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What is Blackthorn Events?

Blackthorn Events is the feature-rich, Salesforce-native engagement app designed to streamline event management. Benefit from real-time data integration, automated tasks, and a seamless check-in experience. With exceptional customer support, our Salesforce-exclusive platform allows you to configure events directly within Salesforce, connect with customers effortlessly, and measure impact accurately. Empower your team to achieve a 'Return on Event' mindset, backed by our comprehensive feature set and dedicated support. CREATE EVENTS IN SALESFORCE ✔ Native to Salesforce ✔ Easy & Intuitive UI ✔ Lead & Contact Matching ✔ Duplication Logic ✔ Mass Email Campaign Support ✔ Communities ✔ Free & Paid, Simple & Complex Events ✔ Products & Donations at Checkout ✔ Manage Sponsors ✔ Customize w/ CSS EVENT REGISTRATION & EVENT MANAGEMENT ✔ Filters & Visibility Controls ✔ Calendar View ✔ Custom Questions ✔ Recurring Events ✔ Multi-Attendee & Group Registration ✔ Auto-Generated Landing Pages w/ Custom URLs ✔ Workflow Rules ✔ Ticket Management MOBILE ✔ Check-In App for Organizers ✔ Swipe to Check-In Attendees ✔ QR Codes ✔ Badge Printing ✔ Mobile Payments w/ iOS App REPORTS ✔ 40+ Out-of-the-Box Events Reports and Dashboards ✔ Robust Reporting ✔ Easily Show Event ROI AWARDS ✔ 2022 Salesforce.org ISV Partner of the Year for Education EMEA ✔ 2022 Salesforce.org ISV Partner of the Year for Education AMER ✔ 2021 Salesforce.org Cross-Industry ISV Partner of the Year AMER SALESFORCE ✔ Virtual Events Integration: Zoom Meetings & Webinars, WebEx, GoToWebinar, Vimeo, & More ✔ Unique Event Wizard Makes Creating Events Ridiculously Simple ✔ Single or Recurring Events ✔ Conferences & Festivals ✔ Custom Questions & Surveys ✔ Waitlists ✔ Language Translation ✔ Matching Rules for Contacts & Leads ✔ Budget & Expenses ✔ Tables & Seats EMAIL INVITES ✔ Native Email Template Builder (Drag & Drop) ✔ Marketing Integrations: Pardot, Marketo, MailChimp, HubSpot, & More HIGHER EDUCATION ✔ Admission Events (incl. Campus Tours) ✔ Student & Campus Events, Clubs, and Organizations ✔ Engagement, Alumni, Donor, & Faculty Events PAYMENTS ✔ Discount Codes ✔ Pay Later, Card, ACH, Invoicing ✔ Multi-Currency ✔ 120+ Payment Gateways ✔ Stripe Checkout EVENT REGISTRATION ✔ WCAG, ADA, VPAT ✔ GDPR ✔ PCI SAQ D Compliant https://blackthorn.io/engage-with-us

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Product Description

Elevate the attendee experience with our events customer portal.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Blackthorn combines elegant Salesforce-native integration with features that enable tailored experiences. Automate administration and impress your alumni, students, donors, members, clients, patients, or other constituents.

CREATE EVENTS IN SALESFORCE
✔ Native to Salesforce
✔ Easy & Intuitive UI
✔ Lead & Contact Matching
✔ Duplication Logic
✔ Mass Email Campaign Support
✔ Experience Cloud (Communities)
✔ Free & Paid, Simple & Complex Events
✔ Products & Donations at Checkout
✔ Manage Sponsors


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Year Founded
2015
HQ Location
New York
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100 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Blackthorn develops Salesforce™ native products for event management, payments, text messaging, and data compliance. We cater to fields like higher education, healthcare, nonprofits, government, and enterprise and aim to foster workplace pride and work-life quality.


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Recent Blackthorn Events Reviews

Natasha T.
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Natasha T.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Blackthorn has been a game changer for our events"
Blackthorn has made creating events 10x more efficient and effective in connecting with our attendees. We utilize this platform for all of our exte...
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Ram I.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Ram Induri - Salesforce Architect @Humana"
Its an excellent tool for events management
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Aditya W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent product with great customer service"
Blackthorn events is a one-stop solution for event management system. Easily customisable tool and can meet any business needs.
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Blackthorn Events Demo - The Salesforce-Native Events App You've Been Waiting For
Welcome to the most beautiful and powerful events platform for Salesforce
Blackthorn Events Demo - Connect Webinars & Registrants to Salesforce
Connect your webinars and registrants to Salesforce easily and take advantage of the platform's robust reporting
Blackthorn Events Demo - Connect Your Campus
Join Higher Education customers like University of Texas, University of Arizona, Carnegie Mellon, and more by using Blackthorn Events to connect your campus
Blackthorn Events Demo - Payments and Billing
Take payments and manage billing using our Blackthorn Payments app (included with Blackthorn Events)
Blackthorn Events Demo - Show ROI
Prove your return on the investment in your events through our easy, out-of-the-box reporting
Blackthorn Events Demo - Don't Take It From Us
Don't take it from us...take it from the 120+ customers who have given us the honor of being the highest-rated events app on Salesforce!
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Natasha T.
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Senior Administrative Assistant and Field Building Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Blackthorn has made creating events 10x more efficient and effective in connecting with our attendees. We utilize this platform for all of our external events. Whenever I have had any concerns or errors (usually user errors) and I have had to reach out to customer support, they have always been fast to respond and excellent at helping me resolve the error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

Some downsides are the current settings related to messaging. I would like to be able to setup an event, but choose from a list of internal users who is sending out the messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackthorn Events has proven to be extremely helpful with registration of events. The creation of a landing page with details and registration forms makes it easy to be able to ask the questions needed from attendees and access the responses for planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Michelle Petrel of Blackthorn Events

Hi Natasha! Thank you for the 5 star review and the positive feedback for how Blackthorn Events has made your event management more efficient and effective. I have added your suggestion of being able to select the 'from' sender from a list to our enhancement ideas board. If you have any additional context or other product suggestions, please feel free to send them our way! michelle.petrel@blackthorn.io

Samantha S.
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Advancement Data Analyst
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

We love working with the Blackthorn Events folks! Their representatives are friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. The Blackthorn Events module is very powerful and integrates into our CRM platform. We have several different users leveraging BTE for a variety of different events with various options, ticket types, etc.

The implementation is pretty straightforward and out-of-the-box, but there are several additional features that need backend support from BTE to get turned on before use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

BTE is still working on their documentation. There are some features that are not as well documented as others, so we need to reach out to Support for more details or context. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need a professional-looking event registration platform that can adapt to various event structures and sizes, paid or free. BTE allows us to create different ticket types, add sessions and event groups, print nametags, and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Hi Samantha! The Blackthorn team appreciates your kind words and I'm thrilled you've had a positive experience with the Events app. Thank you for you feedback on areas we can improve our implementation and documentation. I will review with the team. Katie

Kim D.
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Blackthorn Events is native to Salesforce and works very well with your existing infrastructure in the Salesforce Environment. You can automate steps in your Event process with Flow and it generates registration websites for your events so people can sign up via the web. It offers a great deal of flexibility (Sessions, Tracks, Simple Events, etc.) and has a great wizard that lets you to create Events easily. It also lets you clone events if you have events that are repeated. It's easy to install and configure, and support is responsive and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

Blackthorn's updates occasionally break existing features, but they're always super-quick to correct them. For this reason, I recommend always testing fully in a Sandbox before migrating updates to Production environments. Which is something you should be doing anyway... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

My clients need to host repeatable events that attendees need to be able to register themselves for, with attendance tracked automatically and web conferencing supported, as well as hybrid and in-person events. Blackthorn makes it simple to set up and easy to repeat events and minimizes hassle in tracking and attendance. Because it leverages Salesforce for automation of processes and reporting, it's easy to quantify the business impact of these events and smooth the process for end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Wow - thanks, Kim! I'm thrilled your clients are finding success with our Events app and I appreciate you advocating for us. We are taking steps to mitigate the number of regression issues that make it to our customers, from portable test suites to nightly builds. I'm confident you'll see improvement in this area in the future. If you have ideas for how we can improve our features, please reach out: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io

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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

It is ideal tool to manage your events step by step, with a visually appealing user interface, it integrates seamlessly with Salesforce, the technical service is excellent, provides ideal solutions, a toolbar that meets expectations in terms of functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

The only negative aspect I could highlight is the learning curve, which requires an intermediate level for initial understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

After an exhaustive study of the existing options in the market we chose Blackthorn Events for the functions it offers since we required a tool that would optimize the management of events from the beginning to the end including the requirements after the event such as surveys and questionnaires to know which were the topics that caused more interest in the participants and that in turn kept the data protected, Blackthorn Events eliminated the manual processes saving time and money to the company, allows sending reminders to attendees the days prior to the event as well as sending alerts of the fallowing events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Wazid, thank you for this glowing review! We are always looking for ways to make our feature-rich app more intuitive. If you have any suggestions to ease the learning curve, please reach out: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io.

RI
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Its an excellent tool for events management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

some tech debt still pending. you need to work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

Support team is excellent Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Hi Ram! Thank you for the 5 star review and for your kind words, which I'll be sure to pass on to our Support team. I appreciate your patience while we tackle tech debt alongside of product enhancements and maintenance. I reviewed your most recent support case, but if you would like to provide more detail on how tech debt has impacted your organization, I'd be glad to hear from you: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io.

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Events Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

The support from the Blackthorn team is unlike any I have experienced. This product is worth it alone just because of the amazing people behind this platform and how willing they are to help (shoutout Jared and Noah!) With 10 years of being in the workforce and utilizing many platforms, I have never come across a more helpful, people focused, "what can we do to make this product work for you" attitude. The Blackthorn team truly wants to help and are committed to making sure that you, the customer, are using the product in its full capacity. Particularly, their open office hours have been a game changer. AT ANY TIME, I can schedule a 15-30 minute 1-1 with a specialist (within their scheduled business hours) to help with any problem I am having. This has saved me countless hours back and relieved so much frustration on the user-facing end. They are responsive, helpful, and just an absolute joy to work with! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

The main problems I find with this product is the complexity of some of the items. Often it can take a lot of clicks to accomplish what you're hoping to get done. The email template feature and form feature can be quite annoying. You have to make a form for pretty much every event, so just to set up a robust registration, you might need to make 2-4 forms ahead of time, then complete the registration. It's also not always clear what the forms do or where they end up once you insert them. It can take some digging to sort this out.

I think it's also not always attractive to the user, which can be discouraging for more youthful generations to be excited about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackthorn is helping us by integrating in with Salesforce. We now have a whole events platform that captures all the data from our events and integrates it into Salesforce. This is a huge win for us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Hi LindsayCate! Thank you for your kind words - I'll make sure they get back to our onboarding team. I also appreciate your helpful and specific feedback on the Events app itself. We have some UI improvements coming for the form builder soon, but I agree that we could make it more intuitive to place the forms within the relevant registration step.

I'd love to hear more detail on the email template feature and the attractiveness. Are you referring to the Salesforce app (the event organizer-facing tool) or the webapp (the attendee-facing interface)? Please reach out - I'd love to hear from you at katie.campbell@blackthorn.io.

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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Blackthorn Events in the solution to manage events, with a dynamic interface and without complications of use, the tools panel is easy to understand, an excellent option to plan events since it is in charge from the simplest as the creation of invitations to post-event surveys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

In spite of not having major complications for its use, the technical service did not provide me with an adequate solution, the price in high for small companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

It reduces the time spent for the creation of events, optimizes the management during the execution of the event, allows knowing the opinions of the attendees on the topics discussed at the event through surveys, allows attendees to ask anonymously sponsoring an assertive communication. It has never been so easy to manage an event, it is the best solution for any company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Hi Erdal, thank you for taking time to share your feedback. We would love to earn all five stars, and I hope that the recent improvements we have made to our customer technical support offerings will provide you a better experience going forward.

If you are willing, we'd love another chance to find a satisfactory solution to the issue you were facing. Please reach out: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io.

MG
Salesforce Consultant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Events can be customized as per our own business requirements. Lots of customizations Available on Events, Event Items, Attendees, Forms etc.

Great Documentation available clearly explaining all the features within the Blackthorn Application and Support Team is very responsive and Knowledgable. Blackthorn Youtube channel is a great source to get a high level overview of a feature and stay upto-date about their upcoming features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

No issues that i can think of using Blackthorn for close to a year now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackthorn Events lets us customize our Event page as our needs and also seemlessly integrate with payment gateways with click and not code Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Thank you, Manoj! We appreciate the glowing review. I'm glad to hear you've found our Youtube channel and you're fully leveraging the power of the Events app. If you think of suggestions for improvements to the app, please reach out: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io.

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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

Excellent for managing paid or free virtual events, without complex very simple to use for the common user, you can automate the invitations to the events from the platform, you can even manage the economic part of the event, billing, management, itinerary very interesting the whole process of using the program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

There is nothing I don't like about this program, it's hard to say that it does anything wrong, I could include that the integrations are a bit poor, but I don't see them as necessary, the truth is that within the program you have everything you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everything included in this program is a useful way to obtain a system for creating customized events for our company, sometimes we like to present new projects and this is an excellent system to do it, the ease of sending invitations to all our customers, manage costs, discount codes is fun. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Hi Seema! I'm delighted to hear that our app is helping you manage your events effectively. Would you please reach out with more detail on the integrations improvements you are looking for? I'd love to get you to a 10/10! You can reach me at katie.campbell@blackthorn.io

Zac E.
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Digital Platform Manager
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What do you like best about Blackthorn Events?

As a digital platform manager at the Royal Photographic Society, I have been working with the Customer Success Team, Support Team and Enablement Team to update our platform, which has been outdated for about 18 months. The teams have been impeccable; I couldn't ask for a more supportive bunch of people.

As someone with ADHD/Dyslexia, I struggle with learning new technologies, but they have all been amazing and supportive. Nothing is too big for them, and they are happy to explain stuff repeatedly until I understand it and go above and beyond to ensure the platform works flawlessly.

They have made the upgrade project easy, and I have grown professionally and personally by collaborating with the teams mentioned above to enhance my experience with Blackthorn.

The platform has also allowed our volunteers to create events to a high standard and customize the platform to make the UX/UI of their lives so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackthorn Events?

We have had no issues with blackthorn since integrating it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackthorn Events solving and how is that benefiting you?

How we are able to host events with integrating it in Salesforce to hold data in one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Katie Campbell of Blackthorn Events

Wow, thank you Zac! I shared your glowing review as a big shoutout to the teams you mentioned. Thank you for your collaboration and for trusting us with your events. As we grow together, please reach out should you have suggestions for new features and improvements: katie.campbell@blackthorn.io (Director of Product)