The Owners Info & Send Invite page in League Setup allows the LM to set the number of owners on each team, and to enter each owner's name and email address. This is also the page that the LM uses to send league invitations and to monitor whether the invitations have been accepted. This page can be accessed all season long.
Note: If you want to skip this step and invite the owners later you can do so by clicking on the "Submit" button to advance to the next step in League Setup.
Owner Info:
# Owners (per team) - Max of 2 (two) allowed. The LM has the option to add multiple owners OR each team owner can do this for their team.
Owner - Enter the team owner's first and last name.
Email - Enter the team owner's email address the league invitation is sent to.
Status - 'Joined' or 'Invited'. Displays the current status of each team's invite.
Note: After a team joins the league all team owners will be allowed to edit the name of their own team.
Invite Options: Invitations are sent in the form of an email which contains a unique URL. The person who receives the invite email must click on the unique URL (or copy and paste the URL into browser 'Location' field) in order to join the league. Below is a list of the options and details on how they work.
Send invites to - The LM specifies who (if anyone) will be sent a league invite upon submit.
Send me a copy of each invite - 'Yes' or 'No'. If 'Yes' is selected the LM receives a copy of each sent email invitation which, if necessary, can then be forwarded to the appropriate invitee. If 'No' the email is only sent to the invitee.
Send custom invitation - 'Yes' or 'No'. If 'Yes' is selected a text box will appear below where the LM can enter a personal note that is appended at the bottom of the outgoing email invitation. If 'No' the system will send a standard message.
Note: If an owner's email address is inputted and an invitation is emailed to him, and then the owner's email address is changed on this page before he has a chance to accept it, the first invitation will become invalid and the owner must accept the second invitation that was emailed to him when his email address was changed.
Once an invitation is accepted (the team owner joins your league) the "STATUS" column will change from "Invited" to "Joined". The "OWNER NAME" column will also populate with owners name and the "EMAIL" column will be replaced with a "Send Email" link.
Important: Once an owner has accepted an invitation the email address associated with the team is defaulted to the address associated with that owner's ESPN.com member account. League Managers can not change email addresses of owners. The owner needs to visit Member Services to make this change.