13-03-2014, 01:29 PM
One of the reasons the ECF went down the compulsory membership route was the failure to collect grading fees properly. They didn't know exactly how much went uncollected but speculation of lost fees was as high as 20%.
At CS the structure of submission of results to one central point and invoice issue means that grading fee collection is very near 100%. Occasionally some fees are collected late or an invoice doesn't go out promptly but eventually everyone billed does pay up - and the hardball would be no more results processed until bill paid. The grader and the treasurer liaise to maintain and update a spreadsheet of which events have been invoiced. It's a simple system which works fairly well.
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At CS the structure of submission of results to one central point and invoice issue means that grading fee collection is very near 100%. Occasionally some fees are collected late or an invoice doesn't go out promptly but eventually everyone billed does pay up - and the hardball would be no more results processed until bill paid. The grader and the treasurer liaise to maintain and update a spreadsheet of which events have been invoiced. It's a simple system which works fairly well.
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