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Ryan J Bell

You want your registration forms connected with your merchant account, which is connected to your database, which has easy reporting capabilities. This is extremely important because the system you are using may be only partially automated.

For instance, your system might take online registrations that are then emailed to you, but never put in a database. So, you still have to manually key in the registrant’s information and build your database by hand. In other cases, you may have to manually process payments. Or, your system might capture a registrant’s information and put it into a database. But to get reports you have to go ask the programmers to write reports to capture the information you need. You might have to wait 24 hours… 48 hours… or most likely longer.

These are all consequences (or “side effects”) of using a system that is only partially automated. It is not necessary or worth it to settle for a system like this.

When choosing your system, make sure it is fully automated and fully integrated. This will give you the greatest ease of use and satisfaction over the long haul.

Some example of complete integration:

• Self-service changes & cancellations – No more unnecessary phone calls. Save time be letting your registrants make changes and cancellations themselves!
• Real-time credit card processing – Get paid immediately. The money appears in your merchant account instantly.
• Automatic email receipts – Confirm registrations within seconds by using their mail server to send automatic email receipts to registrants.
• Automatic sold-out and waitlisting management – Avoid overbooking an event. Get people on a waitlist to fill cancellations.
• Integrated accounting system – make accounting and reporting easy by keeping track of everything for you.

Many of these will be important to you, and once you try them, you’ll find many that you can’t live without.While online registration is an excellently effective way to make event planning easier, the right system – one that is fully automated and integrated – can make the leap between manually managing your online registration and letting the system manage your registration for you (while you use your time for matters more important to you).

First and foremost you need full size authentic casino tables, which you can hire from fun casino companies. The two most popular fun prize casino games worldwide are blackjack and roulette, as the rules are fairly simple. In fact we believe that our ” Wheel Of Fortune” fun casino game is so easy to play, it’s an office favourite. The wheel of fortune is a game so fast, that it’s becoming a great American Export to Britain. Your fun prize fundraising casino will be best received if it includes at least one of each of the games mentioned.

At your fun casino fundraising event, guest’s are sold fun casino vouchers which are personalised to your charitable cause and should be sold at an exchange rate (perhaps £5.00 cash for 20 playing chips converts into 0.25p per playing chip ]. Also at your fundraising event make sure you cover the basic cost of your fun casino from the sale of tickets, as you would with a band or a disco. This then ensures that all proceeds from the sale of fun casino vouchers goes directly to your charity or association. Another way of paying for casino table hire is to seek and secure corporate or local business sponsorship.

The fun casino tables are opened for play and the fun casino vouchers are exchanged at the casino tables for playing chips and the fun and winning commences!! All of the fun casino tables are staffed with our professional croupiers so your whole event will be organised and run for you.

Your tables should be open for between two and three hours and either start your fun casino after your meal or break for everyone to eat! Even “FUN GAMBLING” is very addictive and you do not want anyone to miss out on dinner. The action will really hot up towards closing time as people try to get among the prize-winners, so allow fifteen minutes or so to count up and compile the list of prize-winners.

Prizes can and do vary from a bottle of bubbly to a trip around the world and can be presented to the “best” or “worst” gamblers. For successful fund raising, a selection of prizes that are well publicised ahead of your event, will always improve the take! Often businesses may be interested in donating items.