iami software - MainEvent Overview

MainEvent is an event management application that can substantially reduce the time and effort required to plan and manage a presentation, conference or other special event. With the help of MainEvent, you can quickly and easily schedule the specific details of your event, manage the on-going process of registrations and payments for attendees, and produce reports to track your progress and measure the success of your performance.

Plan for Success

MainEvent helps you plan and organise the details in advance, reducing the likelihood of unwelcome surprises and increasing your chance of conducting an event that is a success in every way.

Define the Venues and Locations in which your event will be held, including details such as room capacity, accessibility, and fixed equipment.
Schedule the Sessions that make up your event, and define fees, enrolment limits and restrictions for individual sessions as needed. Use the Event Calendar to view currently scheduled sessions and add new sessions quickly and easily.
Set-up Registration Packages to define specific combinations of Sessions that can be offered to registrants. Registrants can also be enrolled in additional sessions on an ad-hoc basis, or can be prevented from enrolling in particular sessions if they are enrolled using a specific Registration Package.
Define a schedule of fees for each Registration Package, and apply automatic discounts for early registration and non-refundable fees for late cancellations.
Set-up a variety of Accommodation Packages to offer accommodation alternatives for interstate and overseas visitors attending your conference or event.
Print a Calendar of your Event showing all of the Sessions that are scheduled.

Streamline the Registration Process

MainEvent streamlines the process of accepting registrations, processing fees and payments and confirming enrolments.

Store significant details about each registrant to help you better understand your target audience.
Assign Registrants to user-definable Categories to identify particular characteristics that are of interest to you.
Process registrations quickly and easily using Registration Packages and Fee Categories to automatically define individual session enrolments and applicable fees.
Cater for non-standard enrolments by defining session enrolments and fees for individual registrants as needed.
Record payment details for cash, cheque and credit card, and handle part-payments, refunds and administrative fees.
Use contact details from a previous event to create form letters informing potential registrants of your upcoming event.

Stay Informed and In Control

MainEvent can provide you with timely reports at the click of a button, which will help keep you informed of your progress before, during and after your special event.

Generate an Event Calendar to show the Sessions scheduled for your event.
View the Event Summary to show current financial status and enrolment numbers.
Obtain enrolment lists for each Session
Keep your accounts up to date with summarised transaction lists.

Powerful Custom Querying and Reporting

MainEvent maximises the potential of your information by providing a number of reporting options including:

A powerful and easy-to-use report writer which allows you to create customised reports in a number of formats to suit many of your organisation's reporting needs.
A number of predefined reports to satisfy specific requirements, including a daily schedule, weekly and monthly calendars, and a booking profile.
A user-friendly query writer that allows you to create and store queries to find the information you need to answer common questions or satisfy one-off requests. Stored queries can be used as the basis for a number of functions such as creating reports, exporting data, or assigning members to groups and ministries.
The ability to save and distribute the output of reports in a number of highly-portable file formats including HTML, Portable Document Format (PDF) or as a Microsoft Excel Worksheet (XLS). Share information from a single source with all the members of your organisation!

Easy to Learn, Easy to Use

MainEvent provides many features that make working with your church’s information a whole lot easier:

A multiple-document interface lets you view and modify the properties of many items simultaneously.
Comprehensive menus, toolbars and short-cut keys provide convenient access to many useful features as you need them.
Step-by-step dialogs guide you through common tasks such as performing mail merges or adding milestones for multiple members.
Drag-and-drop provides a fast and convenient way to transfer members from one group to another, modify your organisation structure, add commands to a script and much more!
Report previews allow you to see how your reports will appear before you send them to a printer or save them to a file.

Access to your Data

MainEvent ensures that your information is stored in a readily-accessible format that can be used in many other applications by:

Providing comprehensive export options in standard formats, so you can extract your data and integrate it with many other applications.
Using the Microsoft Access™ database engine to store data, which provides you with complete control of your information at the lowest level should this be necessary.
Use the information you already have by importing data from your existing applications into MainEvent, including venue and location details, session information and registrant details.

System Requirements

To install MainEvent, your system must meet the following minimum requirements:

Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP operating system.
64Mb RAM (128Mb recommended)
40Mb free disk space.