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Zachary Young
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May 26, 2015 at 11:45 am
Hi I am considering purchasing Event Espresso for my website to handle after school class registration. I want parents to be able to:
– Register their kids for classes with a limit of 2 maximum
– Submit specific information via forms (name, age, etc.)
– Submit a digital signature to sign off on waiver forms.
– Pay online, get a receipt, etc.
– Have a lottery system so that if a class has a 20 person limit, the 20 registrants will be chosen at random. This would allow for a specific registration period instead of first-come, first serve.
Does it sound like Event Espresso would be a good solution? Based on my description, would I need any of the Premium Add Ons?
Thank you,
Zak
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 26, 2015 at 12:53 pm
Hi Zachary, some of those project requirements are supported. However, these are not:
– Submit a digital signature to sign off on waiver forms.
– Have a lottery system so that if a class has a 20 person limit, the 20 registrants will be chosen at random. This would allow for a specific registration period instead of first-come, first serve.
Uploads during registration checkout are not currently available but it is an open feature request.
On the last requirement above, Event Espresso has a feature called admin pre-approval.
If this is used, then Event Espresso will accept registrations but they will set to a status of not approved. You could then use export the registrants and drop the list into a tool like List Randomizer (https://www.random.org/lists/). Then you could approve the first X amount of registrants.
Its not an automated solution but it is a possible workaround.
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Lorenzo
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Zachary Young
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May 26, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Lorenzo – Thanks for your reply! Your work-around sounds like a great solution, I appreciate it.
If we decide to do first-come, first-serve registration I’m concerned that the rush to register might crash my server. Does Event Espresso have any features to help prevent this? Or is that something that I just need to address with my hosting provider?
Thanks again!
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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May 26, 2015 at 2:26 pm
Hi Zachary, how do you plan on promoting events? Will there be an email newsletter to let registrants know about an event or perhaps a post on a social media network?
If you are expected hundreds of registrations per event, then this could overload the server if it happens in a short period of time.
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Lorenzo
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