We've already taken into account for most of this with our system. I'll
attempt to write a full spec list sometime today if I get a free chance..
I'm sure you'll all be quite impressed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Jeff Winchell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 3:11 PM
> To: 'autox@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Online Registration (was RE: Peru entry list)
>
>
> We've done online registration for the past three events
> (this year and
> last). I wrote the software. I've done a number of
> registration systems
> prior to that. People who are online generally seem to like the idea.
> However, you still need to provide a registration method for
> the minority of
> autocrossers who don't have internet access.
>
> We used PayPal to do online payment for our last event. Due to all the
> referall fees, it made it possible for many people to just
> pay 5$ for the
> event. Biggest problem was that it isn't smoothly integrated into our
> registration system... I didn't have time to write the code
> necessary to do
> that.
>
> Also, in events where you have an entry limit (our last one
> did), you need
> to make sure you are recording times of online or offline entries.
>
> There are some opportunities (and challenges) to provide automated
> registration/notification when someone decides not to go, in
> order to make
> it possible for as many people on the waiting list to go as
> possible. These
> items can go a long way in making the event limit problem
> less of a problem.
>
> The no show problem/work assignment/run group size problems
> can also be
> handled with online registration and automated notifications.
> Last year I
> had people choosing their own work assignments online. This
> year I went to a
> request/moderated type of system, but it wasn't fully worked
> out when we had
> to go live. Still, I had constantly automatically updated web
> pages with
> numbers of drivers in each class, what work assigments they
> requested, and
> some other bells and whistles. The payment status I had to
> manually update
> because I didn't have time to do the integration work, but
> it's not rocket
> science.
>
> I was moderately happy with how all of this went for our last
> event, but it
> still needs some work (One issue ... I didn't plan for the
> possibility that
> a huge number of people would run Street Tire when it decided
> to rain all
> day).
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: svcjmo [mailto:svcjmo@home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 6:13 PM
> To: REPilfold@aol.com; alextz@ss112.rsch.comm.mot.com
> Cc: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Peru entry list
>
>
> Tiny (No Offense) Chattanooga Region has online registration for their
> southeast summer shootout this weekend. The SE SCCA region
> has had it for a
> year or two also.
> Jerry Onks BSP96
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <REPilfold@aol.com>
> To: <alextz@ss112.rsch.comm.mot.com>
> Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 8:56 PM
> Subject: Re: Peru entry list
>
>
> > In a message dated 6/19/00 9:08:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > alextz@ss112.rsch.comm.mot.com writes:
> >
> > << It really shouldnt be too hard to have email registration
> > A lot of the east coast clubs already do it.
> > why can't the SCCA? and you dont even need a secure server.
> > If you have competed in a national level event, they can just
> > look your info up.
> >
> > I think in this day and age, we should at least expect
> > some sort of web based registration.
> > Im sure that Shults dot com (the web provider who is paid
> > by the SCCA to make their web page could easily set it up).
> >
> > Alex Tziortzis
> > >>
> > Alex,
> > With a name such as yours I would think you would want to
> be looking over
> the
> > registrar's shoulder, just to make sure they entered it
> correctly. :-)
>
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