Sched is built to make events easier to organize and more enjoyable to attend. That way, great people can come together to do and learn amazing things.
We listen to Sched customers and event attendees every day and add their favorite ideas right in the software. This quarter, there’s a bunch of new features for you to enjoy!
If you have an idea for how Sched could be better, please let us know. If you’d like an in-person demo to refresh your knowledge of Sched, jump into our calendar here.
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Here are the latest updates to Sched — no extra tools required!
✅ Call for Papers / Call for Speakers: collect speaker info, select speakers and schedule sessions with ease
✅ Event Badge Printing: quickly generate beautiful badges with your branding and QR codes
✅ Standalone Registration Pages: register attendees and sell tickets with one simple page
✅ Easy QR Codes: fast and easy check-in for attendees event-wide, plus simpler networking
and even more enhancements you’ll love.
Call for Papers (CFP) Enhancements
Having the right speakers for your events is crucial, but can also create a lot of extra work. No more!
With Sched’s new Call for Papers / Call for Speakers tool, you can now collect, review, and manage speaker applications with ease.
Your speaker candidates will love our updated CFP tools, designed for intuitive submissions and streamlined reviews.
Each speaker can add images, bios, session descriptions and more. There are plentiful choices to add speaker info text customization in each speaker’s profile.
It is a snap for attendees and organizers to leave star ratings and comments for each event speaker.
When you are ready, it is just a click to sync approved speakers’ information to Sched to begin adding them to sessions.
Have a session with multiple speakers? No problem at all. We’ve added a multi-speaker session form for events to make it easy to put all their information in at one time.
Customizable Badge Printing
Now you can use Sched to easily create and print custom professional, branded event badges in bulk or individually.
With nine color schemes, QR codes, mobile icons, and multiple sizes, our enhanced editor lets you design badges that perfectly reflect your event’s unique style.
How about different badges for attendees, speakers, artists, sponsors, and exhibitors? It’s a simple process now with Sched.
Add your own background image or use one of Sched’s many great looking backgrounds for event badge templates.
When you hit on great designs, it is a snap to save each badge design for future use, or duplicate a successful one to create other variations. If you wish, you can save test ideas for possible use later.
Standalone Registration Pages
Sometimes you aren’t ready to publish your schedule, but you want to start selling tickets and promoting your event right away.
Now with Sched, you can simplify your registrations and ticket sales with a versatile, easy to build standalone web page for events ticketing — no need to tie it to any specific event schedule.
A standalone page is an easy landing point for attendees to register or purchase tickets directly.
Easy QR Codes
We’re especially excited with Sched’s new ability to check in attendees with ease using scannable QR codes for session check-in.
No more struggling to document who attended what, so everyone stays focused on your session content!
Event organizers can also add QR codes for attendee badges, allowing for quick and easy networking between participants.
New look for the Sched Control Panel
Sched is built for simplicity, so you can worry less and focus on making your event great. We’ve adjusted our look with an streamlined Control Panel to make it way easier to read and navigate to what you need quickly.
Coupon Redemption Limits
Coupons are a great offer for your attendees, but you need to keep them under tight control.
Now you can set a redemption limits on your coupons to make sure they aren’t overused. This is just one of a host of other customizations that you can apply to your coupons using Sched.
See Ticket History with Coupons
It can be important at times to go back and confirm which tickets were bought by whom, with a record of the coupon they used. That’s a simple task now with Sched.
Why struggle with events when you can simplify everything with Sched?
Will Herring, Assistant Director of Technology at Moore County Schools, remembers what life was like before Sched… “We had multiple apps doing the work. It was cumbersome for our staff and attendees alike. This year, we have unified all of our event management in Sched and it has been like night and day.”
There’s no better time to upgrade to the best event management software and set your next event up for success.
Consider what a simpler workflow with the right tools all in one place could mean for your next event. That’s the beauty of using Sched!
