Prairie Area Library System

Instructions for configuring and using the optional online registration module for events.  Word document attached.

Notes about the sign-up feature:

• There is no way to permit a "family" sign-up (i.e., one member of the family registers for multiple openings) that observes the number of openings left.
• Each person signing up needs a unique email address. (The software accepts fake email addresses.)
• Enabling sign-up for a repeating event does not create a single registration for the entire series of repeats.

The first two of these issues have been addressed by a workaround: Patrons can enter an email address at the librarysignup.com domain, which PALS registered specifically for this purpose.

That is, a parent who wants to register three children for an event can sign up each child separately, using child1name@librarysignup.com, child2name@librarysignup.com, and child3name@librarysignup.com in the email field.

People who use these workaround email addresses do not receive confirmation and reminder email, but library staff members do not get "undeliverable" auto-responses.