Hi Brian. Have to say, the webinar on the Events Management features was quite the hit here at the office J After watching it and seeing how the new features work, I was wondering if I could pick your brain for a second. Name Badges:I think it is really cool that they can be printed all at once.  There is a specific kind of name badge paper we use, each card is 4 x 3 and have bars on the top and bottom. They are color coded so we know who our regular members are, who are the affiliates, and who are our sponsors and exhibitors.  It would be so cool if we can download the name badge info with the QR image - we usually add the attendee’s professional title, so usually it would look like this: 

FAC Logo                                                

Name of the Event

NICKNAME OF ATTENDEE

Full Name of Attendee

Professional Title

ORGANIZATION NAME 

The color bars appear above the logo and below the organization name. I don’t foresee us changing the type of name badge paper anytime soon, but if there was a way for us to have a modifiable template that would be sweet.

Also I wish we can be able to sort how the badges will print (like, by last name) before we generate them on PDF.  It would be easier to detach them and sort them versus printing them as they appear and then scrambling to alphabetize them. 

Sign in Sheet:Currently the way we sign in members is very manual and highly interactive --- our members love to chit chat at the table as they are getting their packets; I export the list of attendees and drop their names (mail merge style) into a sign in sheet template. 

 The names are sorted by last name, and then the list is printed – two copies.When the member/attendee shows up at the registration desk, the person who checks them in writes their initial on the box that corresponds to that person’s name, and then hands them their packet. 

Typically the person who hands out the packet should also be the one who initials the box, but that doesn’t always happen. 

Also, if an attendee picks up someone else’s packet, we have to write a note on the sheet in the space provided and mention who picked it up, and then the box gets initialized. I would really like to do away with this and check in members online – but then the problem would be how to document who checked them in and if someone else picked up the packet. 

So I was wondering, is there a way to capture the information of the person using the QR reader (presumably through her phone’s QR reader) and append that info onto the Administrative Comments?  Marking them as attended via QR code is awesome – I just know that my boss would also like some accountability included in that, so she knows who marked them as attended.  It is also how our education department  assigns credits for CEUs.

 Let me know your thoughts.