USSF to AYSO
• How to Evaluate Referees?
• How to Host a Referee Class
• How to obtain a USSF Registration Card
• How to obtain a replacement USSF badge
• How to register with the South Bay Arbiter groups?
• How to register with the USSF Digital Learning Center
• How to renew USSF registration
• Humor
• Introduction to the Pensra Website - How to Series - Introduction
• NASO Discount Membership
• USSF "The Referee Commitment"
• USSF Assignment Priority Policy
• USSF Code of Ethics
• USSF Code of Ethics for Assignors
• USSF Code of Ethics for Referees
• USSF Information for Referees
• USSoccer Assignor Code of Conduct
• What is the Club Referee Coordinator?

Registration

• How to Obtain a Site Name and Password
• How to Register for a Clinic
• What is my SiteName?

RidgeStar Help

• Null, zero and empty in Search Criteria
• Null, zero, blank and empty as data
• REGEX Training
• RidgeStar Contacts
• RidgeStar.com and Referees.biz Help Pages
• Session Support and Refresh
• SOAP / XML / REST Interface
• TinyMCE and UTF8
• UTF8 in database values

Roles

• Checklist of Features to Introduce
• Checklist to establish New Assignor
• Checklist to establish New Client
• Checklist to establish New Organization
• Checklist to establish New PlayingLeague
• Roles and the Positions Table

Send Offs

• Red Card processing
• Red Cards
• How to file a Player Sendoff / Coach Dismissal Report?
• League Specific Send Off Report Instructions
• Referee Abuse Prevention CNRA Guidance
• Referee Abuse Prevention CNRA Training
• Referee Abuse Prevention Examples
• Referee Abuse Prevention Levels
• Referee Abuse Prevention Referee Expectations
• Send Off Report Help - How to write a Send Off Report
• Step-by-Step CCSL Red Card Instructions
• TeamStaff behavior expectations
• What are the Infringement Abbreviations?

STAR Referee

• Granite Bay Football Club STAR Program
• San Francisco Youth Soccer STAR Program

Tables

• Add an event to the Calendar / What's New
• Guide to Referee Inquiry Symbols
• Guide to Symbols
• How does selecting a person from a dropdown work?
• How to export data to a .csv spreadsheet file
• How to Use Manage-Tables
• Manage Users - Password Resets, New Users and Edit Users
• Postions Table
• Setting Criteria Defaults
• Why can't I delete a User?

User Management - USSF

• Description of USSF Digital Learning Center API
• Description of USSF Licenses
• How to connect a Pensra User with their USSF License information
• New USSF User registration and Date of Birth
• USSF data integration - USSF push information
• USSF Licenses in your Profile

User Services

• Edit Your Profile
• How can I get a RSS feed of Referee Alerts?
• How can I use Mail?
• How do I get Notifications via Cellular Phone Alerts?
• How do I get Notifications via Text?
• How do I Opt In / Opt Out of Subscriptions and Notifications?
• How does setting Personal Criteria work?
• How does this site work?
• How to customize and use Calendar?
• How to see only the essential features on my phone?
• How to set up iCalendar?
• Password Management - How to change my Password?
• Secure Site Logon Failure
• Session Support / Thread Mechanism
• Vendor supplied instructions on how this Site works?
• What information is Private and Public?
• What Personal Information Is Shown On The Website?
• Why won't the website send me an email?

WebSite Maintenance

• List of Webmaster Maintenance