Church Tech Geeks

20th June 2009 | Comments (View)

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VBS Registration

Three years ago I was approached by my church’s Childrens Pastor about moving all our paper registration we do online.  This was done for a few reasons:

1. Cut down on admin time entering all the information into excel database.
2. Cut down on the last minute payments or no payments.
3. Allow people to pay with credit cards.

So with our church not having a merchant account (an account with your local bank to accept credit card payments) we needed a provider to deal with that.  The best option we’ve found is called RegOnline and its amazing.  Mainly for the image below.

This was after our first 110 registration, we have 90% of registration paid for and done and RegOnline will wire the money into our account.  They charge about $6 per registration including the credit card processing fees and $4 if they pay by cheque, best spent money ever.

Setup is easy, I got the entire form done in about an hour and half done with our logo and everything nicely looking on the form.  Added a registration button to our VBS website and done.

Some extra benefits we liked:

• No more confusing excel spreadsheet only the person making it understood.
• Easily accessible information for medical/missing children.
• Nametags for the kids are all ready to print out.

Questions about this? Leave it in the comments.