Just when you are resting up from all the Easter celebrations, it’s time to move on to what is the biggest outreach event for many churches, Vacation Bible School (VBS). Now is the perfect time to consider using TransactU to help your VBS registrations and payments run even more smoothly.
“Save your church tremendous amounts of time by using TransactU for VBS registration,” encourages Brian Robison, customer service manager for ServiceU. “The staff involved in registration can be freed up to do other things instead of spending so much time on these tedious details.”
Many churches have already benefitted from using TransactU for VBS registrations. Learn about how First Redeemer Church (link to article here) effectively registered more than 2,500 kids last year using TransactU during their two-week VBS outreach program.
When setting up an event in TransactU, you can create event forms for your participants to complete online, and you can add liability forms or the VBS logo to the forms by using the attachments feature.
Don’t forget about the powerful reporting features that TransactU offers. You can easily run reports alphabetically, according to t-shirt size (a popular report to run for VBS), or age/grade breakdowns. These reports will help your staff plan and prepare for the big event.
“Another incredibly helpful way to use TransactU for VBS is to take volunteer registration online as well,” adds Brian. “For some churches, they have almost as many volunteers as they do participants. TransactU can help manage volunteers and keep track of who is doing what to make your VBS a success.”
For churches that charge a fee for VBS, TransactU can also record and process payment information online, saving your administrative staff one more step, and the parents of your VBS participants will be grateful for this convenience.
“Many parents scramble to get everything ready for a typical day,” adds Brian, a working father himself. “Sometimes, the only time for parents to take care of these details is at night when the kids go to bed or on their lunch break. Giving them the option for online registration and payments is a huge convenience for many parents and guests.”
Online registration is also a useful tool for outreach and increasing attendance.
“By offering the online registration, guests and friends may be more willing to sign-up online than going to the church beforehand to register and pay,” Brian notes.
If you don’t have this set up yet, the folks at ServiceU can assist you with getting your merchant account set up in order to take online checks and credit cards right from your church website. For more details on how TransactU can help your church, visit http://www.TransactU.com or call 1.866.709.7420 today!
