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Can you add a comments section to Event Registration Web Forms?

For some events, registrants may have comments they need to add to their registration. For example, our annual fundraising gala includes a sit-down dinner. So, a registrant may have specific requests for where they sit and what they eat. For example, John Smith may want to sit away from the band, and he is a vegetarian. I know you can have registration questions for programs, but I didn't see an option for that for events, so I was going to just add a comments section to the web form, like with donation web forms. But I didn't see a that as an option for event web forms. Am I overlooking this? Is it staring at me and I just don't see it?



I guess I could add "please contact ABC for any seating/dinner requests" to the acknowledgement email and web form text. But it would be cleaner if they could add comments when they register.
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  • Shannon Jacobson commented
    October 09, 2018 19:29

    I know this is an old post, but I agree that this would be a great idea.  Almost 1/3 of our event tables are sold as Dutch tables, where one person or group puts together a whole table, but everyone pays individually.  Since selling Dutch tables is not possible in Altru (this would be another nice feature), it would be nice to have a free-text comment field where Jane Smith can indicate that she will have a Dutch table consisting of these 9 people, and the people buying tickets for her table can indicate that they are part of Jane Smith's Dutch table, to avoid being potentially seated with strangers at the individual ticket tables.

     

    Adding "Please contact ABC" is not a great solution because people who buy their tickets online are often doing it specifically so they don't have to call the office.

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