Gifting a Registration - TeamRaiser

David Malinowicz 2

Hello,


We are looking to add the ability for participants (or site visitors) to 'gift' a registration. This will allow users to pay for the registration fee of an event for another participant. An autoresponder with a link would then be sent to the receipient alerting them of the credit. The email would contain a link to register. Once the user reaches the final stage of registration (reg payment), the fee is waived or discounted prior to registration completion.


Possible? Alternatives? Thoughts?

Brian Mucha

David Malinowicz:

Hello,


We are looking to add the ability for participants (or site visitors) to 'gift' a registration. This will allow users to pay for the registration fee of an event for another participant. An autoresponder with a link would then be sent to the receipient alerting them of the credit. The email would contain a link to register. Once the user reaches the final stage of registration (reg payment), the fee is waived or discounted prior to registration completion.


Possible? Alternatives? Thoughts?

Hmm, it's going to be clunky. You could use a donation form along with an ecard to notify the recipient. That ecard could include a link to the TR with an embedded Promotion Code that would reveal a hidden Participant Type that has no registration fee.


The promo code isn't a single use, so you have the danger of that special link being circulated.


BPM

Romany Nassief

David Malinowicz:

Hello,


We are looking to add the ability for participants (or site visitors) to 'gift' a registration. This will allow users to pay for the registration fee of an event for another participant. An autoresponder with a link would then be sent to the receipient alerting them of the credit. The email would contain a link to register. Once the user reaches the final stage of registration (reg payment), the fee is waived or discounted prior to registration completion.


Possible? Alternatives? Thoughts?

I can think in alternative process by enabling "Secondary Registration" option for your event. User who want to gift a registration(s) will register through a free participation type as a primary registrant and then register as many secondary registrants as they need through the normal (paid) participation types you have. All secondary registrants will receive "Someone Has Registered You" autoresponder.


1) Enable secondary registration option for your event.

2) Append a session parameter to your "Gift a Registration" link like that "s_isgift=1".

3) Create a new free participation type "Gift Issuer" with unchecked "Fundraising Enabled" option.

4) Set the new participation type order to be the first one.

5) Configure "Participation Options" page under "Customize Pages" of your event by adding a conditional CSS styles that toggles your participation types appearence based of the session value and "extra_person" parameter passed with secondary registrations. The style will look like that:

<style>
.part-type-container[[?x[[S80:isgift]]x::x1x::[[?x[[S334:extra_person]]x::xx:::not(:first-child):::first-child]]:::first-child]] {
    display: none !important;
}
</style>

This way the new "Gift" participation type will be visible for the primary registrant only.


Please note:

By enabling Secondary Registration option, it will be available for normal participants. However, if you want to show/hide the button, you can make a condition using isgift variable to write any css/javascript.


- Romany

Brian Mucha

That's a good idea Romany. The only issue is that they would only be able to do this once. If they want to buy a few more registrations the next day, they will find they are already registered and their email is in use.

David Malinowicz 2

Correct. Also, if the user simply wished to 'gift' a registration - without registering themselves in order to do so, this would also be problamatic. For example, a grandmother that wishes to gift a registration for a mountain biking expedition to her grandson that had shown interest in participating, but needed assitance with the cost of registration.

Allison King

David Malinowicz:

Hello,


We are looking to add the ability for participants (or site visitors) to 'gift' a registration. This will allow users to pay for the registration fee of an event for another participant. An autoresponder with a link would then be sent to the receipient alerting them of the credit. The email would contain a link to register. Once the user reaches the final stage of registration (reg payment), the fee is waived or discounted prior to registration completion.


Possible? Alternatives? Thoughts?

 

This is a really great idea for a new TeamRaiser feature. I recommend clicking on the Ideas tab above and submitting it.