You brought in a conference app because attendees wanted an agenda in their pocket, networking, and live engagement — and it delivers that well. But when it came time to actually sell registration, the picture got murkier: registration fees surface inside the organizer dashboard rather than out in the open, and the app is strongest as an engagement layer on top of ticketing you handle elsewhere. So you end up running the schedule and the community in one tool and the money in another, stitching the two together for every event.
The seam between engagement and selling
The frustration is the split. First, ticketing sits apart: a conference app centered on agenda and networking often treats paid registration as a secondary flow, so you bolt on or hand-off the part where money changes hands. Second, pricing you have to dig for: when the registration fee lives inside the dashboard rather than a public page, it's hard to compare before you commit. Third, two systems to reconcile: the attendee list in the app and the buyer list in your ticketing tool drift apart, and you're the one keeping them in sync. You want the engagement and the selling on one spine.
An alternative where the app and the ticket are one system
Geiger Events brings the conference-app experience and real ticketing together, so the person who buys a ticket and the person in the agenda are the same record from the start.
Agenda, speakers, and sponsors
Program tracks and sessions and publish speaker profiles with the agenda builder and speaker pages, and give partners a real presence through sponsor and exhibitor pages — the schedule and the sponsor visibility attendees expect from a modern conference app.
Community engagement that runs live
Keep the room engaged during sessions with polls, Q&A, and announcements, so attendees interact with the program instead of just reading it — the networking-and-engagement layer that made the conference app worth having, native to the event rather than layered on.
Real ticketing on the same spine
Underneath it all is ticketing and payments that does the serious work: tiers, early-bird windows, discount codes, and group orders, with free RSVPs and paid registration on one flow. Payments run on Stripe, the rails you already trust — so selling isn't a separate system you reconcile against the app.
Check-in that reads from the same list
The check-in app scans QR tickets, works offline when venue Wi-Fi drops, and shows live attendance — pulling from the same registrations that feed the agenda and the engagement tools, not a separate import.
Pricing you can read before you commit
Instead of a registration fee you only see once you're inside the dashboard, our current pricing is published plainly on the pricing page, so you can compare cost to value before you build anything. Compare it against the conference app's own quote — we'd rather you decide with both in front of you than take a claim on faith.
When a dedicated conference app still fits
To be fair: if deep in-app networking and attendee engagement are the entire reason you're buying, a purpose-built conference app has years of polish there, and it's a strong choice. Geiger Events is the alternative for organizers who want that engagement and real ticketing on one platform, with pricing in the open — the agenda, the community, the sponsors, the check-in, and the sale all reading from the same record. If your program spans online audiences too, our virtual and hybrid events support extends the same spine.
What changes when it's one system
The buyer and the attendee stop being two lists. The engagement layer and the ticket stop being two tools. And you stop reconciling systems at midnight before doors open. Agenda, speakers, sponsors, live engagement, and check-in are worth having — worth more when the ticket that gets someone in the room lives in the same place, on pricing you could read before you started.
Built for conference organizers who want agenda, speakers, sponsors, and live engagement with real ticketing on the same platform — and pricing they can read up front.
Compare the cost for yourself on the pricing page, or start building your first event today.
Geiger Events is actively shipping. Some capabilities described here are rolling out and specifics may change.