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Client profile:
Cooking schools across the country use ABC Signup to automate much of the registration process for cooking classes, camps and other culinary-related functions.

An ABC Signup customer's cooking class

Testimonials:
"ABC Signup is easy to understand and use. Once we received personal training, we setup our first event and were accepting registrations with credit card payments the next day. The customer service has been outstanding."
Raina, French Culinary Institute - PastryScoop.com

"I can’t say enough good things about ABC Signup. I just love the program. It has really made a difference in our cooking school and the way we handle our paperwork and registrations. It is easy, straight forward, and flexible.”
Mary, Camp Cook

Case Study:
Camp Cook

Seeking a system with the right ingredients
Camp Cook will tell you that a good recipe comes from experience and experimentation. They might say the same about a good online registration system.

The Houston, TX cooking school with the “Big Adventures in Cooking” slogan uses a number of creative platforms to teach individuals of all ages how to cook and work together in the kitchen. Year-around classes, holiday workshops, 12 weeks of summer camps and a Spring Break camp are just some of the offerings on Camp Cook’s menu.

Taking registrations without an online system required too much data entry and manual payment processing, invoicing and confirmations. Camp Cook’s first experience with an online registration system didn’t fare much better, as the system was too complicated and difficult to use, and any customizations required work with technical teams and additional costs.

Add a pinch of ABC Signup
Because Camp Cook provides different classes and camps for different age groups, it was essential that the registration system have the functionality to create multiple event templates that could easily be updated and posted. Enter ABC Signup, and its simple tools for copying and customizing event pages and their associated registration forms.

“I customize a lot of templates and really love the fact that I can do that with ABC Signup and cut, copy and paste events as I need to,” said Mary Aragon, program director at Camp Cook.

And with ABC Signup, Camp Cook’s customizations come with no added costs or long meetings with the system provider.

“I can’t say enough good things about ABC Signup. I just love the program,” Aragon said. “It has really made a difference in our cooking school and the way we handle our paperwork and registrations. It is easy, straight forward, and flexible.”

Share the recipe
Aragon credits ABC Signup for aiding her company’s top line growth by making classes more accessible and registration administration less time consuming.

“It’s definitely increased our revenues, as people like to register online – they can register at home in their underwear if they want to. And it makes our lives easier. We can just put the information out there, it works with our merchant account, and the registrations come in.”

Now, Aragon is doing what anyone with a good recipe does – sharing it.

“I’ve given [ABC Signup’s] name out several times to people looking for a registration system,” she said. “It has served us really well.”

Partial Customer List:
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts

Camp Cook

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Stir it Up Cooking School

As registration stories go, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry’s probably sounds somewhat familiar to many ABC Signup customers.
Each year, the school offers 40 to 50 continuing education courses and events to dental school graduates and practicing dentists. Up until 2007, however, the registration and administration of these courses was done mostly “by hand,” according to Treena Guy, UDMSD’s continuing education manager.
“By hand,” in this case, meant taking reservations by phone, fax and mail; manually inputting registrant data; individually processing credit card payments; receiving and depositing checks; and trying to track all of the above with Excel files.