Features

End to End Solutions for Events & Sports

1. Hotel Sourcing & Bookings

 

Get in the hotel game! Select from over 150,000+ hotels worldwide including access to rich content, pricing, and special rates. With our proprietary hotel booking engine, you can book multiple rooms in real time – ideal for smaller teams, parent blocks, and overflow.  No contracts or commitments required.

With Groupize eBids, receive competitive bids from hotels and secure blocks of hotel rooms at the best team rates. Save time selecting your official hotels with the easy negotiation of Stay to Play, staff rooms, preferred amenities, concessions, rebates, and more.

2. Customized Event Booking Sites & App

The best way to get the ball rolling is by creating a customized, branded, mobile responsive booking experience for your attendees. Feature location details, official hotels, teams, schedules, itineraries, local attractions, FAQ’s and more. Generate excitement with customized electronic invitations and communications.

Participants can register online in real time for all aspects of the event including housing and tickets. During the event, all participants can access the event booking site on their mobile device for schedules, updates, documents, and updates.

With Groupize it’s easy to create new fans.

If your team is strapped for resources and just wants to play ball, create an event booking site featuring all local properties and generate new revenues while providing a better experience for your attendees.

3. Instant Book & Room Block Management

Groupize is the Housing Solution your organization has been waiting for. Flexible and robust to handle all of your housing fulfillment needs.

Feature your official hotels with Groupize Instant Block, simply load room block details and publish on your customized event booking site. When attendees reserve online, the booking is made instantly in the hotel’s reservation system and a real-time confirmation is generated. Eliminate phone calls, delayed confirmations, and frustration.

Organizers can access real-time data, including hotel pick up, confirmation numbers, rooming lists, and cancellations for one or all hotels. You can even offer hotels with room blocks side by side with real-time inventory for the same event.

Prefer to have more control and manage the rooming list? No problem, easily manage inventory, room types and generate automated rooming lists.

Don’t drop the ball, make your hotel blocks easy to book and easier to manage – before, during and after your event.

4. Registrations, Tickets & Payments

Whether you want to promote your event, collect details about players, teams or fans, manage travel needs, sell tickets or collect payments; Groupize helps you be the quarterback. Provide your attendees with quick and easy registration with travel options in one end to end solution, creating a seamless experience for everyone.

Generate revenue from activity transacted through our reservation software. Groupize as a way to increase funds coming in through revenue capture on individual reservations and ticket sales.

 

5. Back Office & Team Communication

Groupize is a slam dunk for organizers and planners. By leveraging automation, you will reduce all of the tedious tasks included in room block management, attendee management, schedule or itinerary updates, payments, commission and rebate tracking, ground transportation manifests and more.

Imagine, with a click of the button you can communicate with all attendees, select attendees, hotels, ground transportation vendors or your travel agency. No more operational sucker punches.

6. Air Bookings & Management

Get on board! With the Groupize integrations to Global Distribution Systems and Concur Travel, event organizers have full visibility into the air travel of their attendees.  Track your athletes and air spend and acccess your flight manifests, arrivals, departures in the Groupize Platform. Take off today!

7. Business Intelligence & Reports

Everyone relies on the coach for the big picture. Let the Groupize Platform be the coach to measure your events and different teams.  Track hotel pick-up, commission, and rebates.   Manage payment methods including ghost cards and virtual cards, manage budgets, report on costs and savings, track payments and more.