We’re setting up our ski club trip signups and invoicing in WA for the first time. Some options we need to create have negative costs, like a lift-ticket discount for a senior or a “ground package” discount for someone providing their own transportation to the resort. WA will allow us to manually enter a negative-cost amount on an invoice, but will apparently NOT let us create a custom field that has a negative cost. It would be a tremendously helpful enhancement if we could create a negative-cost item (under Custom Fields). Please consider adding this capability – or perhaps it exists but it’s not apparent how to do it? Thanks!

Enable Event Reminder to be sent to selected registrants only.
Currently, event Reminders are sent automatically to all registrants (we send them out 2 days before an event). But if a member registers for an event after the Reminder has been sent, there is no way to send the Reminder to them - the Reminder can only be resent to all registrants. We use Reminders to provide final details such as meeting place, what to be bring etc. which is important also for those registering just the day before an event.
This could work in a similar way to the "Send notification" function is used to send the Confirmation email to manually added registrants.

That the individual line items on an invoice be included in the event download available as "export registrants"

Currently after choosing "export registrants" there is a field labeled "Total fee incl. extra costs and guest registration fees." This is a summary figure. Our satisfaction with Wild Apricot's support in managing our events would be much improved if we could get a report with these individual line item totals from our invoices in addition to this summary figure.

For example, our event "2017 APACHE Homeschooling Convention" has these invoice items:
Registration...
Children...
Friday lunches...
Friday suppers...
Saturday lunches...
CPR class fee
Red Cross class fee
Convention Recordings

On our financial statements, the payments for these are grouped into four different categories. Because a report with this detail is unavailable to us from Wild Apricot, getting this accounting information is a time-consuming process, as it must be done by having someone look at each invoice and type the information into an excel spreadsheet manually.

Any help you can provide in helping us to get this information through Wild Apricot reports would be very much appreciated.

Integration with Meetup for non-programmers. Meetup's market power comes from its Facebook-like ability to inform Meetup users of similar Meetups happening in their geographic area or in the user's area of interest; it is superior to Facebook in its ability to organize actual activities. If it were not for these features, Meetup could be ignored by Wild Apricot users. Position Meetup as a feeder market for selling Wild Apricot (WA) services to Meetup groups that have grown to the point of needing more sophisticated member management and website integration, without relying upon programmers.

1) Map WA user logon authentication with Meetup user ids similar to WA’s existing ability with Facebook and Google+.

2) Map WA membership levels and administrative levels to Meetup organizer (i.e. Meetup administrator) levels.

3) Allow Meetup events or proposed events to show up as WA events and vice versa.
a. Map certain WA event registration types to Meetup event registrations (at least free registrations but allowing fee charging registrations should be investigated even if the payment will go through the Meetup group itself) while keeping other WA reservation types exclusive to WA resources. WA event registration types that map to Meetup would be open to event registration to Meetup users, with the registration slots being taken on Meetup showing up as registrants, or at least as slots taken, on WA.
b. WA would need to complete its planned project of allowing members to submit events and map this to the Meetup system for doing the same. Most likely events mapped to Meetup would be created on WA first then mapped to Meetup but the alternate approach of allowing Meetup events to be created and mapping to limited versions of WA events should be considered.
c. Allow WA to have proposed events waiting for confirmation from the event organizer about when and where it will happen. Map this to Meetup events that are waiting for a time. As a part of this allow even mere contacts to propose events even if the event will require an actual member to finally organize the event itself.

4) Add to WA venue booking and allow administrators and members with the right level of access to add these venues to events, then map the venues into the Meetup representation of the WA events. Meetup allows organizers to define a restricted list of venues that a group will use but it does not treat these venues as bookable resources. WA has user proposals for including bookable resources but currently has no such feature. WA could offer administrators and members with the right membership levels to book organization-defined resources (a conference room, a boat, etc.) and then to place those resources as the venue or one of several venues for an event. This could then be mapped into the Meetup equivalent of the WA event.

WA is currently superior to Meetup in terms of overall website design, sub-group creation and management, contact and member search, email blast management, more sophisticated administrator privileges, membership billing and accounting, allowing differing membership levels, allowing differing event registration types, and offering more payment processing options. Meetup is currently superior to WA in terms of publicizing a group’s existence and a group’s events to non-group members, allowing group members or even contacts to self-organize events, and it has a more attractive user interface for some of these functions.

Wild Apricot’s major selling point to us is that it offers a lot of integration without relying upon programmers, however there are powerful social media that organizations need to connect to and do so in an integrated fashion without requiring programming. We cannot ignore them. We are currently investigating using Meetup as a public front end for our organization along with Facebook but integration is a major hurdle with both social media systems.

Events Registration - program to have the linked registration function write the hosts name in the linked registration field if the host has guests. So the data export to an excel file can be sorted to assign sit together tables for table assignment?

host name ...... host name
host name ...... guest name
host name ...... guest name

The host name .... guest name write is already there, it just requires the host name .... host name write.

This is a definite requirement for clubs that have meetings with table seatings and would take a WA programmer 2 secs to change. Whereas users searching and manually updating cells for every event over and over can take forever.

We are utilizing the “tag” feature in “events” to create different calendar-type listings on our webpage. One tag is “programs” so that we can have an actual event calendar. The other tag we are using is “grants” because we have created a page listing available grants in our state.

I would love for there to be a way to change JUST the grants tag to be listed in order of the “End Date” since that is the date most important to grant seekers – the date that the grant application period closes.

Perhaps if not to sort the grants listings by “end date” perhaps there is a way to eliminate the search by date feature completely (again, JUST in the grants tag or on the specific grants page we have created) so that folks would have to click on the title to view any dates at all.

I think the tags are a great functionality, but i'd like to see them be developed further for expanded use for all purposes they are being used for.