Taking the hassle out of
events booking
A step-by-step guide to booking SCI conferences online
 We
hope that Members will find it easy to book our events online.
But a reminder can always be helpful – so here is a step-by-step
guide, which will also appear on the Web Help Page.
The online booking procedure will not sign you up to any
mailing lists unless you want to, and unlike some booking
forms that appear online, there is the opportunity to go back
and amend your details at every stage before final authorisation.
1 First choose your conference. Links to selected
forthcoming events appear on the side bar and top banner of
the website, or you can select by month, by Group or Section,
or just browse through the lot. All the options appear in
the SCI Events heading in our new navigation bar.
2 Not all events are bookable online, especially if
they are some way into the future and we do not have all the
details and prices yet. Those which are bookable, such as
the 26 April event, ‘Young Chemist in Industry XIV’,
will have ‘Now booking online’ flashing above the
title.
3 Once you have the event page open in front of you,
click on the ‘Book Online button’. It is the middle
one of the three purple buttons.
4 The next page you see will have a drop-down list
headed ‘Select ticket type’. Choose whichever is
appropriate to you. You will get a discount if you are an
SCI Member, and a bigger discount if you are also a student
or retired. When you have made your choice, click the blue
‘Continue’ button.
5 The next page will confirm your choice, for example,
‘SCI Member’, and present you with a form.
Enter your details in the empty boxes, eg name, address and
Membership number if you have one. The fields in red text
are mandatory, and you must click on the ‘yes’ button
to accept our Terms and Conditions. There is also an option
to accept mailings from us, and as we don’t want to send
you things you don’t want, you need to agree to it to
get the mailings. Then click the ‘Submit’ button.
6 If all is well, you should have a page headed ‘Please
check your details’. However, if some of the mandatory
fields have not been filled in, or if you have forgotten to
tick the agreement to SCI’s Terms and Conditions, you
may find yourself back on the previous page.
Assuming all is well, look for the Billing Details heading
near the bottom of the page. You will need to tick if the
name of the delegate is the name on the payment card, or if
the payment card is registered to the address you have given.
7 The Billing Details page appears next, and you will
need to fill in another form, again paying special attention
to the mandatory fields in red. The next page lets you confirm
the details you have entered.
8 The next page gives you details of the transaction,
spelling out the amount to be paid, for your final approval.
If you are ready to process the payment using our secure payment
screen, click on the ‘authorise’ button.
9 The final page lets you fill our your card number,
type, start and expiry date, and security code (last three
digits on the reverse of the card). This time, the mandatory
fields are marked with an asterisk*. Click the ‘authorise
payment’ button.
10 Please wait while your card details are authorised.
The transaction is encrypted for privacy, and you are asked
not to exit or press ‘back’ until your confirmation
has been received. All being well, you should receive confirmation
that your transaction has been completed.
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