I often have to register colleagues for conferences. Chasing down receipts is super annoying, because most conferences won’t usually send ME a receipt if I’m registering someone else. So I typically have to chase down my colleague to forward me their event confirmation — or I email the conference organizer. Either way it’s a hassle.
For this reason, I try to remember to take a screenshot of the confirmation page before I hit “Register” and lose all the information on it. This is also super annoying, because those confirmation pages can be incredibly long.
I used to have to take several screenshots and glue them together in Photoshop, wondering the whole time how people without a Creative Suite license manage to deal with this. (Or, maybe that’s why people always ask the marketing person to do their conference registrations).
That’s where SnagIt comes in handy. Before I hit “Register,” I fire up SnagIt and grab the whole 3,000-pixel long page that lists the attendee’s name and the price. I keep SnagIt active until I hit “Register.” If I get a confirmation from the organization, I can discard the screengrab. But if I don’t, I just use the screengrab as my receipt. BAM!
