For societies
You spent three weeks planning it, and forty people saw the story.
Reach students who are already looking for something to do, take sign-ups without building a form, and see exactly who turned up.
The problem
Instagram reaches your followers for a day. The rest is done by hand.
Stories only reach your followers
A story lasts twenty-four hours and is shown to people who already follow you. Students who would come, but don't follow you yet, never see it.
Likes don't tell you who's coming
Likes aren't sign-ups. You order for sixty and thirty turn up, or order for thirty and eighty do.
Every event needs a new Google Form
A new form, a new sheet, chasing responses, then copying names onto a door list. Every single event.
New members stop finding you after Freshers' Fair
One afternoon at a stall is most of the year's discovery. From week two you only reach people who already know you.
What changes
The same event, without the extra work.
- Who sees it
- Without MotiveFollowers who happened to be scrolling
- With MotiveEveryone browsing what's on, followers or not
- How long it lasts
- Without MotiveGone in twenty-four hours
- With MotiveUp until the event happens
- Sign-ups
- Without MotiveA new Google Form every time
- With MotiveBuilt in, with a capacity and a waitlist if you want them
- Door list
- Without MotiveNames copied onto a sheet by hand
- With MotiveA code people scan on the way in
- Numbers afterwards
- Without MotiveA guess, and too much leftover food
- With MotiveWho signed up and who actually came, as a spreadsheet
- Reaching new people
- Without MotiveFreshers' Fair, then nothing
- With MotiveEvery student browsing what's on, all year
Host, in the app
Post an event once and check people in from your phone.
Your committee runs everything from Host on the You tab, where each event has one page with its numbers and every action you need.
The event's page
See how full it is, share its link and export the attendee list.
The check-in code
Hold it up at the door. It changes every minute, so it can't be passed around.
Getting listed
Three steps, about ten minutes.
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Claim your society, or register it
Your society is probably listed already. In the app, open the Societies tab, choose "Register your society" and type its name: that claims it if it's listed, and registers it if it isn't.
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We verify your society
We look at your union page or Instagram, then make you the society's first admin. You add the rest of the committee yourself, by email.
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Post your first event
Post from You → Host in the app, or from the dashboard. It appears for your followers and for everyone browsing what's on.
Committee questions
What you'll want to know first.
Our society's already on there. Who set it up?
We did, from the union's list, so students can follow you from day one. Nobody runs it until a committee member claims it: choose "Register your society" in the app and type its name, and once we've checked you're on the committee, you're its admin.
Do we have to stop posting on Instagram?
No. Keep doing exactly what you're doing. Motive is one more place for your events, one that doesn't expire and reaches students who don't follow you yet.
Can people from outside the uni come?
Yes, to public events. Share the event's link and anyone can sign up from the web page with their name and email. They don't need a uni address or the app, unless you take sign-ups in the app only.
Who on committee can post?
Whoever you add. Each admin can be allowed to run events, add other admins, or edit the society's details, so it isn't stuck on one person's phone when they're in a lecture.
What happens at handover?
The society page belongs to the society, not to whoever set it up. You add next year's committee as admins, and the events stay attached to the page.
What do you do with our sign-ups?
They're yours. We use them to run the event and to show students what's on, and guests' details are erased ninety days after the event. We don't sell them and we don't pass them on. Privacy policy.
Get listed
Put your society on Motive.
Get the app, open the Societies tab and choose "Register your society". Already listed? Type its name and we'll hand it over once we've checked you're on the committee.
On a computer? Point your iPhone's camera here to open Motive on the App Store.