Small nonprofits and charities
A nonprofit runs its programmes, volunteers and fundraising.
Clubs, meetups and community groups
Your events go on a public calendar, and people RSVP until the room is full. Volunteers sign up on a form, and the newsletter says what's on.
The organizers work together in one Magpie team. Everyone who comes along uses the event pages, forms and boards you publish.
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This combination of five Magpie areas fits a community group.
- Calendar
- Calendar lists your events, takes RSVPs and stops them when the room is full.
- Forms
- Forms signs up volunteers, and can take a fee.
- Newsletter
- Newsletter tells your mailing list what's on each month.
- Message Boards
- Message Boards gives the group a place to talk between events.
- Team chat
- Team chat keeps the organizers' planning in channels.
Your events have their own pages, and people RSVP until the room is full.
Calendar holds the group's events. Each one can be private, open to anyone with its link, or on your public calendar. RSVPs stop when the event is full.
You can invite people by email, or share a link with a set number of uses. You see every response, and attendees choose whether their names are shown.
Volunteers sign up on a form, and a form can take a fee.
Forms builds sign-up forms, from starters such as Registration and RSVP. Questions can be text, choices, dates or file uploads. Responses come into one list.
A form can require a payment, the same amount for every response. People pay by card into the group's own Stripe account.
Your mailing list hears what's on each month.
Newsletter keeps your mailing list. People join from its sign-up page with double opt-in. You write each issue, send yourself a test and schedule it.
With web copies on, each issue has its own page. A QR code on a flyer can open the sign-up page.
People talk things over on a board, public or private to the group.
Message Boards gives the group a board of posts and replies. A private board is for your team, and anyone can read a public one.
People post, reply and vote, and Hot, New and Top sort the posts. A post's author, the board's creator and your admins can remove it.
Organizers plan in channels, and a volunteer can join just one.
Team chat gives your organizers channels, threads and direct messages. Admins create the channels.
Someone from outside the team can join one channel as a guest. They see that channel and nothing else in the team.
Four more areas cover support, a website, flyers and your contacts.
- Supporters
- Supporters lets people support the group every month.
- Websites
- Websites builds the group's site, at your own domain.
- QR Codes
- QR Codes puts your sign-up form or newsletter on a printed flyer.
- Contacts
- Contacts keeps the details of your venues, partners and volunteers.
An event goes from an idea to a full room.
The plan
Organizers agree the date in a channel.
The event
You add it to your public calendar, with RSVPs and a capacity.
The helpers
Volunteers sign up on a form.
The word
The newsletter and a flyer's QR code point people to it.
The day
You see who is going, up to the room's capacity.
Afterwards
The conversation carries on on the board.
Setting up takes four steps.
Make a team for the group
You invite your fellow organizers. Help: Create and manage a team.
Add your first event
You choose who can find it, and turn on RSVPs. Help: Create public and private calendar events.
Build a sign-up form
You start from Registration, and publish it. Help: Build, publish, and share a form.
Start your newsletter
You name it, describe it and share its sign-up page. Help: Start and configure a newsletter.
Plans
The organizers fit the Team plan, with each organizer a member of the team. People who RSVP, fill in a form or read a public board stay outside the team.
Magpie's fee on a paid form is 1%, and on supporters' payments 3%. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each card payment. Prices are on the Pricing page.
Other groups and organizations have pages of their own.
Sports clubs and youth leagues
A sports club organizes its teams, fixtures and members.
Churches, mosques, temples and faith groups
A faith community plans its services, groups and volunteers.
Theatre companies, choirs and community bands
An arts group puts on its shows, rehearsals and classes.
Conference, workshop and festival organizers (small)
An event organizer sells tickets and runs the day.
Questions community organizers ask
Can people RSVP to our events?
Yes. People choose Going or Not going on the event's page. You can set a capacity. Once that many are going, RSVPs stop and the page says the event is full. The page can show how many are going.
Can we invite people to a private event?
Yes. An event can be open only to people with its link. You send invitations by email, or make a reusable link with a set number of uses. It can have an end date. Revoke stops a link working.
Can volunteers sign up online?
Yes. A form can ask for each volunteer's name, email, skills and the dates they can come. Every response comes into one list, which you can export.
Can we charge a fee to take part?
Yes. A form can require a payment, the same amount for every response. People pay by card through Stripe, into the group's own account.
Can we send a monthly newsletter?
Yes. Newsletter keeps your mailing list, with double opt-in on its sign-up page. You write each issue, send yourself a test and schedule it.
Can members talk between events?
Yes. A Message Board holds posts, replies and votes. A public board can be read by anyone; a private one is for your team.
Can a volunteer join one chat without seeing everything?
Yes. A team admin can invite someone into one channel as a guest. They see that channel and nothing else in the team.
Can people support the group every month?
Yes. Supporters gives you a public page with a free tier and monthly paid tiers. Payments go to the group's own Stripe account.
Can we put a sign-up link on a flyer?
Yes. QR Codes makes a code for your published form or newsletter. You download it as SVG, PNG or PDF, ready to print.
Plan your next event in Magpie.
Create a Magpie account and make a team for the group.