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One type of video I’d love to have is a clips video to music.
So clips of NZ movies, books, people, whatever we can.
This would almost certainly not be able to go online because of copyright on the music, but could be shown in person at events.
One piece of possible music is “It couldn’t be done” by Tim Finn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLPYSlgiDlE
Or a cover?
There’s another from Tim Finn… “Out of this world”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEvVvJx9i94
At the least we can get the videos and make a play list…
In theory, they will be delivering the video to us, pre done. So in theory all we have to do is slot it in.
Yes, it’s a risk…
But we can do most of it well before hand.
We should try to incorporate weather in if we can in an amusing way… Because, yeah, it’s going to be something that people need to be very aware of.
I think I’ve made most of the changes that people suggested on the live site. But not on the dev site, because I didn’t want to double handle.
Margaret, I haven’t got to putting in the text on the final page noting that an email will be sent. But that’s a good idea, and I’ll find a way to do that.
Thanks for the tip about Woocommerce and completing orders. That was definitely a gotcha. Found a useful plugin that does many of those useful things…
And yes Margaret, let’s talk in January.
Glad to get comments about the live site if you spot a problem…
Awesome feedback. Thanks.
I’ll see how much of this is quickly actionable. One way or another, this isn’t going to be our method of capturing memberships for the convention.
So I don’t want to personally spend too much more time on it, beyond doing what we can quickly.
You are 100% correct, it is Woocommerce. It’s a larger hammer than we strictly need, but solved a few problems I was having with Stripe capabilities compared to PayPal.
I’m really keen/happy to turn this over to other people if you or others have more expertise in these areas. I’m just muddling through. And keep on having to remind myself to try to delegate… 🙂
We can embed the presupport list pretty easily on the page.
I tidied up what I was copying across to the Live site as far as saying what payment methods we can accept…
Among other things.
The currency converter thing has been the bane of these pages. There’s plenty of plugins that will do currency conversion, even live on the prices on the site.
But they all stumble when it comes to separating the converted currency from the default (NZ$) currency depending on whether people are transferring to a bank account, or paying by credit card. And we don’t want the credit card payments to be made in anything but NZ$. Otherwise there are basically two swings through currency conversion, and that’s never going to go well for us.
So having the Currency Converter widget as a convenience is a compromise to getting the pages done faster. I’m not sure I can shift it anywhere more obvious without altering code. Which is perfectly doable. I could do it, but I think we have bigger fish to fry. Mind you, if anyone wants the opportunity to learn about WordPress and Woocommerce, widgets and pages, this would be good project…
As it is, I’ll see if I can mention more explicitly in the various areas that a currency converter is available. Any thoughts gratefully received!
I’m going to remove the cheque option, but make a note that if people need to pay in an alternate way to contact us.
So basically we can accept cheques in person at events. But not online. Unless special provisions are made.
Interesting. Adding a credit card charge is moderately common in smaller or budget businesses. But it’s unexpected to me at a hotel.
If that’s happening a lot, then that’s definitely something we need to point out to our members. Because one of our “things” is that prices are all inclusive. So if places like hotels are adding a credit card surcharge, that’s an expectation we need to set…
I think it’s partly because EFTPOS is so common here, and it’s a bit cheaper than credit cards…
No don’t fill out the Membership Google form. It’s not needed.
The first page to see if there’s something missing or bad….
The payments form (the second link) is the really critical one.
As for cheques…. They are a pain. Maybe they shouldn’t be used?
It would make it simpler for us. But I’m not sure about how widespread they still are. They might have gone away like they have here in NZ…
I’ve gone ahead and written a Privacy Policy page, based on boiler plate from WordPress and their prompts.
The WordPress boiler plate explains how a WordPress site deals with personal information.
And I’ve added various information based on a couple of Privacy sites.
https://nzin2020.nz/privacy-policy/
Anything egregious, wrong or “hands waving in panic” here?
These policies SEEM to be thin on the ground… TitanCon has a page. (Referenced in the forum post). I’ve just done an update to WordPress and it has a suggested set of boiler plate for such a policy. Clearly we need to conform to NZ laws, but GDPR is also a factor.
But it’s also valuable to think about what we do with our data, who can see it, where it resides etc.
And does where it reside cause us any problems?
We can’t shackle our selves so much that our job becomes impossible, but people also need to know what we are doing with the data, and WE need to know that we have policies in place to protect it.
I have SOME idea, but this isn’t my area of expertise….
