Warning a rant is coming up but I am sharing this so I can be quite honest with you.
I spent just about all my week end nutting out the next stage of my improvements to getting everyones events into the weekly bulletin to make it a much easier journey for us all.
I polished up the template, created the google form and sheet, yes I know that gets automatically created from the form but I still had to do some extra formatting in there to make it work for canva bulk.
Thinking I had nailed it, no I hadnt, I had issues with images, I had issues with the time showing correctly and some. But I was determined to get this launched for this week.
I did no end of testing, with the form, the sheet and canva bulk create.
At last everything was working, yippee I thought. So as you know I launched it.
I got my first events registrations coming through and still had a glitch re the images but I sorted that.
So I thought now I have a few registration forms in I would do the first bulk create.
No.... canva decided not to. I spent ages last night trouble shooting, I have done so many things and it still didnt work. So I thought I would go to bed and perhaps the glitch will be gone in the morning.
Well the glitch is still there and now Canva has stuffed up my template, everytime I go to recreate it the glitch is still causing problems with the template.
Im now in tears as its Wednesday and I know a lot of events will be coming through . All that time and effort disappearing down the drain.
Then to top it all a member asks me what the process was , so I give an explanation of post in the feed and if you want the event in the weekly bulletin , calendar and event classroom then she would need to join premium which is still back at $5. Well she churned stating she didnt believe in this method.
Seriously the amount of time it takes me and my daughter plus Mary to get the events into the weekly bulletin, the calendar, the classroom and the flip book warrants far more than $5 per month, just being honest, but as we are still in our early phase $5 is where it is at whilst we are still developing and growing.
I dont know what this lady expected but omg there are not many that would do all this for $5.
Is the world seriously coming to people expecting everything to be delivered on a golden platter and then spoon fed.
It was like adding insult to injury.
I wont give up I am determined to make this work but please have some patience and understanding, as I keep saying I am only human.
And please make sure you get your events registered with this form sooner rather than later just incase I am having to manually create them due to canva being a complete and utter @#$&!*#. Rant over from a frustrated and teary community owner.
I hope you all have a better day than this.
By the way, no events have been harmed in this process.😬