Sign people up for my fair, workshop or open studio
"Sign me up for the fair on the 12th" is a form built around one event, on one date, asking exactly the questions you need answered before the day — nothing more.
How it works
- Describe the event and what you need to know. The date, and the actual questions — which session, any dietary needs, how many are coming. Bernard writes a form around those, not a generic one you have to trim down.
- Approve the preview, and it's live. Anyone who registers appears in Where do the people who buy, join or ask end up?, with their answers attached to their record.
- Add a marketing box if you want one — kept separate. If you'd also like to tell registrants about future fairs, that's its own optional box underneath, starting unticked, exactly like Trade a PDF for someone's email address. Registering for this event is not, by itself, an invitation to market anything else.
What registering covers, and what it doesn't
Signing up for the fair on the 12th is a plain agreement to hear what's needed about that event — a reminder the day before, a change of venue, parking instructions. It doesn't extend to your general mailing list, and it doesn't extend to your next fair in the autumn, however related that feels to you. Each ask needs its own yes; see When do I need someone's permission to email them? for the full picture.
The prompt
“Add a registration form to my site for [event name] on [date]. Ask for [the questions you need — e.g. name, email, which session, dietary needs]. Keep any marketing sign-up as a separate, unticked box, not part of registering.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- What can I ask on a registration form?
- Whatever you actually need to run the event — a name, an email, which session or time slot, dietary needs, anything specific to what you're organising. Ask for what you need and nothing more; a shorter form gets more people through it.
- Does registering for the fair mean I can email them about my next one?
- Not automatically. Registering for a specific event on a specific date is agreement to be told what they need to know about that event — a reminder, a change of time, where to park. It isn't agreement to hear about your next fair six months later; that needs its own separate ask, same as any other marketing box.
- Can I close the form once it's full?
- Yes — tell Bernard the date or the number you want to cap it at, and ask for it to be taken down or replaced with a 'fully booked' message. Like any change, it goes onto a draft and waits for your approval before it's live.
- Where do the answers go?
- Straight into your people list, against that person's record, so you can see at a glance who's coming and what they told you — dietary needs and all — without digging through emails.