Events that handle
in-person, online, and hybrid in one record.
One event. Three ticket types — in-person seat, virtual stream access, and bundles that include both. Registration forms, capacity caps, payment tracking, day-of check-in, and revenue reporting that lands on the same dashboard as your weekly giving. The full life of an event in one place.
Events are how a church grows — and breaks the most software
The conference. The retreat. The Christmas Eve service.
The reason most platforms aren't enough.
Events are how a church grows. The men's retreat that pulls in a guy who's never been to a Sunday service. The marriage conference that draws couples from three towns over. The community Easter egg hunt that meets a hundred new families. The Christmas Eve service that holds eight services across two campuses with limited seating in each. Events are also where most church software falls apart — because real events have complications spreadsheets and Eventbrite plugins don't handle gracefully.
A typical event is hybrid: some people show up in person, some pay for streaming access, some buy a bundle of both. The in-person tickets need to cap at room capacity; the streaming tickets don't. The form needs to capture allergies for the catering team, t-shirt sizes for the swag, and a child's age for room assignment. The revenue needs to land on the giving dashboard so the bookkeeper sees one number, not three. The day of, attendees show up at the door and need to be checked in fast — without a clipboard.
Events is built for the way church events actually work. One event record holds in-person tickets, virtual tickets, and bundle tickets — each with their own capacity, their own price, and their own data capture. Registration forms attach directly to ticket types. Capacity caps enforce automatically. Check-in at the door takes three seconds per attendee. Revenue flows to the same Donations dashboard that holds your weekly giving. And the calendar your members already use shows every event on the church's schedule.
One event. Three ways to attend. One record.
Most ticketing tools assume an event is either in-person or online. Real church events are both. The marriage conference has 80 in-person seats at the church and unlimited virtual stream access for couples who can't travel — plus a bundle that gives in-person seats access to the recording afterward. Three ticket types, three different capacity rules, three different price points, one event.
Each ticket type carries its own data: in-person tickets capture meal preferences and parking needs, virtual tickets capture nothing extra, bundle tickets get both. The form adapts to what the ticket actually needs. The buyer never sees fields that don't apply to them.
- In-person tickets with room-capacity enforcement
- Virtual stream-access tickets (unlimited or capped)
- Bundle tickets that grant in-person + virtual + post-event recording
- Per-ticket-type form fields — meals, t-shirt size, child age, accessibility needs
Capture what you actually need to run the event.
The registration form is part of the event record, not a separate Forms tool you have to remember to wire up. Drag in the fields the event needs — names, allergies, emergency contacts, child ages, session preferences, t-shirt sizes — and they capture per ticket. The catering team pulls the meal report. The kids team pulls the age-and-allergy report. The hospitality team pulls the accessibility-needs report. All from the same submission set, all from the same event.
Forms can be required at purchase or sent post-purchase if the attendee needs time to gather information (medical waivers, parent permission slips, song requests). And every submission is tied to the attendee's CRM record — so the dietary preference they entered for last year's retreat is offered as a default this year.
- Drag-and-drop form builder attached to the event
- Per-ticket-type fields — different questions for different audiences
- Required-at-purchase or sent-post-purchase flow control
- Submissions tied to the CRM, with preference memory across events
Check in fast. Track payment. See revenue on the same dashboard as giving.
At the door, the check-in flow is built for speed — search by name or phone, tap to check in, done. Attendees with outstanding payment surface in red so staff can collect at the door. Walk-ins can register on the spot in under thirty seconds. Kids ministry attendance auto-syncs to the children's check-in system if the event is family-oriented.
After the event, the revenue per ticket type shows up on the same Donations dashboard that holds your weekly giving. One number to reconcile, not three. Outstanding refunds, attendee no-show rates, and per-event profitability all surface in the same place — so the executive admin sees event-driven revenue without spinning up another report.
- Fast check-in: search, tap, done
- Outstanding payment surfaced at the door for collection
- Walk-in registration in under thirty seconds
- Revenue per ticket type flows to the Donations dashboard
From draft to the door
Everything that happens between “we're hosting” and “it's over.”
Church-wide calendar
The calendar your staff plans on and your members browse from is the same calendar. Every event, every service, every ministry meeting — one source of truth, with overlay filtering by ministry or campus.
Capacity caps that hold
In-person ticket sales stop automatically when room capacity is hit. Waitlists kick in for cancellations. No more selling 220 seats for a 200-seat room because two tools weren't synced.
Promo codes + early-bird
Configure promo codes per ticket type, with usage caps and expiration dates. Run early-bird tiers that auto-roll over to standard pricing on the date you set.
Email reminders, automatic
Built-in reminder cadence: confirmation at purchase, reminder one week out, day-before nudge, day-of with directions and parking. No external automation tool. Reduces no-shows by a meaningful margin.
Public event page + share links
Every event gets a public page on your church profile, with social-share-ready images and a short, branded URL. Visitors land there, register, and the page is yours — not a third-party ticket platform.
Refunds + cancellations
Self-serve refund window (configurable per event), automatic credit to the original payment method, and audit log of every cancellation. Staff doesn't become a refund desk.
The marriage conference, end to end.
Eight weeks out, the women's ministry leader creates the event. She sets three ticket types: 80 in-person seats at $75, unlimited virtual stream access at $35, and a bundle for $90. The registration form captures meal preferences (in-person only), childcare needs (in-person only), and emergency contact (both). Promo code for current members knocks 20% off.
Six weeks out, registrations start coming in. The capacity counter on in-person tickets ticks down as seats sell. Three weeks out, the in-person tier is sold out; the virtual tier keeps selling. The reminder emails fire on schedule. By the day of, 78 confirmed in-person attendees, 140 virtual streamers, and a clear list of meal preferences for the catering team.
The day of the event, check-in runs at the door — average twelve seconds per attendee. Six walk-ins register on the spot. After the event, the revenue report shows $9,750 across three ticket types, flowing into the Donations dashboard. The bookkeeper sees one number. The follow-up email goes out the next morning with the recording for bundle holders. Three couples sign up to join the ministry as a result.
No spreadsheet was opened. No third-party ticket platform was paid. The whole event ran on the same record from creation to follow-up.