Organizing a Church Conference With Online Event Management Solution

Church conferences are not mere faith based events. These are full-fledged, informative events that are organized by churches in order to enlighten their members on topics related to healthcare, finance, personal growth strategies and skill enhancements. Many conferences are women centric that are hosted to encourage women to develop self confidence and experience personal growth. Renowned speakers share their expertise, knowledge and insights into areas that have immense social significance. Organizing such an event takes time and a lot of preparation. An online event management solution can simplify this task by streamlining numerous administrative jobs.

Churches mostly host all day Saturday or weekend conferences that usually begin on Friday nights. Several classes and workshops are conducted throughout the weekend and are interspersed by short session breaks. Each of these sessions is attended by many members from different walks of life and with different interests. Hence, while planning a church conference a separate registration system should be in place for each sub event, so that managing the entire process is more methodical. However, with an online event management solution handling registrations is not at all a complicated affair.

Online registration and payment management

The software application comes with a series of pre-built templates in order to design the registration form. One just needs to customize the selected template with the Church's name, logo, event information, and pricing details to come up with a complete conference registration form which can then be uploaded on the internet to be accessed by all the members and non-members at any time during the day. As they fill up the form they are required to pay a registration fee towards event participation. The online registration software enables them to do that by paying via a number of online and offline payment gateways all conforming to standard security guidelines. Church authorities can keep a track of these transactions in real-time with the help the online payment management platform which is an extension of the event management solution.

Communication via bulk email messaging

Communicating with the members of a church prior to a conference is not an easy task. The sooner it is started the better. However, resorting to postal communication may result in delaying the entire process, and costs incurred may also be high. By availing an online event management solution both these issues can be dealt with effectively. The software application comprises of a robust email messaging tool. It can be used to send out bulk email invitations, notifications, and newsletters in an automated manner thereby saving cost and time simultaneously.

Conference promotion via social media

Promoting a church conference is a must so that maximum people get to know about it and benefit from the workshops and trainings to be held. The easiest way to reach out to the masses is by promoting the conference via social networks. Today most people are social media addicts; so, once they come to know about such an event, they make it a point to visit the online registration page and sign up subsequently. A church authority can popularize their conference this way by investing in a social media connector separately in addition to the online event registration solution. They can even build and maintain a private community network with the help of its member management solution to further generate interest amongst its members about the conference.

Online event registration software provides many other facilities. On availing these services any church conference management procedure becomes really simplified and absolutely hassle-free.