Many know Checkin as the best and most forward-thinking system for registration solutions for conferences, festivals, and other one-time events.
What many may not realize is that Checkin is also one of the best alternatives for organizing course registrations, whether the courses are in-person, digital, or a hybrid of the two.
Skogkurs and Kjetil Finsrud can certainly attest to this!
"We at Skogkurs use Checkin during registration for all our events, whether it's in-person courses, online courses, professional gatherings, events, or webinars. We are very satisfied with having ONE system to deal with regarding registration, course participants, communication, finances, and statistics.
The system is very flexible and modern, and we have the opportunity to influence future functionality through feedback to the development team. The support is also something we appreciate, as we always get good answers to our inquiries!"
Your registration form for your course(s) should feel like a natural part of their website. It should blend in, no labels from suppliers or other distractions. This helps improve the overall customer journey and can increase the number of signups.
To add your registration form to your website, all you need is an embed code provided by Checkin. With this embed code, you, as an event organizer, can present all courses on your websites, in your design and branding. In the same style as the overall graphic profile.
Alternatively, you can set it up with a completely different visual expression, for example, if you have a dedicated landing page for courses and want to distinguish them slightly from your normal profile.
The courses' names, prices, times, and locations should be clearly visible on your website. Making it easy for people to find the course(s) they are looking for.
When participants click into individual courses, it is possible to show how many spots are left on the courses. This helps create a feeling of exclusivity and "urgency", which can help potential participants to sign up a bit faster.
Confirmations and tickets are sent to participants automatically via email and SMS after the registration is completed.
If a courses sells out you can use waiting lists to capture interest for future courses or to offer spots when a participant cancels. Using a waiting list this way, will garantee your course will remain sold out.
You can create all your courses in Checkin in advance, so when participants register, the information is updated in real-time with participants' names and the number of tickets they have purchased.
In addition, you are able to offer additional options during the registration process, such as accommodation, meals, and competency certificates. By adding these options to their registration form they save a lot of time, by not having to follow up with participants one-on-one after they have registered.
The contact information participants provide via the registration form is automatically entered into Checkin, which means you can follow registrations in real-time by logging in. It's also possible to send emails and text messages to participants before the course, either as part of an automated process or when needed.
When needed you can make manual changes in the otherwise automated flow from registration to completed course and received payment. This could be, for example, sending invoices in advance to participants who request it, changing billing details, or changing participants' names.
You'll have all the tools you need to:
And the best part, is that it is available to you in one solution.
Checkin also works superbly as a "paywall" for e-learning organizers. Participants register as usual using their names and other contact information in the registration form, the payment process is completed, and participants receive a link to the website where the e-learning will take place. So simple, yet so valuable for organizers to avoid handling registration and payment.
Checkin has integrations with, among others, Norsk Interaktiv, Moodle, Teams, Zoom, and Tappin. These are ready-made "plug-and-play" integrations, but our open API interface also enables you to create an integration with your LMS or other programs.
Checkin is the only registration system that handles the entire payment flow for courses, from invoicing (EHF or E2B) or cash payment (Vipps or card) to payment collection and debt collection.
This means you, as a course organizer, save a lot of time and money on internal or external bookkeeping. Every two weeks you'll automatically receive your financial settlements and reports for VAT.
It's not without reason that Checkin is known as "the accountant's best friend"!
If you think the good old "roll call" is a bit outdated and inefficient, you'll like how you can solve check-in for in-person courses in Checkin.
When course participants arrive, you simply scan the QR code they received when they purchased their tickets.
You can scan them using your phone (All you need is internet and Checkin's check-in app), or you can rent scanners specifically for this purpose. You can rent scanners, printers, and name tags from Checkin. (See our rental fees here.)
Enjoy easy integrations with streaming and video meeting platforms, email marketing solutions, Zapier, and much more with Checkin – with no coding knowledge required.
We offer a wide range of intergrations so you can connect the solutions you already use, such as HubSpot, MailChimp to name a couple. Transfer event data from Checkin directly into other systems and offer your attendees a seamless customer experience.
If you're still wondering what Checkin is, try out our interactive demo here.
If you think Checkin might be something for your courses, you're warmly welcome to contact us for a pleasant walkthrough!