Built for the people who run real events on volunteer time.
Most registration software is built for one of two crowds: people who want a survey, and people who run events full-time. Attending is for everyone in between.
Why we built this
We started with a single 5K. A small school foundation runs it every year, and every year the person organizing it is new. The list of requirements never changes — capacity per shirt size, a waiver per kid, a family rate, a clean roster the morning of — but the available tools do.
Jotform almost works, until you need to cap registrations or charge a family rate. Eventbrite handles all of it, but takes 6% of the fundraiser. Either way, the person running the event spends a weekend wiring spreadsheets together.
We built Attending for the in-between. The features small organizations actually need, without the percentage cut that turns a fundraiser into a worse fundraiser.
Who it's for
School foundations. PTAs and PTOs. Youth sports leagues. Church camps and retreats. Scout troops. Run clubs. Dance studios running a recital. Dojos running a tournament.
Anyone whose "event team" is mostly one person and a Google Doc.
What we won't do
We won't take a percentage of your fundraiser. We won't turn into a 47-tab admin panel. We won't add features that only matter to enterprise event companies. We won't dilute the product by chasing every adjacent market — race timing, donor CRM, peer-to-peer fundraising, native mobile apps. Other tools do those things well. We do the registration form.
Want to talk?
We're building this with the first organizations that try it. If you run a small event and any of this sounds like the tool you wish existed, we want to hear from you.