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Creating a Ride
Prior to creating a ride, you should have the following information:
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Ride Essentials
- Ride Name: (Required) A short, descriptive name. This will appear on the
Ride Master home page, in correspondence with the rider, etc.
- Short Description: (Optional) About 40 words or less describing your
ride. This text appears in a tooltip window as the user hovers over the ride name
on the Ride Master home page. Short and sweet. No novels. Save that for your ride's website.
- Registration Begin Date: (Required) When does registration begin?
- Registration End Date: (Required) When does registration end?
- Web Page: (Required) The ride's webpage. Ride Master is not a replacement
for your ride's webpage. It's only an online rider management system. The ride
webpage should be used for the vast majority of ride information.
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Release/Waiver and Disclaimers
The release/waiver and disclaimers work hand in hand.
Ride Master only
displays the release/waiver to the registrant during the registration process.
Disclaimers are used to ensure the
registrant has read and understands the release waiver.
The release/waiver and disclaimers are optional, but if your ride has a release/waiver,
the ride must have at least one disclaimer. If your ride doesn't have a release/waiver,
it can still have disclaimers.
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Rider Classes
Rider classes allow you to group riders together. For instance, if your ride is a
rally, you may have 12-hour and 24-hour rally riders. Or you may choose to group
your riders into novice and expert classes.
Rider classes are optional.
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Prerequisites
Prerequisites are associated with each rider class. If the ride requires
prerequisites, the ride must have at least one rider class. Each rider class
can have zero or more prerequisites.
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Fee Schedule
The ride's fee schedule is optional. A fee schedule is composed of items (e.g.
registation fee, shirt fees, banquet tickets, etc). Each item has the following attributes:
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Description: (Required) A short description of the item. Keep it short.
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Price: (Required) How much does each item cost?
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Small Picture URL: (Optional) This picture is displayed when the
registrant views the ride's fee schedule. Keep this picture small - somewhere
around 60x60 pixels. Otherwise, the fees page is too much.
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Large Picture URL: (Optional) If there's a small picture URL, the user
can click it to display the large picture URL. This image can be as big as you
like.
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Default Quantity: (Required) Usually this is one, but it can be
any number.
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Enabled?: Enabled items can be purchased. Disabled items cannot. This flag allows you to
control the timeframe in which an item may be purchased.
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Mandatory?: Does the registrant have to purchase this item? This is
useful for registration fees and other mandatory fee items.
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Enable Size?: Should Ride Master display sizing information? Useful for
shirt fee items.
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Enable Quantity?: Should Ride Master allow the registrant to modify
the quantity purchased?
If you supply refund policy text, the system will display a link to registrants on the fees page.
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Payment Options
If the ride has a fee schedule, you may specify payment options. Including,
a Paypal account, Paypal description, Check to and snail-mailing address.
If you specify Paypal information, Ride Master provides the registrant direct
Paypal links allowing him/her to make the payment.
Once you've collected the information above, you're ready to create your ride. To start the process, login
to Ride Master and click the My Rides link in the top right menu. On the next screen, click the
Create a Ride link.
At the top of the ride creation wizard is a series of tabs (e.g. Core Information, Waiver and Disclaimers, etc.).
Each tab allows you to enter specific information. If there's a Save button at the bottom of the page,
be sure and click the button to save the information you just entered. When you've entered all the information
for each tab, click the ** Review ** tab to review the information. When you're satisfied with the
information, click the Create Ride button at the bottom of the page.
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