Event Registration Types with From AND To dates [8815]
Hi,
Our club hosts races which are announced many months in advance. We provide a sliding scale of pricing for each event regisration type, based upon how soon someone signs up. As we get closer to the event the amount goes up.
This strategy typically requires that we set up our event types such that there is an introductory race (until some date), followed by one or more periods of price increases (each one is scheduled to run from some date until another date), followed typically by a period of a week or two prior to the event when registration is closed, and then finally a higher fee on race day.
Because the "From" and "Until" dates on the registration types are implemented as radio buttons we are unable to specify a date rage.
This causes us to have to manually go in and change the from date to an until date at the end date of that period's registration fee.
If we had the ability to specify the period (from date AND until date) we would have a perfect match between the capabilities and our requirements.
As this problems exists for each of our races this is an important change request for us. Please consider this change for the next release.
Thanks,
Joe
Released in 5.1
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Dmitry Buterin commented
What we currently have is the ability to limit event registrations (in each event registration type) to work From certain date or until certain date. So what you are asking for is ability to specify both from and until date, am I correct?
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Mike Willis commented
Hi it would be really useful to be able to set up events which will only accept registration for a certain period before the date and also with a closing date for registration before the event itself is run.
For instance we have a number of weekly events which we only open up for booking 7 days in advance this is to prevent people block booking every week at the begining of a season and then not showing up or cancelling on a weekly basis. We also run bigger events which this is not relevent to.
We also need to close an event registration a couple of days prior to the event itself to ensure that we can adequately staff an event - or stand down volunteers if they are not required.
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Dmitry Buterin commented
We try to only keep things in the roadmap forum which are expected to be released within a few versions - which I can not yet say for this change.
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CJoeG commented
Will you move it to the wish list at least, so that it's on the roadmap?
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Dmitry Buterin commented
Joe,
Thanks for the detailed description, makes good sense. We will definitely consider it - but unfortunately it will not be the next release or even the next after that.
The next release is already in development so there is no room for extra stuff unless there is an emergency.
For the one after that we have a long queue of suggestions and unless we are talking about a very simple change (which yours might potentially turn out to be), we would first wait and collect votes and comments on your suggestion to see how it should be prioritized against a few hundred other items.