Everything an event needs, in one place
From the first registration to the last guest scanned in — payments, passes, inventory, and reporting, all on one platform.
Real-time inventory
Server-authoritative holds and limited tiers — two buyers can never grab the last table or sponsorship.
Modern, secure checkout
Card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay through Stripe — with the service fee handled automatically.
QR check-in
Every guest gets a scannable pass. Staff admit them in seconds, with a live attendance tally.
Instant confirmations
Branded email with passes the moment someone pays — plus a new-order alert straight to the organizer.
Board dashboards
Live registrations, who signed up, sponsorship inventory, and one-click Excel exports for the board.
Multi-event, multi-org
One platform across every event and organization, tied together in a single owner cockpit.
Live event app
Every event gets a mobile hub — schedule, speakers, venue & parking, and announcements that reach every guest instantly. No download.
Badges & day-of ops
Print name badges with each guest's own QR — bulk sheets on any printer, or one at a time right from the door scanner.
Campaigns & surveys
Invites, day-of reminders, and thank-yous with automatic unsubscribe handling — plus post-event surveys with verified-guest NPS.
Apple & Google Wallet
Guests add their pass to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet in a tap — right from their ticket page, no app to install. The QR sits on their lock screen, ready at the door.
Ticket types, priced your way
Sell more than one kind of admission — Garden GA at $75, VIP Lounge at $150 capped at 40, a Cigar Bar table at $125. Each type gets its own price, early-bird rate and limit, and the cap is enforced on the server so it can’t oversell.
Weekend & multi-event passes
Bundle several events into one purchase. The guest buys once and gets a separate pass for each night — so every door still scans its own event, with its own check-in code, and nobody carries a pass that only half works.
Sponsorships that run themselves
Publish sponsorship levels with their own price, limit and included tickets. Sponsors buy their level, upload their own logo from a link in their receipt, and it appears on the event’s recognition wall — without staff chasing anyone for a file.
Sponsors can pay by check
Not every sponsor will pay online. They can request an invoice instead — their level is reserved right away, the remittance details are emailed to them, and you mark it paid when the check arrives. No card, and no service fee on it.
It looks like your event
Upload your logo, pick a type pairing and a page color, and every guest page wears your brand — the registration page, the ticket page, the event hub. Confirmation emails go out in your colors too. Your supporters see your organization, not ours.
Describe your event. Watch it draft itself.
Type a few sentences — or paste your whole program — and in about fifteen seconds your event app is drafted: the full schedule, speakers, sponsors, and venue details, ready in the editor. You review it, change anything, and hit publish. Included with every event.
1 · Paste your program
A flyer, an email thread, a committee's notes — plain English in, no formatting required.
2 · Review the draft
Every item lands in the editor as an editable suggestion — it only uses facts you gave it, and never invents names, times, or sponsors.
3 · You hit publish
Nothing goes live on its own. The AI drafts; a human publishes — prices and payments are never touched by AI, ever.
Works for galas, golf tournaments, and multi-day conferences — day-by-day agendas included. Try it live — no signup →
Design your floor. Sell every seat.
Lay your tables out exactly like the room — drag them into place, or upload your venue's floor plan and drop tables right onto it. Guests then pick their own table on a live map, and every seat locks the instant it sells.
- Drag and drop tables, rounds, and sections onto a grid
- Upload your floor plan and place tables on the real layout
- Buyers choose their own table on a live, real-time map
- Free to design yourself — or hand it to us to build for you
Raise more in the room.
The night's biggest money moments — silent auction, paddle raise, and giving — run on the same platform as your tickets. No second vendor, no extra software fee.
Silent auction, mobile bidding
Guests register once with a card on file, then bid from their phone in two taps. Late bids extend the clock (no sniping), buy-now closes instantly, and outbid alerts land in real time.
Paddle raise & donations
One-tap giving with a live thermometer. Donors are invited to cover processing — most do — so your organization nets 100% of the gift. Receipts carry your 501(c)(3) language and EIN automatically.
The big-screen moment
A projector page for the ballroom: the total counting up, a live donor ticker, top auction items, and scan-to-give QR codes — so the whole room watches the number climb.
Winners' cards are charged automatically when bidding closes, with itemized receipts (including fair-market-value wording) emailed instantly — and a pay-by-link fallback if a card declines.
Turn your members into a sales force.
Your chapter, board, or committee is your best sales channel. Give every member a personal link, credit every sale to their name automatically, and let a live leaderboard do the rest — friendly competition sells tables.
A personal link for everyone
Upload your roster once — the platform mints a unique link per member and emails each person theirs. No accounts, no signups. They share it by text, social, or email, and every sale through it counts on their name.
A live leaderboard
See who's selling — Dwight 6 tables, Frank 4 — in real time, on the console and optionally the event app. Each member gets a private "my sales so far" page, no login needed. Nothing motivates a chapter like a scoreboard.
Credit for walk-ups too
Buyers who never clicked a link can still pick a member's name at checkout from your roster — so those sales count as well. Attribution is decided server-side at payment, so a code can never change a price or block a sale.
Delivered through the built-in campaign engine — one roster upload, and every member gets their link. Ideal for Divine Nine chapters, alumni councils, boards, and any membership organization that sells through its people.
Run your conference. Skip the app license.
Multi-day conferences run on the same platform — tiered registration, capped workshops, name badges, and an attendee app your guests open from a link. Conference-app vendors charge $3,500+ per event for this. Here, it's included.
An app with no app store
Agenda, speakers, rooms, sponsors, and live "room change" updates — installable to any phone straight from a link. No download, no per-attendee app fee, always current.
Workshops that can't oversell
Registration tiers with early-bird pricing, plus capped add-ons — a 40-seat workshop stops at 40, enforced by the same engine that keeps gala tables from double-selling.
Badges & check-in at the door
Every registrant gets a QR pass; print name badges in one click and scan people in at the door. Walk-ins get a blank badge and a pass on the spot.
Paid conferences: $0 upfront — attendees add the standard 3% + $0.99. Free-registration conferences: genuinely free — no upfront cost, no per-attendee fee. If your event runs fundraising on the platform (silent auction, paddle raise, donations), we earn the standard fee on that — so we only make money when money moves. See the sample conference app →
200 teams. Four divisions. One weekend. Scheduled in seconds.
Anyone can draw a bracket. The hard part is fitting hundreds of games onto the fields you actually have, without putting a team in two places at once — and then re-doing it all when it rains. That's what this does.
The schedule builds itself
Pools, brackets, fields, game length, rest between games, division day-grouping. Press generate: every game gets a field and a time, and nothing conflicts. If it genuinely doesn't fit, you're told before you publish — "needs about 8 field-hours, these fields have 3" — instead of handing your directors a broken sheet.
Pool play into real brackets
Snake-seeded pools, round-robin, standings with proper tiebreakers, then the top teams seed straight into a double-elimination bracket per division. Three-game guarantee without a spreadsheet.
Parents stop asking you
Every family opens the event from a link and sees one thing first: where and when their team plays next. Scores go in from a phone at the field by a volunteer with a scorekeeper login — not your board's credentials — and every screen updates instantly.
Referees & officials — included
The schedule is only half the weekend — someone has to officiate every one of those games. Officials management ships with every tournament: no premium tier, no add-on fee.
A real roster, not a group text
Build the crew once: name, contact, certification level, availability windows, eligible divisions, and a max games per day for every official. Then assign games straight from the schedule grid — the referee sheet lives with the schedule, not on paper in somebody's truck.
Conflicts caught as you assign
A live constraint engine checks every assignment: double-booked across overlapping games, not enough rest between back-to-backs, not enough travel time when consecutive games sit on different fields, outside a declared availability window, the wrong level or division, or past a daily game cap. Hard conflicts demand an explicit confirm; softer ones are warnings a director can override — because real tournaments are messy.
When it rains, the crew moves too
Shift the day or cascade the schedule, and every assignment moves with its game — then gets re-checked automatically on the other side. Re-doing the referee sheet by hand over text messages stops being part of the weekend.
Rain delay? Shift the day or cascade from the moment play resumes — games that already have a score never move, and referee assignments ride along, re-checked automatically. Nobody downloads a second app just to find out who they play next. Try the scheduler → — the demo comes pre-loaded with a referee crew, assignments already on games, and one deliberate double-booking, so you can watch the engine catch it. Tournaments now have a home of their own →
Click around the real product. No signup, no sales call.
Every demo below is the same code that runs live events — loaded with sample data.
Running a tournament? Your teams already have this app for tickets and check-in — so the bracket lives there too. Seed it, score it, and every player and parent watches it update live. Nobody downloads a second app just to see who they play next. See the live bracket →
Compare that to platforms that ask you to book a demo call first.
The whole platform, in your pocket.
Kanonu Events is now a free app for iPhone and Android. Every event still opens from a link — nothing requires a download — but if you’re following a team through a tournament, tracking more than one event, or running one, the app earns its spot on your phone.
Find events & follow the night
Browse upcoming events with cover art, dates, and venues, and save the ones you like. Open one and it's all there — agenda, speakers, venue & parking, sponsors, live announcements the moment they post, and the silent auction as the bids land.
Tickets, ready at the door
Look up your passes with your order number and email — every seat gets its own QR pass. Send a seat to a guest and the pass is securely reissued to them; the old code stops scanning, so it's one seat, one valid pass.
Your team’s next game
For tournaments, the full schedule is in the app — browse by day or by field, and pin your team so their next game is always one tap away, with the time, the field, and who they play. Division brackets update live as scorekeepers post results, so the phone in the stands is never behind the scoreboard.
Organizer mode, staff-unlocked
Staff sign in with their org credentials and the same app becomes the command center — live gross, sold, and checked-in; door check-in by camera scan or a searchable guest roster; the seller leaderboard. Every scan is validated server-side, and a pass admits exactly once.
Free · iOS 17 or later · Android · no account required. Card details are never collected in the app — giving and checkout always open the event's secure, Stripe-hosted checkout. On iPhone, follow a live auction lot right from your lock screen. Built by Kanonu Solutions LLC.
One platform, every surface
The same live data flows from the buyer's checkout to the board's dashboard to the volunteer at the door — in real time.
The screens above mirror the live platform, board, and door consoles.
Live in a day, not a quarter
No setup fees, no long onboarding. Your event is its own branded page, ready to take payments.
Set up & design
Pricing, sponsorships, dates — and your seating chart, laid out table by table. Designed once and enforced server-side.
Sell & collect
Share your branded page. Guests pay by card or wallet; funds route to your organization.
Check in & report
Scan QR passes at the door and watch live attendance, registrations, and totals on your board console.
Live & upcoming on Kanonu Events
Live fundraisers built on the platform — each with its own branded registration, payments, passes, and board console.
Drive for Men's Health Golf Tournament
Boots & Brims
Boos with the Que's
Coming soon
"We needed ticketing that put every dollar toward scholarships — not platform fees. Kanonu Events now runs all of Uplift's events, end to end."
One simple rate. No surprises.
Pay only when you sell. No setup fees, no monthly fees, no contracts.
- Branded registration pages
- Card, Apple Pay & Google Pay
- QR check-in & live attendance
- Board dashboards & Excel exports
- Email confirmations & support
- Silent auction, paddle raise & donations
- Live event app, badges & surveys
- Apple & Google Wallet passes
- Named ticket types & weekend passes
- Sponsorship levels — card or pay by check
- Private, access-code events
- Your logo, fonts & colors on every guest page
- Tournament scheduling, brackets & officials
- Email campaigns w/ auto-unsubscribe
- AI event drafting — describe it, review, publish
Card processing is separate
Stripe's processing (2.9% + 30¢) is also covered by the attendee — so it never comes out of your cause.
Funds go straight to you
Payouts settle directly to your organization's account. No holding your money.
Fundraising money, same deal
Donors are invited to cover processing (most do), so your org nets 100% of gifts. Auction winners pay their bid plus the same standard fee — disclosed up front.
How that compares
| Kanonu Events | OneCause | Givebutter | Cvent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual software fee | $0 | from ~$2,995/yr | $0 (optional donor tips) | Custom — typically $20k+/yr |
| Mobile-bidding auction | Included | Included in paid packages | Available (plans vary) | Not gala-focused |
| Paddle raise & donations | Included — org nets 100% with donor-covered fees | Platform fees may apply | Free with optional tips | — |
| Visual seating designer | Free self-serve (+ concierge option) | — | — | Add-on |
| Live event app for guests | Included, no download | Included in packages | — | Per-registrant fee |
| Public pricing | Yes — this page | Partial | Yes | No — sales quote |
Competitor details from their public pages as of July 2026 — see onecause.com/plans, givebutter.com/pricing, and independent Cvent pricing research at docket.io. Always verify current rates with each vendor.
Running a conference? How that compares
| Kanonu Events | EventMobi | Whova | Eventbrite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upfront cost, paid conferences | $0 — attendees add 3% + $0.99 | $3,500/event (or $9,000/yr) | Quote-only — typically thousands | $0 — attendees add 3.7% + $1.79 + processing |
| Free-registration conferences | Free — $0. We earn only if you run fundraising (auction/donations) on the platform | Same license price | Same quote | Free (no conference app) |
| Attendee conference app | Included — day-by-day agenda, speakers, live updates; installs from a link | The license is the app | The quote is the app | — |
| Capped workshops & badges | Included — QR check-in, one-click badge printing | Varies by package | Varies by package | — |
| Public pricing | Yes — this page | Published per-event license | No — sales quote | Yes |
Conference-vendor details as of July 2026 — see the EventMobi/Whova comparison on Capterra, whova.com/pricing, and eventbrite.com pricing. Always verify current rates with each vendor.
Questions, answered
Who pays the fees — us or the attendee?
How quickly do we get our money?
Do we need our own Stripe account?
Are there setup or monthly fees?
What kinds of events does it support?
Can guests pick their own seats?
How does check-in work on event day?
Can a fiscally-sponsored group use it under our nonprofit?
Can we get a fully custom-designed sales page for our flagship event?
Is payment information secure?
How does member selling work — do members need accounts?
What does the AI assistant do — and what can't it do?
Do you support silent auctions and paddle raises?
What do donors and auction winners get for taxes?
Is there an event app for guests?
Can guests keep their tickets in Apple or Google Wallet?
Our sponsors pay by check. Can you handle that?
Can we sell more than one kind of ticket?
Can we run a private, invitation-only event?
Can we email our guests from the platform?
Run your event on Kanonu Events
Tell us about your fundraiser and we'll get your branded page live — payments, passes, and dashboards included.
- No setup fees — pay only when you sell
- Live in a day, fully branded to your org
- We handle payments, passes & check-in
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Tell us about your fundraiser and we'll get your branded page live — payments, passes, and dashboards included.