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Event Registration Software & Platform

Conference registration software built around how your attendees actually sign up — different attendee types, member and early-bird pricing, group bookings and invoices — feeding clean data to everything that follows.

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/// INTRODUCTION

Registration is the first impression of an event and the source of every list that follows: badges, check-in, catering, session numbers, hotel bookings and the leads sponsors pay for. Get it wrong and the problems surface everywhere else.

Sodio builds event registration platforms and registration management software for conferences, associations and business events — the right path for every attendee type, member pricing checked against your records, group and invoice payments, and data that flows cleanly into your CRM.

Attendee registering for conference on laptop

/// IS CUSTOM RIGHT FOR YOU?

When an Established Registration Platform Is Enough

Cvent, Bizzabo, Swoogo and Eventbrite handle registration for most events well. If one of them fits, use it. Custom conference registration software earns its place when registration is tied closely to the rest of your organisation.

A registration platform fits when

  • Attendees sign up and pay individually by card
  • Pricing is the same for everyone
  • One or two attendee types
  • Registration data can stay in the platform

Custom registration fits when

  • Companies register groups and pay by invoice and purchase order
  • Member rates must be checked against your membership records
  • Delegates, speakers, exhibitors, VIPs and press each need their own path
  • It must flow into your CRM or association management system

/// WHAT IT COVERS

What Event Registration Software Covers

Event registration solutions for conferences and associations have to handle far more than a name and a payment.

Attendee types and paths

Attendee types and paths

Conditional forms

Conditional forms

Pricing and discounts

Pricing and discounts

Group and company registration

Group and company registration

Payments, invoices and purchase orders

Payments, invoices and purchase orders

Approvals and invitations

Approvals and invitations

Session selection and capacity

Session selection and capacity

Hotel room blocks

Hotel room blocks

Accessibility and dietary needs

Accessibility and dietary needs

CRM and membership sync

CRM and membership sync

/// FROM INVITATION TO ARRIVAL

From Invitation to Arrival

STAGE 1 - INVITE

The event is announced

Personalised invitations; member and returning-attendee details pre-filled

STAGE 2 - REGISTER

Attendees sign up

The right path for each attendee type, with conditional questions

STAGE 3 - PAY

Payment is taken

Card, invoice or purchase order, at the correct rate

STAGE 4 - CONFIRM

The place is secured

Confirmation, calendar invitation and hotel booking link sent

STAGE 5 - CHANGE

Plans move

Substitutions, session changes and cancellations handled by attendees themselves

STAGE 6 - ARRIVE

The event begins

Registration data passed to badges, check-in, catering and sponsors

/// WHERE REGISTRATION DATA GOES

Where Registration Data Goes Next

Every question on a registration form should earn its place by being used later. These are the fields that matter, and who depends on them.

Name, organisation and job title
Who uses it laterBadges, check-in and — with consent — sponsors’ lead lists
Attendee and ticket type
Who uses it laterAccess to zones, sessions and receptions
Session choices
Who uses it laterRoom capacity planning and session check-in
Accessibility and dietary needs
Who uses it laterVenue, catering and on-site staff
Hotel bookings
Who uses it laterRoom block tracking against the hotel contract
Consent choices
Who uses it laterMarketing, sponsor sharing and data protection records
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///AI IN REGISTRATION

Where AI Helps Registration

Registration data is only useful if it is complete and clean. AI helps with both, and with the attendees who get stuck.

People who start registering but stop are identified and reminded at the moment they are most likely to return.

Duplicate registrations, mistyped companies and inconsistent job titles caught and tidied before badges are printed.

Questions about rates, sessions, hotels and policies answered instantly from the event’s own information.

/// COMPARE

Ticketing Platform, Event Management Platform or Custom Registration

Examples
Ticketing platformEventbrite
Enterprise event platformCvent, Bizzabo, Swoogo
Custom registration platformBuilt for your organisation
Attendee types and approvals
Ticketing platformBasic
Enterprise event platformStrong
Custom registration platformBuilt to your rules
Member pricing
Ticketing platformDiscount codes
Enterprise event platformSome integrations
Custom registration platformChecked against your membership records
Invoices and purchase orders
Ticketing platformLimited
Enterprise event platformYes
Custom registration platformYes
CRM and membership sync
Ticketing platformExports
Enterprise event platformConnectors for common systems
Custom registration platformBuilt for your systems
Best for
Ticketing platformSimple paid events
Enterprise event platformMost conferences
Custom registration platformAssociations and complex business events

/// COST AND TIMELINE

What Drives the Cost and Timeline

A working registration platform typically arrives within 30 days, with a production version in 90. Builds are timed to open before registration launches, and load tested ahead of early-bird deadlines, when sign-ups spike.

30 daysWorking registration platform
90 daysProduction version

The cost moves with six things: how many attendee types and rules there are; pricing and membership checks; payment methods, invoicing and currencies; integration with your CRM, membership system and hotels; the languages offered; and the volume expected at peak.

/// FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Event registration software handles how people sign up for an event: the registration forms, attendee types, pricing and discounts, payments and invoices, session choices, hotel bookings and confirmations. An event registration platform also passes that data on — to badges and check-in, catering, sponsors and your CRM — so the information collected once is used everywhere.

Only what you will actually use. The essentials are name, email, organisation and job title, ticket or attendee type, and payment details. Add accessibility and dietary needs, session choices and consent for marketing or sponsor sharing where they apply. Everything else should appear only when an earlier answer makes it relevant, because every extra question costs registrations.

The registration platform checks each attendee against your membership records as they register, so members see member pricing automatically and non-members cannot claim it. New memberships bought during registration can be passed back to the membership system straight away.

Yes. One person can register a group of colleagues, add names later, and substitute attendees if someone can no longer come. Companies can pay by invoice with their purchase order number, and payment status is tracked against each registration.

The event contracts a block of rooms with one or more hotels. Attendees book from that allocation through a link in their registration, and the platform tracks how many rooms have been taken, so the organiser can act before unfilled rooms trigger penalties in the hotel contract.

By making the form as short as possible and easy to finish on a phone. Returning attendees and members find their details already filled in, questions appear only when relevant, progress can be saved and finished later, and people who start but do not finish receive a reminder.

/// GET STARTED

Start With How Your Attendees Sign Up

Tell us your attendee types, how they pay, and where registration data needs to end up. We will prepare a free solution architecture for registration that is quick to complete and feeds every system that follows.

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