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Import Attendees from Cvent

Ariane Ramirez avatar
Written by Ariane Ramirez
Updated this week

The Cvent to Accelevents integrations allows you to register attendees to the event through Cvent and automatically add them as attendees in Accelevents.

How Does It Work?

In Accelevents, you'll need to enable the Cvent integration and choose which ticket type to assign to attendees coming from Cvent. Then, in your Cvent account, you'll need to create a webhook and associate that webhook to your Cvent event. Once done, registrations coming from Cvent will automatically be added to Accelevents.

Before You Begin

Before you begin make sure you've already done the following:

  • βœ… The event and ticket type is created in Accelevents

  • βœ… The event is created in Cvent

Enable the Cvent Integration in Accelevents

  • Go to Settings > Integrations in your event's admin console

  • Enable the toggle for Cvent

  • Click Configure

  • Copy the API Key. You will add this to your webhook in Cvent later

  • Select the default ticket type to assign to attendees imported from Cvent if in the Cvent attendee record there is no registration type specified.

  • Paste your Client ID and Client Secret from your Cvent Developer account

  • Choose the server

  • Click Validate

  • After validating, the mapping section should appear in the configure menu.

Map the Ticket Types

In the above step, we selected a default ticket type (usually done for events with only 1 ticket type). If you have multiple ticket types in your event, you can map these tickets to Cvent registration types to assign the appropriate ticket to attendees.

click here to see the steps on how to add ticket types in Cvent

Enable the Registration feature in Cvent

  • Log in to your Cvent account and open the event

  • Go to General > Event Features

  • Add the Registration feature

  • The Registration menu should appear

  • Go to Registration > Admission Items

  • Click Create Admission Item

  • Follow the prompts to create your admission item

Add the Admission Item Widget

After creating the admission item(s), you'll need to add the widget in registration for admission selection

  • Go to Registration > Registration Process

  • Click Customize under Personal Information

  • Add the Admission Item widget to the registration page template

  • Click Save

Exit the configure menu to refresh and load the new Cvent ticket types you've added.

Map the Order Information

If you want some order information to automatically appear in Cvent after the order is created, you can map these information in the configure menu's Order Information Mapping section:

  • Order ID

  • Ticket ID

  • Ticket Type (this is the ticket name)

  • Magic Link

  • Barcode ID

  • AE Event Name

click here to learn how to add the fields in Cvent

  • Log in to your Cvent account and open the event

  • Go to Attendees > Internal Information

  • Select Tex Field

  • For Question Type, choose Open Ended Text - One Line

  • Choose General as Answer Format for these fields:

    • Ticket Type (this is the ticket name)

    • Magic Link

    • Barcode ID

    • AE Event Name

  • Choose Number as Answer Format for these fields:

    • Ticket ID

    • Order ID

Create a Webhook in CVENT

  • Log in to your CVENT account

  • Click App Switcher on the upper right

  • Select Admin

  • Go to Integrations > Push API Integrations

  • Click Create Integration

  • Give your integration a name (e.g. Accelevents event name)

  • Choose Webhooks for Type

  • Paste this end point URL: https://api.accelevents.com/rest/integration/cvent/home to Default endpoint

  • Select Token-based for Connection Type

  • Paste the API Key you copied in Accelevents to Authentication token

  • Click Save

  • After saving, go to Integration Points

  • Click Add Integration Point

  • Select these 3 items:

    • Invitee/Guest Registered for Event

    • Invitee/Guest Event Registration Modified

    • Invitee/Guest Event Registration Cancelled

  • Click Save

  • After saving you should see your integration points added.

Associate the Webhook to the Cvent Event

  • Click App Switcher on the upper right

  • Select Events and open the event for editing

  • Go to Integrations

  • In Other Available Integrations, you should see Webhooks

  • Click Set up under Webhooks

  • Click Add Webhooks

  • Select the webhook you created for this event under Configuration, then click Save.

  • Click Edit

  • Enable Override Account Settings

  • Select No for Sessions and Speakers (as we can only sync attendees)

  • Click Save

That's it! When you add new attendees in Cvent, orders will be created in Accelevents with the ticket you selected in the configuration.

Note: If you're integrating multiple events, you'll need to repeat the same steps above for each event as the webhook is specific to an event.

Other Imported Information

Aside from the attendee's name and email address, these other information from their Cvent contact record can be imported to Accelevents. Just make sure that the order form fields are active in Accelevents.

Cvent Contact Field

Accelevents Order Form Field

Company

Organization

Work Address 1

Billing Address - Address 1

Work Address 2

Billing Address - Address 1

Work Address 3

Billing Address - Address 2

Work City

Billing Address - City

Work State/Province

Billing Address - State

Work Zip/Postal Code

Billing Address - Postal Code

Work Country

Billing Address - Country

Mobile Phone

Cell Phone (this currently maps to the BUYER information)

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