General FAQ - Setting Up Accounts

General overview

Each account contains its own database of user, event, profile, and registration information.
As a user, your account was created by either your account's Administrator, or by your Certain customer service representative.
Administrators (a user type) can modify their own account's information, preferences, and security settings.
Administrators can also create and modify any number of sub-accounts.
A sub-account has its own users and database of event information, but all information in a sub-account is also visible to the account that created it.
Sub-accounts may represent other divisions, organizations, or clients for whom a planner manages event registration data.

Each account and client account has its own profiles and events databases.
It is important that accounts be arranged logically when the master planner first sets up the system.
The account structure is determined by the following considerations:
Segregating system access to groups of users
Maintaining separate profile databases of customer contact information

In this manner, your clients from Company A who are granted user access will be able to see all of their profile and event information, but they will not be able to see that information of your account, Company B, nor Company C.
As an Acme Event Services user, you will be able to see not only the profile and event information of your account, but also that information of the client accounts that you created.

In addition to separating user access to account information, the account structure can create separate profile databases for distinct groups of customer (attendee) contact information.
Each account can collect up to 30 custom profile questions about each individual, in addition to the standard contact information data fields.
For example, if you manage events for one company with no outside clients, but half of your events attract one group of attendees (technical) while the other half appeal to another group (marketing), then you could arrange your account structure as follows:
Acme Corporation
Acme Corporation Users
Acme Corporation Profiles
Acme Corporation Annual Meeting
Technical
Technical Users
Technical Profiles
Technical Event 1
Technical Event 2
Marketing
Marketing Users
Marketing Profiles
Marketing Event 1

In this manner, you can collect custom profiling and historical information about the Technical profiles that is distinctly different from the information collected about the Marketing profiles.

The account information of the current system user is displayed in the Account Settings > Administration > Account Information area.
This area enables the user to:
Modify the main contact information for the account
Adjust system preferences and default settings for the account (Advanced feature)
Set system security options for all account users (Advanced feature)
Create and modify custom profile questions for the account's profile database (Advanced feature)

The account information of your client accounts is displayed in the Account Settings > Administration > Sub-Accounts area.
This area enables the user to:
Select an existing sub-account, or create new sub-accounts
Modify the main contact information for each account
Select the account's customer support representative and system display header
Adjust system preferences and default settings for the account (Advanced feature)
Set system security options for all account users (Advanced feature)
Create and modify custom profile questions for the account's profile database (Advanced feature)