How do I create an event registration page for free?

A registration page has two jobs: convince people to come, and collect exactly the data you need to run the event. In practice that means:

• The essentials above the fold: what it is, date and time, place (or online link), price if any.
• A short form. Every extra field costs sign-ups. Ask only what you will actually use: name and email are usually enough for a free meetup.
• A confirmation the guest can keep: an email and, for offline events, a ticket with a QR code you can scan at the door.
• A list you can work with: export, contact people, mark who came.
• A link that previews well in messengers and social networks, plus a QR code for posters.

Free tools differ mostly in the last three points. Form builders collect answers but do not issue tickets; event platforms do.

Sources: luma.com/pricing, eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing, meetup.com: Meetup Starter, Meetup help: subscription prices (checked 2026-10-01).

There is no single best choice. If your audience already exists (a chat, a mailing list, a company), you need a good page and a tidy list more than a marketplace. If nobody knows you yet, a marketplace such as Eventbrite or Meetup can bring strangers in. A longer, sourced comparison of ten tools is in the best free event registration tools.

Platform costs only, as published on 2026-10-01; card processing (for example Stripe US 2.9% + 0.30 USD) is added wherever money is collected.

What the table shows: for free events almost every tool is free, so choose on page quality, tickets and check-in. Money enters the picture with paid tickets (compare in ticket fees compared) and with event volume, where AET Free's 3-events-a-month limit is the main constraint.

Sources: luma.com/pricing, eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing, Meetup help: subscription prices, stripe.com/pricing, anyeventtool.com/en/pricing (checked 2026-10-01).

1. Go to https://aet.events/en/events and sign in with Google or an email link (no password).
2. Click + Create an event, choose a type (or write your own) and enter a name. Optionally pick a brand style so the page gets your colors and logo straight away.
3. On the event page, in Edit mode, add the basics from the section library (Add a section → All sections): Description, Place, Date and time. Changes save automatically about a second after you type.
4. Add Registration and paid participation and create the form. Choose standard fields (first name, last name, organization, position, phone with a WhatsApp flag, email, selfie) and add custom fields if needed. Mark required fields and drag them into order.
5. Turn on QR tickets so every registrant receives a personal ticket.
6. Decide who can register: signed-in guests only (default), or also people without an account via Anonymous participants (without authorization).
7. Check the page in Preview, switching between desktop and mobile.
8. Make the event visible and share the short link (aet.events/ plus a code of 5+ characters) or the QR code from the top-right corner of the event card.

Optional extras in the same form: a short survey at registration, Participant selection (applications that you approve — see how to collect applications and approve attendees), Show Materials and Cases only to registered users, and Paid participation with tiers.

Beyond the 7 standard fields there are 9 custom field types. Each can be required or optional.

A good rule: if you cannot name what you will do with the answer, delete the field.

By default a guest signs in once with Google or a one-time email link, which takes a few seconds and lets them come back to edit their data, open their ticket or cancel. If you want zero friction, turn on Anonymous participants (without authorization): people fill in the form without any account, and you see their answers separately as anonymous entries. You can still send them a QR ticket through WhatsApp from the organizer panel.

For seat tickets (a different section, see the seating guide) guests never need an account: they enter a name and email at checkout.

• The guest sees their status on the page, can edit their data, open the ticket or delete the registration together with all their data.
• If QR tickets are on, the ticket arrives by email with a PDF.
• If you enabled the contact-sharing option, a guest can tick "share my data with other participants"; they see only others who also agreed.
• You see clickable counters above the form: registered, sharing contacts, scanned tickets, anonymous forms, applications, payments, survey answers.
• From the list you can export to Excel, message someone in WhatsApp, add a private note or remove an entry.

On the day, the same tickets are scanned at the door with any co-admin's phone.

AET Free is $0 with no time limit. Real limits on Free: 3 new main events per calendar month (counted at creation, so create-delete-create counts as 2; sub-events are not counted), 10 AI generations a month, 1 co-admin per event, 1 community, and 5 shop items on sale. Registration, QR tickets, check-in, paid tickets with 0% platform fee, seating charts, the live quiz, calendars, surveys and feedback are all on Free.

Pro costs $29 a month or $290 a year (cancel anytime) and raises the limits to 30 events, 100 AI generations and 10 co-admins, and adds a custom event address (name.aet.events) and an aet.market storefront. See the pricing page.

If you downgrade, existing events stay online and registrations keep working; only creating new events is limited.

• Basics below the fold. If date, time and place are not on the first screen, people leave to ask in the chat instead of registering.
• A form that reads like a tax return. Asking organization, position and phone for a free evening talk halves the motivation to finish. Add fields only when the answer changes what you do.
• Required fields you never use. They slow everyone down and create personal data you are responsible for.
• No ticket for an in-person event. Without a ticket you are back to paper lists and surnames at the door.
• Forcing accounts on a cold audience. For strangers from an ad or a poster, consider Anonymous participants; for a community that returns, sign-in pays off because guests can manage their own registration.
• A capacity you cannot honor. Close registration with the open/closed toggle when the room is full, or use tier seat limits for paid events, instead of overbooking.
• Publishing a sensitive address. For private or safety-sensitive events, reveal the place only in tickets: see how to hide the event location until registration.
• No follow-up path. After the event, people who liked it have nowhere to go. Invite them to a calendar or a community.

1. Title, date and time, place or online link visible on the first screen.
2. A poster or cover image that previews well in messengers.
3. Form with only the fields you will use; required ones marked.
4. QR tickets switched on for in-person events.
5. Who can register decided: sign-in or anonymous.
6. Test registration made from a phone; ticket email received.
7. Co-admins added for check-in.
8. Event made visible; short link and QR code copied into your channels.
9. A reminder in your calendar to close registration when you are full.

Be clear about the gaps before you choose it:

• No discovery marketplace: AET will not bring you an audience; you share the link yourself.
• No native mobile app; the web pages are built for phones.
• No SMS or automated WhatsApp reminders, and no REST API or Zapier integration yet (AI assistants can read AET's public answers, pricing and events through its read-only MCP server).
• Text you write is not auto-translated; the interface around it is available in 19 languages.

If any of these is essential, a larger platform may suit you better for that event.

• Many free events every month. Luma's free plan has no event cap and adds SMS, push and WhatsApp reminders (luma.com/pricing, checked 2026-10-01). Compare in AET vs Luma.
• You need strangers to find you. Eventbrite and Meetup have discovery; AET does not.
• An internal event for colleagues. Google Forms or Microsoft Forms inside your workspace is simpler: see AET vs Google Forms.
• A webinar. Registration built into your video platform saves a step.

• Put date, time and place in the first screen. People abandon pages where they have to hunt for basics.
• Keep the form to 2–4 fields for free events. Use custom fields only when the answer changes what you do.
• Add a poster: link previews in Telegram, WhatsApp and Instagram stories are mostly the image.
• Print the event QR code on posters and slides.
• Send the link where your audience already is; a page without distribution gets no sign-ups.
• After the event, invite people to subscribe to your event calendar so the next announcement reaches them automatically.