Catholic Conference Registration Software

Your Donors Gave
to Your Mission.
Not to an Event Platform.

Registration, donations, volunteers, vendor management, meal tracking, and QR check-in. Built for ministries, not repurposed from a concert ticketing app.

Talk to Us About Your Event See how it works
$4M+ in Ticket Sales
135K+ Registrations
250+ Events
Personal Onboarding on every account
Gatheringline Catholic conference registration software dashboard, 2026 Catholic Mens Conference

Trusted by ministries across the country

Men of Christ Columbus Catholic Women's Conference Columbus Catholic Young Adult Conference Women of Christ

Gatheringline started inside Men of Christ and spread word of mouth to serve ministries across the country.

Why Are You Running One Event
Across Four Different Tools?

Your registration lives in one place. Donations in another. Volunteers coordinated by email. Attendee outreach in a spreadsheet you rebuild every year.

And when something goes wrong the week before your conference (and something always goes wrong) you're navigating three different support systems, none of which know what a Men's Conference is.

Every dollar your event platform charges came from your community. Your parish. Your donors. People who gave to your mission, not to a software company's quarterly earnings.

One platform. Everything your ministry event needs.

Ministry Event Management Software Built for How Your Organization Actually Works

Every feature was built because a real ministry volunteer needed it.

Register Attendees & Sell Tickets

Multiple ticket types, custom pricing, availability caps, and registration questions. All in a mobile-friendly flow your attendees can navigate without calling you for help.

Collect Donations Alongside Registration

Registration and donation in a single checkout. When an attendee is already saying yes to your event, it's the perfect moment to ask for a gift.

Coordinate Your Volunteers

Volunteers apply, get approved, and receive exactly the permissions they need. Nothing more. No email chains to confirm who's at the check-in table.

Manage Vendors & Sponsors

Sponsors apply, pay, and manage their own ticket allotments through Gatheringline. Professional sponsor management without a separate tool or a stack of emails.

Run Attendee Outreach with a Call Queue

Assign phone volunteers to organized contact lists. Gatheringline serves contacts one at a time, so nobody gets called twice and nobody falls through the cracks.

Track Meals Without the Spreadsheet

Every attendee's meal choice is captured at registration, filterable and exportable. No more "I think she ordered the chicken" archaeology the week before your event.

Check In Thousands Without Chaos

Every registrant gets a unique QR code ticket. Volunteers scan at the door. No paper lists. No line wrapping around the building.

Clone Last Year's Event in 5 Minutes

Tickets, questions, meal options, email templates: all saved. Next year, clone it, update the dates, and you're 90% done before the first planning meeting.

Customize Your Registration Forms

Ask exactly what your event needs: dietary restrictions, parish, t-shirt size, emergency contact. Every question is yours to configure, drag to reorder, and mark required or optional.

For men's conferences

Getting Men There Is Half the Battle.

Registration is the easy part. The harder job is the six weeks before your conference, chasing down men who came last year, figuring out who hasn't registered yet, and hoping your parish volunteers are actually making calls and not just meaning to.

Gatheringline brings order to your pre-event outreach. Contact lists sync nightly against registration data, so when a man registers, he is automatically checked off the outreach list. No spreadsheet archaeology. No one getting called twice.

Volunteers work a queue with a prepopulated personally customized message. They tap to call or text from their own phone, mark him contacted, and the next man loads. Two volunteers can work the same parish list at the same time without crossing wires.

The leaderboard shows every region and parish. Which ones are surging. Which ones have gone quiet. Your regional captains see exactly where to focus.

Diocese by deanery, deanery by parish, parish by volunteer, one man at a time.
Gatheringline men's conference outreach leaderboard showing regional registration progress by parish
The math matters

What You're Actually Paying
Your Current Platform

A registrant just paid $50 to attend and gave $25 to your ministry. Here is where some of it went.

Typical per-ticket platform Gatheringline
Platform fee per transaction ~$5.09 per ticket, ~$8.54 with donation Fraction of that
Total on 2,000 registrants (10% donating ~$40) ~$11,500 gone Significantly less
Where that money ends up The platform's revenue Stays with your ministry
Built for faith organizations No Yes, from day one
Personal support included Help articles & ticket queue Real person, knows your event
Platform fee per transaction
✕ ~$5.09 per ticket, ~$8.54 with donation (typical platform)
✓ Fraction of that
Total on 2,000 registrants (10% donating ~$40)
✕ ~$11,500 gone (to the platform)
✓ Significantly less
Where that money ends up
✕ The platform's revenue
✓ Stays with your ministry
Built for faith organizations
✕ No
✓ Yes, from day one
Personal support included
✕ Help articles & ticket queue
✓ Real person, knows your event

Pricing is custom to your organization and your event. We'll be straight with you about what it costs.

See What Gatheringline Would Cost Your Event
Why Gatheringline

Built Different. On Purpose.

01

Built for Ministry, Not Adapted for It

Gatheringline was originally built inside Men of Christ to solve problems that generic platforms couldn't. We took that foundation, rebuilt it from the ground up, and have been expanding it ever since based on what real ministry coordinators actually need. Every feature request that benefits the broader community gets built. The organizations using it today helped shape what it is.

02

Your Volunteers Can Run This

You don't have an IT department. You have dedicated lay volunteers who are deeply committed and not necessarily comfortable with technology. Gatheringline was designed for exactly that reality. And when you get stuck (which you might, once) there's a real person you can call. Not a help article. Not a chatbot. A person who knows your event.

03

Your Data. Your Attendees. Yours.

With some platforms, your registrant list is as much theirs as it is yours. With Gatheringline, your data belongs to your organization: fully exportable, always accessible, never held hostage. Your annual conference attendee list is one of your most valuable ministry assets. Treat it like one.

Testimonials

What Ministry Coordinators Say

★★★★★

"We are generally non tech savvy ministry volunteers that need a registration system we can figure out that takes minutes to set up. Yours fits the bill for us."

★★★★★

"LOVE the ease of use, flexibility, graphics, features and options on Gatheringline. It just makes so much sense to my brain."

★★★★★

"I am incredibly appreciative of your partnership throughout the year, and especially the emergency support on the day of our conference."

Already using another platform?

Here's What Switching Looks Like.

The biggest reason ministry coordinators stay on a platform that's costing them money is the fear of switching right before their annual conference. We get it. That's why we don't drop you into a dashboard and wish you luck.

1

Tell us about your event

Tell us about your event: size, timing, what you're trying to accomplish. We review every submission personally and respond within 48 hours.

2

We set it up together

A real person helps you configure your event, import historical data if you have it, and make sure everything is right before registration goes live.

3

Clone it next year in 5 minutes

Your whole configuration is saved: tickets, questions, email templates, meal options. Next year, clone it, update the dates, done.

The coordinators who switch tell us the same two things: it was easier than they expected, and they wish they'd done it sooner.
Let's get started

Stop Sending Your Mission's Money to the Wrong Place.

Gatheringline is open to new ministries. Every organization is onboarded personally, because you deserve more than a welcome email and a tutorial video. Tell us about your event. We'll take it from there.

This isn't to screen you out. It's so we're ready to help you from day one.

We respond to every request within 48 hours. No sales pitch, just a real conversation about whether Gatheringline is the right fit for your organization.

Common questions

Questions We Hear Before People Switch

Gatheringline is built for Catholic and Christian organizations: parishes, dioceses, ministries, faith-based nonprofits, and the conferences and retreats they run. Men's groups, women's conferences, youth ministry events, diocesan fundraisers. If your event is rooted in faith and run by volunteers who care more about the mission than the technology, this was built for you.

Less hard than you're expecting. We personally walk you through your first event setup. We're not handing you a knowledge base and hoping for the best. Most coordinators have their first event configured in a single onboarding session. Once it's built, you clone it every year in 5 minutes. The setup work you do once pays off indefinitely.

We'll be transparent about pricing in your first conversation. Event size, frequency, and needs all factor in. What we can tell you: our fees are a fraction of what per-ticket platforms charge on a 1,500- to 5,000-person event. No surprises, no hidden fees.

Donations are built in, not bolted on. One-time gifts, recurring giving campaigns, and donations as part of the registration flow itself. If you're currently using a separate giving platform alongside your event tool, Gatheringline can consolidate both.

You call us. We answer. Every organization has a direct line to a real person who knows your event. Your conference represents months of volunteer work and a community's trust. We take that seriously, because this platform was built by people who have run these events themselves.

Yes. The platform has processed over 135,000 registrations across 250+ events ranging from 50 to 5,000+ attendees. The QR code check-in system, volunteer management tools, and multi-venue configuration were all built specifically because large ministry events have complexity that smaller tools can't handle.

Yes. The platform runs events from 50 to 5,000+ attendees. Many organizations use Gatheringline for their large annual conference and their smaller regional retreats and parish events in the same account. Once your configuration is built, scaling it up or down for different events takes minutes.

Gatheringline is in early access, which means we onboard organizations personally, one at a time. This isn't a limitation; it's how we make sure every new organization gets the setup support they need. Talk to us about your event and we'll be in touch within 48 hours.

Your registrant data is stored on secure, US-based servers and belongs entirely to your organization. You can export your full attendee list as a CSV any time, with no restrictions. We never share it with third parties. We never use it to market to your attendees. When you leave, it leaves with you.