Why I'm building fullhall
Every small organisation I know runs on a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, and one person who holds it all together. The software sold to them is either a donation platform with a contact list bolted on, or a twenty-module suite priced for organisations with an IT budget. I think they deserve better, so I'm building it.
The people you invite never log in
The fastest way to kill an RSVP is to ask someone to create an account first. The people you invite are not users of your software. They're people who want to tell you they're coming to the trivia night. An email address is identity enough, and if that means fullhall can't show them a personalised portal, good. Nobody wanted the portal.
One list, labelled, not five lists, drifting
Membership software loves modules: a members area, a volunteers area, a donors area. Each module gets its own list, and the lists disagree within a month. In fullhall a person is one record; volunteer and donor are labels on it, and a membership is a record on the same person. The treasurer and the events coordinator look at the same row.
The mechanics belong in the software
A capacity written in the event description is a wish. A capacity enforced by the RSVP page is a fact. The same goes for waitlists: if promoting the next person requires a human to notice a cancellation, reorder a spreadsheet and write an email, it happens late or not at all. Rules the organisation already has should execute themselves.
Australian, without the cosplay
fullhall is priced in dollars that don't need converting, spells organisation with an s, and understands that your biggest event of the year might be a Bunnings sausage sizzle. I live here and I built this for the communities and organisations around me: clubs and associations, community groups, small businesses and ACNC-registered charities, the ones with one to ten staff and a lot of goodwill.
Small on purpose, in the right places
fullhall does contacts, memberships, teams and events well, and refuses the rest until those are proven. Donations stay with the platforms that do them properly. The next thing we build is volunteer shifts, because rosters that fill themselves are the biggest gap I can see in this market, and nobody credible is filling it for small organisations.
The deal
The Free plan is real and it stays free: your list, teams, events and RSVPs, no card, no clock. When your organisation wants to charge money, there's one paid plan at $29 a month, and the work your volunteers did setting up keeps working either way. In exchange I still ask for honest complaints.
Bishal Sapkota
Founder, fullhall