If your community hosts meetups, workshops, conferences, or socials, Events is set to play a much bigger part in how you run them.

Events arrived in Invision Community 5.0 with venues, online meetings and simple event management. In Invision Community 5.1, it grows into an event platform with richer discussions, proper registration, guest lists, paid tickets and QR check-in, so organisers can run the whole thing without leaving the community.

More and more, community owners are looking for ways to connect their online space with what happens in the real world. We saw it with Quests, where giving members something to work towards drove real engagement, and now, we've overhauled Events to connect your community to events you run in person.

Here's what's new

A proper home for every event

While you could encourage members to discuss an upcoming event in a forum and upload event photos in a separate gallery, it all felt disconnected and scattered throughout your community.

Every event now feels like its own space, with tabs for attendees, discussions and more, so everything about that event lives in one place. Organisers and attendees get a clearer picture of who's coming and what's being said, and you can automatically attach a photo gallery to events.

Set it up once on the calendar, and every new event gets its own gallery with no extra setup. Useful for meetups and conferences where photos add context to the event.

Discussions built around the event

Members can talk about an event before it happens, while it's running and after it wraps up.

You choose the level of engagement: simple comments for light conversation, or full discussions with reactions and follow options for events that need more depth.

A casual social can stay simple, while a conference or training day can support real conversation around sessions, logistics and follow-ups.

Registration that goes beyond a basic RSVP

Members have long been able to say “Going”, “Maybe” or “Not Going.”

In Invision Community 5.1, that becomes a full registration workflow.

For members you can:

• Register within the organiser's opening and closing windows.

• Bring guests, with name, email and phone collected when you need those details.

• Add or update guests after RSVPing.

For organisers and admins you can:

• Control exactly when registration opens and closes.

• View the full attendee list, including the number of guests each member is bringing.

• See guest details and download lists as CSV.

• Control who can view attendee lists with group permissions.

• Get notified when someone RSVPs.

• Review RSVP activity over time in the AdminCP.

It turns a simple yes or no into everything you need to actually plan the event, from headcount to who's bringing who.

Sell tickets with Commerce

A very popular request has been to sell tickets to events directly through Invision Community.

Happily, with Invision Community 5.1, you can sell tickets directly through your community. For most use-cases, you no longer need to rely on a third party ticketing tool taking a cut of your sales.

You can set a price per event and members complete checkout right after RSVPing. Guest names appear on invoices and purchase records, you can configure site commission and fees so organisers earn from their ticket sales, and coupons can be applied to specific events.

When QR check-in is enabled, members can print their tickets too.

Check in with QR codes

With Invision Community 5.1, in-person events get much smoother door management.

Every attendee (and every guest) gets their own QR code. Organisers can check people in from the attendee or guest list, or attendees can scan their own ticket and check themselves in.

Alternatively, you can also display a shared venue QR code so people check in on arrival. That's especially handy when the folks on the door aren't logged into the community as organisers.

Check-in times are recorded on both the attendee and guest lists.

Organisers with the right level of access

Event authors can appoint organisers and give each person only the permissions they need: edit the event, download attendee and guest lists, view the guest list, or check attendees in. The event creator always keeps full access.

That makes it far easier to run a larger event with a small team of registration desk staff, volunteers and co-hosts, without handing anyone the whole Admin Control panel.

Built for how communities actually run events

Put together, Invision Community 5.1 covers the full cycle of a community gathering.

1. Promote: a clear event page with dates, discussion, and an optional gallery.

2. Register: RSVP windows, guests, capacity, and notifications.

3. Sell: optional paid tickets without the need for a third party.

4. Manage: organisers, guest lists, and exports.

5. Arrive: QR check-in at the door.

Invision Community 5.1 builds on existing functionality by adding registration, ticketing, and a check-in layer that lets you run Events end-to-end within Invision Community.

All functionality will be available across all Invision Community plans.

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This is a major improvement, well done.

55 minutes ago, Matt said:

All functionality will be available across all Invision Community plans.

Thank you for including this in self-hosted, too.

This is an awesome addition. Thank you.

• Bring guests, with name, email and phone collected when you need those details.
  
  

Wow. This addresses many of our requests and things we hadn't thought to dream about (and things that could get in the way).

Can some of the new features be toggled on/off? For example, we allow paid members, but not guests.

Any member can organize an event. I hope the event creation process is simple. Globally disabling features we don't use could help.

Can we collect additional info on attendees (in our case, emergency contacts)? If we added some such fields to the member record, could they be displayed in an attendee list for the organizer?

We are a kayak club. Our paddles are free events, open to paid members. We also have pool practice sessions, which have a fee. We've been listing those as products.

Will it be possible to use a mobile app to scan and validate an event ticket purchased from the IPS store at the event's gates?

May also need the option to add the event ticket purchased from the IPS to the Apple Wallet. Make possible, or possible make?

53 minutes ago, beats23 said:

Will it be possible to use a mobile app to scan and validate an event ticket purchased from the IPS store at the event's gates?

You can use the camera app on a phone to scan the QR code, it'll give you a link that'll open the web browser/PWA to continue the check-in process. It's something we've discussed though!

48 minutes ago, beats23 said:

May also need the option to add the event ticket purchased from the IPS to the Apple Wallet. Make possible, or possible make?

It's a nice idea, but Apple doesn't make it easy. You'd need an Apple Developer account to get the certificate required to sign the Pass for the Wallet.

1 hour ago, NSPN said:

Wow. This addresses many of our requests and things we hadn't thought to dream about (and things that could get in the way).

Can some of the new features be toggled on/off? For example, we allow paid members, but not guests.

Any member can organize an event. I hope the event creation process is simple. Globally disabling features we don't use could help.

Can we collect additional info on attendees (in our case, emergency contacts)? If we added some such fields to the member record, could they be displayed in an attendee list for the organizer?

We are a kayak club. Our paddles are free events, open to paid members. We also have pool practice sessions, which have a fee. We've been listing those as products.

Yes, you can disable and enable certain features. Allowing Members to RSVP with guests for example can be disabled. You can also decide who can RSVP with category level permissions.

It's not possible right now to collect additional data, only their name, phone and email.

16 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Yes, you can disable and enable certain features. Allowing Members to RSVP with guests for example can be disabled. You can also decide who can RSVP with category level permissions.

It's not possible right now to collect additional data, only their name, phone and email.

Category permissions per event or systemwide? It’s systemwide now

Could it be possible to display other fields from the member record in the attendee list?

I am curious if I have an affiliate member who is setting up an event is it possible for us to setup a new payment gateway like Stripe and use their account so any purchase go directly to them and doesn't have to process with my Stripe.

52 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

It's a nice idea, but Apple doesn't make it easy. You'd need an Apple Developer account to get the certificate required to sign the Pass for the Wallet.

would be a nice feature if site admins do have Apple Developer Account. As it's already required to use Log In with Apple.

Edited Friday at 08:37 PM2 days by Ocean West

Really looking forward to using this 👍

Any chance of adding a RSVP reserve list?

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/470395-rsvp-reserve-list/#comment-2968777

23 hours ago, PrettyPixels said:

Thank you for including this in self-hosted, too.

Huge thanks to IPB for including this in self-hosted as well, this is such a nice addition!

7 hours ago, Richard Arch said:

Really looking forward to using this 👍

Any chance of adding a RSVP reserve list?

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/470395-rsvp-reserve-list/#comment-2968777

Yeah we use wait lists as well and having that as a first come, first serve replacement if someone cancels their RSVP is high value to keep things transparent and fair with the members.

I love this!! Although I really hope it comes with better date and time management. I can sell tickets, but not list a single event that runs 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 10 am to 4 pm on Sunday. And adding a recurring event feature that allows something like 1st Sunday, 3rd Monday, etc. would be a blessing to help automate some of this.

On 7/10/2026 at 4:05 PM, NSPN said:

Category permissions per event or systemwide? It’s systemwide now

Category level.

On 7/10/2026 at 4:05 PM, NSPN said:

Could it be possible to display other fields from the member record in the attendee list?

Not at the moment, though we can consider it for a future release.

On 7/10/2026 at 4:35 PM, Ocean West said:

I am curious if I have an affiliate member who is setting up an event is it possible for us to setup a new payment gateway like Stripe and use their account so any purchase go directly to them and doesn't have to process with my Stripe.

Yes, you can limit ticket sales to specific gateways, but note that it's system-wide.

On 7/11/2026 at 4:16 PM, Clover13 said:

Yeah we use wait lists as well and having that as a first come, first serve replacement if someone cancels their RSVP is high value to keep things transparent and fair with the members.

Wait Lists was on my personal wish list, but it just didn't make it this round. I'd love to add it at some point, but no promises/guarantees/ETA.