Keep work together
Use one place for event planning and participant information.
Product overview
Plan the work, collect abstracts, register attendees and publish your program. Keep your team and participants connected before, during and after the event.
Use one place for event planning and participant information.
Choose your forms, ticket types, access rules and website content.
Give attendees useful schedules, profiles and ways to stay in touch.
From planning to follow-up
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Keep supplier and contract records in the tools your team already uses while this area is unavailable.
Manage your event budget, expenses and return on spending.
Use budget and expense information to connect everyday event decisions with your overall spending plan.

Create tasks, assign people and choose who can make changes.
Make responsibilities clear so your team knows who is handling each part of the event.

Set your event name, venue and dates.
Start with the details attendees need, then connect your event setup with its registration and ticket options.

See each person’s event information in one place.
Look up a person once and find the event information your team needs without checking separate lists.

Group contacts by location, personal details or custom tags.
Create useful groups so each message reaches people who need that information.

Invite people using messages and templates you can change.
Prepare invitations that explain the event clearly and give each group a useful next step.

Publish event pages and give attendees and speakers their own dashboard.
Bring event information and participant self-service together on a website your team can manage.

Keep the networking app connected to your event website.
Give attendees a convenient way to follow the program and find people while they are at the event.

Show company details and representatives on the website and app.
Help attendees understand who is supporting the event and find the right company representatives.

Share current event and attendee information with your teams.
Give each team a useful view of event information so they can follow the work that matters to them.

Choose ticket options and connect your payment provider.
Offer suitable ticket choices and payment methods, then keep purchases connected with your event records.

Let authors submit and manage their work from their dashboard.
Give authors a clear submission process while your team keeps proposals organized in one place.

Assign abstracts to reviewers and use double-blind review.
Connect assigned research with reviewer feedback so decisions can follow a clear review process.

Collect the details you need with your own registration form.
Collect the information your team needs at registration, using questions that fit your audience.

Design QR-code badges and print them together.
Prepare consistent badges for your attendees and keep the information on them useful at the venue.

Check attendees in using the event check-in tool, including on an iPad.
Use the Guest Check-in screen to find guests quickly and keep arrival and departure records together.

Let exhibitors collect contacts using QR codes and digital contact card requests.
Help exhibitors continue useful conversations by collecting contact details through the event’s networking tools.

Send useful follow-up emails to selected contact groups.
Continue the conversation after the event with messages suited to each group’s involvement.

Publish an abstract book with summaries and the fields you choose.
Turn submitted research into a useful publication that attendees and your wider community can read.

Tools & features
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Keep tickets, abstracts, interests, personal details, travel, accommodation, speaking roles and attended sessions in one contact record.
Help your team answer questions with the person’s event history in view, from registration to their role in the program.

Choose the basic event details, ticket options and ways to pay.
Bring the event’s practical details and ticket choices together before opening registration, so attendees have a clear path to booking.

Arrange sessions and give attendees a program they can use.
Connect accepted work, speakers and session details with a program that attendees can search and save to their own schedule.

Use Dryfta add-ons and supported connections with tools such as Mailchimp and HubSpot.
Choose from supported connections and add-ons so event work fits more easily with the other tools your team uses.

Build forms for registration, abstract submissions and other tasks.
Use clear questions to collect useful details from attendees and authors instead of relying on a separate follow-up form.

Keep free and paid orders together.
Give your team one place to review a purchase and help an attendee with payment, cancellation or document questions.

Give authors and reviewers clear places to do their work.
Keep the author’s submission journey connected with the review process, feedback and final decision, using dedicated dashboards for each role.

Choose the information you want to share.
Prepare a useful research publication by choosing which submission information appears in the version you share with readers.

Follow activity as event information changes.
Bring key event totals into view so your team can review registration, sales and recorded participation using clearly labelled figures.

Use a visual editor to publish useful pages.
Give visitors a clear place to learn about the event, explore its program and find the next step without building separate websites.

Keep event emails clear and consistent.
Prepare consistent invitations and notifications while using saved event and contact details to make each message more relevant.

Create badges together instead of preparing each one by hand.
Use a consistent design for your event badges and prepare attendee details together, with QR codes and sponsor space where needed.

Create contact groups for more useful updates.
Send useful updates to the people they concern, such as a location group, event role or another group your team creates.

Send an urgent update to everyone, share event information with a selected group, or thank your authors and reviewers after the event.
Use one campaign tool for important announcements, group updates and follow-up messages, with wording that fits the audience.

Keep people informed using current event information.
Help different teams follow the event using reports that keep attendee information and current activity together.

Make sponsor details easy to find.
Give each sponsor a clear presence in the event website so attendees can understand the organization and find its representatives.

Publish useful company and representative details.
Help attendees discover companies that are relevant to their work and identify the people available to speak with them.

Keep useful event information available across devices.
Give visitors a practical way to register, check the program and manage their participation from the device they are using.

Let people choose how they share their profile.
Support useful connections while giving attendees control over their public profile and the contact information they choose to share.

Keep each person’s event activity together.
Let participants handle common tasks themselves and return to the same place for tickets, submissions, meetings and personal plans.

Publish an interactive event program.
Help attendees move from the full conference program to a manageable set of sessions that match their interests and available time.

Let authors find their submissions without searching through email.
Give authors a direct route back to their work, with a dedicated area to manage submissions throughout the event’s process.

Keep session information close to each attendee.
Keep personal planning and recorded session participation connected while making the session’s practical details easy to find.

Use the available event directory listing service.
Give people who discover your listing a clear event summary and a useful link to learn more or register.

More useful tools
Set limits per author and across the event. Choose whether abstracts appear on public profiles and set an abstract number prefix.
Set clear submission rules before opening the call for abstracts so authors and your team know what to expect.

Set session capacity, check-in and check-out, invitation-only access and the displayed attendee list.
Choose how people can join a session and which attendance details appear in its public view.

Add each exhibitor’s logo, description, website and event representatives.
Keep the company’s information and its event representatives together so attendees know who to contact.

Add each sponsor’s logo, description, website and event representatives.
Present each sponsor consistently and make its role in the event easy for visitors to recognize.

Let attendees request a meeting. Email the other person the request and the requester’s details.
Give attendees a direct way to start a meeting conversation with another person at the event.

Let people request and share contact cards on the website and app, with email updates and a request-management tab.
Let people exchange details through a request they can manage instead of making every contact detail public.

Download or import collected digital contact cards into a phone address book or Google Contacts.
Make it easier to continue event conversations by moving shared contact details into the address book you use.

Send selected groups program changes, venue updates, newsletters or other event messages.
Keep each message relevant by choosing the group before sharing an announcement or follow-up update.

Choose whether each registration or submission question is public, shared with the attendee and staff, or for staff only.
Collect information without showing every answer publicly, using the access settings that suit each question.

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