Registration Manager is comprised of three Iron Speed Designer applications:

	Logical CMS for ASP.NET - A content management system that populates content on NCSSPS’s public website (http://www.ncssps.org).
	Conference Registration – A wizard-like application that collects registrant information to store and send to a merchant services website for processing.
	Registration Manager – Allows customers to track registrants, maintain contacts, and conduct email marketing campaigns with great ease. It is used by event coordinators who collect paid registrant information for the NCSSPS conference.

The application is accessed by conference registrants, marketing personal and event managers. Registrants login to the website and provide contact information, event date and payment method. The application provides a summary of this information and a total cost estimate. This estimate is based on a set of rules that accounts for eligible discounts. Registrants can pay with a check or credit card and may print a copy of their invoice. When registrants pay with a credit card, an ASP.NET script performs an HTTP post containing all the sales information to the merchant services provider. The transaction is processed and the merchant services company sends an HTTP post confirmation to our server and marks the user as paid.

The public website registration page: an Iron Speed Designer form made in the exact style of the website.

The marketing team uses the application to maintain content on the website and create, send and track targeted, personalized email marketing campaigns. There is a special section where users can populate a newsletter template with text and HTML assets without actually coding. The event manager logs in to proof and send newsletters, complete with merge variables (e.g. Dear FirstName) and serialized opt out links to the list of recipients.

The newsletter when previewed.

Previous campaigns can be analyzed. Email bounces are tracked.

The application contains approximately 105 web pages; 20 are devoted to registration management and five are accessible to registrants through the website.

Registration Manager took me four person-weeks to implement, with a little help from my graphic designer. The majority of my development time was spent writing code customizations but thanks to my familiarity to ASP.NET coding within Iron Speed applications, it took me no more time than it would have had I been developing such a subroutine for any ASP.NET application.

The content management application allows a non-technical user to update the content of the site.

The CMS portion was a complete breeze thanks to Iron Speed Designer and Logical CMS, which together let us build the CMS component in record time. The Registration Manager component, arguably the centerpiece, was developed in a matter of days using Iron Speed Designer.

Registrations are accessible via the Registration Manager.

Obviously, no code customizations were needed for the CMS portion of development – that had all been developed earlier. Registration Manager, the main component, required only a few pages of customizations. The primary customization was the email campaign execution pages. These pages, although created in Iron Speed Designer, contained ASP.NET functions and subroutines that allowed the final step to the execution of email campaigns to take place.

Email campaigns are created allowing recipients to be added.