The iMIS Events feature helps you manage both planning and registration functions for any seminar, convention, or meeting, large or small. iMIS Events is designed to let you enter and track complex information in a more direct and meaningful way than ever before.
iMIS Events simplifies the planning and coordinating of any event, from a single seminar to a full-scale convention. It integrates and streamlines the complex tasks associated with organizing an event. These are some of the key skills you will learn:
■ Managing several events and seminars simultaneously.
■ Tracking and printing event and room setup requirements.
■ Processing registrations efficiently, even with flexible fees.
■ Viewing and tracking event registration statistics, including fees.
■ Printing high-quality registrant badges (laser or dot-matrix).
■ Printing confirmations, invoices, tickets, rosters, and summary statistics.
■ Tracking long-term participation histories for analysis and marketing.
■ Canceling all registrations automatically when a planned event is not held.
Events system flexibility
With iMIS Events, you have the flexibility to define and plan events for your organization's specific needs. Registration processing and event reporting help you effectively manage the event.
Event definition and planning
iMIS Events enables you to define events and event components with the level of detail that is best for you. You can hold a simple event with a single registration fee and open attendance functions, or you can hold a large event in which all functions have attendance limits and waiting lists, and require a registration fee which is based on a customer's registration class and registration date. You can also define codes ensure that registrants don't register for functions that occur at the same time. iMIS Events is also integrated with iMIS Fundraising features.
Event registration processing
iMIS Events includes full featured event registration processing including:
■ Registering current and new customers
■ Adding guests for badges and rosters
■ Billing registrations to a third party
■ Recording deposits and other ongoing payments as they occur
■ Assigning fundraising income to the appropriate accounts
Note: To authorize credit card payments for Events, Exhibition, Exposition, and Orders, enter them through Service Central > Enter and edit payments (if licensed for SERVCEN) or AR/Cash > Cash receipts (if licensed for CCAUTH (see Credit Card Authorization)).
Event reporting
This feature includes many letters and reports, such as:
■ Event status with class breakdown
■ Confirmation letters and cards
■ Badges for attendees
■ Function tickets
■ Labels
■ Rosters
■ Financial reports
iMIS lets you control the layout of your printed materials. Though specific options vary from one type of report to another, you can determine search criteria and sort fields. You can print reports for an entire event as well as request certain reports for single functions. In addition, many of the materials, such as badges, tickets, confirmation letters, and invoices, print on standard preprinted iMIS forms.