The Skills FestHow The Skills Fest complements your member-records tool
Advancement trackers and membership databases are systems of record. The Skills Fest is the system for running the event itself.
Member-management and advancement platforms answer “who are our members and what have they earned?” The Skills Fest answers a different question: “how does next month’s event actually run?” — schedules with enforced capacity, family self-registration by signup code, day-of check-in, and attendance tracking. Most organizations use both: records live in the membership tool, events run here, and CSV exports carry results back to the system of record.
This page exists because groups ask if they must choose. You don’t — the tools do different jobs.
Side by side
| Member/records platforms | The Skills Fest | |
|---|---|---|
| Job | Long-term records & advancement | Running a specific event |
| Membership rosters | System of record | Imported via CSV, scoped per event |
| Award/advancement history | Yes — that’s the point | Per-event completion, exported to CSV |
| Event schedules with capacity | Rarely, and rarely enforced | Core feature: grid, capacity, waitlists |
| Family self-registration | Varies, usually email-based | Signup codes, no email required |
| Day-of check-in & live counts | Not typically | Core feature |
| After the event | Where results should end up | Exports results for your records tool |
Common questions
No, and it doesn’t try to. Keep your system of record; run events here; move results between them as CSV.