Add Registration to Your Event Website
Attendees can register for your event directly from its Event Website. They press Register, the registration opens over the page, and they stay on your event's site the whole way through — no separate site to visit and no account to create first.
This article is the organizer's guide to that experience: what attendees see, what Eventene asks of them, and how it relates to the standalone registration forms you may already be using.
Where registration appears
Every Event Website has a primary action button in its header:
| Button | When attendees see it |
|---|---|
| Register | No registration exists yet for the person opening the page |
| View Registration | A registration already exists — they are returning to it |
The button changes to View Registration as soon as a registration is saved, without the attendee reloading the page. There is nothing to switch on for this: publish your event, and the button is there.
If your event is not yet published, the button appears but is disabled, with a note that registration opens when the event is published.
TODO (screenshot): The Event Website header showing the Register button, and the same header showing View Registration after a registration exists. To be captured once the release UI is final.
What an attendee goes through
Registration opens in a panel over the Event Website. The steps an attendee sees depend on what Eventene already knows about them and on how you configured the event.
1. Their email address
The first screen asks for one thing — an email address — under the heading Register, with the note that they don't need to create an account first.
This is deliberate. A first-time attendee at a public event can start registering with nothing but an email address.
2. Verification, if Eventene already knows them
If the address they typed is already on your event, Eventene asks them to verify it before showing anything. They receive a 6-digit code by email and enter it on a Check your email screen.
Recognizing an address is not the same as proving it belongs to the person typing it. Verification is what keeps someone who merely knows an attendee's address from opening that attendee's registration. See Attendee Access and Email Verification.
Attendees who are already signed in to Eventene under that same address are not asked again.
3. Their name, if they are new
If the address is not on your event and your event is open to new attendees, Eventene asks for a first and last name under Your details. That creates the person in your event's main People group.
Nothing is pre-filled here, even when Eventene could fill it in — a visitor who types someone else's address must not be shown that person's name.
If your event is Invite Only and the address isn't on the guest list, the attendee sees We couldn't find an invitation, with a suggestion to check which mailbox the invitation went to, an option to try a different email, and a pointer to contact you. See Configure Registration for Invite-Only Events.
4. Pre-registration questions, if you configured any
If you selected pre-registration fields, the attendee answers them next, under A few questions. Only the questions they have not already answered are asked.
These answers can decide which registration path the attendee gets — which activities they're offered and which questions follow. See Pre-Registration Questions and Registration Routing.
5. The registration itself
Once Eventene knows who the attendee is and where they belong, the registration form opens in the panel: attendance, your questions, and — if your event has paid products — checkout.
This is the same registration experience attendees reach from an invitation email or a direct registration link. The activities and questions each person sees are still driven by their group membership, exactly as before.
6. Payment, when required
If the event has paid products, pressing Pay Now hands the attendee to Stripe's payment page. That step takes over the whole browser tab — it is not something that can happen inside the panel.
When they finish or cancel, Stripe returns them to your Event Website, and the registration panel reopens where they left off. See Handling Payments During Registration.
7. Confirmation
On completion the attendee sees Registration complete and can close the panel. The Event Website's button behind it now reads View Registration, which is how they get back in.
What attendees may see instead
A few states end the flow rather than continue it. Each is worded the same way for everyone who reaches it, so nothing is revealed about who is or isn't registered.
| Screen | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| We couldn't find an invitation | Invite Only, and the address isn't on the guest list | Add the person to the event's main group, or point them at the mailbox the invitation went to |
| Registration isn't available | The attendee matches no activity on your event, or your activities point at more than one People group | Check group assignments on your activities — see Pre-Registration Questions and Registration Routing |
| Quick check | Eventene asked for a quick "not a robot" confirmation | Nothing — the attendee continues after passing it |
| Too many attempts | Repeated attempts from the same place paused the form briefly | The attendee waits the stated time and tries again |
Groups and families
More than one person can legitimately share an email address — a parent and children, a couple, a team lead and their team. When that address is used, the registration opens on Group Registration, listing everyone in the group with their progress (Not started, In progress, Complete), and the attendee picks whoever they want to register.
Where you allow it, they can also add someone with Add people. See Guest Registration for the Edit Event setting that controls this, and Register Multiple People with One Email Address for the attendee's view.
How this relates to standalone registration forms
Standalone registration forms are fully supported and are not going away. Every invitation email still carries a direct registration link, and that link still opens the registration form on its own.
- Event Website registration is the right choice when you are promoting the event publicly and want people to read about it and sign up in one place.
- A standalone registration form is the right choice for private events, or for any event where you would rather not put a public page in front of the registration at all.
Both use the same registration setup underneath — the same activities, questions, products, and attendance rules. See Choose How Attendees Register.
Before you share the link
- Publish the event. Until you do, the Register button is disabled.
- Check your activity groups. An attendee who lands in no group that an activity targets can't be registered. If your activities point at more than one People group, registration routing can't be configured for the event.
- Decide who may register. Open lets new people add themselves; Invite Only limits registration to your guest list. Both settings are in Edit Event.
- Try it yourself. Open the Event Website in a private browser window with an address that isn't on the event, and walk the whole way through.