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Cap Registrations for Events

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
April 8, 2011
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There are many events in which having an unlimited amount of attendees could be a huge logistical problem. I'd love a way to cap the amount of attendees and automatically switch the landing page to a closed registration when registrations have hit its cap. Basically - "If list count = X, then show X landing page"

This was also discussed in this thead:
http://community.marketo.com/MarketoDiscussionDetail?id=90650000000PFSGAA4

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Anonymous

How about a program token that's specific to events? A variable you could set that would return true if the number you set was exceeded. That way you could apply some CSS to the page whenever that variable returned true to hide the form and show some other message indicating that the event has reached capacity. Good idea? Bad idea? Personally, I think it'd be swell.

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AdamNathan

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This would be a great addition, reducing what we do manually currently much easier. For now we've been looking into other event management software to handle these events - although we haven't quite gotten there with it yet and are still watching manually and altering as needed.

Jep_Castelein2

Level 10

Marketo Services is offering an add-on that will allow you to cap the number of event registrations. Also, it can show an 'event closed' page at a specified date. While it's obviously not a built-in solution, it provides an option for those who urgently need this. If interested, email services@marketo.com

SanfordWhiteman

Level 10

Does it work on non-Marketo LPs?

Jep_Castelein2

Level 10

yes,it works with any type of landing page

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AdamNathan

Level 2

Just to update on what has happened with our event based activity. We've gone down the path with cVent to manage out events. Interestingly, as far as I understand, Marketo now owns cVent, so we may all see some serious investment and changes with event management (which includes that capping of events/sessions within the product). Hoping to work some of the processes and intricacies out with a couple of smaller events through this year.

It will take time but I'm keen to see what Marketo do with cVent and how it may get built into the core functionality.

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Anonymous

Excited to hear this. We built something custom that works okay, but I'd like to see better built-in functionality in Marketo.

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Anonymous

We used Marketo web hooks to CAP Event (and non event) registrations on Marketo landing pages.

Marketo Magic: Automatically Cap Registrations For Any Marketo Form. Part - II | LinkedIn

See if that helps...

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Anonymous

We did this as well. We used a webhook to log each entry and update some tokens which controlled the visibility of the form using CSS when the capacity was met. (Another value stored in a program token.)

Jay_Jiang

Level 10

This can be done right now using the Marketo API (saves you from subscribing to a third party service). Bit of a hassle to set up though, so I agree having something built in would save everyone's time. Happy to share current php solution via pm.

SanfordWhiteman

Level 10

But Jay, any attempt to use only the API for this is going to introduce a significant DoS vulnerability (possibly multiple vulns). How do you mitigate those attack vectors?

Jay_Jiang

Level 10

Mainly by .htaccess

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from <IP address of your Marketo>

Tara_Dacci

Level 3

Great idea! My field marketing team would love this!

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bamukher

Adobe Employee

DONE. Event Caps is entering beta week after Adobe Summit/ Marketing Nation (i.e., after I return to the office). If you're interested in participating in this closed beta, please contact your CSM. Thanks. (For some reason, I don't have the permission to change this idea's stage/status, so I'll ask a colleague to do it.)