US Fencing Online Membership System Goes Live

[brtech]

Just did a family renewal. Tedious, but it worked. Bugs I found:

• Email address for one of my daughters was wrong and I couldn't change it on the renewal form -- this was noted before, but I tripped on it
• The cell phone numbers were listed as work numbers - initial data load problem
• The system insists on a home phone number. Sorry, most kids treat their cell phone as the ONLY number they give out. Get over it.
• Can't change the division. Kids in school need to be able to change it. The paper form allowed you to specify.
• I'm doing a family; it lets me add all the information for my spouse/kids. It doesn't ask for passwords for them. HOWEVER, I made a mistake, and had to edit one of them. When I did, it insists I have to enter a password. That means I'm setting a password for someone else - bad, bad, bad

[brtech]

Another bug. It sends email to all family members about renewal, even though I checked "no" to some of the "contact by email". It includes the visa information, which is within the family, but really should only go to me. A simple: your family membership has been renewed should be sufficient, if anything needs to be sent to anyone else but me.

[seak]

[*]The system insists on a home phone number. Sorry, most kids treat their cell phone as the ONLY number they give out. Get over it.[/LIST]

I just list my cell number as my home number, given that it's my only phone it serves that function. This is common to many data forms

[theLuz]

Just went and registered. The interface is a little clunky, but it seems to work fine. As a bonus it finally let me change my gender back to male (I called the USFA a couple times to assure them I did not undergo a sex change operation and am still male, but it never got updated in their records).

that's funny. boy, that's hard to explain at the registration desk.

[Orestes]

This is an awesome service. Wait, nevermind. It's f*cking terrible. I have 10 $60 charges pending on my bank account and 1 $120 charge from the good people at hang-a-star. Not awesome for me because I'm a student. Not awesome for them because I'm a law student and am quickly losing patience. I'm used to the USFA sucking, but this is really something else.