Cloud-based event planning, registration & publishing
4.6/5 (34 avaliações)Grenadine Events is a cloud-based solution for planning and managing events, ticketing, and online registration. A range of event types can be planned, including conferences and conventions, and users can manage attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, sponsors, and event venues, schedules, budgets, tasks, equipment, marketing, surveys, registration, and more. The system is designed to be used by teams, and allows multiple users to collaborate on plans, with user permissions to control access, and the ability to share data between multiple events that are being planned at the same time.
Grenadine Events automatically creates custom websites for all events, which is updated in real time and can be used to provide attendees and speakers with important information, including event locations and venue maps, up-to-date schedules, directories of the speakers including profile images, bios, and contact information, and a countdown to display the time until the event begins. Attendees can use the website to register for free or paid tickets, view availability and sign up for space-limited events, upload documents, personalize their profiles, export event schedules to their personal calendars, and more. Branded mobile apps can also be created using a real-time visual editor, for attendees to use during the event.
Thanks for this review!
I'm happy to say that we've since addressed your con #2 (you can now assign anyone to a calendar item, and we now automatically mark them a speaker as soon as we notice the assignment, without having to "accept" them). We are always working to make identifying people an easier task, regardless of which email address they use, which is something that should gradually improve over time as we "catch" more and more ways to figure out who a person is, regardless of how they spell their name, if they use their middle initials or not, or which one of their email addresses they use.
Customer service was excellent. They also have a lot of information on their website (although it could be more searchable) but emails and phone calls were instantly addressed. I would use this software again for future events.
Vantagens
The cost is lower than others on the market offering this level of functionality. I loved the sub-items to group activities/sessions occurring at the time and the ease of use to add sessions. The app interface is also very user friendly. They also offered easy links to embed the event on my website and include it in external emails.
Desvantagens
Attendees only show up in the public list if they have taken the time to create a profile and approve it for public viewing - which meant that 3 of my 135 attendees showed up on the app. As far as I could tell there was not way to override this - so I created a pdf file and added it as a document.
Thanks Heather a lot for this great review. Interesting point you bring here. Well noted. We will definitely take this into account in a future release.
Best regards,
Fred.
I have used this produce since its inception, as both an end-user and project manager. It has consistently improved, with additional functionality and improved user interface every time I use it.
The customer support is outstanding, and questions I've raised have often led to new features or updates of existing features. Basic data entry options include importing spreadsheet files. Options for notifications are easy to use.
The mobile app is easy to use, and is not a drain on data or battery life. The website functionality is something I haven't used much, so I can't really comment on it. And I haven't used the individual sign-up/sales options at all.
I highly recommend Grenadine.
Vantagens
overall ease of use -- particularly the ability to take information from a previous event and import it into the new event. I'm still learning about the survey functionality, but it seems robust.
Desvantagens
setting up the mobile app content is a bit fussy still. My biggest issue is with graphics because phone screens aren't the same size/proportion (they warn you about this, though). Some info for mobile has to be edited by hand, with a window that shows you formatting so you can code it (much like a Wordpress window)
8000 attendees, 1,200 activities, 900 participants, 5 days - in London's excel are the figures behind the World Science Fiction Convention, with a geographically dispersed team of volunteers and participants from all five continents.
Grenadine is the cloud based conference planning system that provides the planning and delivery structure to our activities and manages the complexity that arises from the vast amount of information that goes into formulating our convention.
The simple and easy to use dashboard holds so much complexity and depth, that it is hard to fathom, until one sees into how much work the system does for the user at all levels.
Grenadine helps reduce time and effort, by collecting our data, using dedicated questionnaires, helps us interpret this data, allowing our whole planning team to have visibility and match participants to programme items. We can query the database, set filters for enquiries, pull out specific pieces of information and the system will provide a multitude of reports.
Grenadine also manages the data ;space, time, people, and equipment - highlighting and alerting one to conflicts in real time and providing the method to reassign a resource easily to prevent any issues.
The system also has the ability to Publish the Data for the attendees via various channels,
be it native iOS and Android apps that interface directly with the planning system and with our print publications, which receive an extract of the convention schedule in a format suitable for pre-press software.
Effecting changes, at all stages is very easy, the system lends itself too being user friendly, while the amount of resources it creates from the data quickly resolves issues that were incredibly frustrating.
Most importantly, it allows continuous viability of progress, and allows the team a simple way to be part of a complex process, and through the outputs, be a real benefit to all attendees of the convention.
Vantagens
There is a small learning curve, but once you start poking around the system, you realize how easy it is to use. I also like the flexibility available when contacting participants. The items tab is also very intuitive on how it works, and the scheduling grid makes scheduling items a breeze with the drag and drop capability.
Desvantagens
I would like more written instructions, especially for new features. However, their tech support system is very responsive and quick to answer questions.
TICKET SELLER: Free for event planners (no monthly subscription fees)
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
TIER I: $79.95 per event planner*/month or $74/planner/month on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of 10$ per ticket)
TIER II: $99.95 per event planner*/month (3 months min.) or $92/planner/month
on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
TIER III: $149.95 per event planner*/month (6 months min.) or $138/planner/month
on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
Abaixo estão algumas perguntas frequentes sobre o Grenadine Events.
O Grenadine Events oferece os seguintes planos de pagamento:
A partir de: US$ 80,00/mês
Modelo de preços: Assinatura
Avaliação gratuita: Disponível
TICKET SELLER: Free for event planners (no monthly subscription fees)
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
TIER I: $79.95 per event planner*/month or $74/planner/month on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of 10$ per ticket)
TIER II: $99.95 per event planner*/month (3 months min.) or $92/planner/month
on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
TIER III: $149.95 per event planner*/month (6 months min.) or $138/planner/month
on annual plan.
$1+2.5% per ticket sold (max of $10 per ticket)
O Grenadine Events oferece os seguintes recursos:
Os clientes habituais do Grenadine Events são:
Empresas de médio porte, Pequenas empresas
O Grenadine Events está nos seguintes idiomas:
Inglês, Francês
O Grenadine Events tem os seguintes planos de preços:
Assinatura
O Grenadine Events é compatível com os seguintes dispositivos:
Android, iPhone, iPad
O Grenadine Events se integra com os seguintes aplicativos:
Google Analytics, PayPal, Paysafe, Stripe, Twitter, Wordpress
O Grenadine Events oferece as seguintes opções de suporte:
FAQs, Fórum, Base de conhecimento, Suporte online, Suporte por telefone
I just finished planning an academic convention in Baltimore, MD, using Grenadine Events. We had 865 Registered People, 885 people in the program, and 224 different items listed within the program (just to give you the size and scope of my convention).
PROS
1) My participants LOVED the website version of the convention. Even the convention hotel staff said it was one of the cleanest online website programs they had ever seen.
2) The participants also loved the AP version.
3) The amount of time this software saved me on finding conflicts was my personal favorite feature as the convention planner. I've heard horror stories related to finding all of the conflicts, but this software made dropping a panel into a time slot and instantaneously finding out if there were conflicts a cinch.
4) Overall, the learning curve for my needs was pretty fast.
5) The customer service at Grenadine is amazing. Any time I had a question, I had a response within 24 hours, which kept me making progress.
CONS
1) Registering on the website and creating an account was a bit tricky for some. To register as a specific user, you had to have the e-mail address that had been given to me by an associate planner. Unfortunately, many of the participants had no idea what e-mail address I was using, which caused some frustration on their part.
2) To make a participant "live" in system, the individual had to uploaded and indicated that he or she had "accepted" an invitation to the convention. With my association, by the point I'm programming everyone is accepted. I wish this had just been the default. This was just one other step that didn't seem too necessary.
Overall, I would recommend this software to anyone planning an academic convention. This product made my job a lot easier. Even the "cons" I have are minor ones that really didn't impact my ability to successfully use this software.