If you are wondering whether to create your own conference registration system or to get a custom built one, it’s important to know what benefits you will see if you chose to get a custom-built registration system. Online registration systems involve far more than uploading a form onto your website. Their complex nature works best, and suits your ultimate purpose, when you opt for a nonprofit event registration system that has been designed for your specific needs.
Most business consultants will tell you when analyzing costs, that if your ROI is less than 18 months, you build. If it's more, you buy, lease, rent, whatever. What does that mean to you. Well, you'll have to come up with an estimate of how much it costs you to manually handle and run everything that you'd be building in the solution, and give it a dollar amount. If it can be built and automated for 1.5 times that amount or less, get it built!