Trainee Profile
The more you know about the individuals attending your training events, the better you can prepare your training. 123Signup allows you to request basic contact information or extensive additional attributes of the trainees.
- More than 200 attributes of your trainees may be gathered
- Design specialized profile pages using various form types such as text boxes, drop-down menus or check boxes
- Give trainees the ability to opt-in or opt-out of bulk emails or tweets
- Trainee database is hosted in a secure data center with daily backups
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Keep your trainees informed of the upcoming training sessions as well as any changes using targeted emails. Promote your training sessions using Twitter and keep your classes filled.
Setup a Training Session
123Signup has created a fully automated process that makes training session creation easy.
- Define name, location and time of your trainings
- Organize your training sessions into categories
- Create web pages describing your training sessions
- Create registrant types with different pricing for each type
- Create multiple training sessions with capacity controls
- Develop questionnaires
- Set fees by time band, registrant type and training session
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Fill out our simple forms and create training registration pages as well as a Training Calendar. This quick and easy system saves you time and money.
Training Registration
You want to make the registration process easy while still giving your trainees all the options they desire. We fully support your registration needs, including the ability to instantly register with multiple payment options.
- Simple, intutive training registration pages that include your company's branding
- Controls to eliminate trainees from registering for sessions in the same time slot
- Allow one person to register multiple trainees with or without emails, for example, a single assistant registering multiple trainees from the same company
- Create multiple training sessions with capacity controls
- Allow a registrant to make a partial payment as a deposit to reserve a slot for a training session.
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Trainees can register for your sessions easily and receive instant notification of their registration. You know that the registration process is handled efficiently without increasing administrative costs.
Session Management
Your training may consist of many sessions and 123Signup supports your need to create multiple sessions in a single training event. You may optionally sell items such as books or recordings during registration.
- You can define trainings and set capacity controls. When the capacity is exceeded, the event automatically closes to online registrations.
- You can place logical constraints among sessions so that users are required to select a specific session to register or you can be sure they select only one of multiple sessions and more
- You may setup a waitlist option. When this feature is enabled, trainees are given the option to place themselves on a waitlist.
- Waitlist management features allow you to notify those on your waitlist according to your own criteria
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Your training events will be easily setup through our online event management software to include as many sessions as you need to properly accommodate your training needs. With the added ability to sell books or recordings during registration, you an ensured a smooth running and profitable training event.
Registration Discounts
123Signup's training management service allows you to manage self-service discounts in a variety of ways with ease.
- Charge different fees based on registrant type
- Pre-load your potential trainee list. You can associate a different fee with each of your various registrant types. With this utility, your registrants receive validated pricing discounts.
- Create multiple promotional codes to support different discounts. Registrants can enter the promotional code to receive specially discounted rates
- As an administrator, you can provide a discount of any amount to any trainee.
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By giving you control of your discounts, you can quickly and easily respond to the needs of trainees, providing you with a strong tool to fill all of your training sessions.
Training Calendar
You may schedule multiple training sessions. Having the ability to display your all your upcoming training events will generate interest from your new prospects and trainees who are registering for other trainings. 123Signup's online calendar is an easy way to keep your event attendees informed about all your trainings.
- A training calendar is automatically created and updated as you create your training sessions.
- Trainings may be grouped into categories to make searching easy.
- You may post links which display the full calendar or only trainings from a specific category.
- An overview of your sessions, their status, registration and waitlist links are included on the calendar.
- Our API provides XML access to the training definition if you wish to create custom calendars on your website, while doing data entry only once.
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The online calendar keeps your upcoming training events top of mind for attendees while minimizing marketing costs.
Advanced Options
Your online training registration software should support adding training sessions based on your specific needs. That is why our service supports full control of your registration process through our extended feature set:
- Manage a wait list when a session sells out
- Manage post-event surveys
- Create a training attendee directory to display registrants
- Record training attendance. This can be used to record and track continuing education certification units (CEUs)
- Track custom attributes of your training sessions such as credit units, instructors, location and more
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123Signup gives you an economical, scalable solution that supports your training management requirements and your administrative budget.
Email Marketing
Email is one of the simplest and most effective ways to communicate with your attendees. Your trainees rely on email to receive pertinent communication from you about their classes and seminars. 123Signup's email marketing will give you the ability to easily communicate regarding events or to provide them with time-sensitive updates or other pertinent information.
- Send personalized HTML emails to your attendees
- Emails can be used for event marketing or communicating with the registered attendees of any event
- Target select groups within your organization based on trainees' interests
- With personlized links, your trainees can register with minimal effort
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You will increase the visibility of any training, increase registrations, and provide a tremendous benefit by sending targeted communications to your members based on specific interests, all without increasing your administrative overhead.
Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing is a great method for improving your word-of-mouth marketing and increasing visibility for your upcoming trainings. 123Signup provides seamless integration with the most popular social media applications.
- Seamlessly publish all your trainings to your Facebook page
- Post registration links to your Facebook wall for immediate visibility to all your friends
- Create opt-ins for your attendees to receive tweets
- Seamlessly send tweets on Twitter to all your followers
- Easily send private messages to all your followers about upcoming trainings
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Reach new targets using Social Media Marketing and increase your visibility while including your trainees in additional conversations about your organization, making them feel more involved.
Payment Processing
Need to accept various methods of payments for your events? No problem. 123Signup's payment processing system accepts multiple forms of payment. Learn more about our Payment Processing.
- Credit Cards
We enable fast, secure online credit card and eCheck payments. Contact our Sales department to find out more about the available options and discuss the credit card processing option best suited to the specific needs of your organization.
- Check, Purchase Orders, Wire Transfers, etc.
You may choose to allow registrants to alternate payment methods, including check, purchase order, and wire transfer. Non-credit card payments are tracked as pending payments, until you record receipt of the payment, which enables you to make timely collections.
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Multiple payment options will increase your registrations resulting in increased revenue.
Reporting
Training managers need to track metrics to monitor the performance of training sessions. 123Signup provides comprehensive reporting, providing you the ability to track many areas so you can more effectively manage your organization without increasing your overhead.
- Over 50 custom reports are available at your finger tips
- Categories of reports include: Attendees, financials, credit card and usage fees, surveys, and more
- Reports are available in PDF for easy distribution and CSV files for easy import to Excel or other database applications
- Create badges for your trainings or mailing labels for your attendees
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Correct reporting of the critical areas of your events improves your ability to manage your training and financials easily and effectively.