Coconut Screenshots:

Coconut™ is CONGO's bundled webclient. For most conference administrators, it is the only face of CONGO they ever see, never needing to interact with the back end or the database directly.

The following are some screenshots of Coconut. Note that this client is under constant development, and as such functions you see in these screenshots may or may not be available in the current product.

The Coconut client presents registrants currnent information and past attendance history in one single 'at a glance' page. From this page, a convention administrator can select any number of functions such as registration, address updates, sending email, etc.

Searching in Coconut is a breeze! Any part of the registrants information can be searched on, so when an attendee comes up to your registration desk, all you need to do is ask them for any part of their name. First name, last name, badge name, company name, registrant ID, anything!

CONGO includes a powerful template system that allows the conference administrator to set up how registration pages, email notifications, and IM messages are presented to the user. Using Coconut, the administrator can change, update, or test any template before the registrants ever see them.

Coconut also has an on-the-fly registration mechanism that can be used by the administrator(s) to register attendees that do not go through the online registration mechanism. These can be mailed-in registrations, at-event walkins, or phone orders. The registration page makes the process quick and painless, taking only seconds to accept the registration, print the badge, update the database, and complete processing.

Example of a Template-Driven Registration Site:

In the fall of 2004, Stonekeep designed a registration process for a client. We used CONGO's template system to design the pages, previewing them in realtime before going live. Because Coconut is a web-based interface into the template editor and testing system, the customer was able to make changes right alongside Stonekeep to tune the pages on the fly.

Using a stylesheet developed by Stonekeep, (also maintainable and editable via Coconut), the end result was a professional, clean interface hooked directly into CONGO. Registrations collected via these pages were immediately available and useable via Coconut, with email notifications going to the conference administrators whenever someone signed up (something configurable from Coconut).

The site ended up consisting of approximately 8 pages, all edited and maintained via Coconut, and served from the CONGO application server.

Older versions of Coconut: