Neo Code completes web-based tradeshow registration system using Filemaker Pro

Drawing upon their expertise in developing FileMaker databases for the web, Neo Code adapted Manitoba Hotel Association's existing tradeshow registration FileMaker 8 database for the world wide web. The database acts as a directory of potential guests for the annual Centrex tradeshow for hotels & restaurants. In little over ten hours, Neo Code not only created a secure, web-accessible interface for guest registration, but also added time saving functions such as list management tools, bulk email functionality, emailing confirmations, and a system for generating unique registration access codes. The remotely hosted solution allows tradeshow office staff to enter and change data without affecting online registrants.

The solution supported more than 2,000 registrations in the first year -- most of them online -- placing Centrex among the highest registration counts of any event at Winnipeg Convention Centre. The percentage of delegates registering electronically went from 5% to 58%. Fax registrations, which must be entered manually by office staff, dropped from 80% to 30%.

Phase-2 will entail creating a module to automatically email guests a registration confirmation, as well as adapting an 'Exhibiting Companies' database for the web-- to allow those companies to access and change their information automatically.