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What is SignUpGenius?

SignUpGenius in Charlotte offers an event sign up and registration site and service for entities organizing small groups, with payment processing, email and text reminding, forms with visual design themes and templates, among other features.

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10 out of 10
April 02, 2020
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We use SignUpGenius to facilitate scheduling time slots for employee engagement opportunities. It allows for real-time access to …
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SignUpGenius in Charlotte offers an event sign up and registration site and service for entities organizing small groups, with payment processing, email and text reminding, forms with visual design themes and templates, among other features.

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  • Free/Freemium Version
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SignUpGenius in Charlotte offers an event sign up and registration site and service for entities organizing small groups, with payment processing, email and text reminding, forms with visual design themes and templates, among other features.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.5.

The most common users of SignUpGenius are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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SignUpGenius, a versatile online sign-up tool, has garnered widespread use in various settings due to its ability to streamline coordination and simplify event planning. Users have found it immensely valuable for managing volunteers and organizing events across different sectors. For example, youth pastors utilize SignUpGenius to efficiently plan events and coordinate volunteers for their ministries, effectively tracking attendee headcounts and filling volunteer positions. Similarly, instructors employ the software to manage student sign-ups for presentations and assignments, ensuring a smooth workflow in academic settings.

Departments also benefit from SignUpGenius by utilizing it to schedule appointments with students and send reminders, reducing administrative burdens and enhancing communication within educational institutions. Additionally, SignUpGenius proves useful in streamlining internal events such as Open Houses and employee reviews, making event planning more efficient within organizations. The software's ability to eliminate manual tracking simplifies the volunteer process, allowing for easy participant management in community activities and various other events.

SignUpGenius expands its use cases beyond education and community engagement scenarios by facilitating effective communication and scheduling across departments within healthcare systems. By consolidating everything in one place, SignUpGenius enables seamless organization of volunteers across different ministries while collecting availability for meeting planning. Moreover, the software finds practical application in a school library setting where it manages parent volunteers, avoids double booking issues, and allows for self-scheduling.

In addition to these examples, SignUpGenius is employed by businesses of all sizes to organize client parties, recruit volunteers for major events, and foster donor stewardship tasks. Its ease of use as a group enables different departments within an organization to customize sign-up forms according to their specific needs. Whether scheduling teacher appointments or facilitating parent-teacher conferences and student due dates/presentations, SignUpGenius proves invaluable in educational settings.

Overall, SignUpGenius serves as a powerful tool that addresses the challenges of coordinating schedules, managing volunteers efficiently, and enhancing event planning processes across diverse industries and organizations. Its versatility and user-friendly features make it a go-to solution for optimizing coordination and streamlining communication in various contexts.

Easy Implementation and Access: Many users have found the tool easy to implement and access, with no login or registration required for sign-ups. This has made it convenient for both the users and their constituents.

User-Friendly Interface: Reviewers appreciate the user-friendly interface of the tool, stating that no real technical expertise or knowledge is necessary to successfully use it. They find it intuitive and easy to navigate.

Variety of Options for Signups: Users like the variety of options available for signups, including different styles and templates. Additionally, they mention the ability to enter a large block of dates and times, which makes it easier to manage availability for multiple individuals with overlapping schedules.

Difficult Spreadsheet Editing: Some users have found it difficult to edit spreadsheets and set up spreadsheets with dates and time slots, requiring extra effort and time. They mentioned encountering challenges while trying to make changes or input data into the spreadsheet format.

Limited Customization Options: Users expressed a desire for more free designs and customization options, as they found the available templates visually clunky and dated-looking. They suggested that having a wider range of modern templates or the ability to customize existing ones would greatly enhance their experience.

Confusing Sign-up Process: The process of figuring out the best sign-up options for specific needs has been confusing for some users, leading to multiple edits and adjustments. They have mentioned difficulties in understanding how to select appropriate sign-up options, resulting in a trial-and-error approach before finalizing their choices.

Users commonly recommend the following suggestions for using SignUpGenius:

  1. Sign up for an account before using the software to better manage sign-ups and have them displayed on a calendar for improved organization. It is a simple way to manage sign-ups for events and highly recommended.

  2. Give yourself time for initial setup and testing with a test group before sending the sign-up link to a larger audience. This helps ensure that everything is working smoothly and avoids any potential issues or confusion.

  3. Take advantage of tutorials and the preview feature to familiarize yourself with the software before using its advanced features. This allows you to practice and become comfortable with the software, enabling you to use it effectively.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Post-sign up communications - allows for pre-event communication to specific rsvp types or to all respondents
  • Post-event reporting - allows for export of signup information
  • Easy to use - for our community, both management and volunteers use SignUpGenius to facilitate participation and planning for a wide variety of events and activities
  • We are currently using the free version and do not have any recommended changes. Everything works as promoted.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to implement.
  • Great free design options.
  • Provides you with a link to send your constituents when completed.
  • Occasionally difficult to edit a spreadsheet.
  • Sometimes confusing when setting up a spreadsheet with dates and time slots.
  • Would love even more free designs than what is offered.
Ryan Eanes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to access. No login or registration is required for people to sign up for slots--just click the link and go.
  • No real technical expertise or knowledge is necessary to successfully use the tool.
  • Several different options/styles of signups are available.
  • The templates that are available (particularly for the free version) are visually clunky and dated-looking, with minimal options available for customization.
  • It can be challenging to try and figure out exactly what type of sign-up might work best for your needs--you may need to edit your choices a couple of times.
  • The "share" URLs for signups are long and clunky. No option to shorten them in-platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Great scheduler
  • Good for tracking interest for an event
  • Easy to keep track of limited signup slots
  • If we have several events--say 10--and we are only allowing people to sign up for five events, we have not figured out a way to limit someone from signing up for all 10 events since they are separate signups.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customization - you can create fully customized forms with as many or as few fields as you need
  • Sharing - when you're ready to share your SignUp, you can do it via a link or you can upload your contacts into SignUpGenius and email it out through their platform
  • Alerts - if you need to edit your form after you publish it, you can choose to send out alerts to people that have signed up for that shift
  • Building the first form - it would be nice if there was a feature that would walk you through how the form can be created. Pop up bubbles could help guide you through it.
  • Better designed templates - with the free version, the photos/colors are kind of ugly
  • User interface could also be designed better. It's kind of clunky in its current layout.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Very easy to use, if you're signing up for a slot it's only a few simply clicks.
  • Keeps you in the know with email notifications/confirmation of your signup.
  • Lets you sync your time slot with your calendar of choice.
  • It's not aesthetically that great to look at, could use a virtual face-lift.
  • Does not seem to have a way to cancel/undo a scheduled sign-up task (at least it isn't easy to find).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Makes it very easy to know what you're signing up for.
  • Reminds you very well what you're doing and when and what you're bringing.
  • Very cute designs for you to choose from.
  • Let's you plan well into the future! Whew!
  • The first time I used this was for my daughter's preschool. I do remember feeling kind of confused about where I needed to go from the link they sent me. I clicked on the link and it sent me some where that I didn't feel was really understandable how I could sign up for things months out. But, I did figure it out, and I haven't had issues with it since.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's free till you want the premium version.
  • Ease of use and organization incredible
  • Usable links to forward for emailing
  • Easy exporting and downloading of information to Excel
  • Alerts you of Activity
  • The customization of how you want to organize your sign-up may take some time.
  • The ads, but it's free so hard to complain.
April 02, 2020

SignUpGenius Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ease of use for the end-user
  • Ability to set up a sign-up and manage communication all from one place
  • The built-in reminders are super helpful.
  • It can be time-consuming to get all the email addresses into the software.
  • Themes could use some refreshing.
  • Some of the scheduling slots are confusing.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It's very user-friendly, even for people who aren't used to apps or internet sites.
  • You don't have to create an account which also makes it very user-friendly.
  • It's an easy way to sign up to bring items to events, meetings and gatherings.
  • The only downside I see (and this is very silly) is that it looks a little busy and the site isn't quite as "clean" as it could be. It doesn't affect the functionality of the site at all and it's really a small point.
March 26, 2020

SignUpGenius

LeKeshia Franklin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Exporting to Excel all those signed up for contact
  • Ease of use for administrator to make changes or additions
  • Easy to place into an e-newsletter or invitation or social media post with a link for signups
  • Not really easy to change administrators, use, or rights
  • Once deleted or archived still sends out reminders
  • Should be able to send out cancellation of events to volunteers
Caitlynn Dickerson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It is very easy to use and has a great user interface.
  • There are many customizable options.
  • It does most of the work for you! All you have to do is fill in your information as needed.
  • There could be more options available to the free version.
  • There could be more free templates to choose from.
  • An emailed instructional video for new users would be great.
Becca Guler | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Entering a large block of dates and times (up to 200 time slots at one entry), which you can then click or unclick as availabilities. This makes it easier when you have 2 individuals with a variety of time slots available, some of which overlap and some of which don't. You can just enter something like 9:00-5:00 from 11/14-11/22 and indicate the length of appointments and it provides a table of all possible slots. You then go to each person's block and choose the slots that are available for meetings.
  • One of the best free products I've used. There are some additional features available with the paid version, such as having more than one administrator email address and choosing a specific admin email for a specific signup, but the free version has done nearly everything we've wanted to do.
  • The reminders that you can choose for signers up are very helpful. I've had more than one student say, "It's a good thing I got a reminder email because I would have forgotten this otherwise".
  • Those who sign up can later go back to their sign up from the confirmation email they received if they need to cancel, edit or reschedule.
  • Some of the layout and terminology are a little confusing and could be more user-friendly. It took me some time and playing around to figure out that the days and times you put in are a step which just produces a grid of possible times, and that choosing which slots to activate is a second step required. It later made sense why it was set up this was (allows you to input a large block of times at once and then select the particular ones you need, and makes it possible to add a second person with a different schedule on the same sign up, giving the appointment setters more options overall to choose from)
  • Wish it would intuitively (or add an option to...) replicate location for any additional days and times you add to the same sign up. Has to be manually added (or copied and pasted).
August 01, 2018

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Stacey Pagan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows you to select pre-made templates or design your own.
  • Allows you to utilize time templates, or design your own.
  • Allows people to see who else is signed up to avoid conflict.
  • I think an area that needs improvement is allowing for more than 5 slots at a time. I would like to see at least 10 offered instead of having to keep adding 5 at a time.
  • Adding additional templates or templates in which you can just change a color selection would be great. Really utilize this for school PTO/Booster Clubs would be beneficial. Cater to them.
  • Allowing for a 'cheaper' price than what you have for the souped up version would be nice as well.
Gayle Potter, IOM | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • There is a good interaction with people that sign up to volunteer at our events - they can add it to their calendar and have reminder emails sent to them.
  • There are a good variety of templates to use, the colors are great & I like that you can incorporate your own images.
  • It is quick and easy to set up a new event; however, my favorite feature is the ability to duplicate events.
  • It can be confusing when adding new dates/times or slots to an existing sign up. It always takes me a time or two to get it right.
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