A conference platform, phone first
Registration, the ticket, the agenda and the door, in one app every attendee already has: the browser on their phone. Built for the hall where the Wi-Fi gives up, and priced per event with everything in it.
The demonstration is Beacon Summit, a two-day conference with made-up speakers and sponsors. Register for it, get the ticket by email and look around as an attendee would.
New in AttendBeacon
Cards your speakers and sponsors share, events brought over from other platforms, travel and expense claims, volunteers who pick their own shifts and a budget that forecasts itself. Part of every event, free or licensed.
NewShare kit
Every speaker, sponsor and attendee gets a card in your event's branding to post, in five sizes and their own language, with a personal link and a discount code. The leaderboard shows who brought in which tickets.
NewBring your event over
Drop in the exports from Eventbrite, Cvent, Sessionize, Tito, Luma, Meetup or your own spreadsheets, review what was read, and the event is rebuilt as a draft. Last year's edition comes along as free history to compare against.
NewTravel and expenses
Plan the journeys of speakers, VIPs and crew, meet them with a pickup, warn the driver when a train runs late and settle their claims, receipts and all, in one SEPA file. Their hotel and journey go into Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.
NewVolunteer shifts
Volunteers choose their own shifts within your rules: no overlaps, enough rest, the right skills. Freed spots go to the first in line, swaps happen between volunteers, and perks such as a free ticket are given automatically.
NewEvent budget
Sales, sponsors, hotels, catering, travel and fees are counted for you; add your quotes and invoices and see the forecast, the break-even point in paid tickets, the cash flow and last year's edition side by side.
Open the event in the AttendBeacon app for iPhone, iPad and Android, or right here in your browser. Type the code from the poster, or scan its QR code.
Product tour
Short videos of the real product, from your first event to the door and the report afterwards, with chapters and subtitles in eleven languages.
Length 2:01Part 1
Length 1:52Part 5
Length 2:29Part 10Watch it work
Nine moments, from the first ticket to the results afterwards. Real product flows, illustrated with fictional event data.
For attendees
Nobody has to download anything and nobody makes a password. Attendees open the event's address, register, and the app is theirs, in the browser or in the AttendBeacon app for iPhone and Android. A six-digit code by email signs them in on another phone.
At the door
Open the event in the workspace, choose Scanner and point the camera at the queue. The screen answers in a colour visible from two metres and says why in a word. Anything that is not green waits for a tap, so nobody is waved through a red screen. When the venue's network goes, the scanner carries on.
On every screen
Type it in the workspace and send it. Every paired television and every phone with the app open shows it within seconds, and an urgent one takes over the screens. The room screens need nothing but a browser.
Networking
Attendees who turn networking on scan each other's badge in the app, and both keep the other's card, with only what each chose to share. When the organiser makes it a rule, a new connection earns points, and the leaderboard on the screens follows within seconds.
In the room
Open a poll during a session and the votes come in from the phones in the room, while the screen shows the shares as they change. Questions from the audience are voted up, so the one most people want asked rises to the top.
The organiser opens and closes polls from the workspace; the phones vote and the room's screen follows within seconds.
After the applause
See how tickets sold, who came, what filled the rooms and what people took part in. Give sponsors their results, compare another edition and share a polished report without rebuilding the story in a spreadsheet.
In their pocket
Attendees add their ticket to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet from the email or the app. On the day it is on the lock screen, ready to scan.
For the stands
One portal link opens a space for the exhibitor's team: staff tickets, products, brochures and meetings. Every lead is scanned with consent and exported whenever they like.
Money, sorted
Attendees pay the way they do at home, from iDEAL and Bancontact to BLIK and Swish, in your event's own currency and straight into your own Mollie or Stripe account. Invoices, VAT and credit notes follow on their own, and every refund is followed up until the money is back.
Where it sits
Your event should feel like one experience, not a stack of subscriptions. Tickets, the day itself, the conversations and the results belong together.
The attendee app opens from the event's own address in any browser and installs from there, and the AttendBeacon app for iPhone and Android opens every event by its code. The ticket and the agenda stay on the phone, so both still open when the network does not.
The scanner runs in the browser of any phone with a camera. It keeps the event's tickets, decides at the door when the connection is gone, and sends its scans when it is back. Several doors, each with its own capacity, and badges printed from a browser on the printer the venue already has.
Any television with a browser shows now and next in its room, arrivals as counts, the sponsors and the leaderboard, live within seconds. It pairs with a six-character code, so nobody types a password with a remote.
Every rule pays once per attendee and per thing, enforced by the database, with limits and time windows. Challenge codes are signed and only work when scanned. A prize draw among everybody above a threshold is recorded with who drew it.
Paid tickets through your own Mollie or Stripe account, invoices with VAT, full or partial refunds and paying later by bank transfer. Match bank statements in the workspace. The money goes to you, not through us.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Customer Insights - Journeys, Salesforce and HubSpot kept in step, alerts in Microsoft Teams and Slack, Microsoft Power Automate, Zapier, signed webhooks and a REST API. Your data goes where you need it, without copying it by hand.
Non-commercial events are free, always. Every event is free up to 1,000 participants; above that, one licence of €500 per event (excluding VAT), with everything in it. No fee per registrant, no add-ons, no subscription.
EU sovereignty
AttendBeacon runs in Microsoft Azure data centres in the EU. Here is exactly where, which companies handle your event's data, and the few things that leave the EU, and why.
In Microsoft Azure data centres in the EU. The app and the database run in Sweden Central, in Sweden. Uploads and photos, Key Vault, logs and monitoring, and the container registry are in West Europe, in the Netherlands.
Emails are relayed through MailChannels, a dedicated email delivery service. We send only what is needed to deliver each message.
AI features use Azure OpenAI in the EU Data Zone, so the processing stays within the EU. They are optional, and organisers can switch them off.
Ticket payments go through the organiser's own Mollie account, a Dutch company: iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA and cards, with VAT invoices included. Stripe is optional.
Organisers sign in with their Microsoft work account, or with Google or GitHub. Attendees sign in with a code by email; they have no password.
Fonts are self-hosted on our own servers. No analytics or tracking scripts on this site, in the workspace or in the event app.
Our processors: Microsoft, for hosting, email and AI, and Mollie, for payments on the organiser's own account.
Push messages pass through the browser maker's push service, encrypted end to end so it can't read them. Wallet passes are stored by Apple or Google only when an attendee adds one. Emails end up at each recipient's own mail provider. And Microsoft is a US company: we use the EU regions of Microsoft Azure.
How it works
Four steps, each one in the workspace an organiser already has open.
A name and a date are enough to start. Then rooms, tracks and sessions in the venue's time, speakers and sponsors, and the event's colours and font.
Ticket types with a capacity and a sale window, free or paid through your own Mollie or Stripe account. Ask only what you need; every answer is checked on the server.
A QR code by email and in the app. They sign in with a code, build their own agenda and have the ticket on their phone.
The scanner on any phone at each door, online or not, badges from the browser, and the list of who came, exported when you need it.
Microsoft, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Teams and Power Automate are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. Salesforce is a trademark of Salesforce, Inc. HubSpot is a trademark of HubSpot, Inc. Slack is a trademark and service mark of Slack Technologies, Inc., registered in the U.S. and in other countries. Zapier is a trademark of Zapier, Inc. QuickBooks and Mailchimp are trademarks of Intuit Inc. Google Sheets is a trademark of Google LLC. Moneybird, Brevo, Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor, Airtable, Pipedrive and Zoho are trademarks of their respective owners. Other product names are trademarks of their owners. AttendBeacon is independent of these companies and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by them.
The demonstration is a real event in the real app. Register for Beacon Summit on your phone, or open the workspace and look at the event from the organiser's side.