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Events

Registration, tiers and payment, sessions, check-in and attendance.

An event is anything the organisation puts on: a meetup, training, webinar or conference, held online, in person or hybrid. Each carries a stable public reference used in its registration link, so renaming the event never breaks a link already in circulation.

The events list
Events move draft → published → completed, or are cancelled.

The shape of an event

  • Statusdraft, published, cancelled or completed. Only a published event accepts registrations.
  • Formatonline, in-person or hybrid, which decides whether a venue, a meeting link, or both are shown.
  • Tiers — named admission types, each priced per currency. Free events skip them entirely.
  • Sessions — a conference splits into sessions, each with its own window, so attendance is recorded per session rather than per event.
  • Registration fields — extra questions asked at sign-up, defined per event.

Use cases

A free community meetup

Publish the event, share the registration link, and let people sign up. A registration is registered immediately since payment is not-required. On the day, check people in from the attendance screen.

A paid conference with tiers

Add tiers (Early bird, Standard, Student), each with prices in the currencies the tenant has enabled. Registration is held at pending until payment reports paid — an unpaid registration never counts toward capacity.

Registering people who signed up elsewhere

Registrations import from CSV the same way members do, so a list collected on another platform still lands in the attendance flow.

Check-in on the day

Attendance is recorded per session and per method, so a hybrid conference can distinguish someone who walked into the room from someone who joined the stream. Each check-in is stamped with a time.

Registrations and members are related, not identical

A registration captures a name, email and affiliation as typed on the day. When it matches a member it links to that record; when it does not, the registration still stands on its own. That is deliberate — a public event should not require membership, and cleaning strangers into the register is a separate decision.

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