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I know all this. Just tell me how to set up event registration.
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Watch a video introduction to the Trumba event registration process:
In Trumba® Connect, you can set up event registration to support:
For both invitation-only and open events, you can do any of the following:
The event registration process includes the steps listed below. Click each step for more details.
While Trumba® Connect provides default registration forms you can use, you also have the option of creating custom registration forms that include questions you want each registrant to answer.
For example, if you offer job training events, you might ask registrants to indicate the language they speak. If you offer campus orientation tours, you might ask registrants to indicate their major.
I'd like to know more about custom registration forms.
You can set up event registration for any event that you can edit (including repeating events). All of the registration options are available on the Event Registration tab in the form that opens when you add or edit an event.
OK. Now step me through setting up event registration.
If your Trumba customer account was created after Thursday, August 13, 2015 or you have enabled the New Event Actions and a publisher with administrative privileges set up visitor accounts for your organization, you can give registrants the option or require them to sign in to their accounts before registering for an event.
Learn more about event registration and visitor account sign-in.
Watch a short video that describes setting up event registration sign-in and how signed-in registrants track and manage their registration status.
I'd like to watch the Introduction to the New Event Actions video first.
You can invite specific people to attend an event and/or you can offer open registration via sign-up buttons associated with events on calendars or promotion spuds.
How do I invite people to attend an event?
I'd like more information about open registration buttons.
Can I customize the open registration buttons?
People you invite receive an invitation to register
Clicking Register opens a registration form where invitees can accept or decline the invitation.
What do the sign-in options on the registration form mean?
People who click a sign-up button open a registration form where they provide their registration details.
Each person who accepts an invitation or registers using an open sign-up button receives an email message confirming their registration.
Registrants receive a confirmation email.
I'd like to see the Help that is available to registrants.
As invitees and/or open registrants sign up, their responses are captured in a table on the Event Registration tab in the event form.
Tip To help with locating a registrant, you can sort the list by clicking a column heading.
Registrant responses are captured in a table on the Event Registration tab.
After registering, registrants have the option of updating or canceling their registrations (as long as the response deadline hasn't passed). They can do this in a couple of ways:
I'd like more information about response deadlines.
Confirmation email messages include buttons registrants can use to change their registration details or cancel their registrations.
Clicking the button opens an event registration window that includes an update registration link.
What do the sign-in options on the registration form mean?
Update registration link
Clicking the link displays an Email Registration Link button.
What do the sign-in options on the registration form mean?
Email Registration Link button
After a registrant provides the name and email address they used to register and clicks the button, the registrant receives an email message that contains Change Registration and Cancel Registration buttons.
As registrants respond and update their responses, their data are recorded on the Event Registration tab in the event form. You can open the form at any time to track and edit responses.
I'd like more details about how I manage registration responses.