Benefits of Stride Events
Everything you need to manage your events in one place. Think marketing, sponsors, donors, concessions, swag, volunteers, financials…
That’s not even a comprehensive list. We’re not joking when we say we do it all.
Event Growth Marketing
Our proven growth tools make it easy to sell more tickets and registration faster. They also help you build an audience that keeps coming back.
Network Marketing
- Referral System—Give your attendees the chance to attend for free by offering a rebate for each referral sale.
- Social Discount—Offer a $1–2 discount when your attendees share your event page with their Facebook friends.
- Loyalty Program—Reward your loyal customers with discounts. Customize your loyalty offerings to meet your needs.
Promo Codes & Automated Emails
- Abandoned Cart Emails—Close more sales with automated email reminders sent 30 minutes after an order’s left incomplete.
- Reminder Email List—Build your email list even when ticketing or registration is closed. Once someone lands on your closed sales page, they can sign up for an automated email reminder when sales open.
- Custom Promo Codes—Create promo codes to match your marketing campaigns.
- Group Discounts—Set up group discounts that automatically apply to qualifying orders at checkout. No promo code needed.
- Membership Discounts—Offer discounts to your members or other clubs using Stride Events membership. No promo code creation needed.
Email Marketing
- List Segmentation—Target your communication to the right audience. Select donors, sponsors, attendees, participants, etc. You can even filter by event year and event time.
- Email Templates—Level up your email game with customizable templates or design your own.
- Drafts & Scheduling—Save email drafts to edit later or schedule emails to be sent on certain dates.
- Email Stats—Track opens and link clicks in each email you send.
- Auto-include Your Logo—You can automatically include your logo at the top or bottom of every email you send.
- Auto-include Your Social Media Links—Add your social media links to your email footer. Once you’ve added them, they’ll appear in every future email you send.
- Auto-include Sponsor Logos—Enhance your sponsor offerings with ease. Our mass mail tool pulls in sponsor logos automatically that you can feature in your email footer.
Online Presence & Visibility
- Marketing Page—Enhance your visibility in Google search with a free, customizable webpage with all of the details of your event and links to all of your sales pages.
- Calendar Listing—Add your event to our calendar (and others we’ve integrated) to make it easy for people to learn about your event.
- Free Websites—Create your own website and benefit from free hosting when you use our software to sell paid tickets or registration.
Sponsor, Vendor, & Donor Management
Streamline sponsor and vendor sales. And, give your fundraising efforts a boost
Sponsor Management Suite
- Online Sales—Make it easy for sponsors to pay you online.
- Invoicing—Send sponsors invoices and accept check or online payment.
- Mass Mail—Email details to your sponsors using our mass email tool. You can event segment by sponsor category.
- Automated Renewals—Set up automated renewal emails to get next year’s sponsorship conversations started.
- Sponsor Promotions—Help your sponsors get more customers from your event by highlighting their special deals online and even on your tickets.
- Automated Logo Placement—Give your sponsors more visibility with automated logo placement on your marketing page and in your email footers. You can even feature logos on your tickets.
- Sponsor & Vendor CRM—Track sponsor prospects, conversations, and sales.
Vendor Sales & Management
- Online Sales—Sell vendor booths online with or without vendor maps.
- Invoicing—Invoice vendors for their booths.
- Mass Mail—Communicate important information to your vendors via email.
- Sponsor & Vendor CRM—Track vendor prospects, conversations, and sales.
Donor & Fundraiser Management
- Mass Mail—Email your donors and fundraisers to thank them and share the results of their efforts. You can even narrow your list to just donors or just fundraisers.
- Fundraising Teams—Get fundraising competitions going as people create teams and set goals. They’ll reach out to their network, which expands your fundraiser’s reach.
- Charity Pages—Highlight your fundraiser with a dedicated charity page. People can donate, create fundraising teams, and even create their own fundraising goals.
- Social Media, Text, & Email Links—Donors and fundraisers can easily share your campaign with social media, text, and email buttons featured on your charity page.
- Progress Tracker—Track progress towards your goal on your charity page so each donor can see the impact they’re making.
- Donations on Ticketing, Registration, & Volunteer Forms—Request donations during registration and ticketing sales. You can even include a request on your volunteer confirmation page.<
- Round Up to Donate—Let attendees opt to round up their order total to contribute the balance to your fundraiser.
Merchandise & Concessions
Boost your revenue streams with merchandise and concessions sales.
- Inventory Management—Track quantities, sizes, and pricing all from one spot.
- Order Tracking & Fulfillment—Know which orders need to be fulfilled and which ones are complete.
- Feature Items on Ticket & Registration Forms—Choose which items to feature during your ticketing and registration as add-ons to increase order value.
- Event Pick Up—Let people opt to pick up their order at your event or pay for shipping.
- Shipping Discounts—Offer deals on shipping costs based on the number of items ordered.
- Integrated POS App for In-person Sales—Simply manage in-person sales from our fully integrated POS app so you’ll keep track of everything from the same source.
- Online Store—Sell merchandise and concessions online with an online store.
- Email Customers—Email your customers with updates on new products or other updates.<
Ticketing, Registration, & Membership
Seamlessly manage your ticketing, registration, and membership from one place.
Intuitive, Mobile-friendly Forms
- Simple Ticket Purchase Pathway—Boost conversion rates with our simple three-page ticket sales process.
- Simple Registration Form—See more conversions on our simple, two-page registration form.
- Price Increase Countdown Clock—Create urgency on registration and ticket sales with a countdown clock to the next price increase.
- Simple Membership Sign Up & Renewal—Enjoy a simple, two-page membership form that allows your new members to opt for autorenewals.
- No User Account Creation Required—Your attendees, participants, and members don’t have to worry about creating yet another username and password just to place an order.
Ticketing Features
- Seat Maps—Let attendees pick their seats when they buy tickets. Our team will help you create your seat map to match your venue or theater.
- Orphan Seat Mitigation—Make it easier to sell out with settings that mitigate single seat creation.
- Reserved Seating—Hold seats back for sponsors or later sale.
- General Admission—Easily sell general admission tickets with or without capacity limits.
- Bundles & Season Passes—Create bundles and season passes to match your ticketing sales strategies.
- Early Access—Enable early access with customizable codes and permissions settings.
- Automatic Price Increases—Set your prices to automatically increase as your event gets closer.
- Customizable Sales Opening & Closing—Determine when ticket sales open and close for your events.
- Invoicing—Send ticket invoices to your regular customers. They can pay online or send a check by the deadline.
- Online Sales—Sell tickets 24/7 with our simple online form.
- Customizable Sales Pages—Customize your page with images, colors, and questions.
- No Third-party Offers—Keep your attendees focused on your event because we do not include third party offers during your sales process.
- Cart Timer—Get more orders completed with a cart timer that releases the tickets in the order after 10 minutes.
- Add-ons & Upgrades—Increase order value by featuring merchandise and concessions during ticketing. You can also add questions to enhance your offers (e.g. meal selection with additional cost).
- Will Call—Let your participants pick up tickets at the box office right before the performance.
- Box Office Sales—Sell tickets at the gate with our integrated POS app.
- Self-edits, Seat Changes, & Forwarding—Reduce your customer service burden by enabling self-edits, seat changes, and ticket transfers.
Registration Features
- Online Customizable Form—Let people sign up for your events or classes any time with an online form. You can customize it to match your branding and add your own questions.
- Early & Special Access—Allow people early access or special access to register for your events early or late.
- Automatic Price Increases—Set prices to automatically by date. Plus, your form can include a price increase countdown clock to create a sense of urgency.
- Series Registration—Make it easy for people to register for multiple events in one form and one transaction. Plus, you can offer discounts to encourage people to register for multiple classes.
- Team Registration—Let people create teams for your event as they sign up to participate with friends and family.
- Add-ons & Upgrades—Feature products in the registration process or include other add-ons with questions on your form.
Membership & Club Management
- Online Signup—Make it easy for people to join your club and start getting benefits.
- Track Renewals—Track your renewal rate and see which memberships are expiring.
- Autorenewals—Allow your members to opt for an auto-renewing payment.
- Renewal Email Reminders—Automate renewal email reminders to people who opted out of autorenewal.
- Promo Codes—Create promo codes to enhance your marketing and sales campaigns.
- Email Members—Communicate event information and more with free mass mail.
Tournaments
Conveniently manage competitions with our software.
- Team Roster Creation—Rather than having your participants create their own teams, you can quickly create team rosters yourself.
- Tournament Scheduling & Locations—Post tournament schedule and locations from your online page that also shows the final scores of each game.
- Tournament Brackets—Set up tournament brackets with the styles you choose.
Teamwork, Data, & Financials
Work more efficiently with your team. Make better decisions with all of the data and financials you need at your fingertips.
Data & Team Collaboration
- Multi-user Access & Permissions—Add users and customize access permissions.
- Checklist—Assign tasks and track completion across your team.
- Real-time Financial Reports—Review financial reports to understand your revenue flow.
- Spending—Get a better sense of your costs by adding costs and comparing it to your revenue sources.
- Robust Event Statistics—Understand your sales trends and where the most sales happen to make better marketing decisions.
Volunteer Management
- Unlimited Job & Shift Creation—Create as many jobs and shifts as you need to put on your event.
- Volunteer Sign-up Forms—Use simple online forms to gather volunteers.
- Email Volunteers—Email volunteers with training details and other information they need.
- Check In Volunteers—Use our integrated app to check in volunteers when they arrive. And, track their hours.
Fraud Mitigation
- Purchase Blocker—Block suspicious transactions to prevent chargebacks before they happen.
- Cart Ticket Limits—Limit how many tickets are allowed in an order to help mitigate chargebacks.
- Ticket Resale Option—Make it easy for people to resell or even donate their tickets on your platform. You can even control the ceiling and floor of the resold ticket prices.
- Secure Payment Processing—Rest easy knowing that all of our transactions are processed securely.
Low Service Fee
You’ll benefit from all of these features for free. We charge a small service fee on each transaction, and most of our clients pass the fee to their customers. Our low service fee keeps your events in your customer’s budgets.
