For lots of organizations, providing a way for people to register for events and classes online is an excellent way to encourage people to join your events. After spending so much time to plan and execute events, isn’t it important to make sure you actually get people to attend and reap fruit from all the work that goes into the planning? By utilizing the web to encourage more participants—to any kind of event at your church, school or nonprofit organization—you can be offering more ways for people to become involved, while streamlining the administrative side of event registration.
When asked about how taking online registrations and payments
can assist churches with better managing their resources, president
and CEO of ServiceU Tim Whitehorn replied, “It’s simple. When you
give people a way to become involved by signing up for events and
paying fees online, more people will come to your events and your
ministry will become more successful. If you register them, they
will come!”
EventU is a product that not only provides the tools for events registration online, it also provides the tools to take payments for books fees, conference fees—virtually anything related to an event. It also provides the church with powerful tools to manage the event from inside, from reserving the room, to reserving equipment, vehicles or other resources; it also has a calendar function that streamlines planning for organizations and can be updated online for public use. Because the program is web-based, meaning it’s accessed via the Internet, the process of setting up an event is centralized online and always up-to-date.
For example, Northland Christian School in Houston, Texas is a huge proponent of taking online registrations and payments for everything under the sun. Through the school’s website, over 34 different events can be paid for online. Students and parents can register and pay for after school sports, AP exam fees, end-of-year banquets and more—all through the schools’ website.
“We had always required teachers to manage money for special events, class activity funds, field trips and more; with ServiceU, we were able to take the burden off our teachers and put the entire process online. Now, all of our parents want everything online before we can even get it up, says Cherilyn Ziemer, assistant to the superintendent at Northland Christian School.
Northland takes technology a step further and even provides a full online calendar for students and parents. This isn’t any ordinary calendar, it’s an automatically updated calendar that links to individual events and activities and displays a full page of details for every event listed online. Now, the administrative staff, students, parents and volunteers all know what events are happening where, and are confident that the information is always up-to-date.
Regardless of your organization, by using online tools such as
registration forms, payment fields, and updated calendars to gain
more sign ups for your events, you can increase your ministry ten-fold
and grow your organization. You can do it!