How to Make Event Registration & Payments Easy

Do any of these situations sound familiar…

• Does your church have an information table with clip boards and event sign-up sheets strewn all over it?
• Do you have people who sign up for events like dinners, trips, or youth activities but don’t have the cash on them to pay for them when they sign up?
• Are you constantly getting emails, phone calls and texts from people who want to participate in an event and then have to add their name and info to a list somewhere?
• Ever lose a sign-up sheet… er, I mean, have someone move a sign-up sheet without telling you?

You can eliminate these problems by adding event registration to your website. Online event registration provides many benefits, including:

1. Better organization – Never lose a sign-up sheet again.
2. Better accuracy – Ever get signups where you couldn’t read the phone number, email address or maybe even the name? That’s less likely when registration is done on a computer.
3. Saves your organization time – instead of taking signups by phone, email or text, your people can sign up themselves online.
4. Saves your people time – it’s often faster and easier to fill out an online form than a paper form
5. More payment options – for events that cost money, instead of requiring people to pay by cash or check, they can pay online by credit or debit card
6. Greater participation – When people can sign up anytime and anywhere from a computer, tablet or phone they are less likely to forget to signup. Send an email with a sign-up link and people can click and sign-up immediately.

Online event registration works great for vacation bible school, dinners, school field trips, ministry events, general admission concerts and more!

Bottom line…

Online event registration saves time and increases participation in events.

If you use our WP-EZ Website Builder, you can get online event registration as a premium plugin. Order event registration pro if you want to take payments online, or order basic event registration for everything but online payments.

Want to see how online event registration works behind the scenes? Watch any of the 11 video event registration video tutorials we created.

What do you think?

• What events does your organization do?
• How could online event registration benefit your organization and people?

Paul Steinbrueck

Co-founder & CEO, OurChurch.Com

Paul has been the CEO of OurChurch.Com since its founding in 1996, combining his passion for faith and technology to lead the organization.

An accomplished writer, Paul has authored over 2,000 articles on faith and technology, featured on platforms like ChurchLeaders.com, The JoyFM, and his personal blog, LiveIntentionally.org.

Beyond his professional achievements, Paul serves as an elder at Journey Community Church and is deeply engaged in his community through his involvement with the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranch and the Safety Harbor Chamber of Commerce. He is a contributing author of the book Outspoken! Conversations on Church Communication.