This December, I will be running the ever-popular webinar entitle“EventU: New User Training.” This webinar is targeted to users that have little or no experience with EventU, our event, facilities and resource scheduling software. This will be a great way for administrators to help get new users up to speed quickly and to lessen time spent in training. We will look at examples that showcase some of the special features of EventU like:

• Creating new events
• Calendars and online scheduling
• Running reports and much more…

This free webinar will be offered on 12/11 and is scheduled to last 1 hour. Again, this is designed for beginners. To sign up, follow the link below:

Thursday, December 11, 2:00 PM CST. Register here.

Brian Robison
Support Manager

Many of our customers experience great success using TransactU for online registrations and donations. Whether you need registrations for sporting events, classes, or even providing your users the ability to tithe online, TransactU can provide the answer. You may ask: How can TransactU help meet the need of my organization? The success story of Avalon Consulting is an example of how TransactU can be used to meet and exceed your goals.

Avalon Consulting represents ManeGait, a non-profit therapeutic horsemanship center. Avalon needed an online registration and donation solution for ManeGait’s annual “Gala at the ‘Gait” event. For previous Galas, registrations and donations were received by mail or in person. To maximize the fund-raising potential, Avalon decided to add an online component to this year’s Gala. ServiceU worked closely with Avalon to create and customize the online registration and donation experience. Not only was the staff of ServiceU able to guide Avalon through the process of building the registration form for the event, but they also helped build a customized web template to match the style of ManeGait’s website.

“The donations and contributions were great, and the registration form did wonders.” Thanks to the general convenience TransactU provided Avalon, registrations for the Gala saw a dramatic increase. Though much greater than expected, registrations weren’t the only thing that saw an increase. Overall fund-raising goals for the entire event were nearly doubled. More than half of the fund-raising total alone came from online registration and contributions.

This is only one example of the many success stories experienced by our customers. No matter the size of your organization, event, or fundraising goal, TransactU can work for you. ServiceU can help you rein in the potential of your organization and its goals, and make them a reality.

During this Thanksgiving season, we want to extend a warm season’s greetings and let you know how much we appreciate you and what you mean to us. As we at ServiceU look forward to the Christmas season and the New Year, I want to give you a “heads-up” about some exciting changes that will happening over the next few months.

First, in the next few months we will be releasing EventU Green. ServiceU has teamed up with Network Thermostat to bring you this award-wining product that will directly interface with your facilities HVAC system for greater utility savings in these tough economic times. To read more on this exciting product click here.

Continuing in our efforts to help you get people involved we are proud to announce a partnership with Sage Software. It is now easier than ever to implement TransactU, our online payments and donations software. Click here to read more.

Also, due to the continued success of our training seminars, we’re offering training in Charlotte (Dec. 3rd & 4th). You won’t want to miss out on this valuable opportunity to learn more about topics like creating events, donation forms, reporting, advanced administration settings, and much more. Of course, we’re continuing our ever-popular webinar, “EventU New User Training”. This webinar is essential for all new users to our system, or for those that just want a refresher course.

As always, THANK YOU for your continued patronage and have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Sincerely,

Tim Whitehorn

Are you looking for the easiest way to offer the convenience of online giving or online event registration? Thanks to a new alliance with Sage Payment Solutions, ServiceU is now your single source for online payments. This will provide a streamlined process for setting up a merchant account and activating payments from your website. Here are just a few of the benefits that you will gain by choosing ServiceU:

Fast turnaround time
Once you submit the application, you can start accepting payments from your website FAST, usually in only 2 or 3 days.

No surprises
ServiceU will send you a checklist of all the information that you will have to provide to get your merchant account set up with Sage Payment Solutions. This eliminates the hassle and delay caused by incomplete information.

Discounted pricing
Because of our tremendous client base, ServiceU has already negotiated extremely attractive rates, with low setup fees, low monthly fees, low discount rates, and NO MONTHLY MINIMUMS.

No middleman
ServiceU’s software is directly integrated to the Sage Payment Solutions gateway. This eliminates the monthly fees and transaction fees charged by many other providers. Plus, by having your own merchant account, funds are deposited directly into your bank account.

Specialized for churches and nonprofits
ServiceU and Sage Payment Solutions specialize in the unique needs of churches, schools, and other nonprofit organizations.

Peace of mind
ServiceU and Sage Payment Solutions are both recognized by Visa and MasterCard as Level 1 Service Providers that are in compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS). You can view the list of Approved Merchants here.

Easy reconciliation of deposits
ServiceU’s deposit reporting makes it easy for your accounting staff to match deposit batches from your merchant account with the corresponding donations, event registrations, as well as the deposits into your bank account.

These are just a few of the advantages that ServiceU offers to your organization. For more information, visit our website, submit a contact form, or send an email to info@ServiceU.com.

Good news friends!  We have made some great progress with EventU Green and you will see the results soon.  The feedback we have received has been fantastic.  So many of you have called asking when you can sign up.  Recently, I had the pleasure of discussing this great new product with a few facilities managers across the country and it was fun to see people’s excitement.  The benefits of EventU Green are easy to recognize.  Are you interested in saving time and money?  Now that’s a silly question isn’t it?!

So what has ServiceU done so far?  Well, let me tell you.  We recently teamed up with NetworkThermostat and created a working model that integrates with NetworkThermostat’s Net/X™ devices.  In our model, we are able to schedule events on the EventU system that control the Net/X devices.  Needless to say, we are almost there.  We actually had the model up and running at the recent 2008 WFX worship facilities conference and expo.  Our model worked so well that it was named a WFX 2008 new product award winner! 

Benefits:
• Reduction in energy consumption for heating and cooling of up to 20% or more
• More money to spend on ministry due to savings on utility costs
• Free up valuable labor time currently spent manually managing HVAC controls
• Higher “user satisfaction” since room temperature will be automatically controlled capabilities
• A single calendar system for managing events, rooms, resources, and HVAC
• Real-time control of all air conditioning and heating zones for an entire campus
• Changes to events automatically result in corresponding changes to HVAC controls
• High-availability architecture continues HVAC control even if internet is down