An event is a hundred small messages: who’s on when, which room, what changed, where to go next. Able2 gives you one place for all of it, from the first ticket sold to the feedback form at the end.
Tickets sold from your own page
“The ticketing site takes a cut, lists us next to other events and keeps our attendees’ details”
Big ticketing sites are easy to start with, but every sale carries their fees and their branding, and the people who came are, in a sense, their customers rather than yours.
Sell tickets from your own page, with your name on it. Set up ticket types, free tickets, limited numbers, an on-sale date and a waitlist for when you sell out, and ask a question at checkout. Tickets are emailed, the page can sit on your own website, and payments are deposited directly into your own Stripe account.
One program everyone can trust
“The program changed three times, and the PDF everyone downloaded is already wrong”
Programs change, speakers swap, rooms move. A PDF or a printed booklet is out of date the moment it’s shared, and nobody knows which version they have.
Put the program in your event app, with sessions grouped by day and a profile for every speaker. Change it once and everyone sees the current version. Attendees can say which sessions they’re coming to, with a limit on places where you need one.
Everyone hears about the change
“We moved the keynote to another room, and half the audience went to the old one”
An announcement from the stage reaches whoever is in the room. An email reaches people that evening. Neither helps the person walking to the wrong hall right now.
Send a notification to everyone’s phone straight away, or schedule it for the right moment, and send it to everyone or just one group, like volunteers. Updates also stay in the app’s news feed, so anyone who missed the alert can catch up.
People leave with new connections
“People come for the talks, but they really come to meet each other”
Networking is left to chance and coffee queues. The person someone most needed to meet was in the same building, and they never found each other.
Attendees can browse who else is there and request a meeting, ask questions on each session, and keep talking in forums and chat during and after the event.
Feedback while it’s still fresh
“We send a feedback survey a week later, and a handful of people fill it in”
By the time the survey arrives, people have moved on. The best moment to ask is at the end of the closing session, when everyone is still in their seats.
Put a feedback form in the app, or on the screen as a QR code, and people answer on their phone before they leave. Answers are kept together and can be exported to a spreadsheet.
When we are not the right answer
Worth saying plainly, because signing up for the wrong reason helps nobody and we would rather you knew now.
- You need to scan tickets at the door. Tickets are emailed, but Able2 doesn’t scan them at entry. Use a check-in tool for that part.
- You need venue maps or sponsor pages. There’s no built-in map or sponsor feature; locations are shown as text.
- Your event is one afternoon for thirty people. A ticket link and a group chat are genuinely enough.
- You want an AI concierge for attendees. We don’t offer an event-specific AI assistant today.
If any of those describe you, we would rather point you somewhere better. If none of them do, the free plan will tell you the rest without costing you anything.
