Eventz
The event operating system for ministry.
Run every event from one place — and see everything without exposing anyone. Eventz turns registration exports into a live command center for each gathering: who's coming, how it's pacing, who to follow up with, and what to do on the day. Built by a church, for churches — so your team can do more with less.
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Why this exists
Most event data dies in a spreadsheet. You get a headcount after the fact and never learn anything that helps the next one. Eventz flips that: every event becomes a scoreboard you can read at a glance, a forecast you can plan against, and a follow-up list that turns first-time guests into part of the family.
Three ideas run through the whole app:
See everything, expose nothing. The shareable version runs on a de-identified code — age, life stage, and church connection — with no phone, email, or birthdate. You can hand a ministry leader the whole picture without handing over your people's private information.
Plan the next one, don't just report the last. Every past event becomes a baseline. Upcoming events get a projected turnout and a recommended promo plan that follows your rhythm.
Comparability is the point. A number only matters next to another number — so every event lines up against its own history and the other ministries.
The big picture: home, then tools
Eventz has two levels. The home page shows all your adult events at once. Clicking an event opens that event's tool — a row of tools across the top, one for each job.
The all-events home
- Pick events — tap event tiles (or a whole ministry) to add or remove them from the combined view. Deselected tiles dim.
- Combined scoreboard — attendances, attendance rate, guests, guests now attending, unique people, and returning attenders across everything you've selected.
- Demographics & journey — age and life-stage mix, church vs. guest, and how many people came to 1, 2, or 3+ events.
Every event's tools
Across the top of any event you'll see the tools. You don't have to use all of them — reach for the one that matches what you're doing right now. Upcoming events open on Forecast; events that have happened open on Scoreboard.
Getting your data in
Eventz reads a coded sheet — a stable anonymous ID and a demographic code for each person, with names, contact info and birthdates removed. The coding happens on your own device — nothing is uploaded to build it — so the app never touches a phone number or email.
- Export your raw registration list from your platform (Formstack, a Google Form, your ChMS — anything). It stays on your computer.
- Run it through the Coder. It opens right in your browser and works offline. Paste or upload the raw export; it auto-detects columns, builds a stable anonymous ID plus the demographic code, and drops names, contact info and birthdates. Open the Coder →
- Load it in. On the event's Register tool, use ↻ Load latest registrations and paste the coded rows. The scoreboard, forecast, and day-of tools all update instantly.
[Gender][Marital][BirthYear] — e.g. FM83 = Female, Married, born 1983. Unknown is FXX/MXX. That single code powers all the demographics.Scoreboard — the event at a glance
Your headline numbers and who was in the room. This is the tool to screen-share in a staff meeting.
What you'll see
- KPIs — Registered, Attended, No-shows, Guests, Guests now attending, Invited, and Came-on-their-own.
- Guests now attending — of the people who came as guests, how many have since shown up at a later event as a church attender. Your assimilation number.
- How registrations built — a curve of cumulative sign-ups with your marketing pushes marked, so you can see what actually moved the needle.
- Demographics — age and life-stage bars, computed only over people who gave that info (so events that didn't ask don't skew the mix). Church-vs-guest and invited splits sit beside them.
- Breakout sign-ups — if the event offers breakouts, a count per option for room sizing.
Forecast — plan toward the next one
For an upcoming event this is the default tool. It answers: how many should we expect, and what should we send when?
Projected attendance
- Type how many have registered so far (and days out — it fills itself from the date).
- Eventz projects the final turnout from your baseline pace and shows a likely range, plus whether you're ahead of or behind the typical curve.
Recommended promo plan
Eventz borrows the cadence from your most recent same-type event and lays out a dated plan — check each push off as you send it. It follows your rules automatically:
| Channel | Allowed days |
|---|---|
| Stage pushes | Sundays only |
| Emails | Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday |
| Social posts | Tuesday or Wednesday |
Register — the living list
Everyone who signed up, searchable and filterable. This is also where you load new data and fix the little things.
- Search & filter — by name, or by All / Guests / Invited / Scholarship / Walk-ups.
- Add a walk-up — someone who showed without registering; a code is optional but powers their demographics.
- Nickname — if someone goes by a name that isn't their legal first name, type it here and it prints on their name tag instead.
- Transfer — a spot changes hands? Click Transfer, type the new person's name (and code), Save. The row re-labels as transferred.
- Cancel / Restore — pulls someone out of the counts (with a refund reflected in Finances) without deleting them.
- Journey — a ↗ N more chip shows every other event that person has attended. Tap to expand.
Check-in — fast, even with a line
Two ways to run the tool — pick whichever is faster for your crowd.
- Tap to check in — search a name, tap to mark them present. Good for smaller events or a self-serve kiosk.
- Enter no-shows only — for a big room, don't check 400 people in. Tap only the handful who didn't come, press the button, and everyone else is checked in at once.
For multi-week studies, check-in works week by week — see Multi-week studies.
Day-of — tables, breakouts & name tags
Table assignments
Set how many tables and seats each, hit Auto-assign, and reassign anyone by searching their name. Over-full tables flag in red.
Breakout rosters
Tell each tag which breakouts a person is in — paste a sheet of First, Last, Breakout (or Code, Breakout). It prints in the reserved bottom-left of their name tag. See Breakouts for the full picture.
Name tags
Print-ready for Avery 5395 (8 per sheet). A live preview shows exactly how one tag looks so you can design against it.
- Choose the batch — All, a position range, or "registered before" a date/time (pre-print everyone in early, then just the stragglers).
- Style it — text size (Small / Medium / Large) and name placement (centered / upper / lower). The first name / nickname prints bold, the last name in normal weight.
- Add your design — upload a full JPG/PNG that prints behind every name, and/or a small logo in a corner.
- Print — opens a full-size preview of every sheet, ready to send to your printer.
Scholarships — generosity, tracked
People who pay extra fund spots for people who can't. Eventz keeps both sides honest.
- Pool contributed and how many funded spots that buys at the ticket price.
- Grant a spot to a recipient — the pool goes down, and they're added to the register as a scholarship attendee.
- Givers over time — the giving list shows a N× giver tag for anyone who's funded spots at multiple events.
Finances — did it pay for itself?
Money in, minus what it cost, updated as you type.
- Collected — fees, extra donations, and scholarship funding, straight from registration.
- Costs — enter fixed costs (venue, speaker, production) and per-attendee costs (food, materials). Enter them by hand or upload an expense sheet.
- The bottom line — net, cost per head, and the break-even headcount, with your organizational contribution factored in.
Volunteers — your team for the day
- Build the roster — add volunteers with their role; the app remembers how many events each has served.
- Background checks — turn the check field on for events that need it (students), off for those that don't.
- Follow-up team — flag which volunteers or staff should appear in the Follow-up assignment dropdown.
Follow up — turn a visit into belonging
The most important tool and the easiest to skip. Eventz builds the queues for you.
- Auto queues — guests to reach out to, no-shows to check on, and more, sorted so nobody falls through.
- Assign & choose the touch — pick the team member and the follow-up type: phone call, email, text, or thank-you card. Check people off as they're reached.
- Hand out the assignments — click 📤 Copy / email assignments and Eventz builds each teammate's worklist (grouped by touch type) ready to paste into your group chat, or opens a pre-filled email. Everyone knows exactly who to reach and how.
Breakouts
For events with sessions people choose (say breakouts A–D, pick two), Eventz shows and edits those choices everywhere they matter.
- Register — each person's choices show as a chip.
- Check-in — tap A / B / C / D buttons on a person's row to change their breakouts on the spot, day-of.
- Name tags — a person's breakouts print in the bottom-left, and update when you change them.
- Scoreboard — a sign-up count per breakout, for room sizing.
Breakouts column in your data, or a roster you paste on the Day-of tool.Multi-week studies
A study that runs several weeks is one event — one registration list, one set of demographics — with attendance tracked week by week.
- On Check-in, you start on Week 1 with everyone counted present.
- Tap anyone who didn't show that week — the rest stay present.
- Each session, click + Add week and mark that week's no-shows.
A Weekly attendance card tracks present-count per session, and every person's row shows "came X of N weeks." Multi-week studies switch this on automatically.
Privacy & the code
This is the heart of the product. The shareable tool holds names and a demographic code — and nothing else. No phone, no email, no birthdate. Age is derived from a birth year only.
That means you can put a ministry leader in front of the whole scoreboard, hand a report to a volunteer, or white-label the app for another church — and there's simply no private contact data to leak. Full contact lives only on the admin clean-up desk, for the org that owns it.
Access & sign-in
When Eventz is hosted for your organization, your team reaches it at a private web address and each person signs in with their own username and password. No shared password on a sticky note — you can add someone, reset a password, or turn off access for one person, without touching anyone else.
Three roles decide what each person sees
- Admin — full access to every tool and every event. That's you and your core team.
- Leader — lands straight on the Scoreboard to read the numbers, without the day-of controls.
- Check-in — lands straight on the Check-in tool, ready for a volunteer at the table. Pair it with the tablet kiosk mode for the lobby.
A leader or volunteer can always click open full view if you want to give them the run of the app for a moment. A small badge in the corner shows who's signed in, with a Log out link; sessions expire on their own after a while.
Searchable help
Type a question or a keyword — the list filters as you go.
Ideas & roadmap
Much of the original wish-list is now live (✓). Here's what shipped, and what's still ahead:
Hosted on a real URL
Eventz runs at a private toolzgroup web address, so name-tag printing works from the browser and there's no sandbox workaround.
First-run guided tour
A short "click here" walkthrough the first time someone opens an event, so a new teammate gets oriented in seconds.
QR & kiosk check-in
Print a QR on each name tag, then scan people in with a tablet's camera — plus a full-screen kiosk mode for the lobby.
Send follow-ups from the app
One click builds each teammate's follow-up worklist to copy into your chat or send as a pre-filled email.
Year-over-year & goals
Set a target for an event and track against it, with a nudge showing whether you're ahead of or behind last year's pace.
Per-person logins & roles
Everyone signs in with their own account; admins see all, leaders get the scoreboard, volunteers get check-in. See "Access & sign-in."
Auto-sync from your sheet
Point an event at a Google Sheet and let it refresh on its own — no more manual paste as sign-ups come in.
Milestone nudges everywhere
"You're 12 ahead of last year's pace" or "45 guests still need a follow-up," surfaced across the home page right when it's useful.