To All Club Secretaries,
I have a request to all Gundog Clubs, soon cheque books will be a thing of the past and we will all be required to perform electronic banking payments. I am going to put this out there as a suggestion, taking all into account and I know some Clubs already accept electronic entries and payments.
This is superb facility where you receive an instant message, informing you that your entry and electronic payment has been received. It cuts down on both paperwork and postage and most of the time the Club secretary can cut and paste straight from the entry form direct to the catalogue. Again saving the Secretary time and resources. Plus they do not have to worry about going to the bank and handing the cash or cheques.
I personally do 95% of our banking online and believe it would definatlety be the way forward. I realise not everyone may have a computer so cannot do internet banking, you could always send in a paper entry if required or ask someone to do it for you or even use a public service like the Post Office. Once your dogs details are completed on the clubs entry form and converted to a PDF document, the rest you know is simple.
My final suggestion is, if it was agreeable with RA Central if a sub page could be set up on the site from the details put out by the Club Sec's of the Trialling Competion, you could link straight from the site straight to the Clubs bank details and where to send your entry form by having an email link to forward your dog/s details and receipt of your payment direct to the Club inbox.