Under the bonnet - New Registration Form releases

A number of functions have been added to our Registration Form platform and are now up and running in your database.

1. Mandatory Products
The first of these changes, which applies to both Clubs and Associations, is the ability to now add mandatory products to your registration form. In the ‘Products’ menu of a your Registration Form you will see the screen below, which now has a column marked ‘Make Mandatory on Form’.

Ticking a product to make it mandatory will make the product appear ‘Already in cart’ and will be automatically selected when a member registers. This can be a useful tool if you have a set of fees that you would like all members to pay or if you’d like to make the online payment of your registration fees compulsory.



2. Seasons for Members registering to Team
The second of the additions, which is particularly relevant for Associations, is a change in the way players are assigned to a season when registering via a Member to Team form. When a member registers through a Member to Team form, they will be assigned to the ‘New Registration Season’ selected for the association and the season/s that team are registered to. Basically this just means that it will be easier to identify the season/s a member was part of a team for and that if for instance Team ABC is in season 2012, then when a member registers to that team, the member will also be part of season 2012.

3. Mandatory Club Drop Box
The third of these changes, also particularly relevant for Associations, is the addition of a ‘Make Club Mandatory’ option on a Team to Association registration form. This is a particularly useful option for those sports that accept team registrations through their online database and sync it with their offline Sportzware Central database. It will ensure members who register to a team online will be listed in those teams in their Sportzware Central database.

You can find this functionality by navigating to the ‘Edit’ screen of your Team to Association form where you will see a ‘Make Club Mandatory’ box (as shown below).



Ticking the box will then make the ‘Club Name’ drop box appear on your registration form as a compulsory field (shown below) and a club from the list must be selected by the member to complete the form.

If all this is too confusing give our Customer Support Team a yell and we'll go through it in more detail.