It’s Official! Attendease & Boomset Integration

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It's Official! Attendease & Boomset Integration

The wait is over! We are proud to officially announce Attendease’s integration with Boomset, the award-winning on-site event tech provider. The integration provides a powerful solution to seamlessly create real-time efficiency with complete on-site automation for events.

The new integration creates a bilateral data flow for items such as registration, event management, custom questions, and session check-in information, enabling planners to better prepare, track, manage and report collected data through the entire event planning process. This integration is the most robust solution that Boomset currently offers to its customers, connecting numerous features available on Boomset directly into Attendease.

Event teams will access information in real time that will allow them to create a flawless event flow with vital data to strategically plan the next event or series of events. Using functionality like the session management feature, data automatically syncs on-site data from Boomset to Attendease, ideal for collecting registration and check-in information for a main event and sessions. Another core functionality of this integration includes the two-way synchronization feature, which eliminates the number of tools and manual tasks normally expected from planners and their event teams, such as merging multiple documents or manually fetching data. In addition, the event assessment feature ensures event demographics are easily accessible from event staff to attendees.

The integration supports pre-event logistics, on-site management, and post-event analysis through the use of the latest technologies in the industry. Event teams remain in sync with real-time updates as Attendease and Boomset communicate with each other to reduce the number of tools and manual tasks normally expected from event management teams. Everyone receives the information and attention needed for a well-rounded on-site event experience.

“We are pleased to partner with Boomset to continue providing our customers with the highest level of user experience when it comes to event marketing software. With Boomset, we continue to evolve our event management platform by offering seamless integration of collaboration tools and better data flow to corporate event teams,” said Todd Heintz, Chief Executive Officer of Attendease.

Kerem Baran, Chief Executive Officer of Boomset, added, We are all excited about this upcoming partnership. I have always believed that integrations are the most crucial part of a successful start-up and Boomset has always acted as a trusted stakeholder with all of our partners. The Attendease team has been a delight to work with and we cannot wait to serve our mutual customers with cutting edge on-site features and the most exceptional customer support in the market.”

Want to know how you can take advantage of this new feature? Contact our team to learn more!

New Features: Event Portal Websites

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New features event portal websites

If your company or organization hosts many events, an Event Portal is great for displaying all of the ongoing and upcoming events. Today we are announcing three new features to enhance your Event Portal website. Additionally, we’ve updated the names of some of our website content blocks.

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Add an event calendar
In addition to displaying events in a list format, you are now able to display events in calendar format. Users can easily navigate the calendar, and filters can be applied so that it is easier to view different types of events.

Make your portal private
Don’t want to let just anyone see all events you are hosting? By setting your Event Portal as private, you decide who has access to your website. 


Display “Other Events”

At times, you may want to showcase or inform visitors to your Event Portal about events hosted by another organization. With the “Other Events” feature you are able to display non-Attendease events in the event list and calendar. 

Do you want to learn more about Event Portals? 
Email [email protected] or contact your Customer Success Manager.

Providing a Better Attendee Experience With Five New Features

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Providing a Better Attendee Experience With Five New Features

We’ve been busy here at the Attendease Hive improving our platform. We are excited to announce five new features that will support providing a better attendee experience.

File Uploads in Registration Forms

During the registration process there is a lot of important information to capture. We are excited to announce two new registration form components that allows your attendees to upload files during registration:

  • File upload: Choose what type of file you want your attendee to upload
  • Profile photo: The uploaded image is connected to the attendee’s profile photo

Add and configure these form components as you would any other form component on your registration form. 

Members now have the ability to access their Attendee account from any screen. By clicking “My Account” the attendee will see the option to go directly to the screen where they can manage their registration, view their invoice, and more. Note: This option will only appear if you have enabled your attendees to access their attendee accounts.

Account Access

Manage “My events”

We are excited to announce this new feature for Organizations and Business Units using the Event Portal Sites. When someone is signed into their Member Account, they are now able to navigate to the “My Events” page. On this screen, the Member will see all upcoming and past events they have registered for. 

Filter and Register for Sessions

Attendees are now able to filter and register for sessions, view their personalized session schedule, and access session surveys with the click of a button using the Advanced Session Schedule block.

Choose Schedule Time Zone

Attendees can now control in which time zone sessions are displayed. Choose between displaying the sessions:

  • in the event’s time zone
  • in the attendee’s time zone
  • or, give your attendees the ability to choose themselves

This feature is available for the Advanced Session Schedule block, Session Schedule block, Event Listing block, and the  Scheduling Widget.

Want to delight your attendees?

Check out our website to learn about our core features that were built with your attendees in mind. You can also schedule a free consultation to learn if Attendease is right for you.

New Features: Simplifying Event Management

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Simplifying Event Management

By now, you probably know that our number one priority is to help make your job easier. That’s why we are constantly updating and improving our platform, so event professionals can optimize their work and work smarter, instead of harder. Here are some of the latest platform enhancements that we are proud to share with you!

Advanced Session Schedule

With our latest feature—the Advanced Session Schedule block—you can control exactly how you want your event schedule to appear. Like the Session Schedule block, scheduling data dynamically syncs with your event site keeping your schedule or agenda perfectly up to date.

Along with increased control and flexibility for the schedule layout, this block also supports speaker company logos, session sponsors, live-stream and on-demand video content, session attachments, and more. Learn More.

Private Invitations

Whether you’re planning an internal company meeting, an exclusive event, or anything in between – Private Invitations is a feature you don’t want to miss. This new feature lets you decide who is allowed to register by restricting registration to those individuals who have received an invitation. Learn More.

Free event? Choose how passes are displayed

If your event is free you are now able to choose how (and if) event passes are displayed. Make your selection on the Registration Options screen.

Customize your speaker order

Decide which order you want your event speakers to appear in by enabling the setting on the Speakers block and assigning an order value to each speaker. Learn More.

More options when selecting your event currency

Multi-currency options at the event level give you greater flexibility when you are creating your event. In addition to Canadian and US Dollars, you are now able to choose if event transactions will be completed with Pound Sterling (GBP) or Euros. Note that only one currency per event can be selected. This feature is available for all customers. If you want to set this up for your organization, please contact your Customer Success Manager or email [email protected].

Enhancements to the Business Units screen

In our latest instalment of our platform-wide design refresh, we are introducing a new look to the Business Units screen. Immediately see the number of events, members, and event attendees in your organization. 

More Enhancements

We have also released a handful of additional enhancements, including:

  • Improvements to the responsive abilities of event websites
  • Further design improvements of the user interface
  • Attendee Exports have been updated to include the attendee’s Pricing Group
  • Greater flexibility when creating Registration Codes – you can now include non-numerical and non-alphabetical characters

Want to manage events the smart way?

Schedule a free consultation to learn how Attendease can help you manage events more efficiently.

Workflows: The easiest way to manage speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors

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Picture this: You are putting together a new event and in order to make it happen you need to invite speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors. Between phone calls, email exchanges, and spreadsheets, you need to keep your sanity and track all applications, while gathering and publishing information from successful applicants. Sounds familiar? Managing speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors doesn’t need to be a pain. We are proud to introduce you to Workflows!

Attendease Workflows Feature

We recently released a new feature to the Attendease platform, called workflows. Attendease users can now use workflows to automate the process of managing speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors. All three workflows work in a similar manner, and will make your life so much easier when managing your next event!

Workflows work in six simple steps:

  1. Create custom application forms
  2. Publish forms on your website
  3. Invite speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors to register
  4. Review and approve or reject applications
  5. Automatically publish approved applications to your website
  6. Let speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors manage their information. They can add their own bio, and all you need to do is approve it. Everything will automatically be updated on your website!

Easy peasy! Ready to start? You can check our resources section to learn how to take advantage of these new features, or contact our team for a demo!

How to Manage Speakers for Your Next Event

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How to Manage Speakers for Your Next Event

If you are running a learning-based event, like a conference or convention, your event speakers will be one of the most important considerations to make. They are the top reason why people are signing up for your event. Whether you have four or 40 speakers, having an established process to onboard them will guarantee smooth collaboration and leave a long lasting impression.

Here are the top challenges (and solutions!) for finding and on-boarding event speakers.

Finding speakers for your event

Of course, it all starts with finding top speakers. You can actively reach out to industry experts, or you can have people interested in speaking coming directly to you (isn’t that a dream!) 

An email platform may help you to speed up the process and send email blasts to invite applicants, but you can make things really easy by letting speakers come directly to you. Having a “Call for Speakers” available on your website is a great way to promote your speaker search. Create an online form, so candidates can fill in an application on the spot, instead of emailing you for more information.

Review/ Approve/ Reject Speaker Applications

Once you hit your deadline, it’s time to review all the applications and approve or reject them. Having those applications online will be very handy now, as you can manage everything in one unified place. You can use the email platform to communicate directly about successful and unsuccessful applications. 

Promoting Speakers on Your Event Website

Yay! Now you have selected the best speakers, so the hard work is done right? Not really… Collecting speakers bios, setting up the schedules, connecting with their social media channels… To add to that, each speaker may delay the process from hours to days while they get back to you with all their information. And you still need to update your website! It’s a lot of work, and keeping track of everyone is a challenge.

Ready to manage event speakers more efficiently?

We are proud to introduce Speaker Workflows! Knowing that the task of managing speaker profiles can be time-consuming and require a lot of effort, we have launched an easy-to-use speaker module on the Attendease platform, which will simplify and streamline the process of managing speakers for your next event. Combining your content management system, email marketing platform, and those darn spreadsheets, in order to have all your speaker management needs into one platform. 

SPEAKER WORKFLOWS

Speaker Workflows allows you to create custom application forms for your event website, invite applicants, and manage the application process. As applications are submitted, you are able to review, approve, or reject applications. Approved applicants are automatically added to your event as speaker profiles. 

What’s new?

  • Create custom application forms
  • Add your custom speaker application form to your event site
  • Create an email blast and invite applicants
  • Review, approve, and reject applications

In future releases of Speaker Workflows, you’ll be able to create task lists for speakers to complete. This will ensure they submit the correct abstracts, photos, bios, and everything else required to set up their profile. 

Who’s excited? We are excited! Check our support resources for more information or get in touch for a free demo of this module.