Event Registration Software
What registration software needs to collect, confirm and protect, beside the ticket sale itself
Event registration software takes the sign-up rather than the sale. It collects who is coming, how many places they need and anything the organiser has to know in advance, then confirms the booking by email.
Many events need both. A free talk needs only a registration, and a workshop charges for the place but still asks the questions. One tool doing both keeps a single list rather than two.
What a registration needs
- A place limit on each session, so a free event does not overshoot the room
- Questions such as dietary needs, access requirements or how someone heard about the event
- A confirmation email with the joining details or a link to them
- A booking cut-off before the event starts
- A list the organiser can print, export or check people in from
- Control over what contact details are collected, and when they are deleted
How Chobble Tickets handles it
A listing with no price works as a sign-up form with a place limit, questions and a confirmation email. No payment provider needs to be connected.
Custom questions collect structured choices or free text at booking, and a group booking answers each question once. Booking cut-offs and purchase limits close registration before the event starts.
When the event charges, the same listing sells places with all of the registration behaviour intact. Attendees receive a QR code for check-in and an Apple Wallet or Google Wallet pass.
Contact details and answers are encrypted in the database, and a person's record can be erased on request. Chobble does not email attendees about other events or build audience profiles from their data.
Registration forms and ticketing tools
A general form tool can collect answers but has no concept of a place. The Google Forms comparison sets out where a form stops working for an event: capacity, confirmations, check-in and refunds.
At the other end, an event platform can turn registration into a marketing channel, with attendee data used to promote other organisers' events. How ticketing platforms disguise their fees and ticketing without per-attendee fees cover the charging models around that choice.
What it costs
Managed hosting is £50 a year or £5 a month with no per-ticket platform fee. Charities, community groups, artists and musicians pay £25 a year.
Paid checkout does not reserve capacity. Capacity is used only when payment confirmation arrives.
Free events that still need a headcount covers the no-charge case in detail, and UK made ticket platforms lists the providers registered in the United Kingdom.