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Administrator's Guide
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This document describes the **contractility** contract management system, for race 
contract management and for race sponsor management. 

* race contract management

  The system is used to manage bookings and contracts for the Steeplechasers race services 
  business. The primary functions provided by the system include:

  * online availability calendar
  * race database, providing online schedule and details of races and clients
  * electronic contract generation, signing and archival capabilities
  * Email system designed to automate the communication with race directors, race 
    services administrators and race services leads
  * Automated initialization of the preliminary schedule for the current year from the 
    previous year's bookings

  This system is designed to significantly reduce the administrative workload required to manage the club's race services business.

  See :ref:`event-admin-guide` for more details.

* race sponsor management

  The system is ued to manage sponsors for the Steeplechasers signature races. The primary functions 
  provided by the system include:
  
  * maintain database of benefits for sponsor levels
  * maintain record of race sponsorships
  * generate sponsor agreement based on sponsor benefits
  * automatically configure free entry coupons in the race registration system (RunSignUp only)
  * automated initialization of possible sponsorships for the next year from the current year's sponsors
  
  This system is designed to significantly reduce the administrative workload required
  to manage sponsorships by signature race race directors.

  See :ref:`sponsor-admin-guide` for more details.
  
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 4
   :caption: Contents:

   common-use-cases
   contract-admin-event-guide
   contract-admin-sponsor-guide