From time to time we come up with a need for facilitating ‘sign-ups’ for events that aren’t one to one registrations. Most events we say X number of participants can register for an event at a given time on a given day. That’s pretty easy and there are a bunch of tools to facilitate online registrations. We are currently using a Hybrid of ServiceU and Access ACS. But sometimes you need registrations for “old school” sign-up boards and you have multiple slots for multiple times for one event… which could result in one event needing 10-12 “events” for registration.
Now for my wonderings… does such a tool or service exits to take the “old school sing up board” and make it an online tool?
An example of what am looking for looks like this…. An event occurs on a given day but the event is segmented into 20 minute blocks over 8 hours and each block can have 4-10 participants.
| 1:00 PM | ||
| Slot A ____________ | ||
| Slot B ____________ | ||
| Slot C ____________ | ||
| 2:00 PM | ||
| Slot A ____________ | ||
| Slot B ____________ | ||
| Slot C ____________ | ||
It would be great to have an online tool/application that would allow individuals to “sign-up” for a slot and have the system send them a confirmation email and then make that time slot “unavailable” for all subsequent users.
So my question… does such a product already exist or should I proceed down a road of custom development?
Let me know if you find anything out on this topic. We are looking to custom development but I would like to see if someone has an existing service already built.