Support

Current behavior:
Wild Apricot assumes that mos attendees will be pre-registering online and does not provide any special functionality for on-site registrations and attendance tracking. It is still possible to handle that in the following way:
- record on-site registrations and collect payments. Record attendance. (We assume that you will do it on the piece of paper instead of directly into the system, though this is possible as well).  
- enter all onsite registrations manually via admin backend using 'Add attendee' button. (You might want to add a special registration type 'Onsite' to make reconciliation easier)
- add option buttons field to the event registration form, e.g. 'Attended?' Yes/No
- Now go to each registration and set this field to proper value
This works but is not the most convenient way to do it.

Desired behavior:
Functionality specifically tailored for entering onsite registrations and attendance. Specifically:
- a way to record how exactly the payment was received for each onsite registration
- a way to record attendance on a list of people, instead of going into each record.
- ability to filter/export attendee list by onsite vs. pre-registered; attended/not

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

This would benefit us.  We also have a lot of free events and people tend not to register for these events cause they know they can "just show up". 

If we had this capability, people would see how quickly they could check in if they were already registered and it may sway them to register for future events.

While walk-up registrations are a small part of our events, they are a regular occurence, and in my 6 years with the organization we have never had an event without walk-ups. So, for tracking purposes, I would like to see this.

our group would ABSOLUTELY benefit from having this functionality available.  we currently have two needs for this time of behavior.

 1. we have a weekly (free) event where we would like to be able to track student attendance.  we have been using the registration tool and setting up kiosks for students to "register" on-site. however, this process is slow and cumbersome when we have more than 100 students on some weeks.  however, we continue to use it because it saves lots of volunteer hours from having to log in attendance.

2.  the second usage we would like is for events where students can register online and then check-in on the day of the event.  this allows us to track if students are "missing" before we leave for the weekend away or again is an attendance function, allowing us to track all of the programs our students attend throughout the year.

i would LOVE to see these implemented for the next school year.

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chrissy remsberg

I would love to see this as well.  It would greatly improve the speed of marking attendance each Sunday for our church.  Obviously there are no pre-registeration for Sunday morning service, so we'd have to enter all the info manually, off of attendance cards in the pews.  A checklist for members to be added to an Event would greatly increase the speed for church leadership to see who has been there and who wasn't, and followup.

 Thanks for considering this!