askFRED.net improvements live today

[peet]

Hi there all you FRED users-

A major upgrade of the askFRED.net site has been completed, which includes many improvements and feature requests.

A short list of changes:

For general users

• Credit card tournament fee payments
• Improved preregistration process
• Prevent others from preregistering you for tournaments (member account option)
• Tighter privacy policies: birthdate reduced to birthyear, email address hidden from all users (previously, tournament organizers could see email addresses)
• Foreign fencers can now add their country to the division list (to use it as per USFA rules)

For tournament organizers

• Compatiblilty with Fencing Time version 1.4
• Improved prereg management
• Bulk preregistration
• Customizable "prereg pending" email notice frequency
• Prereg history available for download (includes all preregistrations, even if edited or cancelled. useful for enforcing late fees)
• Restrict prereg to a given section, division, or club, or to a certain # of entries
• Override default contact email address for a tournament
• Attach standard USFA waiver to prereg confirmation emails
• More options for rating change emails sent to USFA: Preview email (but not edit), add recipients (like a division officer or suchlike), CC the fencers who earned new ratings
• Lots more stuff i can't remember right now

Also, for webmasters: FRED info served through your site via SOAP services. See this thread

Thanks to all the users who helped out by making suggestions, and by testing the beta. FRED is an evolving system. He may be imperfect in some ways, but he's growing! As always, feedback & bug reports are very welcome! Just email me: peet@askfred.net

Thanks!
-p

[oso97]

I just wanted to be the first to go on record here as saying "Its BEAUTIFUL Peet!"

[Katman]

[*]Prevent others from preregistering you for tournaments (member account option)

Ha! Take that cowpaste! Try and sign me up for women's events will you?