Dryfta feature directory

See everything your event team can manage with Dryfta

Explore registration, abstract submission, peer review, programme scheduling, attendee engagement, communications and platform administration in one connected system. Use the directory below to find the capabilities that fit your event.

One platformFrom the call for abstracts to the post-event archive

Everything Dryfta can help you manage

One platform across the complete event lifecycle

Explore Dryfta’s complete feature set, organised around each stage of the event so your team can quickly find the tools it needs.

Research workflows, event delivery and engagement in one connected system.

Event website management

Create, brand and manage responsive event websites and attendee experiences from one dashboard.

  • Template, visual editor and HTML-based event website creation
  • Clone an event, copy a master event and manage multiple events centrally
  • Custom domains, configurable tabs, pages and navigation
  • Speaker database, profiles, custom fields, deadlines and task dashboards
  • Custom text, image and video pages plus document and media libraries
  • Public, private, password-protected and registration-gated downloads
  • Attendee dashboards, personal schedules and interest-based session recommendations
  • Daily programme PDFs, overlapping-session displays and schedule sharing
  • Responsive layouts across mobile devices
  • Integrated website analytics, Google Analytics and social feeds
  • Configurable platform language terms, character sets and event time zones

Event registration

Build flexible registration pathways for attendees, authors, reviewers, speakers and invited guests.

  • Multiple configurable forms for different user types and registration pathways
  • Attendee, reviewer, review and abstract-submission forms
  • Embeddable forms and language-localised registration experiences
  • Instructional text, privacy notices, consent questions and reCAPTCHA
  • Automatic merging of registration data into the event CRM
  • Optional public attendee profiles
  • Open, invitation-only and wait-list registration
  • Pre-filled forms for known contacts and logged-in users
  • Automated registration notifications and organiser updates
  • Field-level visibility and add, edit and delete permissions
  • Required-field validation and configurable file uploads including audio and video
  • Ticket-specific fields, role-based ticket access and attendee autofill

Abstract and submission management

Manage calls for papers, complex submissions and the full author workflow.

  • Multiple submission types, workflows, forms and independent deadlines
  • Abstract, session, panel, roundtable, proposal and grant intake
  • Author self-service dashboard with autosave and submit-later controls
  • Co-authors, multiple presenters, author ordering and custom fields
  • Configurable instructions, limits and eligibility by user type
  • PDF, document, presentation, image, audio, video and archive uploads
  • Revision and resubmission workflows, including post-deadline reviewer requests
  • Author-reviewer rebuttal communication moderated by administrators
  • Submission fees, acceptance payments and payment-gated submission
  • Acceptance-letter builder with personalised PDF delivery
  • Automated author, reviewer, speaker and administrator notifications
  • Filtering, sorting, importing and exporting submissions and reviews
  • Public abstract archive, voting and presentation downloads with access controls
  • Automatic conversion of accepted submissions into programme sessions
  • Custom abstract-book and proceedings publishing

Ticketing and online payments

Sell registrations, workshops, memberships, sponsorships and add-ons using organiser-controlled payment workflows.

  • Paid and free ticket types with custom registration questions
  • Workshop tickets with eligibility-aware onsite check-in
  • Event memberships, premium-content access and validity periods
  • One-time and recurring donations
  • Sponsorship packages and additional purchasable items
  • Online and offline payment methods controlled by the organiser
  • Automatic invoices, confirmations and order-management controls
  • Cart-abandonment notifications for registrants and administrators
  • Discount codes by ticket, user, group, country, conditions and expiry date
  • Automatic or manually entered conditional discounts
  • Supported global gateways include Stripe, Dryfta Payments, Authorize.net, 2Checkout, Square, CyberSource, Moneris, iPay and PayTM
  • Saudi payment support planned through Moyasar and Tap

Assignment and peer review

Assign submissions, collect structured scores and manage rigorous review models.

  • Manual and topic-based automatic reviewer assignment
  • Multiple reviewers per submission and configurable assignment limits
  • Scoring fields, uploads, multiple choice, yes/no and comments
  • Single-, double- and triple-blind review models
  • Open review and reviewer discussion tools
  • Conflict controls based on author and reviewer organisations
  • Reviewer decline, save-draft and submit-later workflows
  • Automated assignment and update notifications
  • Administrator review dashboards, private messages and complete reviewer history
  • Spreadsheet exports with scores, averages and standard deviation

Badges and certificates

Design, generate and distribute accurate badges, QR codes, letters and participation certificates.

  • Bulk PDF badge generation and individual onsite printing
  • Custom badge designs and reusable templates
  • Automatic QR codes containing selected attendee data
  • Automatic font sizing for long names and special characters
  • Badge sponsor branding
  • Self-service badge-printing and scanning kiosks
  • Participation-certificate builder for attendees, speakers and other roles
  • Acceptance-letter generation and personalised PDF delivery

Email marketing and notifications

Send personalised campaigns and operational notifications using event and contact data.

  • Personalised campaigns for lists, groups and advanced contact segments
  • Reusable simple, branded and designer-created email templates
  • Placeholders populated from CRM and event data
  • Campaign reporting for delivery, opens, clicks, bounces, spam and unsubscribes
  • Automated operational notifications with enable and disable controls
  • Direct contact emails and complete email history
  • Exportable notification delivery logs
  • Mailchimp, SendGrid and Constant Contact connectivity
  • SMS notification workflows through Twilio where configured

Projects and tasks

Coordinate organiser work, ownership, files and deadlines inside the event platform.

  • Task lists with detailed assignment and completion views
  • Role-based permission to create and manage tasks
  • Assign tasks to one or multiple team members
  • Due dates, status tracking and file attachments
  • Filters by assignee, project, status and date
  • Assignment emails and deadline reminders
  • Attendee and speaker tasks displayed in their dashboards

Programme scheduling and speaker management

Build multi-track programmes, manage conflicts and deliver personalised schedules.

  • Interactive programme builder for in-person, virtual and hybrid sessions
  • Tracks, formats, rooms, venues, time slots and colour coding
  • Conflict detection for sessions, speakers, rooms and programme resources
  • Automatic conversion of accepted submissions into sessions
  • Spreadsheet import for sessions, sub-sessions, speakers and presenters
  • Speaker dashboards, notes, presentation uploads and deadline tasks
  • Personal schedules, recommendations, favourites and printable agendas
  • Calendar export to iCal, Google Calendar and Outlook
  • Session capacity, waiting lists, invitation-only access and ticket eligibility
  • QR and list-based session check-in and checkout
  • Continuing Education credit assignment and attendance verification
  • Presentation downloads with user-role access controls
  • Session discussions, moderated questions, surveys and feedback
  • Programme embedding, custom reports and attendance exports

Surveys, polls and feedback

Collect structured feedback before, during and after an event.

  • Unlimited survey, poll and feedback forms
  • Unlimited questions with configurable response fields
  • Event-level and session-level surveys
  • Participant records and response details
  • Aggregate results, charts, answer counts and response ranking
  • Live polling results for website and app audiences

Event marketing and social media

Promote event content and campaigns across owned and social channels.

  • Social sharing for event pages, programmes, abstracts and purchases
  • Real-time social feeds and event hashtag displays
  • Facebook, LinkedIn and X/Twitter sharing controls
  • Share-with-a-friend workflows after registration or purchase
  • Custom metadata, scripts and HTML for campaign tracking
  • Targeted email and contact-segment promotion

Event CRM and contact management

Unify attendee, author, reviewer, speaker and stakeholder data in one searchable record.

  • Unlimited standard and custom contact fields with validation
  • Contact photos, files, notes and organisation records
  • Bulk editing, duplicate merging and change history
  • Basic and advanced filters across fixed and custom fields
  • Groups, target lists, tags and reusable segments
  • Spreadsheet import and export with role-based permissions
  • Contact-level abstracts, reviews, tickets, sessions and check-in history
  • Email composer, reusable templates and complete message history
  • Interaction tracking for calls, emails, outcomes and follow-up dates
  • Event-specific travel, dietary, tier and registration fields
  • Access credentials sent to multiple contacts at once
  • Data backup controls

Attendee engagement and networking

Help participants discover people, exchange details, schedule meetings and contribute to event conversations.

  • Real-time attendee and session presence updates
  • Manual, QR and self-service event and session check-in
  • Event and session discussions, comments and participant ranking
  • Self-service attendee dashboard for profiles, tickets and schedules
  • Interest-based attendee recommendations and matchmaking
  • One-to-one meeting scheduling and calendar invitations
  • Contact-detail and vCard requests
  • Sponsor and exhibitor lead retrieval using QR scanning
  • Configurable public-profile layouts and privacy controls
  • Reviewer registration protection and attendee account deletion controls

Reporting and analytics

Turn registration, engagement, programme, review and revenue activity into usable reporting.

  • Predefined operational reports
  • Custom reports that can be saved and reused
  • CSV and spreadsheet exports
  • Real-time report sharing with authorised stakeholders
  • Registration, ticketing, payment and revenue reporting
  • Submission, reviewer, score and decision analytics
  • Session favourites, attendance, check-in and checkout reporting
  • Campaign delivery and engagement reporting
  • Website and Google Analytics integration
  • Cross-event comparison and performance analysis

Mobile event apps

Keep event content, personal schedules and networking tools available on iOS and Android.

  • Multiple-event selection and synchronised event content
  • Agenda, speakers, venue, attendees and custom content pages
  • Personal schedules, profiles and connection lists
  • Private messaging and meeting invitations
  • QR scanning, contact exchange and phonebook saving
  • Push notifications and automatic session reminders
  • Event discussions, replies and engagement walls
  • Offline-enabled access to key event information
  • Ticket and badge QR scanning for event administrators
  • Mobile surveys, polls and visual results
  • Guest-access and notification preference controls

Multilingual delivery

Localise event-facing forms and platform terminology for multilingual audiences.

  • Language-localised registration forms
  • Administrator controls for website language terms
  • Support for major Latin and non-Latin character sets
  • Global documentation lists Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, UK English, French, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese
  • The Dryfta KSA marketing website is delivered separately in English and Arabic

Integrations and APIs

Connect identity, marketing, communications, payments and reporting systems.

  • Public API for approved data and workflow integrations
  • Zapier connectivity with other web applications
  • Single sign-on, including enterprise identity integration
  • OIDC, SAML and LDAP support for enterprise deployments
  • Salesforce contact and lead synchronisation with custom-field mapping
  • Twilio SMS notifications
  • Mailchimp, SendGrid and Constant Contact email connectivity
  • Google Analytics and calendar integrations
  • Streaming, webinar and meeting links for virtual and hybrid sessions
  • Moyasar and Tap planned for Saudi payment processing

Platform administration, deployment and control

Control teams, branding, data, infrastructure and multi-event operations.

  • Unlimited staff users with granular roles and access permissions
  • Multi-event dashboards, event cloning and reusable master-event configurations
  • Custom domains, visual branding and white-label deployments
  • Private-cloud and organiser-selected infrastructure options
  • Data isolation, ownership and controlled administrator access
  • Backups, monitoring, maintenance and enterprise support arrangements
  • Saudi customer event platforms hosted in an AWS data centre in Bahrain
  • Local support for Saudi customers
  • Configurable event time zones and locale-sensitive delivery
  • Security, privacy and compliance controls agreed per deployment

Dryfta products

Choose the tools your event needs

Each product works with the same people, programme, payment and engagement records.

Members · Renewals · Communication

Membership Management Software

Manage plans, member records, benefits, protected content, event discounts, private sessions and renewal status in the same platform used for your events.

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Contacts · Segmentation · Communication

Full-stack Event CRM

Keep contacts, tasks, messages and event history together so everyone on your team knows what needs attention.

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