Registration - What Happens Next?
Hey everyone! Registration has been open for about a week and it's great to see so many of you excited to join us again in Glasgow next year. What happens next depends on if you are aiming for a residential or non-residential registration; here's what to expect!
If you are opting for a residential registration, which includes both attendance and accommodation at one of our partner hotels, the Crowne Plaza or the Hilton Garden Inn, the lottery window is open until 8pm on Monday 3rd August. To be included, you must have an eligible registration by then.
An eligible registration means you have completed both the registration and accommodation forms in our system at https://reg.scotiacon.org.uk and successfully created a room share with a partner. You can see your room share on the accommodation form under "Your Sharing Group".
After the lottery window closes, we'll lock the system for approximately three days to enable us to complete checks and perform the draw. Once that is complete, we will send all applications for residential registrations a note to inform them whether they have been successful or not.
You do not have to pay at this point! If you've been successful in obtaining a residential registration, we will send you a second note within the following four weeks requesting your payment. These will not all be sent at once, so don't worry if someone else gets one first.
The payment deadline is seven days after the payment request is sent to you. We anticipate that all payment requests for residential registrations should be delivered by early September. Once you've paid, your room and registration is secured and you can look forward to joining us in Glasgow!
If you are not successful in obtaining a residential registration, you will join the waiting list for cancellations, but you can switch out to a non-residential registration at any time and arrange your own accommodation. You will be able to do this as soon as the system unlocks after the lottery.
Applications for non-residential registrations will only start to be processed after we've completed the residential registrations from the lottery, which we anticipate to be in early September, even if you applied for non-residential registration as soon as we opened registration.
This process is simpler; as there is no need for a lottery outcome note, you will only receive the note requesting your payment. The same deadline for payment applies here, payment is due within seven days after the payment request is sent to you.
We have not yet fixed a closing date for registration, but will give as much notice as possible before we do close. Until then we will continue to offer non-residential registrations, allow people to join the residential waiting list, and for those on the waiting list to change to non-residential.
As always, if you have any questions about the registration process or about your registration in particular, please email our friendly Registration team at [email protected] and they will be pleased to assist you with your query.
