This setting determines when your attendees will be considered “confirmed registrations” and will be sent the confirmation email for your event. You can read a quick breakdown of when in the registration process each condition is met.
1) Registers
This is the least restrictive setting. Anyone who successfully completes the registration form will be marked as “confirmed” and sent the confirmation email. Payment will be accepted but not required in order for the registration to be marked “confirmed.”
2) Registers and an Email Address is Verified
This condition is met when an attendee has verified his or her email address. A unique code in an email is sent to the email address the attendee uses to complete the registration form. This code and link needs to be used by the person registering to complete registration and be marked “confirmed.” The confirmation email is sent after the email address is confirmed.
This condition can also be met if the event has a cost and the person completes payment. Email addresses only need to be verified once. Subsequent registrations using the same email address will be automatically confirmed.
This type comes with a time restriction. If the registrant does not complete email verification within the time allowed, the record will be considered “unregistered” and will need to start over with the registration process.
3) Registers and completes payment (when applicable)
If there is no cost for an event, anyone who successfully completes the registration form will be marked as “confirmed” and sent the confirmation email. Otherwise a person must complete payment for their registration to be considered “confirmed” and sent the confirmation email.
This type comes with a time restriction. If the registrant does not complete payment within the time allowed, the record will be considered “unregistered” and will need to start over with the registration process.
4) Manually only
All registrations are initially marked as “pending” until an administrator manually marks takes action using the dashboard tools. There are tools for sending out confirmation emails from the dashboard that works well with this confirmation condition.