Camp Management
Software
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Getting Started
We make it easy for
you to let your members and visitors register for your events at your website. Our
software will let you define an online event registration form for each of your
events. We will give you a link that you can put on your website that will allow
people to use your registration forms and then pay using PayPal.
To define a new online
event, use the “Make a New Form” link which is found in the left-nav bar. It will
let you define values such as the event name, the date on which a person could first
sign up for the event, the last date to sign up, etc. It also lets you define the
comments and questions that will comprise the online registration form. The “Make
a New Form” has a help page link on it as well as mouse-over pop-up help.
To get the event registration
link for your website you can click on the link found in our left-nav bar with the
title “Do Event Signup (for your public page)” and copy the URL.
Pay-To-Attend Events
When you set up an
event you may define it to be a free event or one which participants will be charged
to attend.
Our software will allow
you to define the cost rules of each of your events separately.
One of your events may be priced on way and another event priced in a different
way. Bottom line, our software lets you define pricing your way.
One choice is “simple
pricing” whereby each attendee is charge a fixed price. Our advanced pricing choice
calculates the price based on choices made by a person on the online registration
form.
As an example you could
have a drop-down list that has a price for an adult and lesser prices for children
of different ages, and a different price for” counselor in training” etc. Moreover,
you could define various check boxes that would add to or subtract from the price
(Examples:
We will help when you
are getting started J
Displaying Cost to the Registrant
If an event has an
associated cost, registrants will be able to see the basic price and extras that
make up the total.
Partial Payments and Deposits
When you define a registration
form you can choose to allow partial payments and deposits rather than full payment.
Method of Payment
When an event requires
payment you can define whether the registrant will have a choice to pay by check
or by PayPal or both.
Our Server has a two
way communication with PayPal. All secure operations are done at PayPal and our
server never sees or stores credit card numbers or PayPal user names or passwords,
but PayPal contacts our server to tell it when a transaction was completed and was
successful or not successful. Your staff does
not need to use the emails sent by PayPal and manually update the database
with dates and amounts of PayPal transactions. This is done automatically due to
the two way communications with our server and the PayPal server.
Testing the Registration Form
After you have finished
defining the registration form you can test it by using the link with the title
“Do Event Sign Up (for admin use)”. In that way you will be able to see what the
form will look like to online registrants and use it to do a few test registrations.
You will be able to
view the results of your test registrations on the page titled “Attendee Lists”
On each row of this
page is a delete button at the far right to let you delete your test registrations.
In general you should not use this delete button to cancel a real registration.
See the paragraph below titled “Canceling a Signup”.
Editing the Registration Form
After using your new
form you may realize that you need to edit your registration form, that is fix a
typo in one of the registration questions or add a registration question. To do
this use the link titled “List of Forms”.
It displays a list of the registration forms you have created.
Choose the event you wish to edit by clicking the “Select” button next to
an event name.
Once people have used the form to register for an event you can edit
the basic form and typos, but do not add or
delete questions. Call for
technical support if you need to do this.
Registering For an Event
CB allows members or
visitors to go to your Church website and register for one of your events. A person
can identify themselves by their email address if they are a “returning user” or
enter their basic information if they are a new user.
At your website you
have two choices. You can have a paragraph or two describing each of your events
and for each event a separate link that starts them on the process of registering
for that event. Contact CB support for information on how to make these links. Or alternatively you can have one link
that points them to a page where they select the event from a drop-down of all of
your church’s events that require registration. You will find this link in our left-nav
bar titled “Do Event Sign Up (for your public page)”.
Viewing the List of Attendees
You can view the list
of people who have registered for an event by using the “Attendee List” link. Select
the event you wish to view by selecting the event name in the drop-down list. Past
events do not show up in the drop-down list until you check the box labeled “Include
past events”.
The Attendees list
displays one row per household that registered for an event.
At the bottom of the Attendees list there is
a count of the number of people attending and the count of people on the waiting
list.
Sorting Our Grids
Many of the grids displayed
on our pages allow you to click in the header of a column to cause the grid to sort
the table on that data in that column. When you first display an Attendee List it
is sorted in order of the signup date. If you wanted to order the list alphabetically
by household name click the word “household” in the header of the household-name
column.
If you click a second
time on a column header the grid will sort in reverse order. For instance, if you
clicked twice on the household name it would sort from Z at the top to A at the
bottom. If you click the header of a date field it would sort in ascending date
order and if you click twice it would sort in descending date order.
Canceling a Signup
If a member asks
you to cancel them from am event you have two choices. You can use the delete button
on the Attendee List, but then you will have no record of their sign up or deletion.
Or you can use the “Waiting List Page” (described below) where you can change their
status to “Canceled”. Then the registrants
won’t show up in the attendee list or elsewhere, but you will have a record of when
they signed up and when they canceled and by whom.
Editing an Attendee’s Entries
There are times that
a registrant will call and ask you to change an answer they made to their signup
or to add or delete a person to their signup. To do this, display the Attendees
List for that event and select the “edit” button next to that attendee’s name. That will cause their signup to display
and allow you to edit it.
To add a person to
their signup use the drop-down list that indicates how many people they are signing
up and increase the count by one. The form will then change and allow you to enter
information about the additional person.
A registrant may not
edit their signup information nor can they delete it.
This can only be done by the admin/registrar.
The Waiting List Page
When you make a new
signup form and define an event, one of the options is whether the event has a maximum
allowed attendance and if you want CB to maintain a waiting list for that event.
When an event is full those who try to sign up for it will be told that they will
be put on a waiting list and told how many people are on the waiting list ahead
of them.
The waiting list page
displays three lists: the list of those
on the waiting list, those on the cancelled list and also the list of those attending.
To view a list, first select an event and then use the drop-down titled “Show the
list of persons” to select waiting list, attending or canceled.
The admin can use these
lists to transfer people from one list to another.
For example to move someone from waiting to attending do the following:
1) Select the Event name.
2) Select waiting list from the “show the list of
persons” drop-down.
3) Scroll if necessary and click the “Transfer”
button for that household name.
4) Scroll if necessary if that household has been
scrolled out of view and change “waiting” to “attending” for that household.
5) Enter the users name or initials in the “transferred
by” field.
6) Click the “update” button displayed at the left
of the row.
Note that the household
will no longer display in the waiting list. However if you change to the “show list
of persons” drop-down to “attending”, that household name will be there.
Canceling a Signup
You can remove a signup
from the Attending List and place them on the Cancelled list. This is done using
the Waiting List page. Use the instruction shown above, but use the drop-down list
to change the registrant from “attending” to “canceled”. Then they will display
on the Canceled List.
When you cancel a signup
all the members of that household that were registered in that signup will be removed
from attending and will be canceled. If your intention is to edit a signup and remove
some of the household members from attending, but not all, then edit that signup
instead of canceling it.
Details & Totals Page
Select an event on
the Details and Totals page and it will display the list attendees sorted by household
name. It displays all the answers from the registration form.
Some of the answers
make sense to total and those totals will be shown at the bottom of the Details
and Totals page.
If the question is
answered by a checking a box the total will be the total number of times the box
was checked. If the question is a number the total will be the sum. If the question
is answered by selecting from a drop-down list, totals will be displayed as a drop-down
list with the choices followed by the number of times each choice was selected. For example, if people had to choose
from a drop-down and the choices were: chicken, fish, steak. The totals drop-down
might be chicken/25, fish/35 and steak/28.
Payments & Invoicing
The Payments &
Invoicing Page lets you process your pay-to-attend events.
In the main grid it displays the charges for each household and
the payments received. At a glance you can see who is not paid up.
By clicking the “Select”
button at the right side of a row a window will open up that will let you do any
of the following tasks:
process a payment
add or edit a purchase
add or edit a discount
display an invoice
and print it
display an invoice
and email it to the household.
The emailed invoice will have a link to take the customer to PayPal
and pay the amount or optionally allow the customer to make a partial payment at
PayPal or of course pay by check.
Household Activities Page
The household activities
page lets you view all the purchases and payments that a household has made for
all open and recently closed events. It is useful to find cases where a person has
registered for several events, but instead of paying for them individually the person
has sent one check to cover multiple events or paid at PayPal for several events
at one time. In that case one event will have an overpayment and the other an underpayment,
but by viewing them together it would be clear what the intensions of the customer
are.
Email Reminders
Email reminders allow
you to compose a message and send an email to each attendee to an event. You may
include those on the waiting list if you desire. You may separately send the email
to people that have signed up for past events. It is a great way to inform prospects
about an upcoming event.
Assign Rooms
This page is used by
the registrar to assign campers to rooms. It displays a list of households that
have registered for a given camp. When
it is first displayed it is sorted in the order that the campers registered for
the camp. The list is divided into pages with seven rows each. At the bottom of
that grid is a list of page numbers. You can click on a page number to display that
page.
By clicking in the
header you can sort the list by the data in that column. By clicking “household”
it will sort alphabetically by household name. If you click twice it will sort in
reverse order by household name (Z to A).
When you click on “cabin”
in the header it will sort by the cabin name that was assigned to each household.
A helpful effect of sorting by cabin is that households that have not been assigned
will sort to the top of the list and will be easy to identify.
To assign room(s) to
the members of a household click the “AssignRoom” button. This will open a window
with the information needed to assign rooms. You will be able to view the rooms
that have vacancies and the information that was entered by the registrant when
registering online, such as cabin preference and roommate preferences (assuming
that you wanted those questions when you designed the registration form).
As you assign a household
to a room you are presented with two choices: to assign all the members of a household
to the same room and to do so in one operation, or to assign each member of the
household individually. The first method gives you speed and the second gives you
flexibility.
Who is Coming?
The “Who is Coming”
page displays a list of all the people who are registered for an event. It has one
row per person as differentiated from the Attendee list which has one row per household.
This list is sorted
by household name and displays the “person” information for each.
When the software is
used for camp management it displays room assignments. The registrar can see at
a glance those who have not been assigned to a room, and the printed form can be
used for camper sign-in.
The page has a button
which displays a printer friendly copy. It also lets you include or exclude columns
so the printout will not display information you don’t want or make the page too
wide to fit on a printed page.
Cabin Occupancy
This page displays
the campers, one cabin at a time, and orders the list by room number and displays
the “person” information for each occupant.
When you want to assign
a bunk to a camper it lets you see at a glance who is assigned to a particular room.
The grid displays information about
each person so you will know if the room is compatible by gender, age etc. (assuming
that those questions were included in the registration form you designed).
A second use of this
page is to print a listing by cabin of who is assigned to each room. You can include
or exclude information that is appropriate when the page will be displayed in a
cabin.
Monthly Receipts Page
The Monthly Receipts
page displays the total receipts for each event by month. It displays the column
and row totals. You have the choice to display the receipt amounts including or
excluding PayPal charges and you can also display the amount of the charges separately.
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