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title: "What does it do?"
manual: "Event management and registration"
version: "8.6"
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source: "Introduction/WhatDoesItDo/Index.rst"
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# What does it do? {#what-does-it-do}

Event management and registration is an extension for TYPO3 CMS to manage events and registrations.

**Summary of features**

-   Easy usage for editors
-   Registration can be activated for each event individually
-   Configurable additional fields in the registration form
-   Optional registration waitlist with move up feature when a confirmed registration is cancelled
-   Optional double or tripple opt-in for event registration
-   Optional double or tripple opt-out for event cancellation
-   Attachments in registration emails to participant and/or admin
-   iCal attachment in emails to participant
-   Configurable validity of double opt-in links
-   Cancellation configurable for each event
-   Prefill of registration fields for logged in frontend users
-   Frontend plugin to show event registrations for logged in frontend users
-   Backend administration module to manage events and registrations
-   CSV export for all registrations of an event
-   Notification module with configurable email templates to notify event participants
-   Extendable with own fields through own extension
-   Configurable template layouts for the listview
-   Configurable category menu
-   Search view for events
-   Create multiple registrations at once by a single user
-   Optionally, check the email address of registrations for uniqueness per event
-   Configurable and extendable spam checks (included honeypot, amount of links, challenge/response)
-   Optional Spam-Protection with hCaptcha and reCAPTCHA
-   Optional and configurable Rate Limit for the registration form
-   Download of iCal file for events
-   Add event to online calendar (Google, Outlook, Office 365 and Yahoo)
-   Uses TYPO3 system categories to structure events by category
-   Price options (e.g. for early bird prices)
-   Payment processing after successful registration
-   Configurable payment methods
-   Show events using the "Insert Record" Content Element
-   Flag event images for either listview, detail view or both
-   Calendar view with the possibility to navigate to the next / previous month and week
-   Console command to delete registrations of expired registrations
-   Automatic cache invalidation when an event has been changed in the backend
-   Automatic page cache lifetime calculation based on several event properties
-   A lot of PSR-14 Events to extend the extension with own functionality

**Background**

-   Based on Extbase and Fluid
-   Covered with many unit and functional tests
-   Actively maintained