NXT Events Preview And Coming Attractions!

Do you get to the movies early to watch the previews? Similar to how Hollywood gears audiences for new films, our approach to new features allows you to preview what’s coming. 

Our latest “preview” is events functionality and is available in its first limited release to 50 customers. 

Note: Over the next several months, we expect to roll Events out in waves to all Raiser’s Edge NXT customers who have Events Management. To learn more about how Raiser’s Edge NXT rolls functionality out in waves, see this post about our MVP approach to releasing new features. 

In Events, you can:
•    Add events and manage details about them, such as when they take place
•    Set prices
•    Add and manage participants and their guests
•    Take payments at the door
•    Mark attendance onsite 

In the coming weeks and months, this introductory functionality will include more robust features so you can manage events entirely in the web view. 

Soon, you’ll also be able to:
•    Create and manage online registration forms from an event record
•    Manage information about multiple participants at the same time, such as whether they’re invited to the event
•    Send an email directly from a participant list
•    Export participant data
•    And much, much more!

What makes Events in web view useful today

Even if previews don’t typically excite you, you should consider this one. Use Events in web view for day-of-event functions like selling tickets and marking attendance as people arrive. 

How do I find Events?

If you’re an admin, you’ll see Events in the navigation when it’s available for your organization. To enable other users to access Events in the web view, create an event role and add them to it from Control Panel, Security.

Note: Events privileges set for a user's security group only apply to Events Management features in the database view.  

We look forward to partnering with all of our customers as we continue to evolve our Events features! As you start to work with the features, be sure to discuss your thoughts and share your ideas in the Community to help guide their development!