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Custom questions

Custom questions let you collect extra information from attendees at registration — configured per ticket type, so different ticket tiers can ask different things.

Updated May 26, 2026


The Questions tab lets you collect extra fields from attendees during registration. Questions are configured per ticket type — a VIP ticket can ask about meal preference while a free General Admission ticket asks nothing at all.

Open a specific event, then navigate to the Questions tab. Each ticket type you've created appears as a row. Select Edit on a row to open the question binding dialog.

The three modes

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When you open the binding dialog for a ticket type, you pick one of three modes from the tab bar.

Use template

Points the ticket type at a named template from your org-level Question Bank. Any edits you make to that template in Settings → Question Bank propagate to every event using it — immediately, without re-saving the ticket type.

Use this when the same set of questions applies across many events and you want updates to roll out everywhere at once.

Pick from bank (snapshot)

Lets you hand-pick individual questions from your bank and reorder them. The selection is saved as a frozen copy — a snapshot — at the moment you click Save. Future edits to the bank do not update the snapshot.

Use this when an event's form needs to stay stable mid-sale, or when you want a one-off question mix that doesn't match any existing template.

Snapshot mode freezes questions at save time. If you add, remove, or relabel a question in your bank after saving, the ticket type's form does not change. To pick up bank edits, re-open the dialog and save again — or switch to a template.

No questions

Attendees buying this ticket type see no additional fields during registration. The "Additional Info" step is skipped entirely for them.

Question types

Questions are created in Settings → Question Bank. Nine question types are available:

  • Short text — single-line free-text input.
  • Long text — multi-line free-text input.
  • Email — validates email format.
  • Phone — phone number input.
  • URL — validates URL format.
  • Dropdown — attendee picks one option from a list.
  • Single choice — radio button group; attendee picks one.
  • Multi-select — checkbox group; attendee can check multiple options.
  • Year — numeric input bounded to 1900–2100; useful for birth year or graduation year.

"Allow other" on dropdowns and single choice

Dropdown (select) and Single choice (radio) questions support an Allow other toggle. When enabled, a free-text field appears alongside the choices so attendees can write in an answer that doesn't fit the predefined options.

Enable it per question when you create or edit the question in Settings → Question Bank. It applies to every ticket type that includes that question, whether via template or snapshot.

What the attendee sees

For single-ticket purchases, questions appear as a dedicated Additional Info step in the registration wizard — after "Your Details" and before "Agreements".

For multi-ticket purchases (quantity greater than one), the separate step disappears. Questions move into per-attendee cards on the Your Details step, so each ticket holder fills out their own answers inline.