Features

What it does, and what it will

Ten modules, each marked for what it is today. Nothing on this page is promised in a tense it has not earned: what is available can be tried in the demonstration this afternoon.

Available now built and running today
Partly built the first part works, the rest is on the way
On the roadmap agreed and planned, not built yet

Partly built

Registration and tickets

One order, one or more attendees, each with a ticket. Capacity is checked in the same transaction as the order, so the last place is sold once. Paid tickets go through your own Mollie or Stripe account, whose key is kept in Azure Key Vault.

Available now

Ticket types with a capacity, a sale window and a limit per order
Tickets for everybody, only with an access code, or hidden for the crew and speakers
Registration questions, checked on the server: text, choices, yes or no, consent, phone
Free tickets, and tickets issued by the organiser, emailed with a signed QR code
Paid tickets through your own Mollie or Stripe: the buyer pays on the provider's page, the places are held for 30 minutes, and the ticket is emailed once paid
Whether a ticket is paid comes from the provider, never from the return to the page, and a failed payment can be tried again

On the roadmap

Invoices with VAT and reverse charge, refunds, and paying later by bank transfer
A waiting list that offers a released place to the first in line
Discount codes, name changes and cancellation until a date

Available now

The attendee app

One app for everything an attendee sees: the event's public page, registration, the ticket and their own day are the same pages at the event's address. It installs from the browser, with no store in between.

Available now

Installs on the home screen from the event's address
Keeps the ticket and the agenda on the phone, and says when it is showing a saved copy
Sign-in with a six-digit code by email; no passwords, ever
The event's own colours, font and logo, light or dark
In English and Dutch, in whichever of the event's languages the attendee chooses
Announcements from the organiser, within seconds, while the app is open

On the roadmap

Push notifications when the app is closed, with a daily digest or only what changes the attendee's day
The same app in the Android and iOS stores, with wallet passes for the ticket

Available now

Agenda and speakers

The programme in the venue's time, whatever the time zone of the person typing it or reading it.

Available now

Rooms with their seats, tracks with their colours, sessions of every kind: talks, workshops, panels, breaks, meals
A warning when a room is already taken at that time
Speakers with a photo, a biography and links; their email address is never shown
A link per session for those not in the room, and calendar files

On the roadmap

A call for papers with anonymous review by track
A speaker portal for their own profile and slides, and session material for attendees

Partly built

Onsite check-in and badges

The door is where an event is judged. The scanner runs on the phones the crew already carry, and keeps working when the venue's network does not.

Available now

The scanner in the browser of any phone with a camera, iPhone included, and a search by name or email
Several doors per event: the entrance, a session's room, lunch. Each admits the ticket types you choose, with a capacity, re-entry on or off, and scanning in and out
A live count of who is inside now, and a full room refuses new people
Offline, the scanner decides on the device from the event's tickets and queues its scans. When the connection is back, the server decides each again and lists any it decided differently
Badges printed from the browser on a 4×3" badge, a CR80 card, a 62 mm label roll or A6: name, job title, company, QR code and a colour stripe per ticket type. No printer driver, no app

On the roadmap

A kiosk where attendees check themselves in and print their own badge
Walk-ins who register and pay at the door

Available now

Room screens

Signage that comes with the event rather than with another contract. Any television with a browser will do.

Available now

Paired with a six-character code, so nobody types a password with a remote
A rotation of now and next in its room, marked full when its door is, and now and next everywhere
Arrivals as counts, never names, the sponsors and the leaderboard, live within seconds
Announcements from the workspace to every screen and every phone with the app open; an urgent one takes over the screens

On the roadmap

Live polls and questions from a session, on its room's screen

Available now

Points and leaderboards

Points that reward taking part, written so that nobody can earn them twice for the same thing.

Available now

Points for coming in, attending a session (scanned at its door), finding a QR challenge at the venue and visiting a sponsor's booth
Once means once: each rule pays once per thing, enforced by the database, with limits per rule and time windows
Challenge codes are signed and only work when scanned
A leaderboard in the app and on the screens that shows "Anna B."; anybody can leave it and keep their points
A prize draw among everybody above a threshold, shuffled cryptographically and recorded with who drew it

On the roadmap

More rules: feedback given, a survey answered, a connection made, a complete profile

On the roadmap

Networking

Meeting the right people, only for those who opted in to be found.

On the roadmap

Profiles in a directory, opt in, with a choice of what to share
Scan somebody's badge in the app and both keep the other's card
Meeting requests at the organiser's tables and times, and suggestions by shared interests

Partly built

Sponsors and leads

Sponsors are why many events can happen. They are in the app and on the screens; capturing leads comes with consent built in.

Available now

Sponsors and exhibitors by tier, with their logo, booth and website, in the app
A booth's own code, worth points when an attendee visits

On the roadmap

An exhibitor portal for their profile, booth staff and documents
Lead capture by scanning a badge, only when the attendee agreed on the badge
Sponsored sessions whose attendees become the sponsor's leads, when they agreed

Partly built

Surveys and feedback

Asked when it is fresh, of the people who were there.

Available now

Session feedback, stars and a comment, only from people who were there: let in at the session's door, or checked in when the session has no door
Open from the start of the session until a week after the event
Surveys with the registration question kinds plus stars and a 0 to 10 scale, answered once
Results per question: averages, Net Promoter Score, counts and the comments, never with names

On the roadmap

Live polls and questions per session, shown on the room's screen
Results shared with the speaker, when the organiser chooses

Partly built

Integrations

AttendBeacon keeps its own records and keeps the CRM in step with them, never the other way round.

Available now

Attendees, their answers and their check-ins exported to CSV
Calendar files for the event and for every session

On the roadmap

Dynamics 365 and Customer Insights - Journeys: contacts, registrations, check-ins and leads
Salesforce and HubSpot, the same way through their own APIs
Signed webhooks with a delivery log, and a REST API with an OpenAPI description
Power Automate and Zapier connectors, and alerts in Teams and Slack

Not doing

What it will not do

A list as deliberate as the roadmap. Each of these is somebody else's business, or a bad idea.

Holding your money

Payments go to your own Mollie or Stripe account. Being a payment facilitator is a licence, not a feature.

Streaming

A session can carry a Teams or Zoom link. Running video is a different company.

Venues and hotel rooms

Sourcing venues and blocking hotel rooms is an old business, and nobody's reason to switch.

Passwords for attendees

A code or a link by email, then the phone remembers them. A password nobody will remember protects nothing.

Try what is built

Everything marked available is in the demonstration. Register for Beacon Summit, or open the workspace and look at the organiser's side.

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