Guides for organisers
Guides for event organisers
Practical steps for registration, the door and everything after, and honest comparisons with the platforms you may use now. Written for people who run user groups, community days and business events in the EU.
How to run phone-based check-in for a 300-person conference
Doors, scanners, offline scanning, walk-ins and badges, planned for a mid-sized conference.
Free ticketing for user groups and community days
Free tickets, recurring meetups, speakers and check-in for groups run by volunteers.
Sync event registrations to Dynamics 365 and Customer Insights - Journeys
Contacts, registrations, check-ins, leads and journey triggers in your own Dataverse environment.
Import your Sessionize speakers and sell tickets in one place
Keep Sessionize for your call for speakers, and bring the programme over for tickets and the app.
GDPR checklist for event registration in the EU
What to ask, consent boxes, processors, where data is kept, retention and requests from attendees.
Building an event app that installs without the app store
An installable web app with the ticket, the agenda, an offline copy and notifications. No store needed.
What ticket platforms take: a fee calculator
Type a price and a number of tickets and compare the platform fees, with sources.
AttendBeacon compared with Eventbrite: honest pros and cons
Ticket fees, payouts, check-in and reach, side by side, with a link to every source.
AttendBeacon compared with Meetup: honest pros and cons
Organiser plans, members, recurring meetups and reach, side by side, with sources.
AttendBeacon compared with Luma: honest pros and cons
Platform fees, payments, hosting, apps and discovery, side by side, with sources.
AttendBeacon compared with Whova: honest pros and cons
Pricing, ticket fees, the event app, hosting and languages, side by side, with sources.
AttendBeacon compared with Cvent: honest pros and cons
Pricing, payments, hosting, check-in and integrations, side by side, with sources.
AttendBeacon compared with Bizzabo: honest pros and cons
Pricing, subscriptions, hosting, languages and integrations, side by side, with sources.
Moving from Eventbrite to AttendBeacon, step by step
Export from Eventbrite, import as a draft or an earlier edition, and what to check before you go live.
Moving a Meetup group to AttendBeacon, step by step
The community page, recurring meetups, inviting members and Meetup's terms on members' data.
Moving from Luma to AttendBeacon, step by step
Export from Luma, import as a draft or an earlier edition, and move your calendar to a community.
These guides are in all 11 languages of this site.