[Fot] On-line race registration

[Gary Schneider]

Midwestern Council has been using MyAutoEvents.com for all our W-W races, autocrosses and HPDEs the past few years. MAE was put together by an SCCA racer maybe 6 or 8 years ago so it's pretty polished and stable. It keeps a database so once you enter your info you can enter any subsequent events with a few clicks. The registrars get information they can actually read compared to illegible faxes and mail-ins. We kept our entry form template as close as possible to SCCA's so crossover guests can easily enter too. You get a few variable fields you can use for your own purposes. Because each race is a different club and registrar I was a bit concerned going in about the modest level of computer literacy required. But it was a non-issue, everyone just picked it up and ran with it.

MAE has provision for reserving car numbers but we don't use that due to the complications of several classes running in the same race group.

Last year they started charging $35 per event for the service if you don't run the payments through them, which in a $30K-60K weekend is infinitesimal. (MC doesn't require prepayment so nearly everyone pays at the track.)

Do remember there are a lot of people without broadband, extensive PC savvy, or without a PC at all. There will still be a need for paper entry forms and mail-ins, but at a guess we get about 2/3 on line these days.

I wrote an MAE user's brief for the MC registrars and participants, available at http://www.mcscc.org/files.htm. Click on "MyAutoEvents Support Files."

Regards,
Gary Schneider
Madison WI


----- Original Message ----
From: KEVIN LYNCH <klynch_6 at msn.com>
To: FOT <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 12:47:03 PM
Subject: [Fot] On-line race registration

Good morning group ..

RMVR is contemplating the subject of on-line registering & which
companies/services to go with regards to Price, Function, Reliability etc..
I know this subject is a bit obscure to some or most but if anyone has a
thought or two, I'm all ears. We are aware of CVAR's experience with their
service provider.

Kev Lynch
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