Testing with sample data

Corsizio is a low-cost, self-serve platform that facilitates online registrations and payments for group events. This means that anyone who chooses to use Corsizio must feel comfortable using web-based services and be responsible for exploring and learning its features at their own time and pace.

As part of our self-serve approach, all new accounts contain sample data to help you become acquainted with Corsizio's features and functionalities and directly experience them. You may wish to practice with sample data before creating your events and accepting real registrations, using either the auto-generated sample data or your own. This will allow you to experience the registration process from your perspective as an account admin and from your attendee's perspective.

Testing with auto-generated sample data

Every new Corsizio account includes sample data to quickly show you what event and attendee data would look like in your account. It includes sample events, attendees, feedback, instructors, and coupons you can freely experiment with. (Reports are excluded from the sample data, so you will not see any sample data there.)

We recommend you review this sample data to familiarize yourself with the many fields, features, and functions of the event creation process and attendee registration records.

You can modify or add to this sample data for your testing.
You can experiment with this sample data by registering yourself for the sample event to experience the registration process from your attendees' perspective and preview what emails and other notifications look like. Just be sure to use your real email address (not a fake or sample one) so that you actually receive the registration emails.

NOTE — When you are ready to go live and create real events, you should remove the sample data (see below). This ensures that the sample events, attendees, feedback, instructors, coupons, and other sample data do not interfere with your actual data.

How to remove the auto-generated sample data

To remove the initial sample data, follow these steps:

STEP 1: From your Corsizio dashboard, go to the account Settings.

STEP 2: You will see a message box near the top, "Click here to remove all sample data," that you can click on to remove the sample data.

Alternatively, you can navigate down to the "Sample Data" section and select "Remove all initial demo sample data from this account". The sample data can be re-inserted in this area in the same way if you need it again.

Either of these options will remove all the sample data all at once without you needing to delete them one by one and miss something in the process.

WARNING — Do not use the sample data as part of your real data in any way, as it can be removed at any time.

Testing with your own sample data

In addition to the auto-generated sample data, you can create your own sample data, consisting of similar elements, to practice creating events and playing with any of the configuration options available. Here are some ways that you may wish to experiment with your own sample data:

Create a test event to familiarize yourself with all the different features and configurations possible for your event page and registration form.
Register sample attendees to the test event to familiarize yourself with the registration process and emails received by the attendee and the admin. Just be sure to use a real email address for the registrations (it can be the same one every time) so that you actually receive the practice emails.
Create sample coupons and attendee feedback if these apply to your needs.

Unlike the auto-generated sample data, you can turn your own sample data into real data. Nothing is unique about the data you create for sample or test purposes; it is like real data.

For example, if you configured a test event to reflect the needs of your actual events, you may wish to use it as a template to clone each time you need to create a similar event quickly.

You are also responsible for removing any sample or test data you create if you no longer want it.

Testing payments

Corsizio's system has already been tested for accepting payments and all the integrations with Stripe. There is no need for you to test an online payment.

If you must test payment for any reason, you would register yourself for your paid event and use a real credit card to process the charge. Keep in mind that this is a real transaction that will charge your credit card, and online payment service fees apply.

Stripe's testing policy is not to do such personal testing with real transactions, especially with very low dollar amounts that can easily be flagged as fraudulent activity, given that their platform has already been tested and runs automated tests regularly.

If you only want to test the registration itself without the payment, you can register yourself for an event, as mentioned above, either using the auto-generated or your own sample event. You can then bypass the payment in one of the following ways:

Make the event free to have a cost of zero.
Enable offline payments and choose that option when performing a test registration.
Use a coupon that provides you with a 100% discount.
Register manually by adding a new attendee to an event from the backend, which automatically allows you to bypass payment.

To learn more about how payments work, read the following help docs: