Monday, May 13, 2013

Implement Onsite Online Registration To Eliminate Check-In Hassles


Ensuring smooth running of all check-in processes every time a guest arrives at the event venue is very important to make an onsite event successful. Many companies avail of event management solutions which offer online registration facilities from before, but tend to overlook the necessity of providing similar facility on site. Instead, they go in for complicated check-in procedures which take up a huge amount of time adding to the major dissatifaction of the guests. If you are planning to organize an event for a certain cause, do implement onsite online registration facility to do away with all the hassles of on-site check-in procedures.

One does not need to go in for any extra software or hardware installation related investments if there is a comprehensive online event management solution at hand. To provide onsite registration facility, the only thing an organizer needs to make sure is that there is a computer with internet connectivity at the kios. The online event registration form which can be customized to look like an integral element of the company's own website functions as a self-service, on-site tool by accessing which attendees can easily register while making an entry. This adds to the attendees' satisfaction as they do not have to worry about attending an event without having been able to register for it from beforehand. No doubt, this also increases the attendee footfall thereby improving the busines prospects of an event.

How to manage an event with better on-site check-in facilities?

繚 Variety of onsite event management solutions are available which cater to the real-time on-site support related needs of an event organizer. Following are some of the facilities:

繚 Live check-in facility made possible by your pro-active staff at the kiosk

繚 Implementation of on-site, self-registration kiosks via which a walk-in or a proper registrant could check-in, make requiste payments, and produce a bar-coded name badge

繚 Printing facilities for attendee lists, name badges and on-site event sign-in data sheets

繚 Assigning a unique bar codes to each name badge is very important to track on-site attendance and for future lead retrieval

繚 On-site e-commerce facilities by enabling collection and processing of live credit card payments via a secured gateway

繚 Distribution of invoices and other attandee profile related data

繚 Modification of registration details on site for real-time report generation

繚 Marking of no-shows folowed by immediate email messaging to encourage them to attend other forthcoming events

繚 Accessing real-time survey reports on site

繚 Deploying pro-active on-site project managers to listen to all issues faced by the atendees

All these facilities help to maximise atendance at a particular event, ensures ROI in the least possible time, improves prospects of all future events to be organized by the same company, and promote the brand name of the organizing company by proving its credibility in front of a large number of attendees hailing from different parts of the world.

Keeping a live pulse always does a great value-addition for your event. So, next time you plan an event, do remember to keep comprehensive on-site registration and check-in facilities in place.

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