Event Management for Associations and Professional Bodies
Event management that connects to the complete member journey.
Less admin. Better data. More value from every event.
Managing member events through a separate system can make an already complex job even harder.
Registrations, payments, communications and attendance data have to move between different tools, creating more administration and leaving valuable engagement insight disconnected from the member record.
VeryConnect brings the complete event journey together, from booking and payment to QR check-in and follow-up, in one connected membership platform.
Book your tailored events walkthrough
Tell us where to contact you and we'll arrange a focused walkthrough of the VeryConnect events functionality.
Why is managing events so painful?
For many associations and professional bodies, your events may be some of the most valuable experiences your organisation delivers. Managing them, however, can feel far more complicated than it needs to.
Every booking creates information to collect, payments to reconcile, emails to send and records to update. Add changing attendee details, dietary requirements, cancellations, waiting lists, invoices and on-the-day check-in, and the workload quickly becomes difficult to control.
The problem isn’t the event itself. It’s everything happening around it.
Too much manual administration
Repeated data entry, spreadsheet management and disconnected processes make every event more time-consuming than it needs to be.
Limited member insight
Registration and attendance data often sit outside the member record, making it difficult to understand participation or improve follow-up.
A fragmented member experience
Members move between different systems to book, pay, receive information and attend, even though they experience it all as part of one organisation.
Bring the complete member journey together
VeryConnect combines event management with membership data, payments, communications and engagement insight.
Your team can manage the practical work surrounding each event while automatically building a clearer picture of every member’s participation.
See the complete event journey
Book a tailored walkthrough of registration, payment, check-in and reporting.
Flexible event management, built around the way your organisation works
From regular webinars and professional development sessions to annual conferences, awards and multi-day events, VeryConnect gives your team the flexibility to manage different event formats within the same platform.
Flexible event formats
Manage in-person, online and hybrid events. Add venue information, maps, meeting links and joining instructions according to the event format.
Member and public ticketing
Create tickets for specific membership types, members of the public, guests or invited groups. Offer different rates and ticket availability to different audiences.
Guest and group bookings
Allow members or organisations to reserve guest places or multiple tickets. Attendee details can be provided later where the final participants are not known at the point of booking.
Payments and invoicing
Accept card payments through Stripe or provide an invoice option where appropriate. View bookings, payment information and outstanding invoices from the event administration area.
Waiting lists
Manage limited-capacity events and automatically add attendees from a waiting list when existing bookings are cancelled.
Attendee management
Add bookings manually where someone has registered or paid outside the platform. Generate guest lists, sign-in sheets and name badges using the attendee information already held.
Event programmes
Create conference programmes with different rooms and sessions. Attendees can view the programme, explore individual sessions and bookmark those they are interested in.
Attendance and revenue reporting
Monitor bookings, attendance and event revenue. Use event dashboards and reporting to understand activity across individual events and your wider programme.
Turn event attendance into an accurate CPD record
For professional bodies and institutes, attending an event can contribute directly to a member’s continuing professional development.
VeryConnect can associate events with CPD hours, credits or points. Once attendance is confirmed, including through QR check-in, the activity can be reflected in the member’s CPD history.
This gives members a clearer record of their professional development and removes the need for staff to enter the same attendance information into a separate system.
- Allocate CPD hours, points or credits to an event
- Update CPD records when attendance is confirmed
- Allow members to view their CPD history
- Export CPD information when required
- Provide event attendance or CPD certificates
Event attendance is member engagement data.
Make it useful.
Knowing who registered is helpful. Understanding how the event fits into their wider member relationship is much more valuable.
Because VeryConnect brings event and membership management together, your team can view participation alongside other member information. This creates a richer picture of engagement and supports more informed segmentation, communications and follow-up.
Identify active members
See which members regularly participate in conferences, training, webinars and professional development.
Recognise disengagement
Identify members who may be drifting and who could benefit from more relevant opportunities or communication.
Improve segmentation
Use membership and activity data to make event promotion, reminders and follow-up more relevant.
Demonstrate member value
Build a more complete picture of the events, services and opportunities members receive from your organisation.
Why add another disconnected event system?
A standalone event platform may manage registration, but it can also create another subscription, integration and source of member data for your team to maintain.
VeryConnect gives associations and professional bodies flexible event functionality as part of a wider membership management platform.
Events can sit alongside your membership CRM, communications, payments, website content, CPD and engagement data. This helps your organisation reduce duplicated work, maintain more reliable records and create a more consistent member experience.
With other event systems
Attendee data is held separately
Attendance is transferred manually
Communications rely on separate lists
CPD records are updated independently
Reporting is spread across different tools
Another system and integration must be maintained
With VeryConnect
Registrations connect to member profiles
QR check-in updates attendance
Communications use membership and event data
Attendance can contribute to CPD history
Event and member activity sit within one platform
Teams work from a more connected source of information
Built around the real complexity of membership organisations
VeryConnect works with associations, professional bodies, institutes and other membership organisations that manage complex member relationships, services and events.
The platform is designed to support different membership types, permissions, payments, professional development requirements and engagement journeys.
See how VeryConnect could support your events
Your walkthrough will be shaped around the events you run and the way your organisation works.
Rather than taking you through every part of the platform, we will focus on the functionality and processes most relevant to your team.
During the walkthrough, we can explore:
- How you currently manage registration and attendee information
- The event, ticket and membership types you support
- Event pages, booking forms and payment options
- Attendee communications and joining instructions
- Capacity management, waiting lists and guest bookings
- QR code check-in and attendance tracking
- CPD records and attendance certificates
- Conference programmes, rooms and sessions
- Event reporting and revenue information
- How event activity connects to member engagement
Book my tailored walkthrough
A focused conversation about your requirements, followed by a demonstration of the functionality most relevant to your organisation.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can create free or paid events and offer different ticket types, including member, public and guest options. Card payments can be processed through Stripe, with invoicing available where appropriate.
Different tickets can be made available according to membership type or audience. This can support member pricing, public tickets, early-booking rates, guest options and restricted tickets.
Yes. Events can be configured as in-person, online or hybrid. Meeting links, venue details and joining instructions can be included within the event information and attendee communications.
An individual QR code can be included in an attendee’s booking confirmation. Scanning the code at the venue marks the person as attended, reducing the need for manual check-in and helping attendance data flow back into the platform.
Yes. Events can be assigned CPD hours, points or credits. Once the member is marked as attended, the activity can be reflected in their CPD history.
VeryConnect can support event programmes containing different rooms and sessions. Attendees can view the programme and bookmark sessions they are interested in.
Yes. Events and particular ticket types can be made available to members of the public where required.
Guest tickets and group-style bookings can be supported. This includes situations where an organisation reserves several places and provides individual attendee details later.
No. VeryConnect is a wider membership management platform that brings CRM, events, communications, payments, websites, professional development and engagement data together.
Your organisation can use the event functionality as part of a more connected membership environment, reducing the need to maintain separate systems and transfer data between them.
Most VeryConnect implementations take between 8 and 12 weeks, depending on your requirements, data and platform configuration. Our team works with you throughout implementation to configure the platform around your organisation and prepare it for launch.
Ready to reduce the work surrounding every member event?
See how VeryConnect can connect registration, payments, communications, QR check-in, attendance, CPD and member insight in one platform.
Book a tailored events walkthrough and we will focus on the event processes, challenges and requirements that matter to your organisation.
Request your VeryConnect events walkthrough
Tell us a little about your organisation and we will be in touch to arrange a focused walkthrough.