Why use Gatherist?

Gatherist is inexpensive

• Gatherist is free to use for group members. Join today!
• Low cost for group organizers.

Gatherist supports flexible groups

• Groups can have an unlimited number of members, organizers, and admins.
• The group administrators have full control over all aspects of group, events, members, and attendees.
• Group organizers have the ability to add, edit, and cancel events in the group, as well as manage attendees.
• An event host has the ability to edit and cancel an event and manage attendees.
• Only group members can see the attendees for events.

Gatherist groups can be as open or private as desired

• Admins can optionally ask members a set of questions before they join.
• Groups can be public (visible to everybody) or private where only members can see the events.
• Groups can be open (members are immediately accepted) or closed (an admin must approve each member).
• Admins can remove members at any time, or promote any member to organizer or admin.

Gatherist supports flexible events

• Creating an event is quick and easy.
• Events can have an unlimited of attendees and hosts.
• Or set a limit on the number of attendees, which will automatically create a waitlist.
  • Attendees joining over the limit will be placed on the waitlist on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  • Hosts and organizers may promote attendees off the waitlist.
• Optionally set an open and/or close date and time for RSVPs.
• Optionally allow attendees to bring guests.
• Attendees can change their RSVP.
• Hosts and organizers can:
  • Modify the RSVP and number of guests of any attendee.
  • Take attendance for an event.

Gatherist empowers group admins

• Group admins can view basic information about each member:
  • When the member joined the group, list of events attended, last event attended.
  • Answers to group questions.
  • Number of strikes:
    • No-shows: RSVPs, but does not show up.
    • Late-declines: changes to “not going” within 24 hours of the event or after the RSVP end time.
    • Gatecrashings: showing up without an RSVP.
• Or view a list of all members sortable by any of the fields above.

Gatherist features messaging without spam

• Messaging on Gatherist is controlled in order to reduce spamming.
• Only group admins and organizers can:
  • Post messages in the group to all members.
  • Message any member, and members can message the admins and organizers.
• Event hosts can message attendees, and attendees can message the hosts.
• Attendees can post messages in the event to all attendees.
• Besides those rules, any two people on Gatherist can only message each other if they’ve attended an event together in the past.
• Members control their own notifications.