This needs to be installed ASAP

This functionality is completely necessary when trying to organize an event that had any physical signups. Entering their emails one by one in the RSVP field is incredibly time consuming.

This was a nice to have until Facebook started turning off application access. This is now a critical requirement to get the same functionality that syncing of connected Facebook events provided. We don’t really care that NationBuilder RSVPs aren’t synced to Facebook, but just tagging and adjusting the count leaves out social capital and the activity trail.

Agree with Adam below – the tagging function doesn’t let us distribute social capital to attendees.

Need this feature for lots of the reasons already stated but also to be able to accurately distribute social capital in a way that tags can’t.

Now that we no longer are using tags to track event RSVPs, this functionality is even more important as we need a an easy way to add RSVPs on a larger scale (which was easy to do with tags).

Hi All – thank you for your feedback!

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This would be a useful feature to have.

Agreed that the ability to batch update a list to RSVP for an event would be very helpful. In one case we have over 7000 RSVPs to create. While the RSVP Creation Endpoint in the Event API makes this easy, this is not a great solution for the average user. A good feature suggestion for the future.

Also noting that being able to import RSVPs would be a very helpful feature, the workaround for this is very time consuming as Jacob noted.

Thank you Jacob! That is very helpful context!

Just noting that this is really important to me. Right now I have a sign in sheet that was filled out with 50 names. I have to first go and see who RSVP’d, one by one matching their names in the RSVP list, and cross them off the sign in sheet. If i want to double check that their contact information has been updated, thats another step. Then I have to add new people to Nation Builder separately, then manually mark them as attendees. The alternative to this is to type everything into a spreadsheet and import it, and then go into the Event > Attendee page and find each individual to mark as attendee. Its so much of a hassle that its hard to realistically expect organizers to do it. RSVP and Attendee should be a field you can import somehow, or at minimum through batch updating a list.

The OP is helpful and the answer is unhelpful, so I’m not sure how to tag this suggestion. I would use this all the time, especially for where I run joint events; I also work in two constituencies where people tend to turn up without RSVPing. Having to do this manually seems.. I don’t know, it seems like the kind of thing we use computers, and systems like Nationbuilder, to avoid.

Ditto! This would be very useful. We have events that we cohost with other organizations. The partner org gives us an excel sheet with upwards of 75 RSVPs, we have to import the sheet, THEN HAVE TO INDIVIDUALLY RSVP?! Please advise.

This would be really useful for people doing lots of work in the field with devices that don’t talk directly to the NB API.

Please add this feature!

There needs to be a better solution then that. I need for the List ‘bulk update’ to have an option to RSVP that list to events.

I have added a feature request: http://nationbuilder.com/840963/add_rsvp_s_directly_usings_filters_and_lists?recruiter_id=840963