Recurring Classes - What you need to know...

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Enablement of recurring sessions allows you to create a session that reoccurs at a set frequency.

Recurring classes are available when Conference Sessions is enabled in your event.
Recurring classes are not available if you are using Standard Sessions.

Registration for the series can be made available through a form or session catalog.

After selecting the Recurring Session option when setting up session instances, the interface allows you to select the recurrence behavior.

When a recurring session is created, the first session instance is created at that time.
All subsequent session instances are created later, within 24 hours in advance of each instance.
Due to this delay, future instances will not appear on the calendar or within reports until one day of the next session.
When a recurring session instance is automatically created, all registrations assigned to the main instance are automatically assigned to the subsequent recurring instances.
The automatic assignment includes all registered, attended, and no-show registrants.
Waitlisted and cancelled attendees are intentionally excluded from this automatic assignment.

Any fees associated with a recurring session will be applied upon selection of the session/class series.
Fees cannot be assigned to individual session instances within the series.
No conflict checks with other sessions on the registration will occur regardless of the event setting not allowing for overlapping sessions.
Session check-in via the Certain Check-In app and Admin interface is available per instance once the session registration assignments have been made.

Once a session is marked as recurring, that option cannot be disabled.
The session frequency, count, and end date can still be modified as long as the subsequent sessions have not yet been created.
Confirming the details in advance before creating a recurring session is suggested.

The screenshot shows session setup fields with the following labels and values.

Start Date: 11/27/2023
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 11:30 PM
Recurring Session: checked
Recurrence frequency: Weekly
Repeats control: selected “Until”
End date: 02/09/2024
Occurrences text: “Occurrences for this session repeats every week at 10:00 AM, only on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday beginning ‘11/27/2023’ to ‘02/09/2024’.”