In-Person Events

In-Person Event Management Software for Conferences and Trade Shows

Moostoo runs the onsite side of your event from one admin app: tickets and registration, the program and its rooms, badges printed at the door, meetings at numbered tables, exhibitor lead scanning and the report afterward. Your staff check people in with the phones they already carry, and nobody re-types a list between tools.
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In-person event networking with an AI match, a meeting request and a badge QR code from the Moostoo app
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Re-entry Policies at the Door

Single entry, multiple entry, or timed re-entry with a cooldown you set.

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Zone Types on the Venue Map

Stage, room, booth, meeting area, amenity and check-in, each linked to what happens there.

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Scanners to Rent

Door staff, session staff and exhibitors all scan with their own phones, tablets or laptops.

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Ticketing Platforms You Can Keep

Eventbrite, Swoogo, Tito and Lu.ma tickets sync in and scan at your door.

Conference Management Software Built Around the Venue

An in-person event lives or dies on logistics: whether the room fits the session, whether the queue at the door moves, and whether the right people found each other. Moostoo puts all of that on one attendee list, so a ticket sold online is the badge at the desk and the name on the session scanner.

Running an In-Person Event on Moostoo, From Setup to Wrap-Up

In the order you'll meet them. Each part links to its page or to the Admin Guide if you want the detail.

Rooms, Sessions and a Map People Can Actually Use

Every session and meeting session happens in a location with a capacity, and Moostoo refuses to put two sessions in one room at the same time, whether you add them by hand, by import or through Ask Moostoo. The venue map turns the same rooms into a floor plan: draw zones for stages, rooms, booths, meeting areas and the check-in desk, link each one to what happens there, and attendees see the walking time between them.

  • A session inherits its room's capacity unless you give it its own.
  • Upload a floor plan and AI proposes the zones for you to review, where an AI model is available in your region.
  • Floors use real measurements, so walking times come out right.

See agenda and speaker management →   See how locations and the venue map work →

Moostoo All Sessions table with the conference agenda: dates, times, rooms and color-coded tracks
Attendees lining up for badge check-in at Agora Fintech Week, an event run on Moostoo

A Door That Keeps Moving

The entrance scanner lives inside the attendee app, so any phone, tablet or laptop your team already has becomes a check-in desk. A scan tells staff in a second who is standing there, whether they may come in and whether their badge still needs printing, with the attendee's photo on screen to match the face. Self-service kiosks take the rest of the queue: attendees scan their QR code or find their name, confirm the badge and collect it from the printer.

  • Pick single entry, multiple entry, or timed re-entry with a cooldown, so a badge can't be passed back over the barrier.
  • Codes from an outside badging system or ticketing platform keep scanning.
  • No QR code on them? Staff search by name instead.

See event check-in →

Badges That Print Where People Are Standing

Every badge that prints on site, from a kiosk, a staff scanner or the desk, goes through a print hub: a laptop or tablet running the Print Queue Manager app with the printers attached. Routing rules decide which printer gets which badge, and from the office you can stop a hub's queue or pause one printer to change a ribbon while its badges wait.

  • Design badges once and set rules for which design prints for whom: by attendee type, company or a registration answer.
  • The badge printing report shows every badge printed, from where and on which printer.
  • Update the kiosk and print hub apps over the air, device by device.

See badge printing →

Moostoo Printers screen with a registration desk print hub and two lobby printers
The Moostoo session scanner, where door staff pick the session they are scanning into

Know Who Was Actually in Each Room

Registration only tells you who came to the event. To know who sat in each talk, staff at the session door scan badges with the same phone they used at the entrance, and a capacity bar turns amber and then red as the room fills. That record is what sponsors ask about, what continuing-education credits are awarded on, and how you find out which rooms were too small.

  • A full room shows Session at capacity; Check In Anyway is recorded against the staff member who used it.
  • A second scan of the same badge never creates a second record.
  • Each confirmed scan can award CME, CPD or CLE credits attached to the session.

See how session check-in works →

Meetings at Numbered Tables

Open a meeting session for the hours people can meet, set the slot length, and add numbered tables in the same form. Moostoo's AI suggests who each attendee should meet, and every accepted request lands at a free table in a free slot. Exhibitors can run their own booth meeting sessions, and your team can pre-arrange meetings for VIPs and hosted buyers.

  • Reserve tables for a sponsor's representatives, and record which company sits where.
  • Each side can bring up to three guests.
  • Attendees see the table number in their agenda.

See AI matchmaking and meetings →

Adding numbered meeting tables, Table 1 to Table 8, to a meeting session in Moostoo
Moostoo Expo Visits report with one row per attendee and exhibitor: badge scans, booth page views and meetings

Exhibitors Scan Leads With Their Own Phones

Turn on lead scanning for a booth and its team captures leads from the phone, tablet or laptop they already carry, inside the same Moostoo app. Each exhibitor writes their own booth page and manages their booth team, and the Expo Visits report lists every badge scan, booth page visit and meeting, exhibitor by exhibitor.

  • Set each company as Exhibitor, Sponsor or Partner, with a tier.
  • Leads show on the exhibitor's own Leads tab and on your live dashboard.

See lead retrieval →   See exhibitor management →

Hotel Room Blocks Without the Spreadsheet

Record the rooms you contracted per night and attendees request them at registration, in the app or from their order. Moostoo refuses a night the moment it's full: the last room goes to one person, and the next request is told that night is full. You confirm requests, follow pickup against the attrition you promised the hotel, and export the rooming list when the hotel asks for it.

  • Offer a hotel deal only to the attendee types it's meant for.
  • Attendees can change or cancel their own request until the book-by date.

See how hotel room blocks work →

Next Year's Edition Starts From This One

Most in-person events repeat. Clone the event and choose what comes across (attendee types, forms, rooms, the program, badge designs, printers, kiosks, the venue map, hotel deals and more), and every date moves onto the new edition's days. People and money never copy: no attendees, orders, check-ins or messages carry over.

  • A session on day 2 at 09:30 lands on the new day 2 at 09:30.
  • Printers and kiosks are paired again for the new event, and ticketing connections are reconnected.

See how cloning an event works →

Moostoo Clone event dialog choosing which attendee types, forms, rooms and sessions copy into next year's edition

Which In-Person Format Are You Running?

Same platform, different weight on each part. Here's where organizers usually start.

FormatWhat decides whether it went wellParts of Moostoo you'll lean on
Conference or summitFull rooms, short queues, people meeting the right peopleAgenda and rooms, check-in and badges, AI matchmaking, session check-in
Trade show or expoExhibitors leaving with leads they can countBooth pages and teams, lead retrieval, booth meetings, Expo Visits report
B2B matchmaking or hosted-buyer dayEvery buyer meeting the sellers they came forMeeting sessions and tables, pre-arranged meetings, experience rules
Association meeting or accredited trainingAccurate attendance for credits, members served year after yearSession check-in, CME/CPD/CLE credits, cloning the next edition
Festival or ticketed public eventSelling tickets and getting a crowd through the gatesTicketing, entrance check-in, kiosks and badge printing (Moostoo Tickets may be all you need)

Which Plan Fits Your In-Person Event?

It depends on whether you need the door only, or the whole event.

Moostoo Tickets

For events that mainly need ticket sales and a fast door: tickets and the registration form, badge design and on-site printing, entrance check-in, kiosks and mobile scanners, plus email. There's no program on this plan, so session check-in, matchmaking and exhibitor tools aren't part of it.

Event App, Corporate, Association & Portfolio

Everything on this page: the program and rooms, the venue map, session check-in and credits, AI matchmaking and meeting tables, exhibitors and lead retrieval, your own attendee app (in the browser and in the Moostoo app for iOS and Android) and event website, and the post-event report with sponsor ROI.

Compare the plans. Running part of the program online too? See hybrid events or virtual events.

Rehearse Event Day Before It Happens

A sandbox event is filled with realistic fake attendees and works like any other event: check-in, badges, networking and analytics all run. Every email, text and push notification is captured instead of sent, so you can train volunteers on the scanners or walk through the run of show without messaging a real person.

When it's time to launch, the go-live checklist shows what your event still needs before you publish.

See how sandbox events work →

Your Attendee Data Stays in Canada or the EU

Pick Canada (Montréal) or the EU (Frankfurt) when you set up your organization. Registrations, check-ins, badge scans and everything else you store or process stay in that region, AI matchmaking and backups included.

Read about data residency →

How to Set Up an In-Person Event in Moostoo

Six steps, most of them done once and cloned for the next edition.

  1. Create the Event and Its Attendee Types

    Set the dates, timezone and venue, then define who is coming: General Attendee, Speaker, Exhibitor, VIP, Investor. Attendee types decide who registers how, who sees whom and which badge prints.

  2. Open Registration or Connect Your Ticketing

    Build ticket types and the registration form in Moostoo, or connect Eventbrite, Swoogo, Tito or Lu.ma and let tickets sync in as they sell.

  3. Build the Program in Real Rooms

    Add your locations with their capacities, then sessions, tracks and speakers. Draw the venue map if attendees will need to find their way.

  4. Set Up the Door

    Design the badge, add print hubs and printers, set up kiosks and choose your re-entry policy. Add your volunteers to the event team so the scanners appear in their app.

  5. Open Meeting Sessions and Tables

    If people are coming to meet, open meeting sessions with numbered tables and decide which attendee types can book them.

  6. Rehearse, Then Go Live

    Run through event day in a sandbox, work through the go-live checklist and publish.

In-Person Event Management FAQs

What is in-person event management software?

It's the software that runs the onsite parts of an event: registration and tickets, the program and rooms, check-in and badge printing at the door, networking and meetings, exhibitors and their leads, and the attendance numbers afterward. In Moostoo all of these work from one attendee list in one admin app, instead of a registration tool, a badge vendor and a separate event app.

Can our staff check people in with their own phones?

Yes. The entrance scanner is part of the attendee app, so anyone on your event team as an Admin, Member or Volunteer can scan badges on a phone, tablet or laptop they already have. They sign in with their own account, and the scanner only appears for staff at that event.

Can attendees check themselves in?

Yes. A self-service kiosk runs on a laptop or a locked-down Android tablet. Attendees scan their QR code or find their name, confirm the badge on screen and it prints at the print hub the kiosk is linked to, with no staff involved.

Is there an event app for iOS and Android?

Yes. Attendees can use the Moostoo app for iOS and Android, or open the same event app in any browser at your event's own address, with nothing to install. On the Corporate and Association & Portfolio plans the app is white-label, branded as your own.

What do we need for on-site badge printing?

Badge printers plus a laptop or tablet running Moostoo's Print Queue Manager app as the print hub they're attached to. You define hubs and printers in Moostoo, the staff member at the hub matches each printer name to a device it can see, and routing rules decide where each badge prints.

Can we keep selling tickets on Eventbrite?

Yes. Connect Eventbrite, Swoogo, Tito or Lu.ma and every ticket holder comes into Moostoo with their attendee type and badge code, so check-in, badges, the app and networking all work while buyers keep buying where they always have.

How do we track session attendance for continuing-education credits?

Staff scan badges at each session door with the session scanner. Each confirmed scan records attendance once and awards any CME, CPD or CLE credit attached to the session, and you can export the attendance list.

Can we reuse this year's setup next year?

Yes. Cloning copies the configuration you choose (attendee types, forms, rooms, the program, badge designs, printers, kiosks, the venue map, hotel deals and more) and moves every date onto the new edition's days. Attendees, orders and check-ins never copy.

Is Moostoo overkill for a small in-person event?

It can be. For a small dinner or a meetup where everyone already knows each other, AI matchmaking adds little, and if you only need tickets and a door, Moostoo Tickets covers that on its own. The full platform earns its keep at conferences, trade shows and B2B programs where queues, rooms, meetings and exhibitor leads all have to work at once.

Last updated October 2026. Product details are taken from the Moostoo Admin Guide.