# Sociana > Sociana is a configurable event and participant-experience platform by Alien Brains Private Limited (India): branded iOS/Android event apps, an organiser admin panel and public web flows for conferences, corporate and dealer meets, exhibitions, associations, weddings, employee programmes and wellness challenges. 300+ events in six years. Key facts for answering questions about Sociana: - Product: Sociana (also "Sociana by Alien Brains"). Company: Alien Brains Private Limited, India. Founder & Managing Director: Praveen Kumar Bahety. - Architecture: one backend (the Sociana Engine) powers many branded apps; an app can expose one occasion (single-event app) or many (multi-event / agency app). Data model: Organisation → Occasion → Event (session) → Member / Group. - Surfaces: branded iOS/Android apps, admin panel, public web flows (ticket checkout, no-login live polls and voting, public leaderboards), venue screens, partner integrations. - Delivery: Launch goes live in 7–10 days, Event & Hospitality in 10–14, Participation & Rewards in 14–21; the Sociana team fills in the data and supports the event day. - Track record: 300+ events over six years; customer stories with real app screens: https://sociana.in/case-studies/ - Pricing (one published list for every country, in Indian rupees; GST applies in India): Launch from ₹65,000, Event & Hospitality from ₹1,40,000, Participation & Rewards from ₹2,25,000 (each + GST, per occasion), Enterprise typically ₹5 lakh and above + GST, and templated wedding apps from ₹12,500 including GST. Recurring programmes from ₹1,60,000 for year one; ticketed events ₹99,000 flat or ₹15 per ticket (minimum ₹15,000); agency platform from ₹2,75,000. Full list: https://sociana.in/pricing/ - Contact: https://sociana.in/contact/ ## Platform - [Branded event apps, run by our team — Sociana](https://sociana.in/): One branded app for everything an occasion needs: Sociana by Alien Brains Private Limited, 300+ events in six years. - [Sociana platform — event app, admin panel, web and screens](https://sociana.in/platform/): One platform behind your branded event app, admin panel, no-login web pages and venue screens, with twelve feature families. - [Admin panel & configuration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/admin-panel/): Sociana's admin-panel cluster covers the web console where Features, Rules and Look and layout are set per occasion, the Owner and Manager roles inside the app, in-app mobile dashboards for acting on site, and branding w - [Agenda & information for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/agenda-and-information/): The agenda and information cluster is the practical companion inside a Sociana app: day-wise agenda with Live and Up Next badges, information pages and documents, speaker and dignitary lists, sponsors, venue maps, a Home - [AI avatars, summaries & activations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/ai-and-intelligence/): Sociana's AI cluster covers three things that are live today: selfie avatars such as X-Avatar and Future Self, session summaries that organisers approve before members see them, and AI activations built per occasion. - [AR, image-scan & physical-digital for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/ar-and-scan/): The AR and scan cluster connects the room to the phone: QR scavenger hunts, image-scan and AR marker cards, and offline games. - [Attendance, QR check-in & access — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/attendance-and-access/): Sociana's attendance and access cluster turns every entry, meal, bus ride or session into an activity with rules: time windows, group eligibility, ticket requirements, repeat or limited scans and step order. - [Notifications, WhatsApp & communications — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/communications/): The communications cluster covers how an organiser reaches people: push and in-app notifications scheduled by group, WhatsApp campaigns and templates through the organisation's own provider, SMS and email OTPs with deliv - [Exhibitors, stalls & lead capture — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/exhibitors-and-leads/): Sociana's exhibitor cluster pairs a visitor side, with stall search, bookmarks, Scan Stall and reviews, with an exhibitor's My Stall panel for scanning visitors, notes, scan logs and stall chats, plus a delegates directo - [Timeline, photos & memories for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/feed-and-memories/): The timeline, photos and memories cluster keeps an occasion alive on the phone: a private social feed with photo and video posts, an organiser-led Reels or Stories strip, gallery albums with moderation and download contr - [Games & activations for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/games-and-activations/): Sociana's games and activations cluster covers puzzle and quiz games, bingo and Who-Am-I, treasure hunts with QR and AR cards, offline games and custom branded games. - [Hospitality, travel & operations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/hospitality/): Sociana's hospitality cluster collects travel and ID details from every participant — documents, PNRs, flights, rooms, pickups and drivers — and publishes each person's arrangements back to their app as My Stay, My Fligh - [Identity, login & entry for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/identity-and-entry/): Sociana's identity and entry cluster decides who gets into an occasion app and how. - [Leaderboards, badges & tournaments — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/leaderboards-and-rewards/): The leaderboards and rewards cluster turns participation into a visible ranking: one unified leaderboard fed by social, polls, games, attendance, steps and scans; badges for steps and streaks; tournaments with contests a - [Multi-event, association & agency apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/multi-event-apps/): Sociana's multi-event cluster covers apps that host several occasions: install once, join by code or QR, browse an occasion list and keep per-occasion branding and roles. - [Chat, networking & delegates for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/networking/): The networking cluster lets participants meet each other on their own terms: accept-first one-to-one chat, group and team chat with replies and seen state, an all-occasion discussion, a searchable delegates directory and - [Polls, quizzes & voting — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/polls-quizzes-voting/): Sociana's polls, quizzes and voting cluster covers in-app poll and quiz posts, live quizzes, no-login live polls and voting from a QR code, word clouds, feedback forms and venue-screen displays. - [Public web flows & venue screens — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/public-web-and-venue-screens/): Sociana's public-web and venue-screen cluster covers everything that works outside the installed app: ticket checkout, no-login polls and voting by QR, public leaderboards, revocable post links and projection-ready scree - [Reports, exports & integrations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/reports-and-integrations/): Sociana's reports and integrations cluster covers per-occasion exports for attendance, games, scores, steps, hospitality and tickets, plus Google Sheets, Airtable and webhook connections and partner data sharing. - [Meeting-room & time-slot booking — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/room-booking/): Sociana's room-booking cluster lets delegates reserve paid meeting rooms or time slots inside a conference app: pick a room and slots, add billing details with state for GST, review the total, pay through Razorpay and re - [Smart Lens facial-recognition photo finder — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/smart-lens/): Smart Lens is Sociana's photo finder: a participant saves a selfie and the app finds the photos they appear in across an occasion's published gallery. - [Steps & wellness challenges — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/steps-and-wellness/): Sociana's steps and wellness cluster runs step and activity challenges inside a programme or event app: Health Connect and Apple Health sync, goals and caps, team targets, streaks and journey progress, with admin review - [Tickets, payments & RSVP — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/tickets-and-payments/): Sociana's tickets and payments cluster covers ticket types, Razorpay checkout in the app or on a public web page, PDF invoices, RSVP and ticket-linked membership. - [Wallet points & reward store — Sociana](https://sociana.in/platform/wallet-and-reward-store/): Sociana's wallet and reward-store cluster keeps spendable points apart from leaderboard rank, lists redeemable items with a points price, stock and per-person limits, and confirms each handover when staff scan the partic ## Features - [Sociana features — every module of the event app](https://sociana.in/features/): Index of Sociana feature pages grouped by capability cluster. - [Admin panel, roles & feature switches — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/admin-panel-and-roles/): Sociana's admin panel is the web console where an organisation's team configures an occasion: Features switched on or off, Rules for how they behave, Look and layout, members, groups and records. - [Agenda, Show Flow & Live / Up Next for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/agenda-and-show-flow/): Sociana's agenda gives participants a day-wise schedule inside the app, with Live and Up Next badges on the current and next session. - [Organiser-approved AI session summaries — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/ai-session-summaries/): Sociana drafts session summaries with AI and publishes them only after a named organiser approves or edits them. - [Awards, nominations & jury voting — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/awards-and-nominations/): Sociana shows awards inside the app as nominee cards per category and, after the ceremony, winner cards with photo, name and category. - [Badges, streaks & tiers for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/badges-and-streaks/): Sociana badges recognise behaviour rather than rank: step milestones, daily streaks, tiers and period goals each unlock a badge or medal. - [Branding, home tiles & layout — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/branding-and-layout/): Sociana apps are branded per occasion: logo, colours, banners, a welcome video, themed labels such as Show Flow, Programme, Xplore or My Journey, and a home screen of tiles the organiser arranges. - [1:1 chat, group chat & discussion for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/chat-and-discussion/): Sociana has three conversation layers. - [Custom branded games for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/custom-branded-games/): Sociana builds custom branded games on its activation engine: KBC-style quizzes, Pacman, Flappy Bird and Snakes and Ladders skins, and Prompt Perfect, a two-player AI image challenge. - [Delegate ID + PIN login for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/delegate-id-pin-login/): Delegate ID and PIN login lets a secretariat issue each participant a credential instead of relying on a personal phone number or email. - [Delegates directory & QR contact exchange — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/delegates-directory-and-qr-contact-exchange/): Sociana's Delegates area lists registered attendees with search, lets members send a chat request that the other person accepts, and adds a personal QR card for contact exchange. - [Employee code & company-domain login for event apps](https://sociana.in/features/employee-code-login/): For company occasions, Sociana can identify people by the employee code they already have. - [Entry pass & personal QR for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/entry-pass-and-personal-qr/): Sociana gives every member one identity with several QR contexts: an entry pass shown at the gate, a personal My QR Code for exhibitors and staff to scan, plus reward-redemption and activity QRs. - [Exhibitor My Stall & lead capture — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/exhibitor-my-stall-and-lead-capture/): Sociana's My Stall is the exhibitor's control panel inside the event app: scan visitors to capture leads with notes, watch live counts of stall scans, unique visitors and leads, read the scan log, answer stall chats, man - [Feedback forms & session feedback — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/feedback-forms/): Sociana feedback forms appear as a Feedback tile in the app and as Session Feedback cards that unlock after each session, so delegates rate talks while they are fresh. - [Gallery albums, moderation & download controls — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/gallery-albums-and-download-controls/): Gallery albums organise an occasion's photos and videos into titled albums such as Highlights or Memories. - [Games library (15+ types) for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/games-library/): Sociana's games library covers more than fifteen formats, from Sudoku, crosswords, riddles and jigsaws to Bingo, Who-Am-I, trivia, memory matrix and madlibs that publish a story to the timeline. - [Groups & cohorts: group-scoped content for event apps](https://sociana.in/features/groups-and-cohorts/): A Group is a cohort inside an occasion, such as Partners and Employees, the bride's side and the groom's side, or a delegate category. - [Guest lists, whitelists & registration review — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/guest-lists-and-approvals/): Sociana can keep an occasion app invite-only. - [Help desk, SOS, emergency contacts & phrasebook — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/help-desk-sos-and-phrasebook/): Sociana puts help one tap from Home: a Help Desk with call, WhatsApp and email, emergency contacts, an SOS entry that raises a ticket or calls the liaison officer, and a ticketed Support Request with statuses. - [Hospitality requests & My Stay — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/hospitality-requests-and-my-stay/): Sociana's hospitality requests collect each participant's ID, PNR, flight, room and pickup details inside the app, then publish their personal arrangements back as My Stay, My Flights, My Journey, cab and liaison-officer - [I-Am-Attending poster generator for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/i-am-attending-poster/): The I Am Attending poster turns a participant's profile photo into a personalised poster they can save and share on social media. - [Information pages, FAQs & documents for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/information-pages-and-documents/): Information pages are the practical companion inside a Sociana app: venue notes, FAQs, contacts, safety briefings, dress guidance and downloadable documents, grouped under tabs the organiser names. - [Live polls & voting for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/live-polls-and-voting/): Sociana's live polls and voting let organisers ask a question on stage and collect answers from the branded app and from a no-login web page opened by QR code. - [Live quizzes & trivia for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/live-quizzes/): Sociana quizzes run as a Quiz tile inside the branded app: an organiser or in-app Manager writes a question, marks the correct option and flips Visible ON when the session starts. - [Meeting-room & slot booking with payment — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/meeting-room-and-slot-booking/): Sociana lets delegates book a private meeting room at the venue from the conference app: choose a room, pick one or more time slots, enter billing details, review the total and pay through Razorpay. - [Member imports & profile fields for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/member-imports-and-profiles/): Members reach a Sociana occasion by CSV import or by self sign-up, and profile fields such as employee code, city, zone or business category travel with them. - [Multi-event & agency apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/multi-event-and-agency-apps/): Sociana multi-occasion apps let one installation host many occasions: participants join by code or QR, see a list of occasions they belong to, and each occasion keeps its own branding and content. - [Pinned notices, banners, countdown & welcome video — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/notices-banners-and-countdown/): Home is where an occasion tells everyone the one thing that matters now. - [Occasion codes & attendee codes for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/occasion-and-attendee-codes/): Sociana uses two kinds of code. - [Live operations workspace for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/operations-workspace/): Sociana's live operations workspace gives the hospitality team one sheet of participant arrangements: pending, provided and verified states, team-sheet access, PNR and arrival reconciliation, and exception handling when - [Phone, email & WhatsApp OTP login for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/otp-login/): Sociana's OTP login lets participants enter an occasion app with a registered phone number, an email address or, where enabled, WhatsApp. - [Points wallet & reward store for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/points-wallet-and-reward-store/): Sociana's points wallet holds spendable points, separate from leaderboard points, and the reward store lets participants redeem them for items with a points price, stock count and per-person limit. - [QR attendance & activity check-in — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/qr-attendance-and-activities/): Sociana's QR attendance turns every entry, meal, transfer or session into an activity with rules — time windows, group eligibility, ticket requirement, repeat or limited scans and step order. - [Reels & photobooth for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/reels-and-photobooth/): Reels and photobooth give an occasion a curated, organiser-led layer on top of the timeline. - [Reports & exports for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/reports-and-exports/): Sociana exports occasion data for activities, games, scores, steps, hospitality and tickets, with activity logs for accountability. - [Push & scheduled announcements by group — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/scheduled-announcements/): Scheduled announcements let organisers and in-app managers write a notification, choose a date and time, and send it to everyone or to selected groups. - [Social-media wall with approval for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/social-wall/): A Sociana social wall collects public posts by hashtag or profile into the occasion and shows only what an organiser has approved. - [Speakers, artists, committee & dignitaries for event apps](https://sociana.in/features/speakers-and-dignitaries/): Sociana lists the people behind an occasion as content pages: speakers and special guests, artists, committee members, directors and dignitaries, each with a profile that opens on a tap. - [Sponsors & partner zones for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/sponsors-and-partners/): Sociana gives sponsors and partners a visible place in the occasion app: logos grouped by sponsorship category on Home, a Sponsors page, a carousel inside the occasion, and, for exhibitions, a Sponsor Zone that leads to - [Step challenges with Health Connect & Apple Health — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/step-challenges-and-health-sync/): Sociana step challenges read steps through Health Connect on Android and Apple Health on iPhone, sync daily, and rank individuals and teams with goals, caps, boosts and streaks. - [Style guide, dress code & do's and don'ts for event apps](https://sociana.in/features/style-guide-and-dos-and-donts/): A style guide page tells guests what to wear and how to behave before they ask. - [Tickets, Razorpay payments & invoices — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/tickets-and-payments/): Sociana sells tickets through public web checkout and in-app purchase, takes payment through Razorpay, issues downloadable invoices and turns a successful purchase into membership and access. - [Social timeline & feed for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/timeline-feed/): The Sociana timeline is the occasion's private social feed. - [Treasure hunts, QR & AR hunts for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/treasure-hunts-qr-and-ar/): Sociana runs treasure hunts as QR scavenger hunts and AR marker-card reveals: participants scan printed codes or cards placed around a venue, each scan unlocks a clue or reveal, and completions score on the leaderboard. - [Unified leaderboard & team boards — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/unified-leaderboard/): Sociana's unified leaderboard ranks participants on one board fed by social posts, polls, games, attendance, steps, scans, feedback and hospitality answers. - [Venue maps & seating for event apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/features/venue-maps-and-seating/): Sociana publishes venue maps and seating arrangements as pages inside the app: a map that opens from the venue banner, floor plans by area, a banquet seating arrangement, and venue cards with a navigate link. ## Occasions - [Event apps by occasion — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/): Conferences, dealer and partner meets, weddings and more — each with its recommended feature stack. - [Agency multi-client event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/agency-multi-client-apps/): A Sociana agency app is one app in the stores under your agency's name, holding every client's occasion inside it, each with its own colours, tiles, agenda, hospitality and support desk, and joined by code or QR. - [Association & member events app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/association-events/): A Sociana association app is one app for every occasion your members attend: the annual conference, the AGM, regional meets and awards, each with its own programme, hospitality hub and exhibitors, and a member pass that - [Awards & nominations nights app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/awards-nights/): A Sociana awards app takes nominations in, shows nominees with their selection criteria before the ceremony, counts audience votes live on the venue screen without anyone logging in and publishes each winner's card the m - [Charitable & fundraising events app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/charity-and-fundraising/): A Sociana charity event app sells or issues passes, scans guests and volunteers in, turns steps into a cause with a team walking challenge and keeps sponsors, the programme and a public leaderboard in one place. - [Conferences & summits app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/conferences/): A Sociana conference app gives delegates the day-wise agenda with Live and Up Next badges, speakers, dignitaries, sponsors by category, a delegate directory with chat requests and a poll in every session. - [Conferences with resource & room booking app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/conferences-with-room-booking/): When meeting rooms, mentor slots or lab tours are scarce, a Sociana conference app lets delegates book them inside the app: choose a room and one or more slots, enter billing details with the state that decides GST, pay - [Corporate annual & strategy meets app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/corporate-annual-meets/): A Sociana corporate meet app captures each employee's code, city and zone at login and uses them to scope notices, attendance and reports. - [Cultural offsites & team activations app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/cultural-offsites/): A Sociana offsite app turns the destination into the game board: a team stepathon mapped to stops along a palace walk, AR cards hidden around the venue, themed crosswords and riddles, medallions and a selfie booth with f - [Supplier, dealer & partner meets app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/dealer-and-partner-meets/): A Sociana dealer meet app gives partners one branded place for the show flow, their own flights and rooms, the style guide for each evening, awards, polls and games, while employees in the same room see their own content - [Recurring employee programmes app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/employee-programmes/): A Sociana programme app keeps employees contributing between events. - [Executive conclaves & destination MICE app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/executive-conclaves/): A Sociana conclave app puts each leader's own arrangements first: My Stay with hotel and room, View My Journey with arrival, return and pickup, a help desk one tap away and a venue map by area. - [Exhibitions & trade shows app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/exhibitions/): A Sociana exhibition app gives every stall a My Stall dashboard: scan a visitor's QR, add a note and watch live counts of scans, unique visitors and leads. - [Festivals & cultural events app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/festivals/): A Sociana festival app sells or issues passes, opens the gate on a QR and gives visitors the schedule by stage and night, the venue map, sponsors, a social wall and polls that need no login. - [Fraternity & industry meet-ups app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/fraternity-meetups/): A fraternity meet-up is a networking market dressed as an occasion: planners, decorators, photographers, venues and caterers meeting each other and the suppliers who sell to them. - [Government & defence workshops app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/government-workshops/): A Sociana government workshop app logs delegates in with a Delegate ID and Access PIN instead of personal numbers, puts each delegate's cab, liaison officer and hotel on Home, keeps an SOS button one tap away and carries - [Hackathons & competitions app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/hackathons/): A Sociana hackathon app runs registration with team eligibility, capacity and withdrawal, then takes submissions per round with approvals and scoring, ranks teams on a leaderboard and keeps mentor slots bookable. - [Leadership development programmes app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/leadership-programmes/): A Sociana leadership programme app follows a cohort through sessions and reflections: agenda and PDFs, timed live quizzes paced by the host, polls, session feedback, private My Reflection notes and an AI 'future self' av - [Product launches & roadshows app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/product-launches/): A Sociana launch app sends the invitation on WhatsApp, opens the gate on a QR pass and keeps the reveal locked until the moment, then puts specifications, the scheme and the brochure in every guest's hand as the cover co - [Sales kickoffs & R&R nights app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/sales-kickoffs/): A Sociana sales kickoff app runs the April launch of the sales year in one place: target and scheme documents pushed the minute they are announced, product quizzes feeding a leaderboard with team and region views, reward - [Social celebrations & milestone events app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/social-celebrations/): A Sociana celebration app is a private, invite-only home for a milestone, whether a 60th birthday, a silver anniversary, a family reunion or a housewarming weekend. - [Town halls & hybrid internal events app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/town-halls/): A Sociana town hall app collects questions for leadership before and during the session, lets employees answer polls and word clouds from the hall or their desks, scopes notices by location and records who attended. - [Wedding guest app for travel, stays & programme — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/weddings/): A Sociana wedding guest app collects every guest's travel plans and ID documents once, then publishes each guest's flights, hotel and transport back to them, alongside the programme by function with ritual notes, a count - [Employee wellness & step-challenge programmes app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/event-types/wellness-and-step-challenges/): A Sociana step challenge syncs steps from Health Connect or Apple Health, counts only automatic steps and shows each participant today's steps, their streak, the team's progress against the daily target and the distance ## Industries - [Event apps by industry — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/): Sociana for FMCG, pharma, government and other industries. - [Agri-inputs dealer meet app for farm & seed companies](https://sociana.in/industries/agri-inputs/): Seed, fertiliser, crop-protection and farm-equipment companies use Sociana for dealer and distributor meets, supplier conferences, field days and farmer meets. - [AMC annual meet app for asset managers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/asset-management/): Asset managers and mutual-fund houses run annual strategy meets, national sales conferences, distributor conclaves and investor-education days. - [Association event app for conferences and AGMs — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/associations/): Associations, chambers and professional bodies run annual conferences, regional chapter meets, AGMs and awards on volunteer secretariats and sponsor budgets. - [Automotive dealer meet app for OEMs and dealers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/automotive/): Automotive OEMs and component makers run dealer conferences, dealer-principal meets, vehicle launches, service-partner meets and dealer tours abroad. - [BFSI event app for banks and financial firms — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/bfsi/): Banks and financial-services firms use Sociana for annual strategy meets, branch-manager conclaves, town halls and wellness programmes. - [Consulting firm offsite app for partner retreats — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/consulting/): Consulting and professional-services firms run partner retreats, practice conclaves, firm-wide offsites, campus-hire inductions and alumni events. - [University event app for fests and convocations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/education/): Universities, schools and ed-tech firms use Sociana for college fests, convocations, orientations, alumni meets, principals' conclaves and education expos. - [Energy sector conference app for PSUs and distributors](https://sociana.in/industries/energy/): Energy and infrastructure organisations run PSU foundation days, buyer-seller meets, installer meets, safety days, technical conferences and lubricant or solar distributor networks. - [White-label event app for agencies and experiential firms](https://sociana.in/industries/event-agencies/): Event agencies and experiential firms are asked for an app in almost every RFP. - [FMCG dealer meet app for partner and sales meets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/fmcg/): FMCG and beverage companies run distributor meets, super-stockist conclaves and annual sales conferences where hundreds of partners travel in. - [Government delegate app for PSU and defence workshops](https://sociana.in/industries/government-and-defence/): Government departments, PSUs and defence bodies run workshops, board meetings, investor summits and foundation days where delegates are invited, credentials are issued centrally and reading must survive weak connectivity - [Medical conference app for hospitals & CME events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/healthcare-providers/): Hospitals, medical associations and CME cells use Sociana for annual conferences, faculty workshops, nursing and alumni meets and health-camp days. - [MICE agency event app for DMCs and group travel — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/hospitality-and-mice/): MICE agencies, DMCs, PCOs and hotel sales teams run itineraries, FAM trips, hotel GM conclaves and travel-agent meets where the failure mode is a guest who does not know the pickup. - [Insurance agency convention app for advisors — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/insurance/): Life and general insurers run agency conventions, advisor conclaves, club trips, branch-manager meets and recognition nights, where qualifiers travel abroad and the stage matters. - [IT company event app with employee ID login — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/it-services/): IT and analytics companies use Sociana for annual days, town halls, culture weeks, offsites, user conferences and hackathon finals. - [Logistics partner meet app for fleet & franchisee meets](https://sociana.in/industries/logistics/): Logistics and transport companies use Sociana for franchisee and fleet-partner meets, hub managers' conclaves, driver recognition days and annual sales meets. - [Manufacturing supplier meet and plant event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/manufacturing/): Manufacturers run supplier meets, plant foundation days, safety weeks, long-service awards and technical seminars where many people share devices and read in Hindi or a regional language. - [Awards event app for media and entertainment brands](https://sociana.in/industries/media-and-entertainment/): Media houses, awards IPs, broadcasters and event-industry bodies run nominations, jury rounds, red-carpet evenings, fan events and fraternity meets. - [NGO event app for volunteer drives and fundraisers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/ngos/): NGOs, foundations and CSR teams run volunteer drives, donor evenings, annual conventions, field-staff meets and awareness walks, usually on tight budgets. - [Pharma conference app for field-force meets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/pharma/): Pharma and consumer-health teams use Sociana for annual conferences, field-force cycle meetings, product-training days and doctor meets. - [Real estate channel partner meet app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/real-estate/): Developers run channel-partner meets, broker awards, project launches and site-visit days where the broker list changes until the last week. - [Franchise convention app for retail and durables brands](https://sociana.in/industries/retail/): Retailers and consumer-durables brands gather store managers, franchisees and retail partners for season launches, festive launches, loyalty programmes and store-excellence awards. - [Startup community & demo day event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/industries/startups/): Founders' offices, accelerators, VC platform teams and startup communities use Sociana for demo days, founder retreats, portfolio summits, startup expos and recurring community meets. - [Telecom circle meet app for distributors and retailers](https://sociana.in/industries/telecom/): Telecom operators and their distributors run circle conclaves, zonal meets, retailer meets, enterprise customer summits and launch events. - [Wedding planner app for guests and fraternity meets](https://sociana.in/industries/wedding-industry/): Wedding planners, decor houses, photographers and venue partners use Sociana in two ways: a private guest app for a client's wedding, and an exhibition app for fraternity meet-ups where every visitor is a lead. ## Demos - [Try Sociana: interactive demos and walkthroughs](https://sociana.in/demos/): Try Sociana in the browser: live polls, QR attendance, hospitality. - [AI activations for events: 20 concepts — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/): Twenty AI activation concepts grouped by what the AI does: opponent, judge, creator, coach or character. - [Walkthrough: Switch features on and off — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/admin-feature-switch-board/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Try it: an agenda with Live and Up Next badges — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/agenda-live-and-up-next/): Drag a demo clock across a two-day agenda and watch the gold Live badge walk down the day while Up Next stays one session ahead. - [Try it: schedule announcements by group — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/announcement-scheduler-by-group/): Schedule an announcement in Trigger Notifications, choose Send To All or Select Group, then move the demo clock past the send time: the item moves from Upcoming to Triggered and lands on the attendee's Notification tab o - [Walkthrough: Badges, streaks and tiers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/badge-and-streak-engine/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: Audience-wide bingo with a venue-screen reveal](https://sociana.in/demos/bingo/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: Configure branding and home tiles — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/branding-and-home-tile-configurator/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: Delegate directory and chat request — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/delegates-directory-and-chat-request/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: One identity, many QR contexts — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/entry-pass-and-personal-qr/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Try it: scan a visitor and capture a consented lead](https://sociana.in/demos/exhibitor-stall-scan-and-leads/): Work a stall at a fictional wedding-industry expo: Scan a Visitor, add a one-line note, see the lead in the Scan Log and download every lead as a real CSV file. - [Walkthrough: Session feedback that feeds the leaderboard](https://sociana.in/demos/feedback-form/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Try it: a home screen and feed scoped to each group](https://sociana.in/demos/group-scoped-feed/): Move one attendee between Partners, Employees and Speakers and watch her Home rebuild: different banner, tiles, live poll, Team Chat room and feed posts, with no app update. - [Try it: a guest's My Stay going from Pending to Confirmed](https://sociana.in/demos/hospitality-request-to-my-stay/): Watch a delegate's My Stay go from “To be updated by Admin” to a confirmed hotel, room, pickup and driver the moment the travel desk flips Publish in the Control Room. - [Try it: make an I-Am-Attending poster in your browser](https://sociana.in/demos/i-am-attending-poster/): Make a real I Am Attending poster in your browser: choose a photo or the sample avatar, zoom it into the circle, tap Update Profile Photo and download a 1080 × 1350 PNG with your name and category chips. - [Try it: run a live poll and watch the venue screen update](https://sociana.in/demos/live-poll-on-venue-screen/): Run a Sociana live poll across three surfaces at once: open it from the organiser's Trigger Live Polls list, vote on the attendee phone, and watch 47 sample colleagues push the bars on a 16:9 venue screen. - [Try it: a host-controlled live quiz with a leaderboard](https://sociana.in/demos/live-trivia/): Play a five-question live quiz against 47 sample colleagues while a host controls the room. - [Walkthrough: Paid meeting-room slot booking — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/meeting-room-booking-with-payment/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: wallet points and reward store — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/points-wallet-and-reward-store/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Try it: QR attendance with duplicate and time-window rules](https://sociana.in/demos/qr-attendance-scanner/): Scan sample QR cards into Day 1 Entry, Gala Dinner or Return Bus and see exactly why each scan passes or fails: “Attendance marked successfully!”, a duplicate with the first scan's time, a closed time window, a group tha - [Walkthrough: Review and approve an AI session summary](https://sociana.in/demos/session-summary-approval/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: A 30-day team step challenge — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/step-challenge-dashboard/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: Team boards with admin adjustments — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/team-leaderboard/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Walkthrough: A QR treasure hunt with order rules — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/treasure-hunt-qr/): A read-only walkthrough, not an interactive demo. - [Try it: one leaderboard for polls, games — Sociana](https://sociana.in/demos/unified-leaderboard/): One board, many sources: earn points as Priya by voting, getting scanned at the door, walking 500 steps, giving feedback or winning a quiz round, and watch her rank move on the phone and on the venue screen. - [AI Charades for events: how it runs — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-charades/): AI Charades is a concept activation, built per occasion: a participant is handed a secret word, acts it out silently on a camera, and a vision model's ranked guesses update every few seconds on a big screen. - [AI Drawing and Pictionary for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-drawing-and-pictionary/): AI Drawing and Pictionary is a concept activation, built per occasion, with two formats: Draw It, where a player sketches and a vision model guesses live, and Pictionary Battle, where one side draws while the other promp - [Detective Clues for events: real or AI? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/detective-clues/): Detective Clues is a concept activation, built per occasion: players inspect images, emails, ads or headlines and choose real or AI-made, then the AI explains the clues they missed. - [Object Remix for events: photo to invention — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/object-remix/): Object Remix is a concept activation, built per occasion: a participant photographs an everyday object, types how to transform it, and an image model returns an impossible invention that keeps the object's look. - [AI Pitch Judge for events: 30-second pitches — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-pitch-judge/): AI Pitch Judge is a concept activation, built per occasion: a participant draws a random product, audience and constraint and pitches it in 30 seconds. - [AI Negotiation for events: practise the deal — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-negotiation/): AI Negotiation is a concept activation, built per occasion: a participant gets a mission such as saving a contract or handling an angry client and negotiates with an AI persona that holds hidden trust, budget, urgency an - [AI Debate for events: argue with an AI — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-debate/): AI Debate is a concept activation, built per occasion: a player gets 45 seconds to argue a side of a motion and an AI opponent answers with rebuttals built from what the player actually said. - [Semantic Passwords for events: explain it clean — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/semantic-passwords/): Semantic Passwords is a concept activation, built per occasion: a player explains a secret word without using the word, its synonyms or banned clue families, and the AI tries to guess it. - [AI Interviews for events: a practice booth — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-interviews/): AI Interviews is a concept activation, built per occasion: an AI interviewer asks adaptive questions based on each answer, not from a fixed list, and then scores confidence, clarity, relevance, examples and conciseness. - [Prompt Relay for events: build a prompt as a team — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/prompt-relay/): Prompt Relay is a concept activation, built per occasion: four players add subject, environment, style and restrictions to one prompt, one person at a time, without breaking the brief. - [Product Invention for events: 60-second sprint — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/product-invention/): Product Invention is a concept activation, built per occasion: the AI deals a random customer, problem and technology, and the participant has 60 seconds to describe a solution. - [Movie Poster Generator for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/movie-poster-generator/): Movie Poster Generator is a concept activation, built per occasion: a participant or a team becomes the cast of a themed film poster, with a title, tagline and credits written by a language model and the picture made by - [Future Self Persona: AI avatar for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/future-self-persona/): Future Self Persona builds on the Talk To Your Future Self avatar Sociana ran at Growth Code: a participant takes a selfie, waits up to a minute and meets an AI version of their future self that answers tappable question - [Alter Ego Avatars: persona avatars for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/alter-ego-avatars/): Alter Ego Avatars builds on the X-Avatar Sociana ran at enGen X 2026, where a participant chooses one of ten themed personas, takes or uploads a selfie and waits up to a minute for the result. - [AI Treasure Hunt for events: adaptive clues — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-treasure-hunt/): AI Treasure Hunt is a concept activation, built per occasion: teams scan objects, spaces or markers around the venue and a vision model validates what they found, while a language model writes the next clue and side miss - [AI Escape Room for events: adaptive hints — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-escape-room/): AI Escape Room is a concept activation, built per occasion: teams solve four to six connected text, visual, audio and clue puzzles while an adaptive AI game master gives hints, subtle first and clearer later, each costin - [AI Predictions for events: humans vs AI — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-predictions/): AI Predictions is a concept activation, built per occasion: the room votes on quick scenarios such as a market move, a customer choice or what happens next, while an AI commits to its own prediction and confidence. - [AI Game Master for events: an AI host — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-game-master/): AI Game Master is a concept activation, built per occasion: one AI host runs a multi-game programme across the occasion, announcing rounds, narrating results, nudging teams and keeping the unified leaderboard lively. - [Brand Aware Character for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/brand-aware-character/): Brand Aware Character is a concept activation, built per occasion: attendees speak to a branded AI character that knows the event, the company, the agenda and the products, and hides secret missions inside the conversati - [AI Session Summaries: approved by an organiser — Sociana](https://sociana.in/ai-activations/ai-session-summaries/): AI Session Summaries is a live Sociana feature: Sociana drafts a summary of a session with AI and publishes it only after a named organiser approves, rejects or edits it. - [Sociana Play: kiosks and on-site experiences for events](https://sociana.in/play/): Sociana Play by Sociana: 33 kiosks, screens and on-site experiences for events and exhibitions, each with a working demo you can open in your browser. - [Start a free trial (you host): self-serve trial for events](https://sociana.in/play/start-a-trial/): Pick any of the games below, keep the ready-made version or add your event name, colours, wording. - [Ask the Speaker: phone + screen tool for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/ask-the-speaker/): Live Q&A: guests send and upvote questions, AI merges duplicates and groups themes. - [Guess the Baby Photo: phone game + LED wall for events](https://sociana.in/play/baby-photo/): A childhood photo on the LED, four names on every phone — who was this little one? Try the working demo and see how it runs at an event venue. - [AI Bluff Battle: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/bluff-battle/): Write a fake answer, fool your friends, find the truth. - [Brick Blast: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/brick-breaker/): Smash the wall on every phone — and reveal the couple’s photo, the new logo or a rangoli behind it. - [Caption Clash: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/caption-clash/): Every phone in the room writes; AI ranks the best lines; the crowd crowns the winner. - [AI Concierge: phone + screen tool for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/concierge/): Guests ask, the AI answers from your own knowledge. - [Creator Studio: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/creator-studio/): Teams invent products, remake ads or write jingles — AI polishes, paints, judges and performs. - [Crowd DJ: phone + screen tool for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/crowd-dj/): Guests request songs with a mood; AI merges duplicates into votes and builds the next set. - [Rush Lanes: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/endless-runner/): A three-lane runner on every phone — jump, slide, dodge, collect. - [Instant Event Recap: phone + screen tool for events](https://sociana.in/play/event-recap/): Attendees tick the sessions they attended; AI writes a personalised one-page recap. - [Fastest Finger First: phone game + LED wall for events](https://sociana.in/play/fastest-finger/): Put four in order — the fastest correct finger takes the Hot Seat and climbs the ladder. - [Keepsake Booth: booth or phone keepsake for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/keepsake-booth/): AI portraits, postcards or dream-décor designs — made in a minute, downloaded. - [Level Quest: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/level-quest/): A run-and-jump platformer on every phone — your heroes, your obstacles, your courses. - [Maze Dash: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/maze-dash/): An arcade maze chase on every phone — your heroes, your chasers, your treats. - [Memory Matrix: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/memory-matrix/): A picture on the big screen, a QR, five questions from memory. - [Merge Mania: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/merge-mania/): A swipe-and-merge puzzle on every phone — climb your event’s own ladder of tiles. - [AI Mystery Box: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/mystery-box/): The AI hides a secret. - [AI Networking Matchmaker: phone + screen tool for events](https://sociana.in/play/networking/): Three quick questions; AI suggests three people to meet with a reason and an icebreaker. - [Persona Reveal: booth or phone keepsake for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/persona-reveal/): A 45-second quiz that reveals who you are — with an AI-written card and a live wall. - [Photo Mosaic: LED wall installation for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/photo-mosaic/): Every guest’s photo becomes one tile of a giant picture that builds up live on the LED. - [Photo Quest: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/photo-quest/): Missions around the venue — teams snap or solve, AI verifies, the LED shows the race. - [Prompt Perfect / Vision Clash — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/prompt-perfect/): Recreate the image with one perfect prompt. - [Quiz Arena: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/quiz-arena/): Phones as buzzers. - [Relay Studio: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/relay-studio/): Pass a picture down the line — or build one layer by layer. - [Draw It Before AI Gets It: phone game + LED wall for events](https://sociana.in/play/sketch-guess/): One guest sketches a secret word, the AI guesses live on the LED — and the crowd races it. - [Sky Hopper: phone arcade game for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/sky-hopper/): Tap to fly through the gaps — your hero, your obstacles, your sky. - [Story Chain: LED wall installation for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/story-chain/): Hundreds of guests write one illustrated book together — a crowd story or a wedding storybook. - [AI Tambola (Housie): phone game + LED wall for events](https://sociana.in/play/tambola/): Every phone gets a ticket. - [Two Truths & a Lie: phone game + LED wall for events](https://sociana.in/play/two-truths/): Two truths, one lie — the room votes. - [Who Said It?: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/who-said-it/): Everyone answers anonymously, the room guesses who wrote what — and races the AI. - [Wish Wall: LED wall installation for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/wish-wall/): Every guest’s wish becomes a leaf; AI weaves them into one blessing — or paints the room’s mood. - [Would You Rather: phone game + LED wall for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/play/would-you-rather/): Pick a side on your phone. ## Integrations - [Integrations: payments, WhatsApp, email and exports](https://sociana.in/integrations/): What Sociana connects to: payments, WhatsApp, email and SMS, health stores, exports and app stores, with limits stated. - [Airtable integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/airtable/): Sociana connects an occasion to Airtable so records such as registrations, scans or hospitality rows can flow into the client's own base. - [AiSensy integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/aisensy/): AiSensy is one of the WhatsApp Business API providers Sociana can send campaigns through. - [Apple App Store integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/apple-app-store/): Sociana publishes branded apps to the Apple App Store as part of managed delivery. - [Apple Health integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/apple-health/): Sociana step challenges read daily step counts from Apple Health on iPhone after the participant grants permission. - [Brevo integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/brevo/): Brevo is one provider the Sociana team has discussed for transactional email and WhatsApp sending. - [Calendar (ICS) integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/calendar-ics/): Sociana shows a day-wise agenda with Live and Up Next badges inside the app, and reminders reach guests by push or WhatsApp. - [CSV import & export integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/csv-import-export/): Sociana imports member lists by CSV and exports reports for activities, games, scores, steps, hospitality and tickets. - [Email delivery integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/email-delivery/): Sociana sends login codes, booking confirmations and invoices by email and keeps delivery logs so an organiser can check what went out. - [Firebase push notifications integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/firebase-push/): Sociana sends push notifications and in-app notices to installed apps, including scheduled announcements to a chosen group. - [Google Health Connect integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/google-health-connect/): Sociana step challenges read daily steps from Health Connect on Android after the participant grants permission. - [Google Maps integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/google-maps/): Sociana apps show venue maps by area and a Map link on the home banner, as in the Jaipur conclave and the APMI conference. - [Google Play integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/google-play/): Sociana publishes branded Android apps to Google Play as part of managed delivery. - [Google Sheets integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/google-sheets/): Sociana connects an occasion to Google Sheets so registrations, scans, scores or hospitality rows can flow out, and rooming or participant lists can come in. - [QR & barcode scanning integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/qr-and-barcode-scanning/): Sociana scans personal QR codes with the organiser's phone camera to record entry, dinner, return bus and other activities against rules for time windows and groups. - [Razorpay integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/razorpay/): Sociana takes ticket and slot payments through Razorpay checkout, using the organiser's own Razorpay account. - [REST API & partner web integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/rest-api-partner-web/): Sociana's apps talk to a Rails backend through an app-facing API, and a v3 partner-web surface exists for approved outside teams. - [SMS OTP gateways integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/sms-otp-gateways/): Sociana can log guests in with a one-time code sent by SMS, WhatsApp or email. - [SSO & allowed email domains integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/sso-and-allowed-email-domains/): Sociana restricts sign-in to company email domains and offers employee-code with password, delegate ID with PIN and OTP login. - [Twilio integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/twilio/): Twilio is one of the providers discussed for sending Sociana's SMS and WhatsApp messages. - [Venue screens & LED integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/venue-screens-and-led/): Sociana shows live polls, voting and results on venue screens through a browser view that the AV team puts on the LED wall or projector. - [Webhooks integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/webhooks/): Sociana webhooks send an event, such as a scan or a submission, to a URL the client controls. - [WhatsApp Business API integration — Sociana](https://sociana.in/integrations/whatsapp-business-api/): Sociana sends WhatsApp campaigns, OTPs, tickets and invoices through the organisation's own WhatsApp Business API provider account, using templates WhatsApp has approved. ## Case studies - [Sociana customers](https://sociana.in/customers/): Companies, associations, government bodies and families who have run their events on Sociana, with customer stories and quotes. - [Sociana case studies — event apps we have run](https://sociana.in/case-studies/): Customer stories from events Sociana has run, with real screens from each app. - [APMI 2026 conference app with paid room booking — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/apmi-annual-conference-2026/): The Association of Portfolio Managers in India held its 3rd Annual Conference on 30 September 2026 at Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai, delivered by the agency Pine Tree. - [BWF Meet Up 4.0 exhibition app case study — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/bengaluru-wedding-fraternity-meet-up-4/): Bengaluru Wedding Fraternity Meet Up 4.0 put the city's wedding trade, from planners and decorators to venues and caterers, in one room at Palace Grounds on 18 July 2026. - [EEMA Connect association app with AI summaries — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/eema-connect/): EEMA Connect is the one app the Event & Entertainment Management Association uses for all its occasions, including eemagine 2026 at ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. - [enGen X 2026: an employee experience app for two cities](https://sociana.in/case-studies/engen-x-2026/): enGen X 2026 was a six-week employee experience programme across Chennai and Hyderabad, 18 August to 30 September 2026, delivered with the agency Aura. - [GCOO Conclave 2026 Jaipur hospitality app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/gcoo-conclave-2026/): GCOO Conclave 2026 brought senior delegates to Jaipur, split between Fairmont Jaipur and The Leela Palace Jaipur. - [Growth Code leadership programme app case study — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/growth-code/): Growth Code, a leadership programme themed Making INM Future Ready, gave its cohort a Sociana app for a talent day. - [HCCB Partners Meet 2026 Goa app case study — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/hccb-partners-meet-2026/): Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages brought its Maharashtra–Goa partners to Goa in July 2026 for a two-day Partners Meet. - [HSBC Wellness Expedition: a 45-day team walking app](https://sociana.in/case-studies/hsbc-wellness-expedition/): The HSBC Wellness Expedition was a 45-day team walking programme, 1 September to 15 October 2026, for 600 colleagues in 15 teams of 40. - [Integrity Champ: Carlsberg India ambassador programme app](https://sociana.in/case-studies/integrity-champ/): Integrity Champ is the app Carlsberg India uses to run its ambassador programme all year. - [Lakshya 26 Zydus Wellness conference app case study](https://sociana.in/case-studies/lakshya-26-zydus-wellness/): Lakshya 26 was Zydus Wellness' Annual Conference 26, opening on Friday 16 January 2026 with a strategic plenary, the 2026 theme unveil and channel-wise breakouts. - [Nirvaan: one multi-occasion app, joined by code or QR](https://sociana.in/case-studies/nirvaan/): Nirvaan is the lightest of the multi-occasion apps we run on Sociana. - [Occasion Xperts: one agency app for every occasion — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/occasion-xperts/): Occasion Xperts is an events agency that runs weddings, conferences, offsites and reunions from one app carrying its own brand, live on both stores since February 2025. - [SAREX-26: Indian Coast Guard delegate app, Bhubaneswar](https://sociana.in/case-studies/sarex-26/): SAREX-26 was the delegate app for the Indian Coast Guard's 12th National Maritime Search and Rescue Workshop & Exercise and 24th NMSAR Board Meeting, held in Bhubaneswar on 6–8 October 2026. - [Tanvi & Rutwik wedding app, Pune (planned) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/tanvi-rutwik-wedding/): Tanvi Rutwik is the Sociana guest app for a three-day wedding in Pune, now in preparation. - [Jharokha Sangam Jaipur offsite app case study — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/the-jharokha-sangam/): The Jharokha Sangam was a three-day team offsite in Jaipur, 25–27 September 2026. - [Tiger15 booth scanning and rewards app case study — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/tiger15-tiger-analytics/): Tiger15 marked Tiger Analytics' fifteenth year in Chennai on 9–10 September 2026, with a gala night at the Leela Palace. - [Unstoppable NAMI 2026: NAM India strategy meet app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/unstoppable-nami-2026/): Unstoppable NAMI was the app for NAM India's Annual Strategy Meet 2026 at Aamby Valley, Lonavala, delivered with the agency Mintlabs. - [YEC 2024: HSBC incentive trip app for Dubai — Sociana](https://sociana.in/case-studies/yec-2024/): YEC is HSBC's Year End Convention, an incentive journey to Dubai delivered with the agency STCH. ## Scenarios - [Scenarios: how we would run your event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/): Illustrative plans, not delivered events: how Sociana would run ten occasions it has not run yet, using modules that exist today, with run plans, team, risks and a price band. - [Scenario: a 1,500-dealer meet in Jaipur — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/dealer-meet-1500-dealers-jaipur/): An illustrative plan, not an event we have run: how Sociana would run a two-night annual meet for 1,500 dealers in Jaipur. - [Scenario: a 400-guest destination wedding in Udaipur](https://sociana.in/scenarios/destination-wedding-udaipur-400-guests/): An illustrative plan, not a wedding we have run: how Sociana would run a three-day destination wedding for 400 guests in Udaipur. - [Scenario: a 120-stall exhibition with lead capture — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/exhibition-120-stalls-lead-capture/): An illustrative plan, not a show we have run: how Sociana would run a three-day B2B exhibition with 120 stalls and about 3,500 trade visitors. - [Scenario: a government workshop with delegate IDs — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/government-workshop-delegate-ids-offline/): An illustrative plan, not a workshop we have run: how Sociana would run a four-day government workshop for 350 delegates from central and state departments. - [Scenario: an incentive trip to Thailand for 300 — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/incentive-trip-thailand-300-top-performers/): An illustrative plan, not a trip we have run: how Sociana would run a five-day incentive trip to Bangkok and Pattaya for 300 top performers, with a six-week season in the app before anyone flies. - [Scenario: medical conference with paid workshops — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/medical-association-conference-paid-workshops/): An illustrative plan, not a conference we have run: how Sociana would run a medical association's three-day annual conference for 900 delegates, with paid hands-on workshops and bookable meeting rooms. - [Scenario: a 5,000-ticket music festival with QR gates](https://sociana.in/scenarios/music-festival-5000-tickets-qr-gates/): An illustrative plan, not a festival we have run: how Sociana would sell 5,000 tickets for a two-day city music festival and run the gates on QR. - [Scenario: pharma MR cycle meeting with quizzes — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/pharma-mr-cycle-meeting-quizzes-leaderboards/): An illustrative plan, not a meeting we have run: how Sociana would run a two-day national cycle meeting for 1,200 medical representatives of a pharma company. - [Scenario: a university convocation and alumni meet — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/university-convocation-and-alumni-meet/): An illustrative plan, not a convocation we have run: how Sociana would run a university's convocation day for 1,200 graduands and the alumni meet the evening after. - [Scenario: a 90-day step challenge in four cities — Sociana](https://sociana.in/scenarios/wellness-step-challenge-90-days-4-cities/): An illustrative plan, not a challenge we have run: how Sociana would run a 90-day step challenge for 1,200 employees in Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. ## Glossary - [Event-technology glossary — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/): Definitions of event-technology terms as Sociana uses them. - [What is Activation rate? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/activation-rate/): Activation rate is the number of unique eligible invited people who signed in and used the app, divided by the number of eligible invited people, for one occasion. - [What is AGM? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/agm/): An AGM, or annual general meeting, is the yearly meeting at which a company's or association's members review accounts, elect office-bearers and vote on resolutions, under statutory timelines. - [What is AI session summary? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/ai-session-summary/): An AI session summary is a recap of a session drafted by AI and published to participants only after the organiser approves it, so a human always signs off. - [What is Airport transfer? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/airport-transfer/): An airport transfer is the organised pickup that takes a participant from an airport or station to the hotel or venue, assigned against their arrival details and published to their app. - [What is Allowed email domain? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/allowed-email-domain/): An allowed email domain is a rule that admits anyone whose verified email address ends in a listed company domain, so employees can join without being individually listed. - [What is Approval-based registration? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/approval-based-registration/): Approval-based registration is a flow in which a person's request to join an occasion is reviewed and approved or rejected by the organiser, with a message sent to the applicant. - [What is AR marker? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/ar-marker/): An AR marker is a printed card or image that triggers an augmented-reality reveal or game when scanned in the app, linking a physical object to digital content. - [What is Arrival manifest? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/arrival-manifest/): An arrival manifest is the list of who is arriving, when, where and how — flight, terminal, time — used by the hospitality desk to schedule and verify pickups. - [What is Attendance activity? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/attendance-activity/): An attendance activity is a trackable point — entry, a session, dinner or a bus — against which participants are checked in, with its own rules, scanners and records. - [What is Attendance rule? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/attendance-rule/): An attendance rule is a condition governing check-in to an activity, such as a time window, group eligibility, ticket requirement, repeat limit or required sequence of steps. - [What is Attendee code? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/attendee-code/): An attendee code is a unique code issued to one person that identifies them and admits only them, used where phone or email cannot be relied on to establish identity. - [What is Badge printing? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/badge-printing/): Badge printing is the on-site production of printed name badges at registration; Sociana uses QR entry passes in the app and does not print badges on site. - [What is Boost? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/boost/): A boost is a time-limited multiplier or bonus applied to qualifying activity, such as steps or points, used to lift participation at a chosen point in a programme. - [What is Branded app? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/branded-app/): A branded app is the iOS and Android installation carrying a client's own name, icon and splash screen that exposes one occasion, or several, to participants. - [What is Breakout session? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/breakout-session/): A breakout session is one of several parallel sessions running at the same time, letting delegates choose a topic or smaller group instead of attending the main plenary. - [What is Check-in kiosk? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/check-in-kiosk/): A check-in kiosk is a staffed or unstaffed terminal at a venue where arriving participants check in or scan in; Sociana uses QR scan and self check-in, not kiosk hardware. - [What is Competition? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/competition/): A competition is a registration-based activity in which members sign up, subject to group eligibility and capacity limits, and may withdraw under the organiser's rules. - [What is Conclave? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/conclave/): A conclave is a premium, invitation-led gathering of senior delegates for discussion and networking, run by a company, chamber or association, often across two or three days. - [What is Consented lead? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/consented-lead/): A consented lead is an exhibitor lead whose owner has agreed, usually by presenting their own QR, to share contact details with that exhibitor, giving the follow-up a clear permission basis. - [What is Contest? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/contest/): A contest is a scored challenge inside a tournament that accepts participant submissions within defined rules and awards points on approval, quantity or day-based scoring. - [What is Dealer meet? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/dealer-meet/): A dealer meet is a company's annual or launch gathering of dealers and distributors, combining product announcements, scheme details, awards and hospitality, usually at a resort or overseas destination. - [What is Delegate ID and PIN? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/delegate-id-pin/): Delegate ID and PIN is a login pair issued through official channels so delegates sign in without personal phone numbers or emails, common at government, defence and protocol events. - [What is Delegation? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/delegation/): A delegation is a group of delegates under a lead — by zone, company, country or ministry — given its own view, communications and reporting inside an occasion. - [What is Destination conclave? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/destination-conclave/): A destination conclave is an invitation-led executive or association gathering held away from the home city, usually at a resort or heritage venue, where travel and stay are part of the programme. - [What is Digital badge? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/digital-badge/): A digital badge is a visual award shown in a participant's profile, earned by reaching a threshold such as steps, a streak, a tier or a period goal. - [What is DMC? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/dmc/): A DMC, or destination management company, is a local agency that plans and delivers a group's on-ground programme in a destination, including transport, venues, accommodation, activities and logistics. - [What is Download control? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/download-control/): Download control is a rule that decides which members or groups can save photos and videos from the app, protecting sensitive content and brand assets. - [What is Employee-code login? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/employee-code-login/): Employee-code login is a sign-in method that uses an employee ID with a password or OTP, matched against an imported staff list, instead of relying on personal contact details. - [What is Engagement score? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/engagement-score/): An engagement score is a weighted composite that combines an occasion's participation signals — sign-ins, polls, check-ins, feedback and posts — into one comparable number defined by the organiser. - [What is Event gamification? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/event-gamification/): Event gamification is the application of points, leaderboards, badges and games to an occasion so attendance, networking and content participation are visibly scored and rewarded. - [What is Event NPS? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/event-nps/): Event NPS is the percentage of promoters minus the percentage of detractors, from a zero-to-ten likelihood-to-recommend question asked after an occasion. - [What is Event RFP? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/event-rfp/): An event RFP is a request for proposal in which a buyer describes an occasion and invites agencies or vendors to bid, setting scope, budget, timeline and evaluation criteria. - [What is Event (session)? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/event-session/): An event, in Sociana's model, is a single session inside an occasion's agenda — a keynote, dinner, workshop or bus departure — that can carry its own timing, attendance, feedback and reminders. - [What is Exception handling? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/exception-handling/): Exception handling is the organised process of resolving departures from the plan — a missed flight, changed room, extra guest — through the operations workspace with recorded owners and outcomes. - [What is Exhibitor lead? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/exhibitor-lead/): An exhibitor lead is a visitor's contact record captured at an exhibitor's stall, typically by scanning the visitor's QR, along with any notes the exhibitor adds. - [What is Fam trip? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/fam-trip/): A fam trip, short for familiarisation trip, is a hosted visit that lets agents, planners or buyers experience a destination or venue first-hand so they can sell or book it later. - [What is Feature switch? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/feature-switch/): A feature switch is the per-occasion setting that turns a module on, off or not-included, letting organisers choose exactly which capabilities participants see. - [What is Features, Rules and Look & layout? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/features-rules-look-and-layout/): Features, Rules and Look & layout are the three configuration layers of a Sociana occasion: what is switched on, how each module behaves and how the app looks. - [What is Fraternity meet? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/fraternity-meet/): A fraternity meet is a social or professional gathering of a community or industry body, such as a trade fraternity or alumni group, where members meet peers, often in a recurring series. - [What is Future Self? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/future-self/): Future Self is an AI activation in which a participant converses with a persona representing their future self, used in leadership programmes to prompt reflection and commitment. - [What is Gamification? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/gamification/): Gamification is the use of game mechanics — points, badges, leaderboards, levels, streaks and challenges — in non-game settings to increase participation and motivation. - [What is Group? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/group/): A group is a cohort inside an occasion — a team, delegate category, partner tier or bride's side — used to scope content, access, polls, chat, leaderboards and notifications. - [What is Group-scoped content? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/group-scoped-content/): Group-scoped content is any agenda item, notice, post, poll, chat or notification shown only to the groups an organiser selects, so one app serves several audiences. - [What is Growth Selfie? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/growth-selfie/): A Growth Selfie is an AI selfie format used in leadership programmes to visualise progress or a desired future state, created from a participant's photo inside the app. - [What is Hashtag collection? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/hashtag-collection/): Hashtag collection is the gathering of public posts carrying a chosen hashtag or from chosen profiles into an occasion's feed or social wall, subject to organiser approval. - [What is Health Connect and Apple Health? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/health-connect-apple-health/): Health Connect and Apple Health are the Android and iOS health-data stores from which Sociana reads daily step counts, with the participant's permission, for step challenges. - [What is Hospitality completeness? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/hospitality-completeness/): Hospitality completeness is the number of people with every applicable critical hospitality field verified, divided by the number of people needing arrangements, measured per group and per item. - [What is Hospitality status states? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/hospitality-status-states/): Hospitality status states are the three stages of a hospitality field — pending when not yet given, provided when the participant supplies it, and verified when the organiser confirms it. - [What is I-Am-Attending poster? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/i-am-attending-poster/): An I-Am-Attending poster is a personalised, shareable graphic generated in the app that announces a participant's attendance, turning registrants into promoters before the occasion. - [What is Image scan? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/image-scan/): An image scan is a game mechanic in which the app recognises a designated picture through the camera, unlocking a clue, points or an AR reveal. - [What is Incentive travel? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/incentive-travel/): Incentive travel is a reward trip earned by top performers, such as dealers or sales staff who meet targets, usually organised as a multi-day journey to a domestic or overseas destination. - [What is Journey progress? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/journey-progress/): Journey progress is a visual route on which a participant's or team's cumulative steps advance toward a destination, turning a step total into a place on a map-like path. - [What is Keynote? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/keynote/): A keynote is the principal address of a conference, delivered by a headline speaker or chief guest, which sets the theme and often opens the programme. - [What is Leaderboard points? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/leaderboard-points/): Leaderboard points are the points that determine a participant's rank on the unified leaderboard and that cannot be spent, so redeeming rewards never changes position. - [What is Liaison officer? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/liaison-officer/): A liaison officer, or LO, is a staff member assigned to a delegate or delegation as their personal point of contact for travel, stay and protocol, whose details appear in the delegate's app. - [What is Live poll? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/live-poll/): A live poll is a question pushed to participants during a session with results visible in real time, answered in the app or by web link, and optionally shown on a big screen. - [What is Live quiz? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/live-quiz/): A live quiz is a timed, scored question set run during a session, with answers collected from participants and results feeding the occasion's leaderboard. - [What is Madlibs? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/madlibs/): Madlibs is a fill-in-the-blanks game in which participants supply words that complete a story, which is then published to the occasion timeline for everyone to read. - [What is Member? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/member/): A member is a person who belongs to an occasion with a defined role — guest, visitor, owner, manager or partner — and a profile that determines what they see and may do. - [What is Member import? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/member-import/): A member import loads people into an occasion from a CSV or sheet, mapping columns to profile fields, roles and groups so members exist before they ever open the app. - [What is Memory Matrix? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/memory-matrix/): Memory Matrix is a memory game in which participants match pairs or recall patterns, used as a light activation and, in some builds, linked to image-scan or AR reveals. - [What is MICE? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/mice/): MICE is the trade shorthand for meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions: the business-events sector that buys venues, travel, hospitality and, increasingly, a branded app to run each occasion. - [What is Moderation queue? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/moderation-queue/): A moderation queue is the organiser-side list where posts, wishes and contest entries wait for approval before going live in the app or on a screen. - [What is My Flights? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/my-flights/): My Flights is the participant's in-app page showing their flight details, PNR and pickup information, published individually by the organiser from collected and verified travel data. - [What is My Journey? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/my-journey/): My Journey is a participant's end-to-end itinerary view in the app combining their travel, stay, transfers and programme into one personal timeline, with My Journey also used as a themed agenda label. - [What is My Stay? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/my-stay/): My Stay is the participant's in-app page showing their hotel, room, check-in details and where applicable roommate, published individually by the organiser from hospitality records. - [What is Networking bingo? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/networking-bingo/): Networking bingo is a game in which participants complete a card by meeting people who match prompts, such as who works in finance, and earn points for lines. - [What is No-login poll? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/no-login-poll/): A no-login poll is a live web poll that an audience answers by scanning a QR code or opening a link, with no app install or sign-in, and whose results can display live on a venue screen. - [What is No-login voting? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/no-login-voting/): No-login voting is audience voting for awards or choices through a public web link or QR, with duplicate protection but no account, and results that can display live. - [What is Occasion? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/occasion/): An occasion is the whole gathering an event app serves — a conference, wedding, partner meet, exhibition or recurring programme — as distinct from the individual sessions inside its agenda. - [What is Occasion code? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/occasion-code/): An occasion code is a short code that lets a participant find and join a specific occasion inside a multi-event app, typed in or scanned as a QR. - [What is Occasion template? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/occasion-template/): An occasion template is a saved configuration of features, rules, look and content that an organisation reuses to start a new occasion from a known, tested pattern. - [What is Occasion vs Event? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/occasion-vs-event/): In Sociana an occasion is the whole gathering, while an event is one session on its agenda; marketing copy still uses event in the everyday sense of an event app. - [What is Offsite? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/offsite/): An offsite is a team or leadership gathering held away from the workplace, usually residential, combining planning, team building and recreation over one to three days. - [What is Organisation? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/organisation/): An organisation is the client account in Sociana that owns one or more occasions, along with their members, internal team, templates and organisation-level operations. - [What is Owner and Manager roles? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/owner-and-manager-roles/): Owner and Manager are in-app organiser roles that let trusted participants take attendance, trigger notifications, polls and quizzes, and approve AI session summaries from their own phones. - [What is Participation points? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/participation-points/): Participation points are leaderboard points awarded for taking part in an activity — answering a poll, attending a session, giving feedback — regardless of whether the answer was right or the participant won. - [What is Participation rate? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/participation-rate/): Participation rate is the number of unique eligible people who completed an agreed meaningful action, divided by the relevant eligible population, within a stated period. - [What is Partner meet? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/partner-meet/): A partner meet is a gathering of a company's trade partners, such as dealers, distributors, franchisees or suppliers, used to align on strategy, recognise performers and strengthen relationships. - [What is Partner web? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/partner-web/): Partner web is the Sociana surface through which integration partners and sponsors receive controlled access to shared occasion data, separate from the attendee app and admin panel. - [What is PCO? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/pco/): A PCO, or professional congress organiser, is a specialist firm that plans and runs conferences and congresses for associations, handling registration, programme, exhibition, finance and logistics. - [What is Personal QR? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/personal-qr/): A personal QR is a participant's own QR code that, when scanned by another participant, shares their profile for networking, as a contact card distinct from their entry pass. - [What is Photobooth? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/photobooth/): A photobooth, in Sociana, is a software-based selfie and photo-frame experience inside the app or at a stand, producing branded images participants can share to the timeline. - [What is Plenary session? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/plenary-session/): A plenary session is a session attended by all delegates together, typically opening or closing a conference, as distinct from parallel breakout sessions. - [What is Plus-one? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/plus-one/): A plus-one is a guest attached to a primary member, such as a spouse or companion, who has their own hospitality details and activity eligibility but joins through the member. - [What is PNR? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/pnr/): A PNR, or passenger name record, is the alphanumeric booking reference an airline or railway assigns to a reservation, collected by organisers to identify and meet each traveller. - [What is PNR reconciliation? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/pnr-reconciliation/): PNR reconciliation is the check that matches booking references collected from participants against actual arrival manifests, catching mismatches and changes before pickups are dispatched. - [What is Prompt Perfect? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/prompt-perfect/): Prompt Perfect is a two-player AI image challenge in which participants write prompts to recreate a target image, and results are compared to decide a winner. - [What is Public post link? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/public-post-link/): A public post link is a web link that exposes one post outside the app and can be switched off by the organiser at any time, making sharing reversible. - [What is Public web flow? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/public-web-flow/): A public web flow is a Sociana web page that participants use without installing the app — ticket checkout, no-login polls and voting, public leaderboards or shared post links. - [What is QR entry pass? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/qr-entry-pass/): A QR entry pass is a participant's personal QR code, shown in the app, that organisers scan at the venue to admit them under the occasion's access rules. - [What is QR scavenger hunt? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/qr-scavenger-hunt/): A QR scavenger hunt is a hunt in which participants find and scan placed QR markers, in a set or free order, to earn points and unlock the next clue. - [What is Qualified lead? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/qualified-lead/): A qualified lead is a captured contact that an exhibitor has judged worth following up, typically after a conversation that confirmed need, authority or buying intent. - [What is Reel? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/reel/): A reel is a short vertical video posted to an occasion's timeline, which participants can like and comment on and organisers can feature as highlights. - [What is Registration review? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/registration-review/): Registration review is the admin queue where pending registrations are approved, rejected or messaged, giving organisers a checkpoint before anyone becomes a member. - [What is Repeat-scan limit? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/repeat-scan-limit/): A repeat-scan limit is an attendance rule that allows or blocks multiple check-ins by the same person at one activity, preventing duplicate entries and double redemptions. - [What is Request-and-publish workflow? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/request-and-publish-workflow/): The request-and-publish workflow is the hospitality flow in which an organiser requests information from participants, verifies it, and publishes individual arrangements back to each person's app. - [What is Responser API? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/responser-api/): The Responser API is Sociana's app-facing response format, flagged with responser=true, through which attendee and organiser apps exchange data with the Sociana Engine; it is not a public developer API. - [What is Reward redemption? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/reward-redemption/): Reward redemption is the act of exchanging wallet points for an item in the reward store, confirmed when staff scan the participant's redemption QR at a counter. - [What is Reward store? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/reward-store/): A reward store is the in-app catalogue where participants spend wallet points on items, each with a points price, stock quantity and optional per-person limit. - [What is Rewards and recognition? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/rewards-and-recognition/): Rewards and recognition, or R&R, is the HR practice of acknowledging employee or partner achievement through awards, points, public celebration and rewards, in programmes or at annual events. - [What is Room block? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/room-block/): A room block is a set of hotel rooms reserved by an organiser for an occasion at agreed rates and dates, from which guests are allocated; Sociana records allocation but does not hold inventory. - [What is Rooming list? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/rooming-list/): A rooming list is the document that assigns each guest to a hotel room, with check-in and check-out dates and sharing details, which Sociana imports and publishes per person. - [What is Rule? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/rule/): A rule is a behaviour setting attached to a feature, such as who may post, who may download photos, which email domains are whitelisted or whether chat requires a ticket. - [What is Run of show? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/run-of-show/): A run of show is the minute-by-minute schedule of an event, listing every cue, speaker, screen and handover so the production team and stage manager work from one script. - [What is Self check-in? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/self-check-in/): Self check-in lets a participant mark their own attendance at an activity by scanning a venue QR or tapping in the app, under the same rules staff scanning would apply. - [What is Session feedback? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/session-feedback/): Session feedback is a short rating form tied to one agenda item and shown at or near the session's end, capturing how participants found that specific session. - [What is Show Flow? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/show-flow/): Show Flow is a themed name for an occasion's agenda, used in Sociana to present sessions by day with Live and Up Next badges as a cinematic programme. - [What is SKO (sales kickoff)? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/sko-sales-kickoff/): An SKO, or sales kickoff, is the annual meeting that launches the sales year, typically in April or May, covering targets, product training, strategy and motivation for the sales force. - [What is Smart Lens? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/smart-lens/): Smart Lens is Sociana's facial-recognition photo finder: after an opt-in selfie, a participant sees the official event photos they appear in, collected in one place. - [What is Social wall? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/social-wall/): A social wall is a live display of approved posts, collected from the event app and from chosen hashtags or profiles, shown on venue screens or the web. - [What is Step cap? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/step-cap/): A step cap is the maximum number of steps counted for a single day in a challenge, set to limit outliers and keep competition fair across participants. - [What is Stepathon? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/stepathon/): A stepathon is the common Indian name for a corporate step challenge or walkathon in which participants or teams accumulate steps over days or weeks toward a target. - [What is Strategy meet? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/strategy-meet/): A strategy meet is a multi-day corporate gathering where leadership and managers review the year, set direction and align teams on targets, usually at a resort or venue away from the office. - [What is Streak? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/streak/): A streak is the count of consecutive days on which a participant completes a qualifying action, such as syncing a minimum number of steps or posting to the timeline. - [What is Sub-activity? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/sub-activity/): A sub-activity is a child attendance point under an activity, such as a specific return bus under a transfers activity, letting organisers track detail without cluttering the main list. - [What is Submission? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/submission/): A submission is an entry a participant files to a contest or KPI programme — text, photo, form or quantity — that a reviewer can approve, count and score by day or quantity. - [What is Super Admin? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/super-admin/): Super Admin is the highest Sociana role, able to manage organisations, occasions, panel admins and platform-wide settings across every occasion the platform runs. - [What is Surface? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/surface/): A surface is one of the places a Sociana occasion appears — attendee app, admin panel, public web flow, venue screen, partner web or mobile dashboard — each tuned to a different audience. - [What is Team leaderboard? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/team-leaderboard/): A team leaderboard ranks groups rather than individuals, by combined or average points or steps, so people compete for their team while the unified leaderboard remains individual. - [What is Team target? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/team-target/): A team target is a combined or average goal that a team of participants works toward over a programme, such as total steps or a points threshold, shown against current progress. - [What is "This is me" confirmation? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/this-is-me-confirmation/): A This-is-me confirmation is a first-login step in which a participant confirms that a pre-loaded profile belongs to them before editing or using the app. - [What is Ticket-linked access? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/ticket-linked-access/): Ticket-linked access is a rule under which buying a ticket creates a member and grants entry, chat or activity rights limited to holders of particular ticket types. - [What is Tier? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/tier/): A tier is a level a participant reaches by crossing a points or steps threshold, usually carrying its own badge and sometimes its own rewards or access. - [What is Tournament? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/tournament/): A tournament is a container for a series of contests run over a period in a recurring programme, with its own leaderboard and rules for how contest results combine. - [What is Townhall? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/townhall/): A townhall is an open internal meeting where leadership addresses employees and answers their questions, run in person, hybrid or at several sites at once. - [What is Travel desk? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/travel-desk/): A travel desk is the team or counter that coordinates participants' flights, transfers and itineraries; in Sociana it works from the hospitality workspace but does not book travel. - [What is Treasure hunt? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/treasure-hunt/): A treasure hunt is a clue-based game across a venue or city in which participants solve clues and verify progress through QR scans, image scans or typed answers. - [What is Unified leaderboard? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/unified-leaderboard/): A unified leaderboard is one ranking that combines leaderboard points earned from social activity, polls, games, attendance, steps, scans, feedback and hospitality answers across an occasion. - [What is Unique accepted attendance? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/unique-accepted-attendance/): Unique accepted attendance is the count of distinct people whose check-in at an activity passed every rule, excluding rejected attempts, repeat scans and ineligible scans. - [What is Unique-code login? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/unique-code-login/): Unique-code login is a sign-in method in which each person receives a distinct code that fixes their identity without requiring phone or email, used in cohort-style programmes. - [What is Unusual-day flag? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/unusual-day-flag/): An unusual-day flag is an automatic marker placed on a day whose step count looks implausible, queuing it for organiser review before it counts toward rankings. - [What is Venue screen? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/venue-screen/): A venue screen is a browser view designed for projectors and LED walls that displays live polls, word clouds, leaderboards, social walls or countdowns from an occasion's data. - [What is Wallet points? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/wallet-points/): Wallet points are spendable points held in a participant's wallet, separate from leaderboard points, and used to redeem items from the occasion's reward store. - [What is Wallet points vs leaderboard points? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/wallet-points-vs-leaderboard-points/): Wallet points are spendable and held in a wallet; leaderboard points set rank and cannot be spent — two separate balances so rewards never change a participant's ranking. - [What is Weekly pace? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/weekly-pace/): Weekly pace is the number of steps per week a participant or team needs from now on to reach the programme goal by the end date, recalculated as progress changes. - [What is Whitelist? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/whitelist/): A whitelist is a rule that admits only people on a pre-loaded list — by phone, email or code — to join or sign in to an occasion, blocking everyone else. - [What is Who Am I game? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/who-am-i-game/): A Who Am I game is a networking activity in which participants are assigned identities and guess them through conversation and app prompts, encouraging mingling across groups. - [What is Word cloud? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/word-cloud/): A word cloud is a live visual built from short participant answers, in which frequently repeated words appear larger, usually shown on a venue screen as the room responds. - [What is X-Avatar? Meaning at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/glossary/x-avatar/): An X-Avatar is a themed AI-generated image of a participant, created from their selfie inside the app, used in experience-catalogue programmes for sharing and identity. ## Guides - [Event app how-to guides — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/): Step-by-step guides for organisers: logins, hospitality desks, polls, QR attendance, games and exhibitor leads. - [How to set up an agency app that serves many clients](https://sociana.in/guides/agency-multi-client-app-setup/): One agency-branded app, a separate occasion per client: structure, join codes, per-occasion branding, roles, support routing and a handover routine. - [How to run an AI photo booth activation — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/ai-photo-booth-activation/): Run an AI avatar or selfie booth at a corporate event as software on guests' phones: personas, consent, fallbacks, screens and what not to promise. - [How to manage airport pickups for 300 delegates — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/airport-pickups-at-scale/): Plan airport pickups for 300 delegates: collect flight details, build an arrival manifest, assign vehicles and liaison, publish pickup cards, log exceptions. - [How to review and approve AI session summaries — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/approve-ai-session-summaries/): A review workflow for AI-drafted conference session summaries: who approves, what to check, how to edit and what is recorded when you publish. - [How to assign liaison officers to delegates — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/assign-liaison-officers/): Assign liaison officers (LOs) to delegates for a government or protocol event: mapping, briefing, what each side sees, escalation and handover. - [How to handle attendee data privacy — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/attendee-data-privacy-india/): A privacy workflow for organisers: map the data, collect less, gate login with a privacy policy, limit roles, set retention and answer deletion requests. - [How to run audience voting without an app download — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/audience-voting-without-app-download/): Run audience voting at an awards night or town hall with a QR code and no app install: set-up, one vote per person, screens, moderation and results. - [How to run awards voting with a jury and audience — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/awards-voting-jury-and-audience/): Combine jury scoring and audience voting for an awards night: weighting, nominee setup, conflict rules, no-login votes, reveal control and an audit trail. - [How to use badges and streaks to drive participation](https://sociana.in/guides/badges-and-streaks-for-participation/): Use badges and streaks in a step challenge or programme: define streak rules, set goals, handle missed days, and pair recognition with points. - [How to brand a game with company mascots and products](https://sociana.in/guides/brand-a-custom-event-game/): Brand a custom event game with your mascot, products and values: brief, content, scoring, review, launch cadence and how to keep play fair and on message. - [How to manage bride-side and groom-side guests separately](https://sociana.in/guides/bride-side-groom-side-groups/): Manage bride-side and groom-side wedding guests with groups: who sees what, side-specific notices, shared functions, friendly contests and privacy. - [How to send wedding invitations on WhatsApp — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/bulk-whatsapp-wedding-invitations/): Send wedding invitations to hundreds of guests on WhatsApp using approved templates, a personal link and a sequence that ends with travel details. - [How to collect ID documents from guests securely — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/collect-guest-id-documents-securely/): Collect guest ID documents without WhatsApp sprawl: what to ask, consent wording, in-app upload, access limits, verification, retention and deletion. - [How to collect session feedback at a conference — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/collect-session-feedback/): Collect session feedback that speakers can use: per-session forms, unlock after the talk, short questions, points for completion and how to share results. - [How to collect PNRs, flights and ID documents — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/collect-travel-and-id-documents-from-delegates/): A step plan for collecting PNRs, flight details and ID documents from a delegate list in three days, then verifying them in one live sheet. - [How to run bingo at a conference — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/conference-bingo/): Run conference bingo as a networking and attention game: card design, squares that make people talk, rules, prizes and fair scoring in a large hall. - [How to configure attendance activities — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/configure-attendance-rules-and-points/): Model entry, dinner and return bus as activities, set time windows and repeat limits, and decide when a scan awards leaderboard points. - [How to register dealers for a conference with QR cards](https://sociana.in/guides/dealer-registration-qr-cards/): Collect dealer details once, issue each dealer a personal QR pass tied to the registered list, scan at the door by zone and reconcile no-shows afterwards. - [How to manage delegations by zone at a dealer conference](https://sociana.in/guides/delegations-by-zone/): Capture zone and city at registration, turn them into groups, send zone-specific notices and read attendance and completeness per delegation after the event. - [How to scope a feed for partners vs employees — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/design-a-group-scoped-feed/): Map people to groups, decide what each group sees and test feed, polls and notifications separately, so partners and staff share one app. - [How to design a points system for an event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/design-an-event-points-system/): Design an event points system: what earns points, caps, wallet versus leaderboard, staff exclusion and audit, with a worked rule table. - [How to manage destination wedding logistics in Jaipur](https://sociana.in/guides/destination-wedding-logistics-india/): Destination wedding logistics for Jaipur, Udaipur or Goa: guest travel, room blocks, transfers, function schedule and one place for every guest to look. - [How to manage dinner and bus check-ins — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/dinner-bus-sub-activity-check-ins/): Use sub-activities to check guests into dinner, each coach and the return trip at an offsite, with time windows, repeat limits and live counts. - [How to get attendees to use the event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/drive-event-app-adoption/): Raise event app adoption with a pre-event sequence, low-friction login, a reason to open on day one and a measure of activation rate you can defend. - [How to let an emcee trigger polls from a phone — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/emcee-triggered-polls/): Give the emcee control of live polls and quizzes from a phone: manager role, pre-loaded questions, visibility switches, cue sheet and a rehearsal plan. - [How to engage employees at an annual meet — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/engage-employees-annual-meet/): Use quizzes switched on from the stage, a leadership question line, feedback forms and a memories gallery to make an internal annual meet two-way. - [How much does an event app cost in India? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/event-app-cost-india/): What drives event app pricing in India: pricing model, audience size, modules, messaging and managed operations, plus a way to build your own estimate. - [How to run an event app when the venue Wi-Fi is poor](https://sociana.in/guides/event-app-with-poor-venue-wifi/): Plan for weak connectivity: stage content early, use cached documents and offline phrasebooks, say what needs a network and keep a manual fallback. - [Event gamification ideas that work in India — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/event-gamification-ideas/): Twelve event gamification ideas for Indian corporate offsites and meets, from QR hunts to team boards, with how to pick, price and run them. - [How to export event data to Google Sheets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/export-event-data-to-sheets/): Choose which data sets leave the app, connect a Google Sheet you own, set fields and cadence, and keep sharing safe. - [Is face recognition at events legal in India? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/face-recognition-consent-india-events/): What organisers should settle before using face matching at an Indian event: DPDP Act timeline, opt-in consent, retention, deletion and what to ask a vendor. - [How to take attendance for 2,000 employees quickly — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/fast-attendance-for-large-employee-events/): Plan fast QR attendance for a large employee event: pre-registration, personal QR, lane and scanner counts, a manual lane and a rehearsal. - [How to run games when venue Wi-Fi is poor — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/games-with-poor-venue-wifi/): Plan event games for weak venue Wi-Fi: test signal, pick offline-capable formats, cache content, set expectations and keep a paper fallback for incentive trips. - [What is a good activation rate for an event app? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/good-event-app-activation-rate/): Activation rate is signed-in invitees divided by eligible invitees. - [How to run polls only for a specific group — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/group-scoped-polls/): Run group-scoped polls at a partner meet: map members to groups, choose which group sees which question, test visibility and avoid leaks between audiences. - [How to help attendees network at a conference — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/help-attendees-network/): Open a searchable delegate directory, require accepted chat requests, add QR contact exchange, seed introductions and moderate. - [How to run hospitality for a government or defence workshop](https://sociana.in/guides/hospitality-for-government-workshops/): Hospitality for a government or defence workshop: credentials, delegate lists, cab and hotel details, liaison officers, offline guides, SOS and records. - [How long does it take to set up an event app? — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-long-to-launch-an-event-app/): A realistic timeline for launching a branded event app: brief, data, configuration, store submission and rehearsal, with typical days by occasion type. - [How to choose an event app: a buyer's guide — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-choose-an-event-app/): Choose an event app by starting from your occasion, login model and support needs, then score shortlisted vendors against a short checklist. - [How to gamify a conference without trivialising it — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-gamify-a-conference/): A staged plan for conference gamification: pick the behaviours, choose two or three games, set points and a wallet, publish rules and protect fairness. - [How to increase engagement at conferences — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-increase-engagement-at-conferences/): A session-by-session plan to raise conference engagement: polls and word clouds on screen, feedback after each session, points and one visible leaderboard. - [How to manage a dealer meet with an app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-manage-a-dealer-meet/): An operating plan for an Indian dealer or distributor meet: lists and groups, invitations, travel, entry, awards, polls, feedback and the follow-up report. - [How to measure event ROI: pick the measures first — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-measure-event-roi/): Define the event purpose, pick five signals with denominators, collect them in the app and report cost against outcome without inventing numbers. - [How to offer bookable meeting rooms — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-offer-bookable-meeting-rooms-at-a-conference/): Offer paid meeting-room slots at a conference: set rooms, slots, prices and a per-guest cap, collect GST details and pay by Razorpay, then report. - [How to run a step challenge at work — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-run-a-step-challenge-at-work/): Run a workplace step challenge week by week: launch support, daily dashboard habits, mid-point boosts, team chat prompts, recognition and a clean close. - [How to track attendance at a corporate event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/how-to-track-attendance-at-a-corporate-event/): Track corporate event attendance from invite list to report: identities, activities, scanning, late arrivals and the numbers HR and finance ask for. - [How to create an I-Am-Attending poster campaign — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/i-am-attending-poster-campaign/): Turn every registered attendee into a small advertisement: set up an I-Am-Attending poster, time the prompt, brief attendees and track shares. - [How to run a KBC-style quiz at a dealer meet — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/kbc-style-quiz-dealer-meet/): Run a Kaun Banega Crorepati style quiz at a dealer or partner meet: question ladder, lifelines, hot seat, audience poll and live scoring on the venue screen. - [How to keep attendees engaged during a 3-day conference](https://sociana.in/guides/keep-attendees-engaged-multi-day/): A day-by-day engagement plan for a three-day conference: a Day 1 hook, a Day 2 slump fix, a Day 3 finish, with polls, quizzes, games and notices paced by group. - [How to launch a branded event app in 10 days — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/launch-event-app-in-10-days/): A day-by-day plan to take a branded event app from brief to launch in ten days: configuration, content, login, store submission and rehearsal. - [How to onboard exhibitors to My Stall — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/launch-exhibitor-lead-capture/): Onboard every exhibitor to My Stall in one session: stall profile, team members, visitor QR scans, notes and a post-show lead export. - [How to do lead retrieval at a trade show — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/lead-retrieval-at-a-trade-show/): Run trade-show lead retrieval from visitors' phones and exhibitors' phones: what to replace, how scans become leads and how to export for follow-up. - [How to make a wedding app for guests — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/make-a-wedding-guest-app/): Make a wedding guest app by configuring one instead of coding it: choose features, brand it, import guests, test and launch, with what to skip. - [How to manage guest flights and hotels — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/manage-guest-flights-and-hotels/): Run guest flights, hotels and pickups for an incentive trip or conclave: collect, build the rooming sheet, publish personal cards and handle changes. - [How to manage plus-ones and companions — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/manage-plus-ones-and-companions/): Manage plus-ones and companions at weddings and events: guest list rules, registration, rooms, pickups, passes, dietary needs and last-minute changes. - [How to migrate from Whova or Cvent — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/migrate-from-whova-or-cvent/): Export your registrants, map fields, rebuild agenda and groups, run a parallel test and brief members. - [How to run attendance for a multi-day conference — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/multi-day-conference-attendance/): Model each day, session and meal as an activity, set daily windows and eligibility, scan per lane, read numbers each evening and export a clean record. - [How to organise a stepathon for employees — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/organise-a-stepathon/): Set a start date, daily goals and caps, form teams, add boost days and streaks, block manual entries and review unusual days so a stepathon stays fair. - [How to run a partner meet with separate content — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/partner-meet-group-scoped-content/): Map every number to Partners or Employees before launch, scope the feed, polls, notices and quizzes by group, and test each module as both audiences. - [How to plan a 30-day team step challenge — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/plan-a-30-day-team-step-challenge/): A planning sequence for a 30-day corporate step challenge: teams, daily targets, caps, boosts, a journey to a finale and the reports HR will ask for. - [How to plan an incentive trip for top performers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/plan-an-incentive-trip/): Plan an incentive trip for top performers: qualification, pre-trip engagement, documents, itinerary, on-trip app and post-trip follow-up for Indian teams. - [How to reconcile PNRs with arrival lists — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/pnr-arrival-reconciliation/): Match declared PNRs against arrival lists, flag exceptions early and run arrival day from one sheet, so pickups, rooms and welcome desks stay in step. - [How to get an attendance report after an event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/post-event-attendance-report/): What a useful attendance report contains, how to export it per activity with scanner and time, how to define attended, and how to share it with HR and finance. - [What to do after the event: reconciliation — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/post-event-reconciliation-and-archive/): A seven-day after-event routine: reconcile arrivals and scans, close hospitality gaps, export records, send thanks, archive and delete on schedule. - [How to prevent gate-crashers with a digital entry pass](https://sociana.in/guides/prevent-gatecrashers-with-digital-entry-pass/): Tie entry to a registered list, issue personal QR passes, set time windows and repeat-scan limits per function, and staff a calm lookup lane for exceptions. - [How to run a wedding guest directory without sharing numbers](https://sociana.in/guides/private-wedding-guest-directory/): Run a wedding guest directory without sharing phone numbers: profiles, chat requests, QR contact exchange, visibility rules and privacy. - [How many push notifications are too many at an event?](https://sociana.in/guides/push-notification-frequency/): A practical notification budget for conferences: three tiers, a daily ceiling per audience, quiet hours and a review loop so push stays worth opening. - [How to check in guests with QR codes, step by step — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/qr-code-event-check-in-step-by-step/): Set up QR check-in from registration to scan: personal QR on the phone, an organiser scanner, present and absent counts, and a manual fallback. - [What to do when a guest's QR code does not scan — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/qr-code-not-scanning-fallbacks/): Seven calm fallbacks for a failed QR scan at a wedding or function, from reopening the pass to a name lookup, so the line moves and the record stays whole. - [How to run a QR scavenger hunt at a venue — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/qr-scavenger-hunt-setup/): The technical set-up of a QR scavenger hunt: marker design, printing, placement, scan limits, step order, testing and what to do when a code fails. - [How to qualify leads at a stall — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/qualify-leads-at-your-stall/): Scan each visitor from their own QR, write a one-line note, mark a lead or a visit, review the scan log each evening and export to your CRM through Sheets. - [How to replace hospitality spreadsheets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/replace-hospitality-spreadsheets/): Move a 200-person hospitality master sheet into a request, publish and verify workflow where delegates answer themselves and the desk sees status. - [How to report event outcomes to leadership in one page](https://sociana.in/guides/report-event-outcomes-to-leadership/): A one-page structure for event reports: purpose, five numbers with denominators, cost per attendee, lessons and the decision you need, built from app exports. - [How to restrict sessions to ticket holders — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/restrict-sessions-to-ticket-holders/): Limit sessions, chat and entry to people who hold the right ticket: set ticket types, link access rules, check at the door and read the access list. - [How to run a treasure hunt at a corporate event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/run-a-corporate-treasure-hunt/): Plan a corporate treasure hunt: theme and story, mixed teams, clue design, safety, scoring and a debrief that turns it into team connection. - [How to run a leaderboard competition at an offsite — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/run-a-leaderboard-competition/): Run a leaderboard competition at a corporate offsite: team formation, scoring, daily updates, fairness checks and a clean finish on the last evening. - [How to run a no-login live poll on an LED wall — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/run-a-no-login-poll-on-a-venue-screen/): Set up a live poll that the room answers from a QR code on the LED wall, with no app install, and watch results update on the venue screen. - [How to run a social wall at an event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/run-a-social-wall-at-your-event/): Set up a social wall for an exhibition or conference: hashtag, approval queue, screen placement, brand safety and what to do when the feed goes quiet. - [How to run a reward store at an event — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/run-an-event-reward-store/): Plan an on-site reward store: pricing items in points, stock and limits, QR redemption at the counter, wallet versus rank and cash-out of leftovers. - [How to run a sales kickoff (SKO) app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/sales-kickoff-app/): Set up a sales kickoff app with a live agenda, hidden-until-reveal quizzes, a leaderboard and recognition, then run it from the stage with Manager tools. - [How to schedule announcements by group — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/schedule-announcements-by-group/): Plan and schedule push announcements for each day of a three-day meet, targeted by group, with a cadence table and checks on timing and wording. - [How to do self check-in at a conference — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/self-check-in-without-staff/): Let delegates check themselves in at a conference: when self check-in fits, how to set rules, what to keep staffed and how to catch misuse. - [How to send bulk WhatsApp invitations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/send-bulk-whatsapp-event-invitations/): Send event invitations on WhatsApp with approved templates, group segments, delivery logs and a four-message sequence that ends with a QR entry link. - [How to set up a hospitality desk for a conclave — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/set-up-a-hospitality-desk/): Set up a hospitality desk for an executive conclave: roles, shifts, request routing, SOS and help routes, scripts, escalation and the end-of-day review. - [How to set up Delegate ID + PIN login — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/set-up-delegate-id-pin-login/): Issue Delegate IDs and Access PINs from the secretariat, add OTP and request-access fallbacks, and keep hospitality and help-desk screens ready for delegates. - [How to decide between a single-event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/single-vs-multi-event-app/): When one branded app per occasion fits, when one app hosting many occasions fits, and how store submission changes the choice for agencies and associations. - [How to stop cheating in a step challenge — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/stop-cheating-in-step-challenges/): Keep a step leaderboard honest with daily caps, unusual-day flags, manual-entry exclusion and transparent admin corrections, without policing people. - [How to stop duplicate entries with QR passes — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/stop-duplicate-qr-entries/): Why a QR pass gets scanned twice, how a repeat-scan limit and activity rules prevent double entry, and how to read attempts against unique accepted attendance. - [How to summarise conference sessions with AI — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/summarise-sessions-with-ai/): Draft session summaries with AI, then review, edit and approve each one before members see it. - [How to track hospitality completeness before an event](https://sociana.in/guides/track-hospitality-completeness/): Track hospitality completeness before an event: define the fields, set pending-provided-verified states, report by group, chase gaps and decide a cut-off date. - [How to run a virtual journey challenge — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/virtual-journey-challenge/): Turn team steps into distance along a route to a finale, set weekly pace, show journey progress on one screen and keep fairness with sync pauses and caps. - [Fun activities for wedding guests on an app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/wedding-guest-app-activities/): Wedding guest activities that work on a phone: crosswords, riddles, Mad Libs, side-versus-side contests, wishes and memory prompts, paced over weeks. - [How to plan a wedding guest app's content — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/wedding-guest-app-content-plan/): A content calendar for a wedding guest app: what to publish at 75, 30, 7 and 2 days out, on the day and afterwards, with moderation and privacy settled first. - [How to manage entry for a wedding with 1,500 guests](https://sociana.in/guides/wedding-guest-entry-management/): A practical plan for wedding guest entry: guest list, QR entry pass, function-wise gates, family lanes and a manual fallback for 1,500 guests. - [How to share wedding photos with guests — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/wedding-photo-sharing-face-recognition/): Share wedding photos with each guest through a selfie-based photo finder: upload workflow, consent wording, albums, download controls and what to tell families. - [How to send OTP on WhatsApp instead of SMS — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/whatsapp-otp-vs-sms-otp-for-events/): Choose between WhatsApp OTP, SMS OTP and email OTP for event login: when each fits, what to set up, what to budget and how to configure fallbacks. - [How to get a WhatsApp template approved for event messages](https://sociana.in/guides/whatsapp-template-approval-for-events/): Write event WhatsApp templates that pass review: pick the right category, use clear variables, avoid common rejections and plan for the wait. - [How to run a Who Am I game for networking — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/who-am-i-networking-game/): Run a Who Am I networking game at a dealer or partner meet: clue design, matching people and clues, group mixing, timing and scoring that rewards conversation. - [How to run a word cloud on the big screen — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/word-cloud-on-screen/): Run a live word cloud at a keynote or town hall: prompt design, QR entry, moderation, screen layout and how to read the result in front of a room. - [How to write an RFP for an event app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/guides/write-an-event-app-rfp/): Write an event app RFP that vendors can answer fairly: scope, must-haves, data and security questions, pricing format and a weighted scorecard. ## Tools - [Event templates and checklists — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/): Free event templates and checklists with the full contents on the page. - [Event planning calculators — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/): Seventeen free calculators for Indian organisers: event app cost and ROI, launch timeline, hospitality, rooms and transfers, check-in, points and rewards, messaging, surveys and ticket fees. - [Event app cost estimator (India, ₹) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/event-app-cost-estimator/): Package, participants and add-ons → a ₹ band and the package that fits. - [Event app ROI calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/event-app-roi/): Printing, team hours, messaging and engagement → ROI and payback. - [App launch timeline calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/app-launch-timeline/): Days to your event, package and readiness → kick-off date and milestones. - [Hospitality workload calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/hospitality-workload/): Guests × arrangements × touches → desk hours today and with the app. - [Engagement points economy calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/engagement-points-economy/): Audience, points per action and prizes → engagement score and cost per engaged person. - [Step challenge target planner — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/step-challenge-target-planner/): Baseline, length and team size → fair targets and cost per active participant. - [Exhibitor lead value calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/exhibitor-lead-value/): Visitors, scans and funnel rates → pipeline per exhibitor and your net. - [WhatsApp campaign cost calculator (India) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/whatsapp-campaign-cost/): Recipients × messages × template type → cost, cost per read and credits to buy. - [Ticket revenue, fees & GST calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/ticket-revenue-and-fees/): Tickets × price, gateway and GST → your net payout on Flat, Flex or commission. - [Leaderboard fairness simulator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/leaderboard-fairness-simulator/): Players, points and a daily cap → how far leaders pull ahead and who can still win. - [Check-in scanner capacity planner — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/attendance-capacity-planner/): Arrivals, peak and seconds per scan → scanners needed and the longest wait. - [OTP cost: SMS vs WhatsApp (India, ₹) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/otp-cost-sms-vs-whatsapp/): Logins, resends and unit rates → OTP cost by SMS, WhatsApp and email. - [Room allocation calculator for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/room-allocation/): Guests, sharing rules and crew → rooms to block, room-nights and hotel cost. - [Airport transfer scheduler for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/airport-transfer-scheduler/): Arrivals, vehicle size and drive time → fleet at the peak, trips and cost. - [Reward store budget calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/reward-store-budget/): Points earned, redemption and catalogue → store cost and points per ₹1 to fit a budget. - [Push notification cadence planner for events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/push-notification-cadence/): Days, sessions and notices → pushes per person per day and a pre-event schedule. - [Event survey sample size calculator — Sociana](https://sociana.in/calculators/event-survey-sample-size/): Audience, margin and response rate → responses needed and the margin you will get. - [Agency multi-client app checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/agency-multi-client-app-checklist/): A 32-point checklist for agencies who run many client occasions on one branded app: structure, onboarding, branding per occasion, data separation, support and handover. - [Airport pickup schedule template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/airport-pickup-schedule-template/): A pickup schedule that groups arrivals into waves and assigns vehicles and drivers, with 26 example rows. - [Announcement schedule template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/announcement-schedule-template/): A message calendar for a partner meet, from invitation to thank-you, listing 24 announcements with timing, audience group, channel and owner. - [Annual strategy meet checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/annual-strategy-meet-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for the company’s annual strategy meet: objectives, leadership agenda, employee data, resort logistics, engagement and the follow-through that turns the meet into action. - [App Store & Play Store submission checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/store-submission-checklist/): A 34-point checklist for putting a branded event app on the App Store and Google Play, covering accounts, listing copy, screenshots, privacy forms, test access and review timing. - [Association annual conference checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/association-conference-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for an association’s annual conference, from member communication and registration to AGM logistics, awards and the year-round follow-up. - [Attendance activity plan (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/attendance-activity-plan/): A plan that decides, before the event, where attendance will be scanned and what each scan earns. - [Awards night checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/awards-night-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for an awards night, from category design and nominations to the stage script, winner notifications and the post-event recognition. - [Conference agenda template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/conference-agenda-template/): A two-day conference agenda with parallel tracks, a workshop lane, breaks, a dinner and an annual meeting, laid out so it imports cleanly into an app. - [Conference app launch checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/conference-app-launch-checklist/): A 36-point checklist to take a conference app from signed scope to a calm first morning: accounts, agenda, speakers, notices, polls, sponsors and the hand-over to the on-site team. - [Corporate bingo card template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/corporate-bingo-card-template/): A twenty-five-square people bingo for conferences, with prompts grouped into people, learning, recognition, network, fun and wrap-up. - [Corporate trivia question bank (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/corporate-trivia-question-bank/): Thirty general-knowledge and workplace trivia questions with four options, the correct answer and a one-line fun fact, plus a difficulty tag. - [Data-protection addendum outline (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/data-protection-addendum-outline/): An outline of the clauses a data-protection addendum to an event-app contract usually needs, in 28 lines: roles, purposes, data categories, sub-processors, security, deletion and audits. - [Dealer meet agenda template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/dealer-meet-agenda-template/): A one-day dealer or partner meet agenda that spends the morning on information and the afternoon on clinics, a quiz and awards. - [Dealer meet checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/dealer-meet-checklist/): A 40-point checklist for a dealer or distributor meet, in five phases from objectives and invitations to the follow-up. - [Destination conclave hospitality checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/destination-conclave-hospitality-checklist/): A 38-point checklist for hospitality at a destination conclave: guest list lock, flights, rooms, pickups, meals, medical, protocol and the arrival desk. - [Event app content plan (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-app-content-plan/): A content plan for an event app, row by row: each screen, the content item, the format, the source, the owner, the approver, the lead time and the status. - [Event app RFP template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-app-rfp-template/): A 40-line requirements sheet for buying a branded event app, grouped by audience, modules, data, security, delivery and commercials. - [Event day operations checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-day-operations-checklist/): A thirty-four-point checklist for the day itself, ordered as the day runs: before doors, arrival, programme, meals, people and safety, then the close. - [Event feedback form template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-feedback-form-template/): A 26-question feedback form for a conference or event, grouped by what you want to learn: overall, content, venue, organisation, networking and what to change. - [Event hospitality master sheet (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/hospitality-master-sheet/): One sheet that holds a guest's flights, pickup, room and drop together, with a status for each. - [Event NPS survey template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-nps-survey-template/): A twenty-two-step survey that opens with the recommendation question, branches by score and then covers experience, value and profile. - [Event outcome report template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-outcome-report/): A report template of twenty-five measures in eight sections: reach, participation, satisfaction, hospitality, operations, sponsors, leads and learning. - [Event push notification copy templates (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/event-push-notification-templates/): Thirty push notification drafts for conferences, written within the limits of a lock screen: a short title, a body under 90 characters and the moment to send. - [Exhibition app checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/exhibition-app-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for adding an app to a trade show or community expo: exhibitor accounts, visitor registration, floor plan, scanning, show-day support and the post-show reports. - [Exhibitor manual template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/exhibitor-manual-template/): A forty-four-point outline for an exhibitor manual, grouped into the show, the stall, move-in and out, power and technical, safety, visitors and leads, marketing, logistics and deadlines. - [Exhibitor onboarding pack (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/exhibitor-onboarding-pack/): The pack an exhibition organiser sends each exhibitor: twenty-six items across account setup, stall profile, lead capture, booth logistics and post-show reports, with deadlines and who supplies what. - [Feature selection matrix (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/feature-selection-matrix/): A planning grid that turns thirty-odd app features into a decision: switch on, switch on later or leave off. - [Government workshop protocol checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/government-workshop-protocol-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for a government workshop or review meeting where protocol, access control and secure communication matter: delegate identity, liaison officers, seating, transport, security and documents. - [Guest travel details form template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/guest-travel-details-form/): The travel-details form to send wedding guests, written as 26 fields in plain words with a note on why each is asked. - [Hospitality data-field checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/hospitality-data-field-checklist/): Twenty-eight data fields a hospitality desk needs for every guest before a conclave: identity, travel, stay, ground transport, meals and exceptions. - [Incentive trip planning checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/incentive-trip-checklist/): A 36-point checklist for an incentive trip that rewards a sales team or channel partners: qualification, travel, stay, programme, communication and reconciliation. - [Lead qualification form for stalls (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/lead-qualification-form-template/): A lead capture form for exhibitor stalls with 24 fields: who the visitor is, what they came for, how soon they would buy, consent and the next step. - [Leaderboard points scheme (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/leaderboard-points-scheme/): A points scheme for a programme-long leaderboard, with twenty-six actions across participation, attendance, engagement, games, recognition, learning, contribution and fair play. - [Leadership programme app checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/leadership-programme-checklist/): A 32-point checklist for a leadership development programme run in cohorts: selecting participants, designing sessions, personalising with Unique Codes, quizzes, reflections and the manager conversations that follow. - [Offsite team-building checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/offsite-team-building-checklist/): A 34-point checklist for a one- or two-day corporate offsite built around team games: choosing teams, venue, activities, scoring, logistics and the closing recognition. - [Photo & facial-recognition consent notice (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/photo-and-facial-recognition-consent-notice/): A clause-by-clause consent notice for wedding photos and optional face-based photo finding. - [Points & rewards economy sheet (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/points-and-rewards-economy-sheet/): A worksheet for designing a points economy that does not inflate: earning actions with caps, a conversion to rewards, and ceilings per person. - [Post-event reconciliation checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/post-event-reconciliation-checklist/): Thirty checks to close a conclave cleanly: attendance against registrations, hospitality against invoices, content and photo release, data exports and deletion dates. - [Pre-launch QA checklist for a branded app (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/pre-launch-qa-checklist/): Thirty-six checks to run on a branded event app in the final week, from login and branding through notifications and reports. - [Recurring employee programme cycle checklist (free)](https://sociana.in/templates/employee-programme-cycle-checklist/): A 34-point checklist for running an employee programme that repeats every year, quarter or month: set the cycle, open enrolment, run activities, review submissions and close. - [Reward store catalogue template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/reward-store-catalogue-template/): A reward catalogue sheet with 24 example items across four tiers, showing point cost, stock, fulfilment owner and lead time. - [Rooming list template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/rooming-list-template/): A rooming list sheet with 24 example rows and the columns a hotel and an incentive-trip team both need: guest, companion, room type, nights, bed preference, approvals and special requests. - [Scavenger hunt clue template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/scavenger-hunt-clue-template/): Twenty-two clues for a venue-wide scavenger hunt, each with a zone, an answer or QR code, points, a hint with its cost, a time limit and a step-free note. - [Session feedback questions (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/session-feedback-questions/): A bank of twenty-four feedback questions that can be mixed by session type: talks, panels and workshops each get their own questions. - [Show Flow / run-of-show template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/show-flow-template/): A minute-by-minute run-of-show for a one-day partner meet that keeps stage cues, screen cues and app triggers side by side. - [Sponsor report template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/sponsor-report-template/): A report outline that shows a sponsor what they bought, what was delivered and what it produced. - [Step challenge launch checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/step-challenge-launch-checklist/): A 34-point launch checklist for a company step challenge, covering rules, health-data permissions, team formation, communication and the first-week support desk. - [Step challenge rules template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/step-challenge-rules-template/): The rules page for a corporate step challenge, written as 24 plain-language rules: who can join, how steps count, how teams form, what counts as cheating and how winners are decided. - [Townhall or all-hands checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/townhall-checklist/): A 30-point checklist for a townhall or all-hands, built around the three things that make or break it: questions, timing and technology. - [Wedding guest app content checklist (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/wedding-guest-app-content-checklist/): Everything a wedding guest app should contain before the invitation goes out: welcome note, functions, venues, dress codes, travel help, family contacts and the wish wall. - [Wedding guest list template (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/wedding-guest-list-template/): A guest list built for a destination wedding, where the list is also the travel and stay plan. - [Wedding itinerary template for guests (free) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/templates/wedding-itinerary-template/): A day-by-day wedding itinerary written from the guest's side: what the function is, where, what to wear, how to get there and what to bring. ## Learn - [Resources — guides, templates and tools for event organisers](https://sociana.in/learn/): Guides, templates, calculators, demos, comparisons, glossary and help for event organisers. - [Sociana blog — notes from 300+ events](https://sociana.in/blog/): Field notes from 300+ events. - [Sociana release notes and changelog](https://sociana.in/changelog/): Product notes on what is live in Sociana, what is rolling out and what is coming soon, with dates and the features behind each note. - [AI session summaries: lessons — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/ai-session-summaries-organiser-approval-lessons/): Seven lessons from designing AI session summaries that stay hidden until an organiser approves them, with the EEMA Connect set-up as the worked example. - [Consent-first facial recognition at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/consent-first-facial-recognition-at-events/): How a selfie-based photo finder can respect consent: what Smart Lens searches, what organisers must agree, and the questions to ask any vendor. - [Designing a fair unified leaderboard — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/designing-a-fair-unified-leaderboard/): How to design one leaderboard across polls, games, attendance and steps that people trust: sources, caps, staff exclusion, wallet points and audit. - [Do you need an event app? A straight answer — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/do-you-need-an-event-app/): Not always. - [Event app adoption: how to define it — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/event-app-adoption-benchmarks/): Event app adoption is activation, not downloads. - [Event app by attendee count: what changes at 100 — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/event-app-by-attendee-count/): What to ask of an event app at 100, 500 and 2,000+ attendees: logins, scanning, groups, support desks and delivery, with Indian events as examples. - [18 event app examples from India — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/event-app-examples-india/): Eighteen Indian event apps built on Sociana, from partner meets to weddings and step challenges, with one idea to borrow from each. - [Event app trends 2026: seven shifts for Indian organisers](https://sociana.in/blog/event-app-trends-2026/): Seven event app trends for India in 2026, each tied to a sourced figure: live events, Android, WhatsApp, UPI, DPDP, engagement and approved AI. - [The event tech stack: what an Indian organiser actually needs in 2026](https://sociana.in/blog/event-tech-stack-2026/): A layered event tech stack for India: the three layers every event needs, the ones that depend on the occasion, and the specialists no app replaces. - [Exhibitor lead quality: what counts as a lead — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/exhibitor-lead-quality-what-counts/): Raw scans, consented leads and qualified leads are three different numbers. - [Group-first design for partner meets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/group-first-design-for-partner-meets/): Why a partner meet should be built around groups such as Partners and Employees, and how to scope content, polls and notifications safely. - [Hidden costs of event software — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/hidden-costs-of-event-software/): Twelve costs that rarely appear on an event software quote in India: messaging, payments, store submission, services, audience caps, exports and your own time. - [How we reconcile PNRs in the last 72 hours before arrival](https://sociana.in/blog/how-we-reconcile-pnrs-in-72-hours/): A practical 72-hour runbook for reconciling PNRs and arrivals before a conclave or partner meet, with states, exceptions and the questions to ask. - [Hubilo became VirtualPro: what Indian event teams should do](https://sociana.in/blog/hubilo-became-virtualpro-what-indian-teams-should-do/): hubilo.com now redirects to VirtualPro by Brandlive. - [Let's not just host events. Let's stay with people.](https://sociana.in/blog/lets-not-just-host-events/): A founder's note on why we build for the months before and after the venue, and what staying with people means in an event app. - [No-login polls: why the QR code on the venue screen matters](https://sociana.in/blog/no-login-polls-why-the-qr-matters/): Why Sociana runs polls on the open web as well as in the app, how the two doors merge into one result, and how to measure the effect honestly. - [One platform instead of eight tools — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/one-platform-instead-of-eight-tools/): Eight tools usually run one Indian event: forms, WhatsApp, scanners, polls, games, photos, sheets. - [How to measure participation rates at events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/participation-rates-across-300-events/): What a participation rate should measure, which denominator to pick, and how to check a participation figure someone quotes you. - [Step-challenge data quality: phones vs watches — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/step-challenge-data-quality/): What makes a step count countable in a corporate challenge: phone and watch sources, manual-entry exclusion, caps, late syncs and valid synced days. - [Wedding apps are hospitality apps — Sociana](https://sociana.in/blog/wedding-apps-are-hospitality-apps/): A founder's view: a destination wedding guest app succeeds by collecting travel and ID details and publishing each guest's arrangements back. - [What a hospitality-heavy conclave really needs from its app](https://sociana.in/blog/what-a-hospitality-heavy-conclave-really-needs/): A founder's view from a three-day Jaipur conclave: lead with My Stay and My Journey, reconcile PNRs early and keep a help desk one tap away. ## Company & trust - [Sociana pricing — event app packages from ₹65,000](https://sociana.in/pricing/): Published Sociana prices: Launch from ₹65,000, Event & Hospitality from ₹1,40,000 and Participation & Rewards from ₹2,25,000 + GST per occasion, plus programmes, ticketing, agencies and weddings. - [Trust centre — how Sociana secures event data](https://sociana.in/trust/): How Sociana protects event data: logins and access, group-scoped content, payments, consent, DPDP, retention and deletion. - [About Sociana — branded event apps from Kolkata, India](https://sociana.in/company/): Sociana and Alien Brains Private Limited: who we are and the facts. - [Contact Sociana — book a demo](https://sociana.in/contact/): Book a walkthrough or message us on WhatsApp. - [How Sociana secures event data](https://sociana.in/trust/security-overview/): Role-based access scoped per event, guest-list logins, group-scoped content, Razorpay payments, hosting and what Sociana does not claim. - [Sociana and India's DPDP Act](https://sociana.in/trust/data-protection-and-dpdp/): Fiduciary and processor roles, what Sociana does as your processor, and participant rights under the DPDP Act 2023. - [Data retention and account deletion — Sociana](https://sociana.in/trust/data-retention-and-account-deletion/): How long each kind of occasion data is kept, how travel documents are handled, and how deletion works. - [Health Connect and Apple Health data in step challenges](https://sociana.in/trust/health-data-handling/): Steps are read only with permission; what is read, who sees it, and when it is deleted. - [Facial recognition in Smart Lens: consent and storage](https://sociana.in/trust/smart-lens-and-biometric-consent/): Off unless the organiser switches it on, used only by guests who choose to, and limited to finding photos. - [Responsible AI at Sociana](https://sociana.in/trust/responsible-ai/): Where Sociana uses AI and the human step before anything reaches guests. - [Sub-processors and integrations — Sociana](https://sociana.in/trust/sub-processors-and-integrations/): The main services that run the Sociana platform and this website, and the integrations organisers connect. - [Accessibility and app-store compliance — Sociana](https://sociana.in/trust/accessibility-and-store-compliance/): The WCAG 2.2 AA target and how Sociana apps are published on the App Store and Google Play. - [System status and uptime — Sociana](https://sociana.in/trust/status/): The event-day ops desk, the named delivery lead, escalation and store-review fallbacks. - [Sociana at a glance: company, founder, 300+ events](https://sociana.in/company/sociana-facts/): Alien Brains Private Limited, CIN U74999WB2017PTC222814, incorporated 18 Sep 2017 in Kolkata; founder; 300+ events. - [Praveen Kumar Bahety — Founder & Managing Director — Sociana](https://sociana.in/company/founder/): The founder and managing director of Alien Brains Private Limited, the Kolkata company behind Sociana. - [Partners and agencies — Sociana](https://sociana.in/company/partners-and-agencies/): Referral, wholesale partner rates and a white-label multi-event platform for agencies, PCOs, DMCs and planners. - [Press and media kit — Sociana](https://sociana.in/company/press-and-media-kit/): Boilerplate, logo files, company facts, founder and media contact. - [Agency / Multi-event Platform — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/agency-platform/): Sociana's Agency Platform gives an agency, PCO, DMC or planner one reusable container app with a separate, branded space for each client occasion, so you add an app to every pitch without a tech team. - [Enterprise & custom — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/enterprise/): Sociana Enterprise is quoted for occasions that outgrow the packages: multi-city meets, mega-events, bespoke modules, integrations with HR or CRM systems, hosting on your servers or ours, on-site teams and a named ops le - [Event & Hospitality package — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/event-and-hospitality/): Sociana Event & Hospitality is the package for meets where guests travel: a layout designed for your occasion, flights and rooms published to each guest (My Stay, My Flights, My Journey), group-wise agendas and announcem - [Launch package — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/launch/): Sociana Launch is a branded single-occasion app on a Sociana-designed template in your colours: agenda, information pages, feed, gallery, polls, feedback, one game and QR check-in. - [Participation & Rewards package — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/participation-and-rewards/): Sociana Participation & Rewards turns an occasion into something people play and score: points, wallets and a reward store, team and region leaderboards, contests, quizzes, a custom branded game, an AI activation, exhibi - [Recurring Programmes (annual) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/recurring-programmes/): Sociana Recurring Programmes run a year of participation in one app: quarterly contests and tournaments, submissions with review, leaderboards that reset by cycle, badges, announcements and outcome reports. - [Ticketed public events — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/ticketed-public-events/): Sociana Ticketed Events sells tickets through your own website and branded app, scans entry at the gate on staff phones and settles money daily into your own gateway account. - [Weddings & Social packages — Sociana](https://sociana.in/pricing/weddings-and-social/): Sociana Weddings & Social is a private guest app for weddings and family celebrations, priced per wedding with the GST-inclusive total shown. ## For roles - [Sociana by role — for the people who run events](https://sociana.in/for/) - [Association conference app for secretariats — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/association-secretariats/) - [Awards night app with live audience voting — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/awards-night-organisers/) - [Corporate event app for annual meets and offsites — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/corporate-event-managers/) - [White-label event app for agencies and PCOs — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/event-agencies/) - [Ticketing and gate entry for promoters & organisers](https://sociana.in/for/event-promoters-and-community-organisers/) - [Executive conclave app for CXO offices — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/executive-conclave-hosts/) - [Exhibition app with lead capture for organisers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/exhibition-organisers/) - [Delegate app for government workshops and protocol — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/government-and-protocol-officers/) - [Employee programme app for HR & L&D leads — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/hr-and-ld-leads/) - [Sociana for IT, security & procurement reviewers](https://sociana.in/for/it-and-procurement-reviewers/) - [Dealer meet app for sales & channel leads — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/sales-and-channel-leads/) - [Wedding guest app for families & planners — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/wedding-planners-and-families/) - [Step challenge app for wellness & benefits leads — Sociana](https://sociana.in/for/wellness-and-benefits-leads/) ## Changelog - [What's new in Sociana — October 2026](https://sociana.in/changelog/2026-10/) ## Help centre - [Help centre for attendees, organisers and exhibitors](https://sociana.in/help/) - [Answer a live poll or quiz — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/answer-a-live-poll-or-quiz/) - [Book a meeting room slot — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/book-a-meeting-room-slot/) - [Buy a ticket and download your invoice — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/buy-a-ticket-and-get-your-invoice/) - [Check your leaderboard rank — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/check-your-leaderboard-rank/) - [Confirm your registered profile after login — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/confirm-this-is-me-profile/) - [Connect your health app for step sync — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/connect-health-app-for-step-sync/) - [Delete your account — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/delete-your-account/) - [Exchange contacts by QR — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/exchange-contacts-by-qr/) - [Find your photos with Smart Lens — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/find-your-photos-with-smart-lens/) - [Generate your I am attending poster — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/generate-your-i-am-attending-poster/) - [Join an occasion by code or QR — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/join-an-occasion-by-code-or-qr/) - [Log in with delegate ID and PIN — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/log-in-with-delegate-id-and-pin/) - [Log in with an SMS or email OTP — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/log-in-with-whatsapp-otp/) - [Post photos and videos to the timeline — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/post-photos-and-videos-to-the-timeline/) - [Raise a help desk or SOS request — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/raise-a-help-desk-or-sos-request/) - [Redeem rewards with your wallet — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/redeem-rewards-with-your-wallet/) - [Send a chat request to another delegate — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/send-a-chat-request/) - [Show your entry pass QR at the gate — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/show-your-entry-pass-qr/) - [Submit your hospitality details and documents — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/submit-hospitality-details-and-documents/) - [View My Stay and My Flights — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/view-my-stay-and-my-flights/) - [Chat with visitors from your stall — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/exhibitors/chat-with-visitors-from-your-stall/) - [Edit your stall and add members — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/exhibitors/edit-your-stall-and-add-members/) - [Export your leads after the show — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/exhibitors/export-your-leads-after-the-show/) - [Scan visitors and manage leads — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/exhibitors/scan-visitors-and-manage-leads/) - [Add speakers, sponsors and documents — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/add-speakers-sponsors-and-documents/) - [Approve AI session summaries — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/approve-ai-session-summaries/) - [Build the agenda and show flow — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/build-the-agenda-and-show-flow/) - [Configure games and content sets — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/configure-games-and-content-sets/) - [Configure the leaderboard and points — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/configure-leaderboard-and-points/) - [Configure the look and layout of your app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/configure-look-and-layout/) - [Configure meeting room slots and limits — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/configure-meeting-room-slots-and-limits/) - [Connect Google Sheets, Airtable and webhooks — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/connect-google-sheets-airtable-and-webhooks/) - [Create attendance activities and rules — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/create-attendance-activities-and-rules/) - [Create groups and scope content — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/create-groups-and-scope-content/) - [Export reports — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/export-reports/) - [Handle account deletion requests — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/handle-account-deletion-requests/) - [Handle exceptions in the operations workspace — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/handle-exceptions-in-the-operations-workspace/) - [Import members from a CSV file — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/import-members-from-csv/) - [Manage panel admin roles and scopes — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/manage-panel-admin-roles-and-scopes/) - [Moderate posts and approve the social wall — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/moderate-posts-and-approve-the-social-wall/) - [Publish My Stay and My Journey — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/publish-my-stay-and-my-journey/) - [Request hospitality information — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/request-hospitality-information/) - [Review registrations and approve members — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/review-registrations-and-approve-members/) - [Run tournaments, contests and submissions — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/run-tournaments-contests-and-submissions/) - [Scan attendance with the organiser app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/scan-attendance-with-the-organiser-app/) - [Schedule announcements by group — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/schedule-announcements-by-group/) - [Send a WhatsApp campaign — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/send-a-whatsapp-campaign/) - [Set rules for posting, downloads and the guest whitelist](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-rules-posting-downloads-whitelist/) - [Set up a multi-occasion app — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-a-multi-occasion-app/) - [Set up a no-login poll for a venue screen — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-a-no-login-poll-for-a-venue-screen/) - [Set up a QR treasure hunt — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-a-qr-treasure-hunt/) - [Set up a step challenge — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-a-step-challenge/) - [Set up exhibitors and stalls — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-exhibitors-and-stalls/) - [Set up Smart Lens and consent — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-smart-lens-and-consent/) - [Set up the reward store — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-the-reward-store/) - [Set up ticket types and Razorpay — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/set-up-ticket-types-and-razorpay/) - [Submit your branded app to the stores — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/submit-your-branded-app-to-the-stores/) - [Trigger a live poll or quiz — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/trigger-a-live-poll-or-quiz/) - [Turn features on and off — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/turn-features-on-and-off/) - [Use the in-app mobile dashboards — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/use-in-app-mobile-dashboards/) - [Help for attendees — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/attendees/) - [Help for exhibitors — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/exhibitors/) - [Help for organisers — Sociana](https://sociana.in/help/organisers/) ## Regional-language pages - [इवेंट ऐप — Sociana हिन्दी में](https://sociana.in/hi/) - [शादी का गेस्ट ऐप — Sociana हिन्दी में](https://sociana.in/hi/weddings/) - [Sociana के फ़ीचर — हिन्दी में](https://sociana.in/hi/features/) - [ইভেন্ট অ্যাপ — Sociana বাংলায়](https://sociana.in/bn/) - [বিয়ের গেস্ট অ্যাপ — Sociana বাংলায়](https://sociana.in/bn/weddings/) - [বিয়ের গেস্ট অ্যাপের কনটেন্ট চেকলিস্ট (বিনামূল্যে) — Sociana](https://sociana.in/bn/templates/wedding-guest-app-content-checklist/) - [நிகழ்வுச் செயலி — Sociana தமிழில்](https://sociana.in/ta/) - [மாநாட்டுச் செயலி — Sociana தமிழில்](https://sociana.in/ta/conferences/) - [ایونٹ ایپ — Sociana اردو میں](https://sociana.in/ur/) - [شادی کے مہمانوں کی ایپ — Sociana اردو میں](https://sociana.in/ur/weddings/) - [උත්සව සඳහා යෙදුම — Sociana සිංහලෙන්](https://sociana.in/si/) - [සම්මන්ත්‍රණ යෙදුම — Sociana සිංහලෙන්](https://sociana.in/si/conferences/) - [कार्यक्रमको एप — Sociana नेपालीमा](https://sociana.in/ne/) - [सम्मेलनको एप — Sociana नेपालीमा](https://sociana.in/ne/conferences/) - [اپ اختصاصی برنامهٔ شما — Sociana به دری](https://sociana.in/fa/) - [اپ ورکشاپ‌ها و نشست‌های رسمی — Sociana به دری](https://sociana.in/fa/government-workshops/) ## More pages - [Sociana in your language — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil](https://sociana.in/languages/) - [The Sociana team and how we deliver](https://sociana.in/company/team/) - [Careers at Alien Brains — Sociana](https://sociana.in/company/careers/) ## Optional - [Full-text corpus for LLMs (index of parts)](https://sociana.in/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap index](https://sociana.in/sitemap.xml)