TOPIC: Event set up question

I'm setting up registration for a girls camp that runs two weeks. Campers can attend week one, week two or both weeks. This presents an issue with how to set up registration so that I can use waiting lists and easily see how many campers will be attending week one and week two. I'd like to avoid having parents need to sign up their child twice, once for week one and once for week two if they want to attend both weeks.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
Amanda

Hi Amanda,

This might not be the best solution, but in case no one has a better answer, I can share what I do for my non-profit.

I have a similar situation where people can sign up to one (or both) sessions/camps or they can buy a "pass" which gets them access to both. What I do is as I get a signup for the "pass"/two-week-in-its-entirety-camp, I lower the capacity on the week one/week two events on the backend individually. The waiting list is enabled on both sessions/camps. This way individual waiting lists are maintained per event/camp, but people can still sign up for the "pass"/two-week-camp-in-its-entirety.

Hopefully I explained that alright. It's not the most elegant solution, but it works for me.

Hope that helps!

-soccerbum

Thanks for the suggestions soccerbum. Your help for other users is appreciated. Are you trying to work yourself into a job or something here?

Anyway... Amanda, your setup could be done a couple of ways. You could do ONE event and give the two week options through fields, using selection limits. However, you can't have a waiting list for a field value, so this would not work for your situation. So you are pretty much forced to setup each week as its own event so you have the waiting list feature for both.

If you are using version 2.7, you can enable the multi-event registration option so users could register for both weeks and then make one payment. That would be a good solution for you. They'd register week one, then after confirmation, "Click to register for another event" and then choose Week two. After going through the second form, they'd checkout and make one payment. Still two forms, but only one payment. Hope some of the suggestions are helpful to you.