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January 21, 2016
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Can I set a cap to the number of registrants to an event?

  • January 21, 2016
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I don't see an easy way to do this.  Has anyone seen a work around to this?

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Best answer by Frank_Breen2

You could experiment doing it by using different status's like I do below:

If it's a big event, I give everyone a Pending Approval status, then manually tag them as Registered after review, we also send them an email saying that Registration is pending approval. Once they are registered, we then send them a confirmation email, we do this manually, but you could automate this by doing a Recurring Batch Campaign.

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Josh_Hill13
Level 10
January 21, 2016

No, this is not possible.

If you search for "event registration cap" you may find some old threads. The "workarounds" are hardly that.

What you can do:

  1. email a smart list to yourself each day of the total Members with Status=Registered.
  2. Use a third party tool like eventbrite that does have this functionality.
  3. vote up the Idea for this.
Dory_Viscoglio
Level 10
January 21, 2016

Like Josh said, not easy to do... Here are some of the ideas:

January 22, 2016

Looks like it is one of the top ideas.

Frank_Breen2
Frank_Breen2Accepted solution
Level 8
January 21, 2016

You could experiment doing it by using different status's like I do below:

If it's a big event, I give everyone a Pending Approval status, then manually tag them as Registered after review, we also send them an email saying that Registration is pending approval. Once they are registered, we then send them a confirmation email, we do this manually, but you could automate this by doing a Recurring Batch Campaign.

January 22, 2016

This looks like a great idea as a work around.  i hope they get this in soon

February 18, 2016

Hi Jamie,

This post on Linkedin provides another alternative.

Marketo Magic: Automatically Cap Registrations For Any Marketo Form. Part - I | Rajesh Talele | LinkedIn

Rajesh