We hope you're as excited about the new FirstGiving event registration tool as we are! In this webinar, we'll give you an in-depth look at our new and improved online event registration tool for your organization.
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Hello and welcome to the FirstGiving webinar for taking a look at our newly revamped registration process. My name is Lucas VanGombos and I’m an account manager here at FirstGiving. (Xenia introduces herself…) The new registration process was officially released this morning. We’re very excited to release this new feature – and we think you’ll agree that it’s a HUGE improvement on the past version.
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I just wanted to run through a quick summary of the agenda for today’s webinar… First of all, in order to highlight the difference between the old and new registration flows – we’re going to do a brief run-through of the old registration process, and then for the same event we’ll do a step-by-step walkthrough of the NEW version. After walking through that example we’ll take a closer look at some of the key new features that have been added, and also give you some examples of how you can best utilize these new features to maximize the potential benefits of this product enhancement. And lastly – we hope you’ll have a lot of questions for us, so we’ll leave plenty of time for a Q&A session at the end. So please start thinking of any questions you have, enter them at any time in the chat window, and if we aren’t able to get to your question now we’ll send you an answer by email.
As I mentioned we’re going to start by walking through the old registration process to give you a better appreciation of this new version…
I just wanted to run through a quick summary of the agenda for today’s webinar… First of all, in order to highlight the difference between the old and new registration flows – we’re going to do a brief run-through of the old registration process, and then for the same event we’ll do a step-by-step walkthrough of the NEW version. After walking through that example we’ll take a closer look at some of the key new features that have been added, and also give you some examples of how you can best utilize these new features to maximize the potential benefits of this product enhancement. And lastly – we hope you’ll have a lot of questions for us, so we’ll leave plenty of time for a Q&A session at the end. So please start thinking of any questions you have, enter them at any time in the chat window, and if we aren’t able to get to your question now we’ll send you an answer by email.
Can add a fundraising minimum for your fundraisers to strive for. At the moment no enforcement. It ’s just part of the process of adding an event.
This is how the Fundraising Min functionality will appear to registrants.
Can now add discount codes to your event reg. When you're setting up an event, you have to specify the code name you want to use and what the registration fee will be with the code (ex: $5 as opposed to $10). Your registrants will have a box for them to enter the discount code at the end of the registration process. When they enter the code, the system will automatically adjust their price.
This is what the discount code functionality looks like to the registrant.
Fundraisers can now also create their FRPs directly in the registration process, eliminating the extra step for them. Before, the fundraising page creation process came after the event registration, which mean that some registrants completely skipped that step and forgot to create a page. Now event registration and fundraising page creation form a cohesive unit.
We ’ve gotten many requests for event registrants to be able to make an additional donation on top of the registration fees for an event. This is obviously optional for registrants, but they can now specify whether or not they would like to give a little extra. Note: any donations made in this manner will be direct donations -- they won’t specifically count towards the event. We’ll eventually build this out so that it adds to the event.
The registration code proved confusing to some registrants, so we ’ve eliminated that. Your secondary regs used to get emailed a reg code to come back and create a FRP -- that’s no longer necessary
Setup questions… What if my event doesn’t have registration? Is there any additional cost for this? Will this affect my event that is currently in place?
Setup questions… What if my event doesn’t have registration? Is there any additional cost for this? Will this affect my event that is currently in place?