Altru Ideas

Create a waitlist for preregistered programs

As Registrar, I sell class seats through Advanced Sales. When a program is sold out, there should be an automatic way to capture people's name and contact info to create a waitlist. If a student drops out of a class, I contact the next interested person to see if they would like to attend the class. Currently, I have to keep an excel spreadsheet of names and contact info of people interested in a class. This semester has 100 classes.

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  • Jan 4 2016
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  • Abbie Stevens commented
    20 Feb 20:36

    Hello! We are selling out many programs lately, and I'd like to have an automated waitlist procedure. When can we expect this feature to be widely available in Altru?

  • Camden Palm commented
    January 27, 2023 14:27

    This is a severe need. We have very in -demand programs, with limited registration, so programs fill up quickly. This would save countless administrative hours and allow us to access everyone who would like to register in the case that there are cancellations. This would intern create more revenue opportunity, and the ability to positively serve the community. Please build this soon.

  • Faith Yazel commented
    June 21, 2021 15:29

    Any idea how much longer until this is feature is available?

  • Tami Goertzen commented
    June 20, 2019 19:14

    I see that this Idea is Planned.  How soon could we expect this feature to be implemented?

  • Hope Mabrey commented
    November 09, 2018 20:14

    Currently, our institution uses form.io for waitlists, and it becomes difficult when we have such a a variety of programs and they are all jumbled into one form. It would be great to see the waitlist registrants live all in one place!

  • Jillian Lewis commented
    October 08, 2018 16:52

    Hi everyone!

    We are currently in discovery for this idea. If you'd like to participate in the Discovery process and provide feedback to our team about event waitlist functionality, please email me at jillian.lewis@blackbaud.com to schedule a call.

    Thank you!

  • Guest commented
    February 09, 2018 00:14

    I fully agree with this need. I create public programming for our museum and some events are immensely popular, and we'd like to be able to give waitlisted registrants and early shot at registering for future events in addition to calling them when cancellations occur.

    This would be nice as an additional feature to activate when creating weblinks, just as you would activate an acknowledgment email.

  • Sharon Renner commented
    September 09, 2016 14:27

    Seemingly less sophisticated software packages have the ability to create automatic waitlists for events.  I am not sure why Altru does not have this capability.  To be able to set up automatic waitlists for popular programs would be such a benefit to so many organizations and a wonderful selling point for your software. 

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