Quick List of Features

• Online Abstract Submission
• Online Grading for Reviewers
• Reporting
• Successfully Converts Tables, Charts, Graphs, X-Rays, Images, and over 37,000 Characters and Symbols
• Session Builder
• Presentation scheduling
• Email communication
• Preparation and Delivery to Publisher
• Session and Room AV / BEO Tracking
• Online Itinerary Planner for Attendees
• Session Ticketing
• Automatic Session / Room Assignment Features

Introducing...
Session Ticketing!

Ticketing is a new, proven effective method to help prevent overcrowding and optimizes session / room size assignments based on what your attendees have selected in the online itinerary planner.

Ticketing was recently put to the test at Chicago’s McCormick Lakeside Conference Center where there was an expected attendance of more than 25,000. In previous years this conference had experienced long lines and overcrowding when rooms filled up leaving attendees discouraged about future meetings. By enabling attendees to pre-register for tickets to selected sessions the frantic race to be first in line was virtually eliminated resulting in a dramatic improvement in not only the attendees experience, but for the meeting planners before, during and after the event as well.

Ticketing has other benefits too. For instance, the data can be used prior to the conference so meeting planners can determine where staff and security personnel might need to be stationed, develop strategies to handle transportation needs and other on site accommodation, and provide an overview of what attendees are interested in hearing about. So, before your next meeting consider looking into Ticketing, it's an easy way to make a great event even better.

Session Ticketing easily integrates with existing websites allowing you to maintain your own look and feel. And our secure authentication process ensures privacy and integrity of each user.

Product Features

Fully Automated System
Precis is designed to run on its own. Following the customization and setup process, Precis will utilize the provided data to begin accepting submissions, process submissions, process payments, compile and send to reviewers, process reviewer's grades, and allow data to be prepared for the publisher. But who trusts computers? That's why reports keep you up-to-date on what's going on. Precis will automatically email submitters to confirm any new submissions or modification to their submissions

Edit/Preview
No one is perfect. That is why we allow our submitters to review their entire submission before they finalize. All character and symbol conversions take place before the preview screen appears. This ensures that the submitter will be able to spot any irregularities. The way the abstract appears in the preview screen is exactly how it will appear come publishing.

Reporting
Standard system reports, customized reports, and exports all keep you informed of the status throughout the process. Keep tabs on the number of submissions. Find out what's happened today, last hour, last week, last month. Make sure your reviewers are keeping pace with grading. Our new report builder will give you the added flexibility to build and pull reports with the information you need in real time.

Session Management and Scheduling
An exciting new feature available this year, the Session Management Center allows sophisticated manual and automatic scheduling system for assignment of submissions to time slots. By helping to build the schedule automatically, this feature will save planners many hours of manually assigning sessions to appropriate rooms and times.

The session management module will allow you to manage scheduling of presentations based on:

1. Manual and Auto Scheduling
2. Criteria for obtaining possible room candidates when using the auto scheduler: Specific Site (manages multiple site locations), Session duration, Room capacity, Room setup, A/V Equipment
3. Avoid presenter time conflicts including overlapping session times

Other Key Features

37,136 International Characters and Symbols
We have identified 37,217 national and international characters and symbols. Precis' conversion rate is 99.78% (37,136). Stop the guessing game. If we don't have a character you need, let us know and we will see if it is possible to add it to our system.

Text Submissions
For abstracts without charts, graphs, or tables submitters may want to simply type their document into a text field. For all text based submissions, Precis provides a preview page so you may view your submission before it is processed in the system.

Word Processor Document Submissions
For abstracts including tables, charts, or graphs we provide word processor document submissions. Submitters can include special characters and layout in a tool they are comfortable with, then upload it into the system. To reduce the possibility of font or symbol problems, Precis will instantly convert the document to a PDF file so that all staff and reviewers are looking at the same document.

Tables, Graphs, Charts
Visual references are an invaluable tool for enhancing the effectiveness of an abstract. Precis will accept file uploads of pie charts, bar graphs, and tables. Precis will accept the upload of all file types, including PDF, PostScript, Word, and Word Perfect. We will work with you to help you pick the correct format that is accessible to your reviewers, staff and publisher.

Email Notifications
Email reminders can be a powerful tool in keeping track of everything that goes on in abstract processing. Notify submitters of upcoming deadlines, notification status, and keep presenters up-to-date on meeting events by sending customized email notices. Changes in deadlines, session scheduling, anything that your submitters and presenters need to know can be communicated through Precis. Hours, days, maybe even weeks can be saved with the Precis email notification system. Precis can generate and distribute notification emails to all submitters and presenters with very little of your time.

Access to Database for Future Promotions
The information in the database is fully accessible to your organization. Use this information for direct mail campaigns, mass email promotions, membership leads, even about a future call for abstracts…almost anything you can think of. The database is sortable and searchable, which allows you complete flexibility in attaining the information you seek.

Saved Profiles
Every event your organization initiates through Precis is saved as a profile. This profile keeps track of all the customizations performed in the process of building your event. For recurring events, i.e. annual meetings, simply select the profile for the last annual meeting. Why build an event from scratch when you can use the custom features saved from your last meeting?