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Doing gate and books requires a device (smartphone works okay, something with a larger screen like a tablet or laptop is preferable – the club has a tablet) and an account on the site. If working on a personal device, ideally one uses a personal account for improved auditability, but the "signin" account is also available – see "Login and Accounts" section for details to get access. The gate&books pages in SquaresDB themselves have some instructions as do the nightly jobs instructions.
New Subscriptions
Once prices for the subscription period have been decided on
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, you'll need to load them into SquaresDB:
- Go to https://squaresdb.mit.edu/gate/new_period/.
- Enter the first and last dance dates.
- Select the relevant season.
- Time should be correct (assuming the club dance time hasn't changed), and name and slug should populate automatically.
- Change the default price scheme to "normal2023", and fill in the subscription prices.
- Hit create (don't check "confirm").
- Confirm the dates look right, check "confirm", and hit create again.
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