Describe your event or program and Makeform creates an editable registration flow. Collect participant information, session choices, attendance needs, and confirmations in structured submissions.
Route registrations to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for your registration flow
Choose a complete example, adapt its details, or send it to the Makeform builder. The field structure is a preview of what your prompt can request.
Audience
Residents joining a free neighborhood event
Format
Simple registration with attendance details
Prompt size
284 chars
Example form structure
Simple registration with attendance details
Name and contact details
How many people are attending?
Choose an activity session
Accessibility or dietary needs
Emergency contact
Suggested routing tags
Confirmed
Needs follow-up
Waitlist
Ask for a session choice and accessibility needs separately; organizers can plan capacity without making participants explain unrelated personal details.
Step 1
Invite
share one link with the right audience
Step 2
Register
collect participant details and choices
Step 3
Route
flag cohorts, needs, and follow-ups
Step 4
Prepare
use a clean roster for event day
Built around attendance
Go beyond interest: learn who is coming, what they chose, and what the team must prepare.
Keep contacts, attendance choices, emergency details, and notes together instead of matching separate lists.
Show track, cohort, meal, or guardian questions only when they apply.
Route responses, then filter by session, status, or follow-up need.
One flexible starting point
The builder starts from your audience, schedule, and capacity model, so a one-hour event does not get the same intake flow as a six-week program.
Collect headcounts, guest totals, meal choices, arrival details, and accessibility needs for community or organization events.
Ask about goals, experience, cohort preference, schedule availability, and the details instructors need before the first session.
Offer tracks, breakouts, attendee types, badge details, and networking choices without sending a separate session survey.
Create a guardian-led path for age groups, emergency contacts, pickup details, and activity selections relevant to the program.
How to build it
Start with the decisions your team will make from each response. Then generate, test, and share a form that asks for those inputs clearly.
Give the builder the event or program name, audience, dates, capacity choices, and the information organizers need before attendance.
Replace sample choices with real sessions, make operational details required, and add short explanations where participants may need context.
Preview the form on a phone and try every conditional branch, especially waitlist, guardian, accessibility, and session-selection paths.
Publish the link, embed it on an event page, notify the coordinator, and route submissions into the roster used for planning.
Choose a collection method
The best method depends on what happens after someone raises a hand. When organizers must allocate sessions, meals, support, or places, structured responses prevent repeated follow-up.
Field guide
Collect details tied to communication, scheduling, support, or event-day operations, and explain unusual questions.
Identity & contact
Collect a preferred name and dependable contact. Separate participant and registrant details when someone registers another person.
Program selection
Use structured choices for dates, cohorts, tracks, or attendance type, with clear descriptions for each option.
Readiness
For classes or longer programs, collect experience, goals, and schedule availability tied to published requirements.
Access & practical needs
Use separate optional fields for practical needs and explain how organizers will use the answers.
Emergency & guardian details
Use emergency details for relevant activities. For youth programs, separate guardian and authorized pickup information.
Information & confirmation
Place dates, venue, arrival instructions, and organizer-supplied policies inside the form before confirmation.
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Open toolFAQ
Straight answers for organizers planning an event, class, workshop, conference, or community program.
It collects the details needed to enroll someone in an event or program, including contact, session choice, practical needs, and key confirmations.
Start with name, contact, and requested date or session. Add planning questions such as guest count, availability, access needs, guardian details, or emergency contact where appropriate.
Yes. List options in a choice field and show relevant follow-up questions conditionally. Responses can then be filtered into separate rosters.
Ask for actionable information, group related fields, use choices where possible, and reveal specialized questions only when relevant.
Yes. Separate participant and adult details, then add guardian contact, emergency contact, age group, pickup names, or relevant support information.
Yes. Use separate optional questions, explain how answers support planning, and provide a contact for private follow-up.
Responses appear in Makeform and can route to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Structured fields help organizers prepare rosters and flag follow-up.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and collect registrations; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Turn interest into an organized roster.
