Event Sponsors
Organizer Guide
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On this page
Event Sponsors is where you sell sponsorship packages, review applications, collect payment, and track what each sponsor still owes you before the event goes live — things like a signed agreement or a logo file.
What you can do here
- Create sponsorship packages — name, price, currency, tier (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, or Custom), a cap on how many sponsors can buy it, a benefits list, and visibility options (logo placement, banner ad, stage mention, booth space, social media, email blast). EventMann takes no commission on sponsorship — the money is between you and your sponsor.
- Record a sponsor you already have — somebody who agreed with you offline and has no EventMann account. Enter their company name, website and logo, the amount agreed and its currency, whether they have already paid, and whether they appear on the event page and on tickets.
- Review applications — filter by status (pending, approved, active, completed, rejected, cancelled, expired) with a count badge per tab.
- Approve or reject — approving starts a 14-day payment window; rejecting can include a reason shown to the sponsor.
- Mark Paid — record the amount and method once the sponsor has paid outside the platform; this activates the sponsorship.
- Track deliverables — add required or optional items with a due date, and mark each complete.
- Complete a sponsorship and message the sponsor directly, with an unread badge.
How to approve a sponsor and take payment
- Open the Pending tab and review the sponsor's application.
- Approve it — this sets a 14-day payment deadline and automatically creates three required deliverables: logo upload, signed agreement, and payment.
- Once the sponsor pays, open the approved sponsorship and use Mark Paid to record the amount and method — the sponsorship moves to Active.
- Mark each deliverable complete as the sponsor provides it.
- Once every required deliverable is complete, use Complete to close out the sponsorship.
Settings explained
- Recording a sponsor yourself — the sponsorship is created already approved, with no payment deadline, because there is no application to review. Tick “already paid” and the payment is recorded with it. Its deliverables start ticked except the signed agreement, since you have done the rest of that work offline already.
- Max sponsors — leave blank for unlimited; once reached the package stops being purchasable.
- Visibility options — these describe what the sponsor gets; the platform does not automatically place a banner or stage mention for you, they are a record of what you owe the sponsor.
Good to know
- An approved-but-unpaid sponsorship that came in as an application expires if payment does not arrive within its 14-day window — a background check runs hourly and moves it to Expired. A sponsor you recorded yourself has no deadline and never expires: you set that arrangement, so the platform does not second-guess it.
- You cannot mark a sponsorship Complete while any required deliverable is still open — the action returns an error instead.
- Sponsor logos shown on tickets are pulled from Active or Approved sponsorships that have "Show on tickets" enabled — see Ticket Design.
Troubleshooting
- Complete does nothing or shows an error — a required deliverable (often the signed agreement or logo) is still marked incomplete.
- A sponsorship disappeared from Approved — it likely expired after 14 unpaid days; check the Expired tab.
- Mark Paid is unavailable — the sponsorship isn't Approved yet, or has already been paid.