Genius Hack: Gather Information with Custom Questions

If you are planning the annual school or community festival and need just a little more information to make the event perfect, SignUpGenius can help!

Whether you're trying to collect T-shirt sizes for volunteers, sort fun run participants by age or gather participant waivers, adding custom questions on your sign up will help you gather the information you need right when participants commit.

You can begin to create your online sign up like usual, entering any slots and dates/times that are needed for your event. Depending on your level, you can ask just a couple of questions or as many as you need.

In the Settings step of sign up formats except RSVPs, click More under "Ask Participants For:" and then select Add a Custom Question. You can then select an existing custom question or choose Create New Question to create a new custom question.

You can choose to require an answer or make it optional. Your participants will see the question during their sign up process.

Ready to review the data you've collected? Log into your account and select the Created tab, then select the related sign up. Click on the Reports and Stats button at the top of your sign up in the Administrator's Toolbar.

Next, select the correct sign up, followed by List of Sign Ups for Export to Excel and Show All Fields. After you click Create Report, you'll see all the information displayed and have the ability to export to Excel and save as a spreadsheet if desired.

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