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Thanks for
your interest! I'm Bernie Maloney, and this is an outline of
sWaggerz.
The
background
In 2003, I was the Treasurer for a breed club. I was also
selling on eBay and getting familiar with online payments. The
original application was developed to handle AKC conformation and
obedience. In 2004, it was expanded to handle AKC Agility
events of up to 4 days. In 2005, an application was developed
to handle USDAA events up to 4 days.
The intention
behind these applications has been to be a contribution to dog sport
by:
- giving
exhibitors the convenience of online entries at a price
competitive with big AKC superintendents
- giving
individual event secretaries the ability to offer online entries
and set the convenience fee
- sharing
convenience fee proceeds with the secretary &/or clubs hosting the events
Fees
Direct to Secretaries
All entry and convenience fees flow directly to the secretary's
PayPal account. I invoice only after the close of entries,
with payment due 15 days net after invoice. This means you
already have your entry fees in hand before the event, and that your
payment to sWaggerz is due during or after the event itself!
All a
secretary needs is a PayPal account, and to add a specific and
unique sWaggerz email address to that account. AT NO TIME is
the PayPal password needed.
Demonstration Entry Available
For those who want to get a sense of the application, a demo is
available. This is based on an event run through sWaggerz for the
Agility Trial Secretary for the 2005 Samoyed National. The
demo differs from a live event in a few ways:
-
submission recipient
because the trial on which the demo is based is closed, the demo
application is configured to send the submission to sWaggerz's
webmaster, rather than then event's actual Secretary.
- fees
reduced
in case someone tests all the way through payment, class fees
are 1/100th the actual values from the event, and the online
convenience fee is 1/10th the actual fee for that event.
- payment
destination
the demo is configured to send payment to the account of
sWaggerz's webmaster. This enables the ability to refund
mistaken payments directly
-
open/close of entries
entries 'open' at 6 a.m. and 'close' at 11:30 p.m. daily.
This demonstrates the application's ability to open and close at
the times published in the PL or Test Schedule.
The demo is
at:
http://demo.swaggerz.com
For a
comparison of what other online entry offerings charge exhibitors, a
summary page is at:
http://swaggerz.com/common/compare.htm
Let
sWaggerz Run your Event
At sWaggerz, we welcome helping you provide your exhibitors with similarly
competitive offerings for your own event! For more information
about our existing capabilities with AKC Agility, Conformation and
Obedience as well as USDAA entries, or if you'd like to work with us
to expand these offerings, please write to us at: ntrz (at)
swaggerz (dot) com |
