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Although portals are usually intended for events and leagues, many users have discovered ways to use portals to assist with other parts of their club operation.
In this article, we will review some of the solutions we've seen from our users:
Online Golf Shop:
With many golf shops publicly closed for shopping, many clubs have transitioned to creating and using online golf shops to advertise their inventory. One way to contain an online golf shop is by using a portal (as shown below).
Suggested Practices:
Create Collage pages using a high resolution photos of the merchandise available from your shop. Within a collage page you can customize the font and text details (e.g., retail price, description, etc).
Consider using a multi widget page that will allow you to arrange the products in a series of well laid out blocks.
Using external links, you can link vendor websites directly to your portal and allow your customers an opportunity to browse their websites to see more detail. This could lead to a special order you maybe weren’t expecting.
Use Event Registration to allow members to register to golf shop newsletters. You can create custom fields on the registration form (as shown below) to capture important information like brand preferences or sizing. You can then use this information to market directly to specific members (i.e: send an email to all members who prefer Titleist golf balls, or to anyone who prefers Footjoy shoes, etc.)
Use Event Registration to allow members to send order requests. You can
design the registration forms to include helpful custom fields (as shown below) or simply allow them to enter the item number to confirm their order request.
Although this takes a little creativity, it remains a viable option for clubs to showcase their goods for sale all the while keeping members safe while offering them an online avenue to browse goods for sale.
Personalized Shopping Appointments:
In the new era of social distancing, you may adopt a practice to encourage a more personalized shopping experience and limit the number of people in the golf shop at any given time.
To do this, we've seen users create portals to allow their members to sign up for personalized shopping experiences (as shown below).
Suggested Practices:
Highlight current inventory, sales, reservation instructions, and other important information using collage pages and text pages.
To allow your members to send appointment requests, you can use Round Signups or Event Registration.
If you'd like to allow your members to reserve available times on the portal, consider using a similar solution used to manage daily play for with Open Tee Times.
Demo Day Scheduling:
In order to conduct demo days on the driving range, you may need to find ways to manage the crowds and limit participants throughout the day. To do this, you can create a portal to highlight and manage your demo days (as shown below).
Suggested Practices:
Highlight attending vendors, reservation instructions, social distancing guidelines, and other important information using collage pages and text pages.
To allow your members to send scheduling requests , you can use Round Signups or Event Registration.
If you'd like to allow your members to reserve available times on the portal, consider using a similar solution used to manage daily play for with Open Tee Times.
You can insert external links on the portal to direct members to the attending vendor websites.