When you publish a page you can then go to the list and add people as unpaid. This functionality is used to help Organizers project the total number of people on the list and how much they will likely collect.
When someone comes to your page and goes through the checkout process, the site will automatically look for their information if it's on the list. When a potential match is found, we ask the them if they are the person we found on the list. Each person has the option to say "That's Me" or to manually fill out their information.
In the case where the person is not on the list, we then create a new unpaid person on the list with their first name, last name, email (optional) and anything they choose in the registration form. We also keep track of any questions they answer. If they checkout online or mark themselves paid offline they are marked as "Paid/Unconfirmed". If they don't finalize the checkout, they will be displayed on the list as "Unpaid". Here are the reasons why we do this:
- You can project that person and their detail in the list.
- You know that they started the checkout and didn't complete it.
- You can use the "Notify" feature to ask them to come back and checkout in the future.
- If they come back later we will match them back up to their existing record so it will be easier for them to just edit their information instead of starting over.