Free event registration with real tickets and check-in

What is free event registration, in one answer?

It is a sign-up that works like a ticket. The guest registers in a few taps, receives a QR code, and is scanned in at the door; you get the guest list, the answers to your questions and the attendance, without anyone paying.

That is the difference with a form. A form collects names. Registration on Blend gives each name a ticket, a place on a capped list and a check-in.

Moving off Google Forms

Who uses free registration?

Run clubs, community meetups, talks, launches, exhibitions with free entry and university events all register this way.

Defile Classique registered 720 email-verified voters, out of around 5,000 people at a free-entry event, so every vote came from a real attendee.

• Run Club Beirut has run more than 15 free community runs on Blend, with around 180 runners each.
• Jounieh Run Club confirmed 1,017 free registrations for Run Fest 2026 on 30 August, against a capacity of 2,000.
• Network With Jean confirmed 92 registrations for a free edition in the Chouf on 25 September 2026.

How Jounieh Run Club registered its runners

How does it work, step by step?

Setting up a free event takes a few minutes, and nothing about it needs a payment account.

• Create your event and add a free ticket, with the number of places.
• Add the questions you need: distance, size, company, dietary needs. Answers sit on each guest's record.
• Share the link. Guests register and receive a QR ticket by email and on WhatsApp straight away.
• When the places are gone, registration closes, and a waitlist can collect everyone after that.
• At the door, staff scan each QR code with their own phones, and your list shows who has arrived.

Which modules work with free registration?

Free registration uses the same event as paid tickets, so every module you'd use for a paid event is there too.

• Approval-required tickets, when you want to review each sign-up before confirming it.
• Group registration, so one person can book several places and every attendee still gets a ticket in their own name.
• Private and link-only events, for invitations that shouldn't be listed publicly.
• Messages to everyone attending, for the details before the day.
• Paid tickets beside free ones, when part of the event is free and part is not.

How to reduce no-shows

What happens on the day?

Your door staff open a scanner on their own phones with the code you create for each entrance, with no login. Each guest shows their QR code, the scan checks them in, and a second scan of the same ticket is flagged. Your live list shows who has arrived and who hasn't, so you can see the room fill from anywhere.

After the event, the list shows exactly who came. At Sabah El Kheir Run, Run Club Beirut's free morning run, 47 of the 145 who signed up were scanned in with a QR code at the door, which tells the club how many places to open next time.

The Sabah El Kheir Run case study

Does free registration cost anything?

No. Free tickets and RSVPs carry no fee for you or your guests, and you still get the QR tickets, the guest list and check-in. If you later add paid tickets to the same event, the fee on those is shown at checkout; the details are on the pricing page.

How do you start?

Create your event, add a free ticket with its capacity, and share the link. Scan a test ticket with your own phone before the day, so you know exactly what your door staff will see.

If the event fills up every time, keep the next one free but cap it tighter and open a waitlist: you'll see how many people really want a place, and you can give priority to the ones who came last time.

Create your event