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Some questions before I buy for an event website

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  1. condonp
    Member

    I am looking at buying the developer version for a site that does event management:

    1) What is the support agreement after 1 year do we have to renew if so what is the costs?

    2) I need for people to have the ability to register for an event, which has multiple sub events, ie Conference event, that has requires person to register for this and then register also for lunch , dinner, hotel etc.

    3) Ability to track what individuals have signed up for in the database and report on this, what report writer do you recommend for MYSQL

    4) Ability for an individuals to submit whilst registering an Abstract/ thesis, this is a text containing 2500 characters that needs to be held against individual.

    5) Ability to track and export to excel what individuals have regsitered against along with the abstract text

    6) Ability to mail individuals prior to event with mail shots and monitor response

    7) Ability to pay for event on line

    8) Ability to define calculated field i.e booking date from to shows calculated filed of X days

    9) Ability to limit number of attendees for an event.

    Many thanks

    Peter

    Posted 12 years ago on Wednesday December 21, 2011 | Permalink

  2. Carl Hancock
    Administrator

    1) After 1 year if you wish to continue receiving support and software updates you will need to renew your license key. License renewals are discounted. The Personal License renewal is 25% off the standard price and the Business and Developer License renewals are 50% off the standard price.

    2) A form is what you make it. Gravity Forms provides you a variety of form fields and tools. What the user fills out and submits is entirely dependent on what you place on your form. If you want them to fill out event registration and then optionally select other optons... then you can add those fields and ask questions and use conditional logic to show or hide additional fields.

    3) Gravity Forms does not have any complex reporting functionality. You can view and edit the form entries. You can also export them to CSV. You can then import that CSV into any 3rd party application that supports CSV if you want to do more complex reporting.

    4) If you want the user to submit some sort of content, then you can add a field to your form and ask them to enter that data. All the form field data will be captured with the entry that is created when the form is submitted.

    5) Form entries can be exported as a CSV file. You can then import that data into Excel.

    6) Gravity Forms is not an email marketing application. The only emails it sends are notifications triggered when a form is submitted. It can send an email to the Admin (ex. You) and the User (ex. the person submitting the form) with confirmation that the form was submitted as well as a copy of the information that was submitted. It doesn't do scheduled emails or reminders.

    It does not monitor back and forth email communications. I'm not sure what mail shots are.

    7) Gravity Forms can integrate with PayPal via the PayPal Add-On as well as Authorize.Net via the Authorize.Net Add-On which will be released as a beta release next week and is currently available as an alpha development release.

    8) Gravity Forms does not currently do field calculations. This can only be accomplished as a customization using custom jQuery or custom PHP.

    9) Gravity Forms can limit the number of entries for a form. This means each event would need to have if it's form. It also means any entries that are tests/canceled/etc. would need to be deleted because it would count against that entry total. That is the extent of its "limit" functionality.

    Please keep in mind that Gravity Forms is a general form builder and management application. It is not an event focused application and does not currently have event specific functionality.

    Posted 12 years ago on Friday December 23, 2011 | Permalink