Assign badges to attendee types

A template does nothing until it is assigned. This is the step people skip, and it surfaces on the morning of the event when a speaker prints a delegate badge.

Steps

1. Open Badges and find Category assignment.
2. For each attendee type, choose the template it should use.

   

3. Save.

Set an event default

In a template's Media settings, tick Event default. Anyone whose attendee type has no specific assignment gets this one.

Always have a default. Without it, an attendee type you forgot to assign has no badge at all, and that is discovered at the desk.

A workable set

Most events need two or three templates, not one per type:

Press, VIP and sponsor can usually share the standard badge with a coloured band, rather than needing their own template.

What happens next

Assignment applies at print time, so changing it affects everything printed from that moment. Badges already printed are unaffected — reprint them if the assignment was wrong.

Common problems

Everyone gets the same badge. No per-type assignments, so everyone falls back to the default.

Some people print nothing. Their type has no assignment and there is no event default. Set one.

A speaker printed a delegate badge. They are registered as the wrong attendee type. Fix their record with Edit an attendee's details and reprint.

You created a template but it is not in the dropdown. Save it first.

You want a different badge per ticket, not per attendee type. Not supported — assignment is by attendee type. If two tickets need different badges, they need different attendee types. See Create attendee types.