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Getting Started.
What eventcloud is, who it suits and how an event gets set up.
What is eventcloud?
Registration, badges, check-in and lead retrieval for in-person events: conferences, exhibitions, trade shows, confex, congresses, corporate and association events. Every audience gets its own pass type, registration form, price schedule and confirmation email. Delegates book their sessions as they register, badges are designed in real millimetres, door staff check people in from any phone or tablet, and exhibitors scan leads on their own phones. There is no limit on events, registrations or attendees, and ticket revenue settles straight into your own Stripe account.
Is eventcloud registration software or ticketing software?
Registration first. Each audience gets its own pass type, form, price schedule and confirmation email, with badges and check-in built on the answers. Card checkout runs underneath through Stripe, so paid conferences and free visitor registration both work.
Who is eventcloud for?
Organisers of in-person events with named attendees: conference and exhibition organisers, associations, agencies running events for clients, and corporate event teams. It suits small teams running several events a year, because events, registrations and attendees are never counted. See solutions by event type, or tell us about yours if it is something different.
How do I set up an event?
Sign in, click Create, add the basics (name, dates, venue) and save. Then add a ticket group for each audience, build their registration forms, design badges and tickets, set up promo codes and invite your team, all from the event's dashboard. You can rehearse checkout with Stripe test cards before you publish.
Can I run several events at the same time?
Yes. Run as many events as you like on one subscription, each with its own dashboard, attendees and Insights, all listed on your own branded events gallery. Coming soon: cross-event reporting, with every event in one view. Running a whole season? Tell us what you need to see.
Can I clone or duplicate an event?
Coming soon: copy a previous event, ticket groups, forms and emails included, as the starting point for the next one. Running the same show every year? Let us know.
Can we use Google Forms or Microsoft Forms instead?
You could, but the answers would stop at the form. Here each ticket group has its own registration form, and every answer flows to the badge, the confirmation email, the attendee list and the Excel export. Payment, tickets and check-in come with it. See how registration works.
Registration and Payments.
Forms, passes, prices and sessions, and where the money goes.
What can I ask on a registration form?
Short and long text, dropdowns, single and multiple choice, date, time, country, phone with dial codes, a structured address and a Terms and Policies agreement whose acceptance is recorded on every order, plus section headings and page breaks. You build forms by drag and drop with a live preview, and every question, option and heading can be translated, so each registrant sees the form in their own language. Coming soon: file-upload questions. Need CVs, abstracts or ID cards sent in with the form? Tell us.
Can delegates, speakers and exhibitors get different forms?
Yes. Each ticket group has its own registration form, so VIPs, exhibitor staff, speakers and delegates only answer what applies to them, over as many pages as you like. Coming soon: show or hide logic inside a form, so a question appears only when an earlier answer calls for it. Got a form that needs it? Drop us a line.
What kinds of tickets can I sell?
Paid and free pass types in as many ticket groups as you need, each with its own capacity, form, confirmation email and price schedule. Delegates can book agenda sessions, free or paid, as they register, timed session tickets cover repeating dates and time slots, and private ticket groups are reachable only by a secret link, which suits speakers, exhibitor staff and VIPs. Extras such as dinners sell as add-ons with their own caps.
Can we keep registration invitation-only or approve each registration?
Coming soon: approval of each registration, invite-only registration and access codes. Need them for a closed event? Talk to us. Today private ticket groups are reachable only by a secret link, promo codes can be restricted to named email addresses or whole domains, and you can hold a place for someone and send them a payment link.
Can attendees choose sessions or workshops when they register?
Yes. Switch on booking for any session on your agenda, free or paid, give it a capacity and a time when booking closes, and choose which tickets can book it. Checkout then shows a Sessions step with one card per named attendee, refuses two sessions that clash, and ticks any session that comes included with their ticket. Attendees can book or pay for more later in the event app or their attendee portal. Session booking works on ticket types that ask for each attendee's details. See session booking.
Does eventcloud support early-bird pricing?
Yes. Ticket prices change on a schedule you set, from early bird through standard to door price, and switch automatically when each window opens. Nobody has to remember to change the price at midnight.
Can I cap how many places sell?
Yes. Set a capacity per ticket, per session and for the whole event, and they work together. Live basket holds count too, so the last place is never sold twice. eventcloud itself never limits how many you sell.
Can I sell group tickets or run group registrations?
Yes. A buyer can register a whole team in one order, up to 99 of a ticket type per line, and any paid price can carry up to six group rates, such as a lower price each from five tickets, shown to buyers before they pay. When a pass asks for attendee details, each person needs their own email address and gets their own confirmation and ticket at it, and the person who books gets an order confirmation with every name and the full totals. You can also import a list from Excel or CSV. Coming soon: a coordinator portal for group bookers. Booking delegations every year? Tell us how they work.
Is there a waiting list?
Yes, for tickets that are not on sale yet. People join without any setup on your side, and everyone is emailed the moment the ticket goes on sale. Coming soon: a waiting list for sold-out tickets, with places released in a controlled way. Selling out already? Get in touch.
Can I run promo codes and affiliate links?
Yes, as many as you like. Promo codes take a percentage or a fixed amount off and can be limited to named tickets, add-ons or paid sessions, in any mix. Each one can carry a redemption cap, an expiry date and time, a list of named email addresses or whole email domains, and a switch that leaves group rates undiscounted, and you can retire a code and restore it whenever you like. One code per order. Affiliates get a welcome email with a tracked link that works from any page of your event site, and Insights shows sales per code and per affiliate, so every partner's share is easy to work out. See every control.
How do affiliate links work?
Add a partner, sponsor, speaker or association as an affiliate with their name, company and email, then pick their code or let us make one up. They get a welcome email with their own link, and it works from whichever page of your event site they share, so a link to your speaker line-up still counts. Tie an affiliate to named tickets if you like, and an order is credited to them only when it includes one of those passes. Each affiliate has their own page listing every order they brought in, with the discount, VAT and total on each, and Insights ranks them all by revenue with their order counts alongside, so you can see at a glance who is pulling their weight. Add as many as you like. See every control.
How do payments work?
Buyers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on Stripe's hosted checkout, and the money settles straight into your own Stripe account, so we never hold it and payouts follow your own Stripe schedule. Apple Pay and Google Pay show on phones and browsers that support them, managed in your Stripe dashboard. Each event sells in one currency your Stripe account supports, such as GBP, EUR or USD.
Can delegates pay by invoice or bank transfer?
Coming soon: invoices, pay by invoice, bank transfer and purchase orders. Finance already asking? Tell us what they need. Today buyers pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay on Stripe's hosted checkout. For buyers who must pay off-platform, capture a PO number on the form, hold the place and send a payment link they pay by card, or add them by hand once they have paid you.
How is VAT handled?
Set your organisation's VAT rate once, inclusive or exclusive, with your own tax label and VAT number. It applies to passes, extras and paid sessions alike and is frozen onto every order. The person who books gets an order confirmation with the subtotal, discounts, VAT and total, and each named attendee's own confirmation itemises the VAT on their ticket. Coming soon: your VAT number printed on those confirmations, and invoices. Need proper VAT invoices for your delegates? Speak to us.
Can I issue refunds?
Yes, from the dashboard. Refund without cancelling, or cancel and refund to free the place for someone else; partial refunds are tracked. Refunds go back through Stripe, and only the organisation owner can issue them.
Can attendees change, cancel or transfer their own tickets?
They can change their own details. In the attendee portal on your event site, attendees view and download their tickets (handy when the confirmation email has vanished), correct their registration answers and book sessions, and your team can update a name or email on any order and resend the ticket, with extras reassigned between attendees. Coming soon: cancelling or transferring a ticket themselves. Want that for your delegates? Write to us.
Can I use eventcloud for free events?
Yes. Free registrations get the same PDF tickets, QR codes and confirmation emails as paid ones, with no card step, and they are never counted. A free event needs no Stripe account at all: connect Stripe when you start charging for a ticket, an extra or a paid session.
Can we send reminders, texts or calendar invites?
Calendar files, yes: every confirmation email carries one with the event and the attendee's sessions, in the right local time wherever your event is, and a session booked later arrives with its own. Coming soon: reminders, scheduled and bulk email, SMS, and Apple or Google Wallet passes. Which would you use first? Tell us. Today every ticket group has its own confirmation email, designed with drag-and-drop blocks and merge fields for every registration question, each named attendee gets their own email with a QR code and, unless you switch it off, a PDF ticket, and the person who books gets the order confirmation with the full totals.
Which languages does eventcloud support?
Five today: UK and US English, Spanish, German and French. Arabic is coming. Need another language? Ask us. Each event has a primary language and up to four more, each with its own web address. Registration forms, prices, extras, every checkout step including Stripe's payment page, attendee emails and PDF tickets follow each attendee's language, and badges print in your primary language or, if you switch it on, in each attendee's. Publish each email in every language you offer, or readers get your primary version. See multi-language events.
Badges and Check-in.
Badges designed in millimetres, a kiosk that prints them on arrival, and a door anyone can staff with a phone.
Can I design my own badges and tickets?
Yes. Design badges in real millimetres on 4x6 in, Letter, A4, A5, A6 or custom stock up to 1000 mm, with bleed guides and fold options. Each ticket group can have its own badge, filled with live data from any registration question, the nine-digit ticket number and an optional barcode, and event and sponsor logos can go on too. The ticket designer turns out branded PDF tickets that replace the standard attachment. See the badge designer.
How do we print badges?
Two ways. Print any attendee's badge from the dashboard, straight to your browser's print dialog on the printer you already use, and print it again after a name change. Or set up a self-service Badge Kiosk so badges print as people arrive. There are no drivers to install. Coming soon: batch printing from the dashboard. Need it for your event? Tell us.
Can badges print at the registration desk as people arrive?
Yes, with the self-service Badge Kiosk: a laptop and the badge printer beside it, at your desk or for visitors to use themselves. Visitors type their ticket number (or search by name or email, if you switch that on), check their badge, fix a typo if you allow it and press Print, which checks them in too. On Windows, Edge, Chrome or Firefox in kiosk mode prints with no dialog, using the commands on the Badge Kiosk page. At a staffed door, any phone checks people in with a scan. See the badge kiosk.
How does check-in work?
Door staff open one check-in link on any phone or tablet and enter a four-digit PIN. There is no app to install and no account for temporary staff. They scan the QR code from the ticket email, the PDF ticket or the attendee app, or type the nine-digit ticket number. The same link scans people into individual sessions too. You can pause or rotate the link at shift change, and rehearse the whole door on a draft event. See check-in.
What do door staff see when they scan a ticket?
The attendee's name, email, phone, company, ticket and pass type. A second scan is flagged with the time of the first, and refunded, unpaid and (once the event is published) test tickets are refused. Every other registration answer sits in the dashboard for your team.
Can staff look someone up by name at the door?
Staff scan the QR code or type the nine-digit ticket number printed on the ticket, a self-service Badge Kiosk can let visitors find their own badge by name or email if you switch that on, and anyone signed in to the dashboard can find the attendee and resend their ticket email. Coming soon: name, company and email search for door staff. Big queue and no QR codes in sight? Tell us about your door.
Does check-in work offline?
Coming soon: offline check-in. Patchy signal at your venue? Tell us where you are running it. Meanwhile, test the signal at every entrance during build-up, keep a mobile hotspot as backup to the venue Wi-Fi, and export the attendee list to Excel the night before as your paper list.
Can we scan people into sessions or redeem add-ons at the door?
Sessions, yes. Pick a session on the check-in link and each scan admits or refuses in one step: people who booked it or have it with their ticket get in, everyone else is refused, and a returning attendee is flagged as a re-entry. A session that takes no bookings admits every valid ticket and still records who came. Every device at that door shows a running count against capacity, and the session's attendee list shows who came in and when, with a spreadsheet download. Each add-on unit is assigned to an attendee and tracked on the dashboard. Coming soon: add-on redemption at the door. Got dinners or tours to tick off on the night? Tell us. See session booking.
Can we see how arrivals are going on the day?
Yes. Insights shows each event's live check-in rate and arrivals by hour, plus bookings and attendance for your most-booked sessions. Coming soon: named check-in stations with per-device stats. Running several entrances? Tell us how they work.
Exhibitors and Lead Retrieval.
Exhibitor passes, lead retrieval on their own phones, and sponsorship.
Can exhibitors scan leads?
Yes. Lead retrieval comes with every seat: exhibitors use their own phones to scan the QR code on each attendee's badge or in their event app, rate and qualify each lead, and export their leads to Excel. Each lead carries a 1 to 5 rating, notes and answers to up to ten questions the rep writes, and a dropped signal does not lose a scan. No charge from us per scanner or per lead. You decide whether exhibitors get it with their pass or buy it at checkout for a price you set. You see totals by scanner, day and hour, and the leads themselves belong to each exhibitor. See lead retrieval.
How do we register exhibitor staff?
Put exhibitor staff passes in a private ticket group that only its secret link reaches, with its own registration form and badge design, and send each exhibitor the link. Lead retrieval can come with that pass, or exhibitors can buy it at checkout. Coming soon: an exhibitor and sponsor portal, with stand staff linked to their stand. Hundreds of stands to staff? Talk to us.
Can we sell stands and sponsorship packages?
Coming soon: floor plans and stand sales. Selling stands this season? Tell us how you sell them. Today sell stand and sponsorship packages as ticket types or add-ons, so the money settles in your own Stripe account.
Can sponsors see what their money bought?
Coming soon: sponsor ROI reporting. Want a report you can hand your sponsors? Tell us what goes in it. Today each exhibitor's reps export their own leads to Excel, each event's Insights covers sales, promo codes, affiliates and check-in totals, and attendee and order lists export to Excel.
Can visitors register free while delegates and exhibitors pay?
Yes. One event can carry free visitor passes, paid delegate passes and private exhibitor staff passes, each with its own form, badge design and confirmation email. See exhibitions.
Is there an event app with messaging, an exhibitor directory or matchmaking?
There is a branded attendee web app on attendees' phones, with no download: the agenda, a personal agenda with their booked sessions, sponsors, each attendee's ticket QR code, lead retrieval for exhibitors, and one-to-one text messaging between attendees, which you can switch off for any event. Your event website lists exhibitors with their booth numbers. Coming soon: push notifications, an exhibitor directory inside the app, and matchmaking. Planning to match buyers with sellers? Drop us a note.
Data and Security.
Exports, integrations, hosting and who can do what.
Can I export attendee data?
Yes. Export attendees, with every registration answer, and orders to Excel (.xlsx), up to 10,000 orders per export, delivered by email, and download each session's attendee list as a spreadsheet. Going the other way, import attendees from an Excel or CSV file, an Eventbrite export included, once your event is published. Coming soon: CSV export and exportable insights. Need your data in another format? Tell us.
Does eventcloud connect to our CRM or other tools?
Coming soon: Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics sync, Zapier, and a data API with webhooks. Which CRM does your team live in? Tell us. Today payments settle in your own Stripe account, you add your own GA4 or Tag Manager to each event, and attendees and orders export to Excel. The read-only Content API, which shows your published events on your own website, is live today.
Where is our data hosted?
Coming soon: hosting in the EU or the UK, with a data processing agreement. Procurement asking where the data lives? Talk to us. Today eventcloud runs in the United States (Fly.io, US East). You can erase an attendee on request, exports are yours at any time, and event data is kept through a lapse with a warning before anything is purged.
How does eventcloud help with GDPR?
You can erase an attendee's data on request, which also deletes the leads exhibitors captured by scanning them, add a Terms and Policies agreement to any form so acceptance is recorded on every order, choose which answers a lead scan shares, export your account data, and rely on scheduled, documented data retention. Read our GDPR policy and privacy policy for the detail.
Is eventcloud secure?
Security is designed in: every query is scoped to your organisation, rate limiting is database-backed, sessions can be revoked instantly, one-time tokens are hashed, Stripe webhooks are signature-checked and de-duplicated, and pages run a strict content security policy with HSTS preload. Support sessions end after 60 minutes, and every session start is logged.
How do people sign in? Is there single sign-on?
Coming soon: single sign-on and multi-factor sign-in. Need single sign-on sooner? Ask us about an Enterprise pilot. Today organisers sign in with an emailed link or with Google, so there are no passwords to leak, and each person has one live session at a time.
What can each team member do?
eventcloud has an owner and their team. Billing, member management, domains, refunds and event deletion stay with the owner; members run events. Invite people by email from the Members page, and door staff never need an account. Coming soon: read-only and finance roles, and an audit trail. Need them for your team? Let us know.
Can we add our own analytics to event pages?
Yes. Add your own GA4 measurement ID or Google Tag Manager container to an event and measure the registration funnel in your own property. Tag Manager loads on your own yourname.eventcloud.io address. Coming soon: tags that wait for cookie consent before they load. Need consent-first tracking? Tell us.
Account, Branding and Billing.
What is counted, how billing works and how your brand shows up.
What does unlimited actually mean?
Unlimited events, registrations and attendees on every plan. We count team seats, not tickets, so your bill does not rise because your event sells out. The limits that do exist are operational, not commercial: 99 of one ticket type per order line, 10,000 orders per Excel export, five languages per event (a primary language plus four more), and one subdomain and one sending domain per organisation.
How much does eventcloud cost?
One subscription per organisation, priced per team seat and billed monthly in pounds, euros or dollars. Every capability we ship is on every seat, and nothing about your event is metered. The current seat price is on our pricing page.
Do you charge per ticket, registration or badge?
No. We take 0% of your ticket revenue, add no booking fee, and charge nothing per registration, attendee, badge, scan or lead. Stripe's own card fee applies and goes to Stripe.
What counts as a seat, and can we change the number?
A seat is a team member with dashboard access, and you need at least one. Add or remove members any time from the Members page, with pro-rated billing. Door staff check people in with a link and a PIN, so they never need a seat.
Is there a free trial or a demo?
Both. In the free trial you build your whole event and rehearse checkout with test cards against a real Stripe checkout, then subscribe when you are ready to publish; publishing is the only paywall. Prefer a guided tour? Book a demo and we will set one up on your kind of event.
Do charities and schools pay?
Not if you qualify. Registered charities, state schools and religious non-profits can apply for eventcloud free for life, for up to 3 users, with no limit on events, registrations or attendees. Apply through our contact form and we review each application case by case; the charities and schools programme has the details. Everyone else, private and fee-paying schools included, builds and rehearses free, then subscribes to publish.
Can I cancel, and what happens to our data?
Cancel any time, keep access to the end of your period, and reactivate in one click. Your data is not held hostage: event data is kept for 30 days after your subscription ends, the owner gets a warning email a week before anything is purged, and reactivating inside those 30 days brings everything back as you left it. Your organisation, members and billing history are kept either way. Export what you need before you go.
Can I brand my registration pages?
Yes. Your event pages carry your brand: colours, logos, hero banner, favicon and a fully editable checkout success page, all the way through to the social sharing card. Customise Website lets you set four theme colours, pick one of eight font pairings, colour each section and reword buttons and menus in each language, on the page itself, with a phone preview and nothing public until you apply it. Confirmation emails and PDF tickets carry your brand too. See branding.
Do I get my own web address?
Yes. Every organisation gets its own yourname.eventcloud.io address, on every plan, including during the trial. It becomes your branded events gallery, and your team signs in and works there too. Running the product on your own domain is an Enterprise arrangement.
Does eventcloud offer white label?
We do not charge for white-label, and there is no white-label add-on to buy. Every plan puts your brand on your event pages, emails and PDF tickets, with a small Powered by eventcloud line in the public page footer. For agencies and large organisers, an Enterprise arrangement puts the dashboard and event pages on your own domain, and the eventcloud logo shows on your team's sign-in and sidebar. Brand rules that need more? Tell us about them.
Can confirmations come from our own email domain?
Yes, on every plan. Verify your own sending domain with SPF and DKIM records, and confirmations go out from it, from the region you choose: Ireland, North Virginia, Sao Paulo or Tokyo.
How do I get support?
Email [email protected], use the live chat when we are online, or send a message from the contact page. A real person reads every message, we usually reply the same day, and we stick with it until it is sorted. If we ever need to look inside your account to help, the support session ends after 60 minutes, and its start is logged.
What if eventcloud is missing a feature I need?
Tell us what your event needs. Features we are still building carry a Coming soon label across this site, so you can see what is on the way, and requests from organisers shape what we build next. Get in touch.
Where can I read your terms and policies?
Any time: our terms of service, privacy policy, cookie policy and GDPR policy.
What is the deal with the chameleons?
They are our mascot. A chameleon adapts to wherever it lands, and eventcloud adapts to how your event actually runs: your passes, your forms, your badges, your brand. They can also watch the registration desk and the door at the same time, which we respect.
Still Got a Question? Ask a Human.
Send us a message and a real person replies, usually the same day. Or skip the reading and build your first event in the free trial. Prefer email? Write to [email protected].