Case study / Bespoke software

Dragon Boat Festival
Booking System

A bespoke booking system for NewWave Events' dragon boat festivals. Companies, charities and community crews create an account, enter festivals from London to Northampton and manage their entries in one place.

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  • Bespoke software
The festival entry portal sign-in page: Crews, are you ready? beside the sign-in form, with a choice of festivals

The challenge

NewWave runs dragon boat festivals across the country, each with crews from companies, charities and community groups. Entries, team details and payments all have to be gathered before race day, and collecting them by email and spreadsheet quickly becomes a job in itself.

NewWave needed one place where crews could sign up for themselves, and where the team could see every entry for every festival at a glance.

The solution

We designed and built a custom entry portal in NewWave's own brand. Crews create an account, choose their festival (London, Peterborough, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Northampton or the Construction Industry Challenge) and enter their team online.

Every entry flows into one system, so the NewWave team works from a single, accurate list for each festival instead of chasing details across inboxes. The sign-in page sets the tone for race day too: bold, energetic and unmistakably NewWave.

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