Get people to your event with A6 Signups. Signups makes it easy for people to register for your church’s events through the Connect site or mobile app. 


Getting Started


Prerequisites:


  • Signed up for A6 Signups


Open signups for a new event:


  1. Login to A6 and click calendar icon at the top of the screen. This icon will be labeled Events.
  2. On the right side of the screen, click the blue New event button.
  3. Give your event a name and a brief description so attendees will easily be able to find your event.
  4. Set an event start date/time and an end date/time.
  5. Click Submit.
  6. Once you have created a new event, you will be redirected to the event page. From there, click the Settings tab.
  7. Next, click the Registration tab on the left.
  8. Enable online signups.
  9. Set a date and time for when you would like to start taking signups and when you would like to stop taking them.
  10. Once you have enabled online signups and set a start/end date, you can create a message to send to participants when they sign up for an event. You can also enter an email address that will be notified whenever a new participant signs up for your event.
  11. Share the link at the top of the events page to encourage people to sign up for the event or direct them to the events page on the Connect mobile app.


Build a sign up form:


  1. Within an event, click Question fields in the Settings panel.
  2. In the Standard questions panel, you will see a list of fields that participants will be asked at registration time and at check-in time, such as name, address, email and more. You can choose which fields will be required, optional or hidden.
  3. If you don’t see a field you are looking for, you can create one in the Custom questions panel. To create a custom field, click New question.
  4. Type in your question into the text field, choose which type of answer you’d like to receive and if this question should be required or not.
  5. Click Submit.


Payments


Set up payments for an event:


  1. Within an event, click Payment in the Settings panel.
  2. Set a registration cost.
  3. Enable/disable full payment required option. If disabled, participants will not be required to put down a deposit at time of registration.
  4. If you have a Quickbooks account linked to your A6 account, you can choose how payments should be classified in Quickbooks and under what class.


How to manage a participant’s payments:


  1. Within an event, click on the Participants tab.
  2. Click on the down arrow next to on the participant whose payment you would like to manage.
  3. Click Manage payments.
  4. From here you will be able to record a new payment, issue a refund or make an adjustment to an existing payment.


NOTE: To issue a refund to an online payment, the drop-down menu for the charge you would like to refund and click Issue Refund.


Add/Remove authorized payers:


An authorized payer is someone who can view the payment history and make payments towards the participant's balance. The participant is by default an authorized payer. Other examples of authorized payers could be the parent of a child going to camp, the spouse of someone going on a retreat, etc.


  1. Within an event, click on the Participants tab.
  2. Click on the down arrow next to on the participant whose payment you would like to manage.
  3. Click Add/Remove payers.
  4. Click Add payer.
  5. Search for an individual and select them.
  6. To remove a payer, simply repeat Steps 1-3, then click the red X by the payer’s name that you would like to remove.


Communication


How to communicate with participants:


  1. Within an event, click on the Email Participants button at the top right. (To send a text message or a voice message to participants, click the arrow next to Email participants.)
  2. Choose who you want to send an email to, then create a subject and a message.
  3. If you want to send the email at a later time, click Save draft. If you’d like to send the message immediately, disable Save as a draft and click Send message.
  4. To send a text message or a voice message to participants, click the arrow next to Email participants.


If you have any other questions, click the chat at the bottom right of A6 or email us at help@a6church.com.