First a bit of history. Last year, the software that the online system was written in was updated and that stopped our online booking system from running properly without a re-write of the program. So we bought in a simplified system where the online bookings went straight to the rally marshal and they handled replying to the raller and printing out individual booking slips.
This has not proved popular and Beverly asked me to re-write the programs so that the old system can be re-instated.
The first half of the online booking system is ready to go live. This is the bookings going into the database and then onto the marshals rather than straight to the marshals. All new bookings will go through the new system as of later today (14/5/26).
The second half is the ability to print out 4 slips per page and the weekly report showing marshals who has booked on their rally. This will be rolled out on a rally by rally basis for those already booking and available straight away for those booking from next week.
The reason for the roll out is that I have to manually enter all the previous bookings for each rally and this will take a couple of weeks or so. I will start on the rallies that are about to run and work my way through the list.
There may be a few teething problems, so please bear with me.
Tony Harrison-Smith
Webmaster.