# Events — SorrelSites *Event software for clubs, associations and chambers: describe the event and Sprout drafts the page, tickets and registration — then check people in from your phone at the door.* Events ## Put on the event. Put down the extra admin. Describe the event and Sprout drafts the page, the tickets and the registration. On the night, you check people in from your phone. [Talk with our team](/evaluate/#request)[See how it works](/events#how-it-works) Bring the work you would like off your list. [Or try it free for 14 days.](/signup/) ### From the first idea to the last person through the door. - #### Describe what is happening Sprout drafts your event page, tickets and registration questions for you to review. - #### Give the work a home Turn the planning notes into tasks with owners and dates. Keep the next steps with the event. - #### Be there on the night Scan or search from your phone. Each named attendee has their own check-in. Real screenshot. Example organization, sample data. #### Describe the event. Sprout drafts the page. Write what you would have written in an email and Sprout returns the page, the tickets and the registration form for you to approve. Every kind of event — a chapter night, a conference, a gala, a recurring class. ### Check people in from your phone at the door. No kiosk, no laptop, no printed list. Scan or search — each named person on a booking has their own code, so a family arriving separately checks in separately. Live polls and a Q&A that sorts itself run from the same screen. - Scan a ticket, search by name, or choose someone from the attendee list. - Undo a check-in if someone was marked by mistake. Attendance stays with the event. - Members can add your organization's site to their home screen and choose whether to allow notifications on that device. ### The planning work has a home, too. #### Type the venue. Get the address, the write-up and the photos. Sprout parses the address, describes the place in your organization's voice, attaches licensed photographs, and proposes values for your own location fields. Staged for approval, never saved behind your back. #### Your spreadsheet becomes this year's checklist. Paste last year's planning notes and Sprout returns real tasks with owners and due dates — assigned to a position, so the job survives the volunteer moving on. Follow-ups chase themselves. #### Buy the family's tickets in one go. Say who each ticket is for. Everyone gets their own ticket, their own check-in and the event's messages — and anyone your membership covers is charged the member price for their own seat. #### Assigned to the Trail Crew Leader, not to Dana. You create your own positions — this is not a title we ship — and an event task belongs to whoever holds one, so when the position changes hands the work goes with it instead of staying in a departed volunteer's inbox. ### And all the things you'd expect. - Meetings, conferences, fundraisers, classes, socials, online and hybrid. - Sell tickets, cap the room, and keep a waitlist. - Ask the questions you need at sign-up, and collect a signed waiver. - Money goes straight to your organization's own Stripe account. - Announcements reach people by email, text or push — you see who will get it. - Members choose, per channel, what they hear about; SorrelSites honors it. - Every announcement comes with a delivery report. - The thank-you sends itself when the event is over. Last year's event becomes this year's checklist, whoever is running it — the same handover [the board itself gets](/governance/). Planning a first online event? There's a [guide for that](/guides/first-online-event/). ### Events: common questions Do members have to install an app? No. Members can use your site in a browser. They can also add it to their home screen, with your organization's name and icon, using their phone's install or Add to Home Screen option. It uses the same account. Notifications are optional and require permission on that device. Can we send to just a chapter or a committee? Yes. Pick the group from a drop-down — chapter, committee, ticket holders, anyone with a custom tag — and you'll see exactly how many people will get it before you send. Can I buy tickets for my family and have each of them check in? Yes. When you book more than one ticket you say who each one is for — people in your household, a guest by name and email, or nobody yet. Each named person gets their own ticket, their own check-in and the event's messages, and anyone your membership covers is charged the member price for their own seat. It stays one booking and one payment. Do members need to make a password? Once, usually. They open the link in their invitation and choose one. After that they can sign in with that password, their Google account, their phone's face or fingerprint unlock, or a one-tap emailed link. ### Bring your next event. Start with the work behind it. The planning list, the registration form, the questions that keep coming back. We can show you how they fit together. [Talk with our team](/evaluate/#request)[Or start free for 14 days](/signup/)