Running an Event Should Be About the Event.
You do not organize a medical conference because you are passionate about ticket processing. You organize it to bring professionals together, share research, teach, learn, and build connections.
You do not run a festival because you love spreadsheets. You do it because you care about the performers, the audience, the community, and the experience people have when they arrive.
You do not host a convention because assigning booths, tracking registrations, fixing schedule conflicts, and updating attendee lists sounds like fun.
But somehow, those administrative tasks can become a huge part of running an event.
Events Create a Lot of Data
Tickets, attendees, speakers, rooms, schedules, vendors, booths, payments, feedback, and demographic information all need to stay organized.
Spreadsheets Multiply Quickly
Many organizers end up using several Google Sheets, forms, documents, email threads, payment systems, and ticketing platforms just to manage one event.
Your Time Is Better Spent Elsewhere
Every hour spent reconciling lists or copying information between systems is an hour you are not spending improving the event itself.
Event management is already difficult enough without making organizers manually keep half a dozen systems synchronized.
It should be simpler.
That's Why I Built Tixily
Please allow me to introduce you to Tixily, a platform for organizing events, managing attendees, building schedules, handling exhibitors, and selling tickets without turning event administration into the main event.
As the founder, Ryan Kopf, I've leveraged my extensive experience in event management to create Tixily - a platform designed to simplify the process of organizing events and selling tickets.
Whether you're planning a small gathering, professional conference, convention, festival, trade show, or large-scale event, the goal is the same: spend less time fighting your event software and more time producing the event people actually came to experience.
The Software Should Reduce the Work
A good event management system should replace administrative work, not simply move that work onto another screen.
If your ticketing platform knows who purchased admission, your scheduling system should not require you to manually recreate that information somewhere else. If a speaker is already scheduled at 2:00 PM, the system should be able to warn you before you accidentally schedule that person in another room at the same time.
Information should flow through the event instead of being copied from spreadsheet to spreadsheet.
What Is Tixily?
Tixily is a comprehensive event management platform designed to bring the many different pieces of event organization together in one place.
Ticketing is part of it, but ticketing is only one part of running an event. Organizers also need schedules, speakers, rooms, exhibitors, attendee information, analytics, feedback, and tools for making changes when the inevitable last-minute problem occurs.
Tixily is designed around managing the event as a whole.
Why Choose Tixily
Tixily stands out as an affordable event organizing platform built around a different pricing philosophy. Instead of charging a fee every time you successfully sell another ticket, Tixily offers monthly plans without per-ticket platform fees.
That matters because selling more tickets should be good news.
An organizer should not have to watch the cost of their event software increase every time another attendee decides to come.
Benefits of Using Tixily
- No Per-Ticket Platform Fees: Unlike many ticketing platforms, Tixily doesn't charge a platform fee for every ticket sold. This can make costs far more predictable, especially as an event grows.
- Flexible Monthly Plans: Monthly subscription models are designed to fit different event needs, allowing organizers to choose the tools appropriate for their event without tying the software's cost directly to attendance.
- Easy Event Setup: Tixily's interface is designed to make creating an event, configuring tickets, and opening registration straightforward.
- Comprehensive Event Management: Ticket sales, attendee information, schedules, speakers, exhibitors, and event data can be managed within the same platform instead of maintaining disconnected systems.
- Less Repetitive Administration: The more information the platform can connect automatically, the less time organizers need to spend copying data, comparing spreadsheets, and checking whether different lists still agree.
Why Saving Time Matters
Event organizers deal with hundreds of small decisions.
A speaker changes their availability. A vendor needs a different booth. Someone cancels. A room changes. A session runs long. A ticket type sells out. An attendee has a registration question.
None of these tasks individually seems enormous.
The problem is that there can be hundreds or thousands of them.
Saving a few minutes on each administrative task can mean saving hours or days across an entire event.
Cost Advantage
Tixily's pricing model is built to make event software costs more predictable. By eliminating per-ticket platform fees and offering monthly plans, organizers do not have to surrender a larger portion of their revenue simply because their event becomes more successful.
For large events, percentage-based or per-ticket charges can become significant very quickly. A fixed software cost makes it easier to understand the actual expense of running the event.
Comprehensive Event Scheduling with Tixily
Plan Your Event with Precision
Tixily transforms the way you plan your events, offering a platform to create a comprehensive convention or conference schedule. Manage speaker presentations, discussions, workshops, panels, performances, meetings, and other scheduled activities in one place.
Instead of maintaining one spreadsheet for rooms, another for speakers, another for the public schedule, and another document for internal changes, the schedule can live inside the event management system itself.
Flexible Scheduling
With Tixily, flexibility is at your fingertips. Create any number of events and guest speaker appearances with ease. The system supports multiple events and rooms, allowing you to customize your schedule around the actual structure of your event.
You're not constrained by predefined room names or session types. Your schedule can reflect the event you're actually producing.
Conflict Detection and Speaker Management
Speaker scheduling is one of those jobs that becomes dramatically harder as an event grows.
Tixily can detect and highlight potential conflicts, such as speakers being assigned to simultaneous events. That allows organizers to catch scheduling problems while building the schedule instead of discovering them when a speaker is supposed to be in two rooms at once.
Adding and organizing speaker topics is integrated into the same scheduling system, helping keep the event coordinated as changes occur.
Instant Schedule Updates
Once your schedule is finalized, it can be published on a mobile-friendly website. Last-minute changes and cancellations can be updated without rebuilding a PDF, replacing a spreadsheet, or asking attendees to find the newest version of a document.
Events change. The public schedule should be able to change with them.
Insights and Predictive Analysis
Tixily can track attendance from past events and sessions, providing information that helps organizers understand what their audience actually attends.
That can help answer practical questions: Which topics attract the largest audiences? Which speakers consistently fill rooms? Which types of sessions should receive larger spaces next year?
Instead of relying entirely on memory or intuition, organizers can use past event data to make better planning decisions.
Feedback and Engagement
Gather feedback on conference topics, speakers, sessions, and other aspects of the event.
Attendees experience the event differently from organizers. Giving them a simple way to provide feedback creates information that can be used to improve future programming and understand which parts of the event actually delivered value.
Demographic Insights
Gain a deeper understanding of your audience with demographic information such as ages, locations, and other relevant attendee data.
This information can help organizers understand who their event is reaching, where attendees are traveling from, and how programming or marketing might be adjusted for future events.
Efficiency and Time-Saving
Tixily's point-and-click interface is designed to make schedule creation, ticket selling, attendee management, and event administration straightforward.
The goal is not simply to digitize the same work you were already doing manually.
The goal is to remove as much of that work as possible.
Without an Integrated System
Ticket platform.
Speaker spreadsheet.
Vendor spreadsheet.
Schedule spreadsheet.
Google Forms.
Email threads explaining which version of everything is current.
With Tixily
Tickets and registrations.
Speakers and programming.
Vendors and exhibitors.
Schedules and rooms.
Attendee information.
One event management platform connecting the pieces.
Create Your Ideal Tradeshow Floor Plan
Tixily has a built-in Exhibit Hall Manager, designed for tradeshow, convention, vendor, and exhibit hall planning.
Managing an exhibit hall is another task that is often handled using spreadsheets, diagrams, PDFs, and handwritten notes. That works until booths start moving, vendors cancel, spaces change size, and several people need to know the new layout.
The Exhibit Hall Manager brings booth planning into the same system used to manage the rest of the event.
Key Features of the Exhibit Hall Manager
- Interactive Floor Plan Design: Create detailed and customizable floor plans for your exhibit hall. Drag-and-drop functionality makes it easier to build and adjust a layout around the real space available.
- Booth Management: Assign and manage booth spaces efficiently. Keep track of vendors, booth locations, and booth sizes within the Tixily platform.
- Real-Time Updates: Make changes to the floor plan and booth assignments as the event evolves, keeping information current without maintaining multiple copies of the layout.
- Vendor Collaboration: Allow vendors to choose available booth spaces directly within the system where appropriate.
- Integrated Ticketing and Registration: Connect exhibit management with the same broader event platform used for registrations, attendees, schedules, and other event information.
Benefits of Using the Exhibit Hall Manager
With the Exhibit Hall Manager, organizing a tradeshow becomes more streamlined. The system reduces the complexity of managing large exhibit spaces, improves communication with vendors, and makes it easier to keep booth information accurate as the event changes.
What I Want Event Software to Do
I want event software to make the organizer's job smaller.
I want fewer spreadsheets. Fewer repetitive emails. Fewer pieces of information copied manually from one system to another. Fewer moments where someone has to ask, "Which version of this is the current one?"
The technology behind an event should quietly handle administrative work so organizers can spend more time thinking about speakers, programming, exhibitors, entertainment, attendees, and everything else that actually makes the event worth attending.
That is the reason Tixily exists.
Try Tixily Today
Tixily is more than just a ticketing platform; it's a comprehensive event management tool designed to streamline your event from start to finish.
Whether you're organizing a professional conference to connect people in your industry, a convention built around a community, a trade show bringing buyers and sellers together, or a festival designed to give people an incredible weekend, the software should help you accomplish that goal instead of becoming another obstacle.
Spend less time managing spreadsheets, schedules, tickets, and lists. Spend more time making the event better.