Run a club prize at your car show: find the club that brings the most cars

1. Open the show and click Edit to reach the Edit Show page.
2. Find the Capture Club Information card. It has its own card, apart from Registration form.
3. Switch it on. It saves straight away and is off by default.

An optional Car club box now appears on your public registration form, in the Add Registration and Walk-In panels, and in the Edit panel for a registration. It works on Basic and Expert shows, but not on virtual shows. Club names already entered for the show are offered as suggestions while someone types, which cuts down on spelling variants.

• Online: entrants type their club when they register. It is optional.
• Already registered: entrants open My Entries, press Edit details and fill in Car club. Tell your club contacts to do this before the show.
• By you: type it in the Add Registration, Walk-In or Edit panel. Walk-ins on the day can say which club they are with at the gate.
• From a spreadsheet: add a Club column to your CSV. Headings such as Club Name, Car Club, Club / Group, Group and Affiliation also work. On a club show the Template already has the column.

The Registrations list gets a Club column, and the CSV export has a Club column too.

On the show's Registrations tab, the Club standings card ranks every club. It appears once the show captures clubs, or as soon as any entry has a club.

• Clubs are ranked by cars that have arrived (checked in or parked), then by cars registered. For a “most cars” prize, the Arrived count is the one that matters.
• Entries with no club are not counted.
• Entries that aren't confirmed (pending, waitlisted or withdrawn) are not counted either.
• If two or more clubs are level at the top, an amber line says so. You decide the tie.

People type the same club in different ways. Capital letters, punctuation, extra spaces and & versus “and” are grouped for you. The card shows the most-used spelling and lists the others after also typed.

Some variants can't be grouped automatically, such as “Philly Vettes” and “Philly Corvette Club”. To merge them:

1. Click Rename on one of the club's rows.
2. Type the name you want, for example Philly Corvette Club.
3. Click Save. Every entry in that club for this show now has that name.
4. Repeat for the other variant, using the same name. The two rows become one.

Only the show organizer and show admins can rename a club, because it changes the count the prize is decided on (check-in staff can still fix an entry's club one entry at a time). There is no undo, but you can rename again. Do your merging before you read the final result, ideally after check-in closes.

• Club names are typed by entrants and are not verified. Someone can name a club they don't belong to.
• The standings are a guide for you. There is no club award slot on the Awards tab, so you give the prize out by hand, and add it to your ceremony script yourself.
• The club is not shown publicly or on dash cards.
• It is not available on virtual shows.

Want to see where the pieces sit? Open the live demo, or read the manual section. For the wider registration picture, see car show registration.