Sunday Morning at BRANA 25
Online registration has been offered at the BRANA Campout for four years. Overall, the chance to reserve a campsite and register in advance has been well received by campers and the registration program works very well.
However, we get a request that pops up from time to time. A couple of friends would like to register on the same campsite – and this presents an issue that we have not fully resolved. After the first person registers and reserves a campsite, that campsite is not longer available for a second registration. Most of the time this is a good thing. We don’t want several parties reserving the same campsite, then getting a surprise when they arrive at the campground to find someone else set up at a campsite they thought they had reserved.
With our current online registration system, we have two ways to work with two or more people who want to reserve the same campsite. One person can register, add the friend as a second camper and pay for both, then settle the costs between themselves. The other is to contact us at campout@brana.org and let us know which campsite has been reserved. We can reset that campsite to allow a second registration, then the friend can register and reserve that same campsite. That gives each person an online registration confirmation and both pay their own way.
Either way is a little clunky and we wish we had an easier solution. But it will have to suffice until we can find a simpler way.
