Whether you're a professional or volunteer event organizer, everyone wants to know the bottom line at a glance. Some organizations think about it in terms of cars, others in terms of entries and some groups have more complex formulas for what constitutes break even. While we can't intuit your revenue model, we can make it easy to apply our numbers quickly to whatever model you use.
We have long had the event financial report (a breakdown of who paid and how much) and an ordered inventory report (what people bought). The former shows each and every transaction for an event (both online, like credit cards, as well as offline, like cash and check), while the latter shows a summarized tally of what each attendee ordered. The confusion occurs when organizers combine these two data sets, because one reports a summarized total by attendee while the other shows a per-transaction level of detail. If you combine them, you're likely to get duplicate inventory lines and the totals don't match.
A better financial summary was in order, but we heard loud and clear that organizers didn't want to look at multiple reports so we built a new "Event Revenue, Packages, & Inventory" financial report. By attendee, it shows (1) payment totals by type, (2) total revenue and fees, (3) packages ordered and (4, not shown) inventory items those packages contain. From the simplest to most complex event, this report now tells you everything you need to know about the financial and logistical aspects of your event.
Raise your hand if you've opened a report in Excel before that contained leading zeros only to find them disappear. Everyone? Yup, that matches our experience as well. Good news! Through some trickery, we've taught Excel to open our reports and treat certain columns as text instead of numbers. Leading zeros from vehicle numbers, transponders and zip codes will no longer appear on the back of milk cartons.
Enter our new attendee copy feature. Whether you want to copy the registration details to one event or ten, you can quickly select and migrate all of the details to future events. 
Our first webinar was a success with 18 organizers coming to pick up tips and tricks from our first topic, "How to Use MotorsportReg.com Faster". Our goal is to improve your user experience and make organizing events easier and more fun. If you would like to view the recording, 
We've always worked to reduce the amount of paper needed leading up to an event. Killing spreadsheets is our guilty pleasure. But in most cases the time comes when the registrar prints out a final set of reports, shuts down the computer and heads to the event relying only on paper. Today, we're excited to introduce a new "Checked In" status and the corresponding on-site Check In feature that helps eliminate paper at the event too!
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