[Nfb-web] online event registration

[Michael Hansen]

John,

I will be straight with you. I was pressured for to do online registration
for a few years before we actually offered it. People get picky when it
comes to money so you need a sure fire way to link your payments to actual
registrations.

I kept hearing that such in such state or division is doing it why can't we.
I finally found the following website.

http://www.expressplanner.com/

This site allows you to setup a convention registration system and have the
funds go into a paypal account. It worked pretty well the 2 years we used
it. There were a few quarks but if you kept you eye on it, it worked OK. We
used version 2.0 they are now up to version 3.0. I don't know how they have
improved upon it.

Now that we have switched to Drupal for our website we are using Ubercart
for our convention registration system. We are able to create a purchasible
item called "2009 NE State Convention Registration". It allows us to collect
all the necessary info and most importantly link each registration to a
payment.

Mike
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Mike Hansen


On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Berggren, John <JBerggren at nfb.org> wrote:

> Greetings, all-
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> I spoke with an affiliate treasurer the other day and he expressed
> interest in taking payments online for state convention registration.  I
> know some of you folks out there are using PayPal to accept registration
> payments on your sites.  My question is "how do you link registration
> details and payment details together?"  If John Doe registers for
> convention and makes a payment from ljx3851 at gmail.com, it's not readily
> apparent that the two are associated with one another.  Is this easy to
> do with PayPal?  Thanks for any experiences shared.
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> Regards,
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> John Berggren
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> Director, Internal Technology
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> National Federation of the Blind
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