Re: Planned changes to registration payments & deadlines

[Jonathan Lennox <[e-mail]>]

> On Apr 24, 2018, at 10:13 AM, Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 06:00:47AM +0000, Roni Even (A) wrote:
>> 
>> I do not understand why you need to pay when you register. The fee toady depends on when you pay and not when you register.
>> 
> 
> This is an issue that Stephen also raised, and I want to make this a
> little clearer: we are not going to lose all the information people
> enter if the payment step happens later.  The work flow may be a
> little different than today, but it will be possible to enter all the
> registration data and then come back later to complete registration by
> paying.
> 
> What is different is in how we count this.  Today, we have "unpaid
> registrations" and "paid registrations", and when you have filled in
> your registration data you are "registered" (and listed as registered,
> on the public list of attendees if you so wish).  That will stop.
> From the point of view of the meeting system, anyone who is not paid
> is just not registered.
> 
> Does that make this clearer?

At what point will it be possible to buy tickets for the social event?  Because the social sells out so quickly, I regularly register as soon as the social is announced, so I can buy a ticket; but I delay paying the registration fee until a later credit card cycle, so I can get my travel reimbursement before my credit card bill is due.