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How event venues can manage inquiries and bookings in one place

Learn how Releventful connects leads, events, proposals, contracts, invoices, and payments so your team can manage the client journey from initial inquiry through booking.

Written by Naomi Sherman

The problem

A new inquiry may arrive through a website form, a conversation, or a staff member. As the client moves toward booking, the team needs to track the next reply, the proposed services, the event date, the contract, and payment. Keeping those details in separate inboxes and spreadsheets makes it harder to know what is current.

How Releventful helps

Releventful connects the lead and event records. A team member can review the inquiry in the sales pipeline, create an unbooked event when event-specific work begins, and prepare a proposal, contract, and invoice from the same customer journey. The event then becomes the place to check contacts, staff assignments, documents, client planning, and payment activity.

What your team controls

Your team chooses its sales stages, who owns follow-up, which documents to send, and what must happen before an event counts as booked. A stage change can start an enabled workflow, so the team should review its messages and timing before using it with real clients. A sent proposal, accepted proposal, signed contract, and booked event remain distinct milestones.

A good first step

Set up one business brand and event type, then create a sample lead and unbooked event. Walk through the client experience before inviting a real customer. The Getting Started, Leads and Sales, and Proposals Contracts and Booking article sets explain each task.

Try this in Releventful

  1. Click settings

  2. Navigate to Businesses

  3. Click Manage Businesses

  4. Enter the brands public details

  5. Click Save

  6. Navigate to Automations

  7. Click Manage Portal Templates, under Portal Template Workflow Automations

  8. Click Create Workflow

  9. Click Start New

  10. Create a draft for each event type

  11. Navigate to Dashboard

  12. Click New Lead, top bar

  13. Enter inquiry details

  14. Click Save

  15. Click Add Event, top bar

  16. Enter the event details

  17. Click Save

On the newly created event, open the event menu and use New Proposal / Invoice for a sample offer, then open Financials to check its invoice and contract. Log In as Client to check the client view before sending anything.

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