| Recent surveys show that at least 20% of | | | | systems, you can also email reports to sponsors, |
| corporate meeting planners do not use any kind of | | | | colleagues, vendors or anyone else you need to keep |
| online application or website to assist in their | | | | in the loop, without giving them direct access to your |
| registration process. So using an HTML form to | | | | accounts or data. |
| register attendees puts you ahead of at least some | | | | Flexible Forms |
| of your peers. | | | | The best registration systems on the market today |
| However, when contacting meeting professionals | | | | allow you to build your forms using a WYSIWYG |
| who already employ an HTML-based form to help | | | | (What You See Is What You Get) editor, meaning |
| with registration, they are often under-informed or | | | | that you can build an entire web page without |
| misinformed on what exactly an online registration | | | | knowing any HTML code. This gives you the ability to |
| system could offer them in addition to the | | | | add your logo, customize text styles, change colors |
| functionality of their established HTML registration | | | | and make changes on the fly, with no need to |
| form. | | | | involve an IT department! |
| In brief, here are just a few of the advantages to | | | | Automatic Emails |
| be gained by switching to an online registration | | | | Event-reminder and registration confirmation emails |
| system: | | | | are easy to build and send with online systems that |
| Superb Security | | | | do most of the work for you. In addition, top |
| Because most online registration companies host your | | | | systems will have a mechanism which sends emails to |
| registration pages on their servers you can take | | | | registrants who abandon the process before |
| advantage of the economies of scale and get | | | | completing their registration, affording you the |
| expensive security measures for a fraction of their | | | | opportunity to assist people who are confused, or |
| price. Hackersafe inspections, 128-bit encryption | | | | help to convince them that registering for your event |
| technology, TRUSTe verified privacy policies and PCI | | | | will be beneficial. |
| compliancy are all great programs you can take | | | | The biggest difference between online registration |
| advantage of. | | | | and HTML registration forms is that they are |
| Customizable Reporting | | | | self-service. There a few registration companies that |
| On top of securing your data, registration systems | | | | will let you try out their system fully before you |
| often offer custom reporting capabilities so that you | | | | commit to buying anything. |
| can slice your data any way you need. With some | | | | |