What’s new

A connected assistant like Claude or ChatGPT can now look up MyTroop's help articles to answer how-to questions, and a new help page lists everything an assistant can do with your troop.

The topic in a help article's breadcrumb now takes you to that topic's other articles, and screenshots show at phone size on a computer instead of filling the whole page.

The "Adding a user" help article opens again instead of showing an error, and help articles no longer run to the very edge of a phone screen.

Leaders can cap an event at one total headcount instead of separate adult and scout limits, and set an RSVP-by date after which only admins can change RSVPs.

Leaders can attach permission slips, gear lists, maps and other documents to an event, from the event page or from a connected AI assistant. Anyone who can see the event can download them.

Browser tabs now read like "Calendar · Troop 36", and a link to your troop's site shared in a text or a post shows a preview card with your troop's name.

The mytroop.org screenshots now sit in a modern phone shape with a status bar and camera cutout. Dialogs and the photo viewer no longer leave an undimmed strip across the top of a phone.

On a 320px-wide phone like the iPhone SE, the event page no longer scrolls sideways or zooms out — the driver seat hint and the bottom menu now wrap to fit.

An event's photos now have a page of their own to share, reached from "Open album" on the event or from Albums. And you can upload photos up to 20 MB, so pictures straight off a modern phone no longer get turned away.

Connecting Claude or another AI assistant now asks for everything your role allows, so leaders can have it create and edit events, check RSVPs and message the troop. If you connected before, disconnect and reconnect it once.

Your troop's subscription is now charged only for the days it's active, including the month you start and the month you cancel. Cancelling settles your bill right away, and small monthly totals under $1.00 carry to the next statement instead of being charged. The introductory period covers the subscription; email, texts and storage are billed at cost from day one.

Leaders can now set up a troop on MyTroop themselves at mytroop.org/start — create an account, confirm your email, describe your unit, add a card, and your troop's site is live in minutes. Nothing is charged during the free introductory period.

Leaders can now email everyone going to an event from the event page, and each event has its own group email address that going families and leaders can write to.

The Coming Up list now opens on the next four months, says how far it reaches, and has a Show more button that loads the next four months whenever there is something new to show.

Someone asking to join your troop confirms their email address before the request reaches you, so junk signups never land in your review queue. When you approve someone, you now choose whether to start a new family or add them to one you already have.

New in-app help articles for managing scouts, dens/patrols, CSV import/export, calendar feed import, Resources, and troop billing — with screenshots for the first time.

Email to a troop mailing list carries up to 25 MB of photos and files. Messages bigger than about one photo used to disappear on the way in — no delivery and no bounce — and now they go through. If you belong to the troop and your message is over the limit, you get a reply explaining why.

A dated list of every update, readable from the help centre, with a version number that matches the one in the footer.

Events can charge a separate price for guests and cap the total any one family pays, quoted from a single place so the checkout matches the estimate.

Switching troops sends you to that troop's own domain, and domain settings can only be changed by the server.

A text that would exceed the remaining budget is refused at the send path rather than after you have written it.

Choose light, dark, or match your device. The help icon is now large enough to hit with a thumb.

Scout pages no longer fail when a birthday arrives in an unexpected format.

Fixed a path where an incoming text was acknowledged to the carrier and then dropped.

Admins can move photos from one album to another in bulk.

Bulk email is capped per troop, and the assistant's send tool no longer discloses every parent's address to recipients.

The consent screen shows whether a connecting application has been verified, and stops vouching for names nobody checked.

Brought the shared buttons, dialogs and form controls up to the accessibility standard the rest of the site meets.

Exporting or importing a roster no longer acts before the data it needs has loaded.

Opening the folder manager starts a fresh session instead of showing stale state.

An event that has started but not finished still appears under Coming Up and in digests.

Follows the redirect the carrier returns, so a photo sent by text actually arrives.

Event texts go to the families actually attending, and members can text back.

Opening the event text dialog gives you a fresh message instead of the last one you typed.

Exporting and re-importing the roster no longer mangles international phone numbers.

Digest emails list a repeating event on each date it occurs instead of only the first.

A weekly 7pm meeting stays at 7pm across a daylight-saving change, and tapping an occurrence opens that occurrence.

An event shows the time it actually starts where it happens, rather than shifting to whatever timezone you are reading from.

The roster shows each member's most recent sign-in, so admins can spot accounts that were never activated.

The MCP integration now enforces the exact permissions you granted, custom domains resolve correctly, and repeated sign-in attempts are detected properly.

RSVP results are visible to every member of the troop, not just leaders.

Text messaging is off until an admin turns it on, and the switch is now enforced on the server rather than only hidden in the interface.

Troops can send text messages to members, with platform limits that stop a runaway send from costing more than anyone intended.

The platform as it first ran for troops: calendar and events, RSVPs, transportation, rosters and families, email and text messaging, online payments, pages, photo albums, and the help centre.