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Nonprofit Event Registration Software
Take registrations for your suppers, workshops and annual meetings online. Members see their member price without a code, and every signup lands on an attendance sheet in the same system as your member records.
Member price applied
The whole family registers in one checkout
Nonprofit event registration at member prices
Who is registering changes the price, and sometimes whether they can register at all. Members pay the member rate, a parent signs up the whole household in one checkout, and you can limit an event by age or require a membership. Each registration lands on the person's record instead of a list of one-off ticket buyers.
- Online registration with member and non-member pricing
- Household registration in one checkout
- Registration forms, file uploads, and waivers
- Payment and a confirmation email at checkout
Every event, one calendar
Click any event to register
Event scheduling with a calendar people can subscribe to
Most event calendars live in a PDF on the website while registration happens somewhere else. In Communal, the month calendar on your program page links straight to registration, and anyone can subscribe so a moved date shows up in their Google Calendar or Apple Calendar.
- Month calendar on public and member program listings
- Organization-wide and single-program iCal subscription feeds
- Add to Calendar downloads on individual event pages
- Calendar entries link back to registration in Communal
Waitlist takes over
Everyone waiting hears when a spot opens
Capacity limits, waitlists, and attendance sheets
The work keeps going after someone registers. On the night, staff need to know who is confirmed, who is still waiting, and who actually came. Set a capacity, turn on the waitlist so it takes over when the event fills, then mark attendance on a phone at the door.
- Capacity limits and waitlists for popular events
- Waitlist emailed when a spot opens, or offered spots one at a time in order
- Attendance sheets for recurring classes and one-off events
- Rosters instructors can export and bring on site
One member record
Every event they signed up for
Every event on the member's record
When events run in a separate ticketing tool, the data stops at the export. In Communal, a member's profile lists the programs and events they registered for, next to their payments, waivers, and membership.
- Registrations listed on each member's profile
- Payments and refunds in the same transaction records
- Waivers and form answers attached to the registration
- Donations and volunteer shifts kept in the same system
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Frequently asked questions
Software that takes signups and payments for your events and connects them to your member records. Members get their price automatically, waivers are agreed to at checkout, and the registration list stays in your own system instead of on a ticketing site.
Ticketing software sells tickets to the public and keeps the buyer list on its own platform. Nonprofit event registration software knows who your members are: it charges member prices, registers a household in one checkout, and keeps waivers and attendance on the person's record. For a one-off public gala, a ticketing tool may be all you need. See our comparison of event management software for nonprofits.
Yes. Set a price for each membership type and a public price, and Communal charges each registrant the lowest price their active membership qualifies for. Nobody needs a promo code to get the member rate.
Yes. Guests check out without an account at the public price you set, and they can buy more than one ticket in a checkout. Their name, email and phone are kept with the signup and included in the export. To keep an event for members only, leave off the public price or hide it from people who don't have a price for it.
Yes. Set a capacity and registration closes when it's reached. Turn on the waitlist and people join it instead. By default everyone waiting is emailed when a spot opens; turn on the priority waitlist to offer spots one person at a time, in the order they joined.
Attach a waiver to the event and registrants agree to it before their checkout completes. Each acceptance is saved on the person's record, and if your waiver PDF has fill-in fields, staff can download the completed copy. It is an acceptance record, not an e-signature. Registration questions come from a form you attach to the program, and the answers stay with each registration.
Yes. With checkout donations turned on, card checkouts show an optional donation line, event registrations included. It is an organization-wide setting rather than a per-event one, and if you issue tax receipts the gift is receipted automatically.
Yes. Your program page shows upcoming events on a month calendar, and supporters can subscribe to an iCal feed in Google Calendar or Apple Calendar. Staff share one feed URL from program settings, and each event page has an Add to Calendar download.
Yes. An event can repeat weekly, every two weeks, or on the days you pick, and one registration covers every date. For classes and seasonal programs, see program registration software.
Communal starts at $75 per month for up to 250 members, and programs and events are a $50 per month add-on. There is no per-event charge; card payments carry the processing fee set in your agreement. See pricing.
Yes. Export your contacts and attendee lists from Eventbrite or a spreadsheet, and our team helps import them so your members are in place before your first event goes live. Read Communal vs Eventbrite.