This year for
Croctoberfest 2008 we are going to be using some new registration tools. In order to help make this process as easy as possible, I have taken screen captures of the main registration tool provided by
ClubRegistration.net.
Croctoberfest 2008 Registration - 3 Main Steps
Step 1: Register for
Croctoberfest and its related events
Step 2: Book your hotel room
Step 3: Purchase your ALMS race tickets and sign up for Porsche Platz corral parking. (Form now available
here)
Step 1 is handled by ClubRegistration.Net so let's begin there.
Point your browser to
ClubRegistration.net and you should see something similar to this:
Note the link for Login or Create Account. If you have not created an account at ClubRegistration.Net before you must click on Create Account first and walk through the pages requesting your information and information about your Cayman. Even if you aren't bringing your Cayman to
Croctoberfest (or you are bringing some other car) please fill in this information into your profile. I would highly recommend that if you are creating a new account that you use the same username that you normally use on CaymanClub.Net. This will assist us in matching up members with registrations. I did not take screen captures of the account creation process but you should find it pretty simple and straight forward.
Once you have completed your account creation you will need to Login. Click the link that says Login and you should see the following screen:
Enter your username, password and make sure the button is clicked for Registrant. Then click the button that says Login. At this point you will be logged into the site and taken to your own personal Dashboard. If you are a new user who has never registered for an event at this site before, your dashboard will look something like this:
You want to click the link that says "Event Sign-Up" to get started. If you click that link you will be taken to the following page:
This page allows you to find events that you can register for using the ClubRegistration.Net site. The easiest way to find the
Croctoberfest 2008 event is to select the "Club" drop down box and scroll down and highlight the entry for "Cayman Club". Once you have highlighted Cayman Club in the list simply click the Search button. The site will search for any events we are hosting and come back with a set of results. Here is what the next screen should look like:
As you can see from the image it comes back with 1 multi-event listed under Cayman Club to be held in
Atlanta, Georgia. (Here's a quick tip, the words
Atlanta, Georgia are also a hyperlink to the hotel registration website, but we'll get to that in Step 2 later.) The dates of October 2nd through October 5th are shown and finally there is a link to Register for this event.
Click the word/link "Register" to start your registration process for this event. You should see the following page:
This page has a lot of information about the event, I suggest that you read it carefully. The event description also contains some additional details about signing up for the entire event package vs. signing up for just the rally or Friday night awards banquet dinner. Most members will be signing up for the complete package. We are allowing individuals to sign up for just the Friday afternoon rally for free or the Friday night dinner for $75 per person. We anticipate that some members of the local Peachstate region may want to sign up for these events and attend or that some individuals may want to buy additional spots at dinner for friends or guests.
Sponsors who are attending may want to attend the whole event or just the sponsor luncheon and have a sponsor table so that is available as a separate line item. We'll get into this more as we walk through the registration.
To continue with the registration click the word REGISTER to the right. You should then see this page:
Let's walk through the 5 items on this page.
Item 1 is your email address, this should already be populated for you but if you want to have information about this event sent to a different email address other than the one you created an account with, you can change it here.
Item 2 is probably the most important selection on the page. If you are planning to attend most or all of the
Croctoberfest events on Thursday and Friday then you want to select the
Croctoberfest Master Package. This will automatically include you in all of the events and meals that are part of the master package for the sum of $200 per person.
If you are planning to attend only the rally or only the friday night dinner (or just those 2 events) then you should select the option for
Individual Item Selection instead.
Item 3 is the Quantity of items in terms of how many packages you are buying. This is only applicable to the
Croctoberfest Master Package which is $200/person, those just paying for an individual event should leave this quantity setting at 1. Otherwise if you are say bringing your spouse, then you would want to select 2 in this entry box, one Master Package for you and one for your spouse. Please note that Children 10 and under are FREE to attend the events on Thursday and Friday, Children 11 and over are the same price as adults.
Example, family of father, mother, 14 year old son and 9 year old daughter. If all were attending you would select 3 in the Quantity box, later in the individual items such as lunch, dinner, car show, etc. you would enter "4" as the total quantity for any zero price master package included items.
Item 4 is a spot to enter your VIN#. PCNA has asked us to capture the VIN#'s of everyone attending so that they can create a little something special for each owner. Please enter your 17 digit VIN# in this box. If you are not bringing your Cayman to the event or are driving a rental car, etc. please put N/A in the box.
Item 5 is your autocross class. If you don't know what class designations exist for the Peachstate region you can click on the link
see classes to see a list of available classes. Caymans are likely to be S05 or P15, and a Cayman "S" is likely to be a S06 or P16. Please fill in this information. If you know that you are absolutely not going to participate in the autocross then fill in N/A in this box.
Finally, simply click the Continue button to continue.
You should now be taken to the following page:
If you selected "Individual Item Selection" you would want to skip this page and use the links on the right to go directly to the item you want to attend (Rally or Dinner or both), for most attendees, however, you probably selected the
Croctoberfest Master Package in which case the Thursday night social is included in the package price. Simply select how many people will be attending and click the "Add to Cart" button to continue.
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