Here at EventNook, we understand that event registration is a large unspoken component of any successful event. Furthermore, each event requires its own registration process, not all processes are exactly the same. EventNook’s Bulk Attendees Upload feature caters to specific events and their requirements – most suitable for organisers who are looking to import their guests list in bulk for the event day guests registration and attendance tracking. This feature allows you to upload your guest list onto our system and to base the onsite check-in on this uploaded list. This way, the check-in for the event can be automated via the scanning of guests’ QR codes. Here are some scenarios in which bulk uploading would benefit the organiser.
Scenario 1: In-House Registration System or 3rd Party Registration System Already Exists
In this increasingly digital time, registration is moving from handing in physical forms to indicating availability through online or mobile URL links. Collating incoming registrations has been made easier and more efficient; reporting and event planning too, as a result. As such, more companies and organisation have invested in their own in-house registration systems that facilitate the process. These systems successfully alleviate the ineffectiveness of manual registrations, however, most lack actual event day capabilities.
Scenario 2: VIP or Special Guests
If your event has an exclusive VIP guest list filled with high profile individuals, those guests may not go through a normal pre-registration online form by themselves and your team would need to register for them instead. This would prevent organisers from choosing a fully online system to collect and collate their RSVPs. While this would be manageable for smaller events like 10 to 20 pax, however, events catering for more than 100 VIP guests may take a long time and are likely to be error prone as your team will have to register the guests one by one. Our bulk registration feature would definitely save the hassle of this and save significant time to register with a single bulk upload in a few clicks.
Scenario 3: Confirmed/Ready-To-Go Guest List
Some events have a fixed guest list that are unlikely to be changed – these events are usually recurring events that happen on an annual basis. In these cases, collecting RSVPs would be an unnecessary additional step. To add an additional step could result in unsatisfied VIPs or a misrepresentation of the actual attendance as guests are not used to the process. Such events benefit greatly from using an internal guest list and sending out confirmations to everyone on that list.
Once you have most of your guest list and information collated, you can begin the process of bulk uploading for your event.
You can learn in just 2 minutes – quick video of how bulk registration upload works
The following steps are the details of step you may like to read further if you require a step by step process of creating an event registration form to bulk registration process
Step 1: Create an event, focusing on the ticket types and registration form set up
Ticket types – so you can upload based on different categories, if any
Registration Form – so the columns in the excel sheet can be matched accurately
Step 2: Customise your confirmation email
Step 3: Save your excel sheet in .csv (UTF-8) format to retain all details collected
Step 4: Upload the file into the bulk upload feature
Step 5: Choose the ticket type you would like to upload for
Step 6: Match the fields of the excel sheet to the registration form fields
Step 7: Process the registrations so that they are captured in the system
Step 8: Send out the Confirmation Email to all newly registered (Optional)
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Then, you can check guests in through one of two simple ways!
You can check them in by scanning the QR code on their ticket…
When you’re holding an event where your attendees will consist of members and non-members, you might feel that you only want to collect information from nonmembers since you already have information about your members (and do not want to store duplicate information). In the example above, you can see that members have fewer form fields to fill out to register for the event, while nonmembers have to include their job position, the company they are working for, and where they learned about the event. This allows you to collect valuable information from new guests while also indicating to your members that you value their time by not requiring them to fill out information that they have already done before.
When you’re holding an event for local and international attendees, you might want to collect some information from only your international attendees, such as their flight details, so that you can accommodate them. This feature allows you to customize not only the questions you want to ask your attendees but also which attendees you want to ask the question to.
As you can see from the event page above, the custom header feature can help you avoid repeating the same information and allows you to freely utilize the space to briefly explain your event or add any other information you want your guests to notice! Or if you want to simply change the alignment or color of your text, you can utilize this feature too!
If you are planning a simple, public event that requires no exclusivity in admission tickets, this option is sufficient for your event needs! This option allows guests to publicly access your ticket information and to freely register for all ticket types you offer for your event.
For those of you who are planning to host private events, this option is tailored just to your needs! Any guest who plans on registering for the event needs to have an invitation code generated by you. When anyone tries to register for the event, they will be redirected to a page that asks for an invitation code before they can even access the ticket information page.
Thus, no one will be able to see your ticket types or prices without an invitation code. This will prevent any uninvited guests or strangers who stumble upon your event page and register for misleading reasons.
This option allows you to set different invitation codes for various ticket types instead of generating one general invitation code for all guests. Thus, only a VIP can purchase a VIP ticket, only a student can purchase a student ticket, and so on. Unlike ‘Event Registration with a Password,’ this option is more suitable for hosting public events but if you plan to have different types of attendees.
The invitation code verification box will only pop up when guests select a ticket type that requires an invitation code. So anyone will have access to your ticket information page, it simply prevents anyone from registering for a ticket that they are not entitled access to.
With the creative theme, your event name, date, location and registration button are displayed within the header. This keeps your event page crisp and tidy, suitable for those of you who do not have event details in your header picture. This also encourages visitors to register for your event, since it is the first thing they see when they visit your event page! Details of the event are displayed in a one-column layout, and visitors are able to view ticket information and register for the event on the page itself.
If you can’t decide between the default theme and creative theme, the inspire theme is a hybrid of the two! It is similar to the default theme in terms of header layout, but visitors are able to view ticket information and register for the event on the page itself, just like the creative theme. The ticket information falls right below the header in a wide one-column layout, while other event details are separated into a tidy two-column layout.
