Thanks Koren, I'll give it a try. In a quick review it looks a lot like what I was working on myself, without obviously being 100% customized to our purpose. Happy to accept something that's done/tested now and mostly matches our needs and then put something else in place which takes the output the rest of the way.

-Don

On Jun 9, 2016 2:06 PM, "Koren A. Wake" <koren.a.wake@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm coming very late to this topic, sorry... but since I don't see anyone else having mentioned this, I wanted to chime in. The blues dance I now run in Seattle uses Square to track attendance and cash. It's simple to set up and our door volunteers seem happy with it. We charge a sliding scale and just have separate "items" for each dollar amount. When we used to have "regular" and "student" prices we had buttons for those as well, and a custom price item for donations. Square automatically tracks the number of each item sold, and the times.

On a tablet (we use an iPad, and I would assume it works on an Android tablet as well), Square also does cash drawer tracking -- enter your starting cash, track transactions, and enter your final counts; it'll tell you whether you're off and by how much. It does not allow for cash drawer tracking through the phone app, though. I'm not sure why not, or whether they're going to add it eventually.

And of course, Square allows us to take credit cards too, which has pros and cons but overall I'm very much in favor of it.

Koren

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:53 PM Don Veino via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Just in case there was any question, we have absolute trust in our volunteers and have had no instances of door sitter cheating (a tiny minority of dancers on the other hand... but I digress). The impetus for my original investigation is solely operational efficiency - making it easier for our volunteers and ourselves as organizers. It would be nice to actually be able to dance at our own dances more often. :)

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Dan Pearl via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

We operate on a basis of trust with our door-sitters and the mix of adult/youth varies during the year in unsurprising ways -- we just don't feel like we need to capture that information.

4. Any system can be compromised by crooked door-sitter.  They can wink at their friends and wave them in for no fee.  They could pocket some money and not click the tally counter or put a tick-mark on the paper.  Anything!

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