Everything your event needs
From the spreadsheet you start with to the last session on the last day. Here is what Lylac does today, and what is still on its way.
Plan it the way you think.
Set the event up once, in the shapes event people actually use: days, tracks, venues, speakers and sessions.
Bring your existing data
Drag in a CSV or XLSX. We map your columns, won't double up your guest list, and never blow away your work.
One place for everything
Events, attendees, speakers, activities. Modelled the way event people actually think. Edit any of them anywhere.
Drag-and-drop run sheet
A visual timetable across days, tracks, and venues. Bump a session by 10 minutes and everything downstream knows.
- Snaps to five minutes
- Publishes to the attendee app
Venue and speakers
Pin the venue on a map, upload floor plans, and give every speaker a profile they can keep up to date themselves.
Your own activity types
Name and colour the kinds of session your event actually runs, then reuse them across the timetable.
An assistant that knows the event
Ask for what you need in plain words. It reads your event freely, asks before it changes anything, and is on every plan.
Invite, and fill the room.
Send invitations people can answer in one tap, then let the roster look after itself as replies come in.
Invitations they'll keep
Send an invitation carrying the event's name, dates and venue, and collect the RSVP in the same message. No passwords: guests sign in with a link.
Share links and QR codes
Hand out one link or QR code for open sign-ups, with your own expiry and limit on it.
Invitation groups
Segment who gets what: speakers, VIPs, staff, or any group you name, and invite or alert them together.
Limits and the waitlist
Cap an event below your plan's maximum when the room is the constraint. Past the cap people join the waitlist instead of being turned away, and freeing a seat promotes the top of the queue and tells them.
- You can reorder the queue
Sell tickets
Free or paid, tiered and capped. Handled. Buyers check out on your event page, and the money goes straight to your own Stripe account.
- Choose who pays the booking fee, event by event
- RefundsComing soon
Run the days without chasing anyone.
Everyone gets the same timetable on their phone, and the room gets a way to join in.
The attendee app
Your programme, in a phone-shaped app with nothing to download from an app store. Attendees favourite the sessions they want and can filter the timetable down to those.
- Add it to the home screen
- Venue and speaker details
In their own calendar
Attendees subscribe once and their favourited sessions appear in the calendar they already use, updating when you move something.
- Apple, Google and Outlook
Alerts and the inbox
Tell everyone, or one group, that a room changed. It lands in the app and in their email.
Let the room post
Photos, notes, anonymous shouts, streamed live to every attendee's phone. Hearts, host prompts, moderation built in.
Reward the ones showing up
Track and reward attendees for engaging with your event. Top three, day-by-day.
Know where you stand.
The numbers that matter while the event is still in front of you, not a fortnight later.
Event overview
Who is invited, who accepted, who hasn't answered, and whether the invitations are actually being delivered.
- Registrations over time
- Activity mix at a glance
Ratings and feedback
Attendees rate sessions as they go and leave a comment. You get every rating in one report, with the spread and the averages worked out.
Set it up for the whole organisation.
Bring your team in on the right footing, and let your identity provider decide who they are.
Roles and permissions
Owners, admins, editors and viewers, enforced on every action rather than just hidden in the interface.
Single sign-on
TeamYour people sign in with the accounts they already have. Verify your domain, point it at your provider, map groups to roles, and invite the directory straight onto an event.
- Microsoft Entra or any OIDC provider
SAML and directory provisioning
EnterpriseTerminate SAML with your own certificates, and let SCIM create, update and deactivate people as your directory changes. Someone who leaves loses access with them.
Audit logs
EnterpriseA record of who changed what, for the reviews and questions that come after the event. Search and sort the whole history.
Still on its way.
Being built now, and not part of any plan yet. We would rather tell you than let you find out at the door.
Badges, physical & digital.
Coming soonPrint-on-demand at the door. Apple & Google Wallet for the digital crowd. Re-print mid-event without breaking a sweat.
Ask the room.
Coming soonLive polls and quizzes on the screen at the front, answered from the phones in the room. Multiple choice, open text, word clouds, ratings and rankings.
Run your next event on Lylac
The pills above mark what needs Team or Enterprise. What your plan mostly sets is the limits, from attendees per event to how much you can send in a day.