Attendee identity
Know who is registering.
Identify and contact the attendee without turning registration into a profile exercise.
- First and last name.
- Email address used for access messages.
- Organization and role only when useful for the program.
Describe your online event. Makeform creates a registration page that captures attendee details, routes session choices, and sends the right access instructions.
Route registrations to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it, or send it to the builder. The fields are an example structure.
Audience
Prospects registering for a product webinar
Format
Short registration page with automated access email
Prompt size
260 chars
Example form structure
Short registration page with automated access email
Name and work email
Company and role
Country or time zone
Question for the speaker
Email updates consent
Suggested routing tags
Registered
Access sent
Waitlist
Ask for the attendee's time zone and send the event time with its time-zone label; a bare 2:00 PM creates avoidable support questions.
Step 1
Register
attendee details and consent
Step 2
Route
session, track, or waitlist
Step 3
Confirm
access link and calendar details
Step 4
Attend
reminders and a clear support path
Why the registration flow matters
Connect the public signup to private access details while organizing session choices and follow-up.
Require identity, contact, and routing fields. Keep speaker questions and extra context optional.
Branch by track, session, or role, and give full sessions a clear waitlist path.
Send the event link, named time zone, calendar steps, preparation notes, and support contact together.
Built for online formats
Fields and follow-up vary across webinars, conferences, workshops, and livestreams.
Compact signup, speaker question, separate marketing consent, and meeting-link confirmation.
Track selections, attendee profiles, networking preferences, and one program portal.
Experience level, learning goals, session capacity, waitlist routing, and preparation materials.
Fast RSVP, topic collection, reminders, stream access, and a separate news opt-in.
Registration workflow
Generate, review, connect the follow-up, and test the attendee journey.
Provide the format, date, time zone, capacity, session options, audience, access destination, and follow-up.
Require essential fields, separate optional consent, add track-specific questions, and define the waitlist outcome.
Put access details in the confirmation, notify the organizer, and route structured data for planning.
Test every branch on mobile and desktop, then check the confirmation, calendar information, and support contact.
Registration approaches
A purpose-built page records interest, routing information, and the attendee's next step.
Field guide
Use these six groups as a checklist, revealing questions only when a choice makes them relevant.
Attendee identity
Identify and contact the attendee without turning registration into a profile exercise.
Event choice
Structured date, track, and attendance options prevent ambiguous answers and support capacity planning.
Conditional routing
Use conditional questions for sessions, prerequisites, or waitlist consent while hiding unrelated fields.
Access delivery
Put sensitive access URLs and practical joining instructions in the attendee confirmation.
Consent and accommodations
Explain event communications, ask about accessibility needs, and separate promotional consent from registration notices.
Organizer records
Consistent responses support session counts, waitlist review, and targeted operational messages.
Related tools
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for organizers connecting an online signup page to access delivery.
It registers people for a webinar, livestream, virtual conference, or workshop. It collects contact and routing details, records session choices, and supports confirmations, access links, reminders, and updates.
Start with name and email. Add organization, role, time zone, session choice, accessibility requests, and a speaker question when useful. Keep marketing consent separate from required event communications.
Put the meeting, stream, or portal link in the confirmation with the date, named time zone, calendar instructions, and support contact. Test it before sharing the page.
Yes. Present dates, tracks, and breakouts as structured choices. Conditional questions can gather selection-specific details, while a waitlist outcome handles full sessions clearly.
Display the event time with its time-zone label and collect the attendee's time zone when useful. Repeat the labeled time in the confirmation and calendar information.
Yes. Add an optional field for accessibility or accommodation needs and a contact for questions. Route responses to the team arranging the event.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for creating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge; it is not required to keep accepting registrations.
Test on phone and desktop, follow every session and waitlist branch, open the confirmation, check access links and time zones, and verify organizer notifications and records.
Turn interest into a clear path to the event.