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Wanted: Early adopters for new registration service
Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:11pm
Hello NCNCA promoters,
As some of you may know, Jeff and I have been using our background in large-scale web application development to build an entirely new online registration system with the help and advice of local luminaries like Ron Castia. We're gearing up to launch and we're looking for the first few events to launch with.
We think you're going to be impressed with Voost (http://voo.st/) when you see it, but just to give you a quick idea what we're offering:
* REALLY low fees - in many cases about $1 per ticket less than bikereg / usacycling.
* A modern, attractive user interface.
* Graceful enforcement of USAC eligibility rules based on your license.
* Payments paid directly into a free, FDIC-insured account you control - no risk of another website going under and taking your money with it.
* Automated workflow to manage refunds.
* Very easy to for participants to register friends & family at once.
* A bulletproof system that can handle tens of thousands of registrations per minute and, should catastrophe strike, automatically failover to data centers in other parts of the country (seriously).
* Enough features to make this email very long if I kept going.
We are looking for early adopters who want to be part of the first wave of events run with Voost. We add features literally every day - this is an opportunity to help direct that process.
If you are a promoter with an upcoming USAC event, or know someone who is, please get in touch with us by emailing:
Thanks,
Jon Stevens and Jeff Schnitzer
Voost LLC
http://voo.st/
You've built it. They will come.
The registration fees don't get added to the rider's cost. For example, last year at Woodbridge ITT, the rider's fee total over $27 and PACERS had to pay an extra $2 per entry for processing. This year, at Woodbridge ITT, the rider pays only $27 and PACER'S net is over $25. WePay holds the money, and PACERS can request disbursement whenever they want or issue full refunds.
The dashboard the promoter can manage and design as well, without the annoying ads that don't relate to northern California. If information needs editing on the public page, it's very simple to do. You can even add your own pictures. And sending a message to all entrants won't be received as spam by the riders. It allows you to assign bib numbers too, and it is particularly important in a time trial that the sequence makes sense.
We are happy we switched to VOOST last year for the Rio Vista TTT, and plan to stay with them for our two events in 2013. BikeReg has been around a long time, but consider that the rider typically pays 11% of the entry fee to a registration service on the East Coast, who's owner's they've never met. VOOST, on the other hand, has a fee of about 8.5%. The promoter makes the price less than what rider has been paying, and still comes out ahead.
Sorry to reply to myself, but I just wanted to let everyone know that we are now open for business.
https://www.voo.st/
We welcome all organizers to come see how our online registration service is different.