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Email Reminders for Upcoming Events

  • March 12, 2026
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My organization has about a dozen events each spring and fall that are the same format but have different dates, times, and locations. People sign up through ticketed event forms. We want to send email reminders to registrants prior to the event (preferably 10 days out and 2 days out) and are trying to figure out the most straightforward way to do this. I’ve found two routes that each have their own challenges:

  1. Creating a workflow automation that uses a saved search with event (narrowed to the parameters so we’re not getting other event registrants in this flow) start date 10 days out, which will trigger sending an email. We love the set-it-and-monitor-it format of this, but the (major) drawback is that it sends a generic email. In some cases, people are registering almost 2 months in advance, so having them dig back in their emails for event details is a big ask.
  2. We can create targeted emails with a template to keep most of the content the same and update the date/time/location specific to each event. We then need to also create a separate search for each email audience and match them up. Right now, we prefer this because it gives the registrant all the relevant information and we can schedule them all to send at the correct time, but the effort adds up, and matching the lists correctly creates a lot of opportunity for human error.

How are you all handling these kinds of communications in your orgs? Does anyone have any clever solutions that I haven’t found?

Ideally, I would love to see an event reminder email functionality that can merge in event details, similar to what registrants get when they complete an event form (e.g. on the event page, an option to email all participants using a template email that merges in event date and time and ticket order details).

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  • March 20, 2026

@liz Any chance you’ve found a good workaround? We’re thinking about future uses for automation as well, and I’d love to hear if you found a trick for this!

Maybe a workflow that has decision steps for the registration pages to send unique emails?

Or an automation that applies a tag to people who registered so it’s easier to pull the list and send manually with less human error?

Hope it’s going well for your team!


Liz Ragland
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  • Community Manager
  • March 20, 2026

we are having an ask the experts session next week all about workflow automations: 

 


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  • March 23, 2026

@Lark Valente Right now we’re going with the second option I listed because of the timing of when the emails needed to be sent and we wanted to include event-specific information in the email (e.g. when and where the event is, since that’s different for each). But I am considering using the workflow automation route for follow-up when attendees’ statuses are updated to “completed” (shout out to last month’s Workflow Automations webinar to making that process more clear) since the follow-up email is not event-specific. I’ll look some more at your suggestion about using the registration pages as part of the workflow to see if there’s a way to merge event info there.

And thanks ​@Liz Ragland for the event notice, last month’s was helpful so I’m curious to see what else is covered next week.


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  • March 23, 2026

I’ve also explored this with my organization but end up doing most manually as you layout in option #2. The TL:DR; for me to use an automation, rather than manually schedule emails with any type of customization to the event, it ends up being the same amount of work.

My workflow: I create an activist code for each event, assign it to registrants on the form, then create an “invite list” from that activist code. I’ve created templates for each email in a sequence for an event, like a work back (the -30 day email, the -10 email up to the day-of email and week after email, etc.) then manually schedule it to send to the invite list (I also do this to write promotional emails excluding the invite list). 

The only email that automation would work well for is a very simple reminder email with specific event details, as almost all of the information could be merged for the event, except as a digital organization, the most important piece is Zoom link/information. I like EveryAction’s Zoom integration, but if they would set it up so that this information could be merged, this would be the game changer for me that made it possible to do more via automation.