Registration Timeline

Online registration opens on January 15th.
Attend Chairs and Registrars training meeting in early January.
Prepare welcome email – send to conferees as soon as they register or in conjunction with your acceptance policy.
Review conferee registrations in the Raiser’s Edge. You can access a query of current registration data for each conferee in Raiser’s Edge at your convenience.
Review registrations for conferees not attending for the full duration of your conference. Get in touch with them to verify the arrival and departure dates they entered online. Provide assistance with transportation options. Enter the alternate transportation details into their registration in Raiser’s Edge.
Review registrations for youth under 18. If not attending with parent or legal guardian, they must submit a Minor Medical Release Form. Best Practice: If you are unsure a child if the adult a child is attending with is the parent or legal guardian, contact them via email to verify.
Respond to inquiries from your conferees and contact the Island Registrar with questions you are unsure how to answer for clarification.
Communicate any cancellations with the Island Registrar

Main season conferences should submit their conferee housing assignments to the Island Registrar. Please use the provided Housing Matrix – Excel Worksheet. Your registration query from Raiser’s Edge will provide the housing requests and other preferences that need to be considered when making your housing assignments. The Star Island Building Charts are a helpful guide during this process as well. If you are sharing the Island with another conference, you should work directly with the Registrar from that conference to make housing assignments to avoid duplicate room assignment. Hotel rooms, cottages, and units should be divided between the conferences sharing the island fairly in a manner to best suit the needs of the conferees.
Any unassigned rooms will potentially be offered to Personal Retreaters, Pel Guests, Volunteers, or other guests. Any late registration requests after this point will be considered by the Island Registrar and can be accepted if space is still available.

A Room Assignment Report will be provided by the Island Registrar. This finalized housing report will be based on your submitted Housing Matrix. Conference Registrars are asked to review this report carefully to identify any discrepancies with room assignments and arrival/departure dates. The Island Registrar may make changes to housing assignments, but will inform you of any changes and why. At this point, major changes to housing should not be made or requested by the Conference Registrar. Late registrations are not given room choice priority.

Final verification of late arrival/early departure overnight guests and accurate entry in Raiser’s Edge.
Verify all Minor Medical Release Forms have been received. Any forms you have collected directly should be delivered to the Island Registrar or the Front Desk upon your arrival on the island.
Check in with the Island Registrar to confirm all necessary information has been collected or submitted. Discuss any last minute registrations, cancellations or other concerns/needs of your conferees.
Optional: Email conferees their housing assignment. Providing the housing assignment now will allow for any problems to be resolved before arrival.

Family conferences should have door tags for children under eight years of age. They are placed on the door of each room with a child under age eight for hall monitoring and are vital to responders in case of an emergency. These tags are required. If the tags could be hung on the door knobs, as opposed to using tacks or tape, that would be preferable.
Check in with the Island Registrar to address any last minute details.

Verify payment of conferee bills and the conference bill at the Front Desk. If you can provide assistance with identifying any conferees that haven’t pay on the morning of departure, it is very helpful.