When Event Systems Make Your Job Harder—Not Easier

You're planning your university’s biggest alumni weekend of the year. You’ve mapped out every detail from multiple activities to your constituents being able to choose their ticket types. But when it comes time to build the registration form… you hit a wall!

The event system you’ve been handed wasn’t built for your world. It was designed for generic conferences, not complex university events with multiple sub-events, variable ticket types, and fundraising goals baked in.

So, you spend hours — sometimes days — wrestling with clunky software that can’t reflect the way your event is actually run. You find yourself fighting with a generic event registration platform—one that clearly wasn’t designed for nonprofits or Advancement teams. You’re stuck with a giving form that looks like an afterthought and you are at the mercy of your platform's method of collecting payments.

Worst of all, you can’t make it easy for your constituents to register for your different activities on the same easy to use form.

And just when you think it couldn’t get more limiting—you realize the system doesn’t integrate easily with your CRM or fundraising database. That means more manual exports, more spreadsheets, and more late nights cleaning up messy data. You’re stuck either adapting to their rigid workflows or hoping your IT team can build a workaround. The truth is, most event platforms weren’t designed with fundraising systems in mind—leaving you with disconnected tools, siloed data, and lost momentum between registration and stewardship.

The result?

A frustrating, slow setup process for you, and a confusing, disjointed experience for your attendees which leaves you answering emails instead of building momentum for your event.

You know your event deserves better. But your tools are holding you back.

You're not just settling for an imperfect system. You're paying for it—with your time, your constituents' experience, and your results.

Because when you can’t run the event the way you planned…

When you have to duct-tape together two or three different systems just to manage registration and giving…Things start slipping through the cracks.

That donation you hoped would come in with the RSVP? Gone—because there was no giving field in the registration flow. That alumni couple who almost registered for your event? They bounced—because the page took too long to load.

You know people don’t wait around on slow websites. Why would they wait on a sluggish registration form—unless maybe Taylor Swift was performing live at your event! Do you even know how many people come to register but then don’t complete the registration form?

It’s not just frustrating. It’s costly.

You’re either stuck using the event system that came bundled with your fundraising software—or a generic tool that was never meant for mission-driven organizations like yours.

You’re bending your event to fit the tool instead of the other way around. You’re answering tech questions instead of engaging with your constituents.

You’re losing donations—not because people don’t want to give, but because the process makes it too easy to walk away.

And, let’s not forget the data. Or rather—the lack of it. Without proper integrations, you’re manually exporting CSVs, juggling import templates, or chasing down gift records that never made it into your CRM. You can’t build relationships if your systems don’t talk to each other. And you can’t act on insights if your data is trapped in disconnected tools. Every extra step adds friction—and every delay risks losing momentum, or worse, losing constituents!

You’re working harder for less—when it should be easier to do what you do best: build relationships and raise support for causes that matter!

You set up your event the way you want it to run.

Breakout sessions? Easy.

Multiple sub-events under one umbrella? Done.

And giving? It’s part of the flow.

Registration is quick, smooth, and branded to your organization—not a clunky experience.

No more missed opportunities because a donation field wasn’t there.

You finally have one system that supports both event registration and giving—built specifically for education-focused nonprofits and Advancement professionals like you.

And when it comes to integrations? Advancement Form gives you options. Depending on what you need, you could utilize an existing pre-built customization or we could help you design your own. Make your data work for you and funnel it exactly where you need it to go. No more wrestling with imports, chasing down records, or losing precious time on double data entry. Your tools should talk to each other—and now, they do.

You choose your payment gateway. You control your fees. You own the experience.

No more bending to the system. Now the system bends to you.

You shouldn’t have to work around your tools.

You deserve a system that works with you.

1. Built for nonprofit event teams
2. Fast, customizable registration
3. Integrated giving
4. Making your data work for you
5. Full control over payment gateways and fees

You've done enough patching, guessing, and compromising.

It’s time for a platform that feels like it was built just for your team—because it was.