What happens with TeamRaiser Event Affiliation?

Mike Infranco

What exactly do we get with Event Affiliation of TRs? 



I'm mostly interested in 2 things: 

1) Does it combine thermometers for users, teams and events? 

2) Does it combine the participant search functionality? 



Background: we're trying to decide between 2 scenarios for an event. We want most users to register and optionally fundraise. But we're also continuing a greater emphasis on P2P fundraising, so we'd also like to give folks another Participation Type of mandatory fundraising. 



So we're trying to decide between 2 approaches 

1) 2 TRs 

- TR 1 is "normal" registration with no mandatory fundraising. Marketing collateral mentions fundraising, but the emphasis is on registration. 

- TR 2 is mandatory fundraising. Marketing collateral emphasizes fundraising. 



2) 1 TR. Has a few Participation Types as above (from TR #1), but adds the additional PT (from TR #2) for mandatory fundraising.

 

So with option #2, we're interested in using Event Affiliation to help combine reports and stats. But the help documents don't talk too much about what you actually get with Event Affiliation.

 

Jori Taylor

Mike,

 

Start here and check out the following:

 

1. Previous community post, http://community.convio.com/t5/TeamRaiser/Teamraiser-parent-and-child-events/m-p/65826/highlight/true#M1351

2. Feature Summary doc, http://community.convio.com/convio/attachments/convio/releases_summer2011_featuresummaries/5/1/FeatureSummary_2011_Summer_TeamRaiser_Affiliated%20_Events_FINAL.pdf

 

This may help you decide the appropriate strategy. My gut says go with option #1 and make it easier on yourself to manage everything in one event. Plus, you can easily create conditional content based on participation type and other fundraising behaviors using the coaching email tool.