Event registrations

Stephanie Osborne

Hi All- I'm looking for some feedback and/or suggestions on how others handle their offline event registrations through Team Raiser.  We host 5K events that we use team raiser for and on our event weekend we use paper forms to accept registrations.  The problem is after the event- we have hundreds of paper forms to then manually enter into TR on the backend.  I'm wondering if anyone has a better or more automated way to handle this event day registration process?

Brian Mucha

You can import registrations from a CSV, so at least you can have someone keying into Excel rather than a clunky web form.


You could even update your paper form to help handle OCR and just scan them all. I've thought a lot about trying that out.

Stephanie Osborne

Thanks Brian!  Yes, we're currently importing the CSV into TR which does save time.  I'm looking to save the manual part of entering into the excel.  I'll look into the OCR option- thanks!

Jennifer Schlager

Hi Stephanie - we used to used the CSV to TR functionality for our offline registrations and donations as well. It saved a lot of time, as we were able to have volunteers make the spreadsheets and we would have a staff member upload them! Best of luck!

Julie Taylor 2

We have the same issue.  And then those paying with a credit card, we swipe it during on-site registration using Blackbaud Mobile Pay.  Then we add the data to TeamRaiser, it comes over to RE through the plug in.  Anyone that paid with a credit card then needs manual attention to ensure duplicate information does not enter into RE.  


We have not been happy with this work around - It would be nice to be able to register on-site participants with the functionality from the front end.