A camp is created in three steps: the venue, the camp itself, then the seats. You can do it in any order and come back: nothing is fixed until the camp is published.
Recording the venue
A venue is created once and serves every year.
- Open Young, then the Venues tab.
- Click New venue.
- Give the name, the city, the country, and say whether it is a private venue (a centre you rent) or a public one.
- Add the capacity and an on-site contact if you know them.
The venue contact never appears on the public page: it is for your team only.
Creating the camp
- From the Young home page, click New camp.
- Give it a name, choose its type (camp, retreat, day, evening) and its dates.
- Choose the venue and, if you wish, a maximum capacity.
- Add a poster: this is the image young people and their parents will see.
The camp is created as a draft. Nobody can see it yet.
Setting the seats
Seats live in the Seats tab of the camp. Each category has a name, a price and, if needed, a limited number.
Three audiences are possible.
| Audience | What it means |
|---|---|
| Members | Reserved for young people from your church |
| Guests | Reserved for young people from outside |
| Open to all | No distinction |
A price of zero makes the seat free: the registration is then confirmed immediately.
Adding the poster
The poster is added straight from the camp banner, with the Add a poster button. It becomes the banner of the public page, and it is also the preview when the link is shared in a chat group. Without a poster, the public page shows the module's gradient, which stays clean.
Only an image uploaded from that page is accepted. An address copied from another website is refused: it would vanish the day that site changes, and your camp's public page would depend on it.
What the public page will show
The camp settings hold a block called What the public page will show. Every field there is optional, and each block only appears if it has something to say: a page full of empty headings inspires less confidence than a short one.
| Field | What a parent sees |
|---|---|
| Minimum and maximum age | "Ages 12 to 17", at the top of the page |
| Registration deadline | The date shown, and the door genuinely closed that day |
| What is included | Meals, accommodation, transport, equipment |
| What to bring | Sleeping bag, Bible, sports kit |
| Contact e-mail and phone | Who to talk to before saying yes |
Two things are added without you typing them: your church's name and logo, taken from its profile, and the number of seats left once it gets low. The number of people registered is never published: how busy your church is concerns nobody else.
The deadline is not decorative. Once past, the form refuses any new registration, including from someone who kept the old link open.
Publishing
The Publish button, at the top of the camp, opens the public page. A link then appears in the overview: copy it and share it. While the camp is a draft, that link does not exist, because it would lead nowhere.
The Close registrations button shuts the page without erasing anything: registrations, payments and tickets all stay.