You might want to sell event tickets in person, either in advance or at an event. You could do this instead of, or as well as, offering online bookings through the bookings form. This article shows you how you can use Cameo to operate box-office-style bookings.
Find Cameo’s box office in events & bookings → reservations, bookings and attendance. You’ll need to define stationery and a template that fits your printer, in communications → templates and mailshots. Read More…
Letter (and PDF) templates (Fig 1), along with separately-defined stationery, offer paper-like, paginated layouts for printing or attaching personalised content. Merge membership records with a letter/PDF template to produce pages (usually in a single document) for each membership you merge with. Read More…
Mailing labels are die-cut sheets of sticky-backed paper suitable for printing in a laser- or ink-jet printer. This tutorial shows how to produce mailing labels from Cameo. Sometimes recipients need special attention. For example, they may need additional postage because they are mailed abroad. You will want to catch these to give them the attention they need: Cameo offers various techniques to do this. Read More…
Responses to the questions form link structured data to a membership record. So, you can use them to create additional data sets for members and/or contacts, as an alternative to adding custom fields to every membership record. Read More…
Cameo can now automatically attribute payments made through its payment form to different categories from its hierarchical chart of accounts. This means that you can reconcile income from different fundraising campaigns, for example, to different accounts. That in turn means you can produce a financial report breaking down donations from different campaigns. This article gives an example of how this works for fundraising campaigns. Read More…
Managing the life-cycle of memberships, and the workflow involved, is one of the core functions of Cameo. This article looks at how these work. Read More…
For the recipient to see an image in an email sent from Cameo, it must be on a public web site. For WordPress sites, that means putting the images in the media library. When including an image in an email in Cameo, ideally you should be able to select the one you want from a set of thumbnail previews. This means Cameo has to be able to talk to your public website to find out what images are on offer. This article shows how to set that up. Read More…
Reference guide to importing memberships from a spreadsheet. Read More…
This article shows how to use Cameo’s signup app. Signup is for repeated collecting contact sign-ups at an event, on a phone or tablet, for use by staff or volunteers (not the general public). It’s a special kind of web page which works offline, and, once installed, should only need an internet connection to upload the saved details to Cameo after an event (when a connection is available). Read More…
This illustrates using Cameo’s events management for a week’s worth of appointments for three doctors at the Camford Medical Centre. Read More…