CLIENT DELIVERY · EVENT SAAS

Event Management & Booking Platform — Mobile, Geo-Location & Multi-Tenant SaaS

A multi-tenant event discovery and booking platform connecting organizations, event publishers and attendees through web portals, mobile apps, location-aware search, paid listings, analytics and API-driven workflows.

Originally built for church and community events; the architecture adapts to conferences, associations, education, nonprofits, tourism, local activities and other event-driven businesses. Laravel + React Native.

LaravelReact NativeMulti-tenantAuthorize.netGoogle MapsREST API
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Industry
Faith · community events · local listings (adaptable)
Type
Multi-tenant event listing SaaS
Primary user
Organization portal + consumer mobile
Stack
Laravel 5.5 · MySQL · React Native · Authorize.net · Maps
Proof
7 web · 6 mobile · 1:17 demo
EVENTS · MARKETPLACE · MOBILE SAAS

Org portal → paid listings → geo discovery → mobile RSVP → analytics.

Who this is for. Teams building event discovery, community listings or multi-org event SaaS—not only church calendars.

What you get. Evidence of Laravel multi-tenant org portals, Authorize.net pay-to-publish, Google Maps geo fields, engagement metrics and a React Native consumer app on one JSON API. Church & community events are the original vertical—not the limit of the architecture.

Searches this page answers: event management platform · event booking · event listing SaaS · geo event discovery · church event app · multi-tenant event marketplace · custom event software development

Original vertical: Church & community events · Consumer app brand in demos: Church it UP!

Who this platform is for

Faith & community orgs

Publish geo-tagged events, measure engagement, renew with evidence.

Event marketplace operators

Many orgs, one discovery surface, platform pricing rules.

Associations & nonprofits

Reuse org portal + mobile browse/RSVP pattern.

Teams adding AI later

API-first listings ready for recommendations, Voice and WhatsApp.

The event discovery problem

Churches needed to publish geo-tagged events and measure engagement before renewals, but generic listing sites did not offer per-congregation analytics, paid publish or a mobile browse experience on one API.

Three products sit inside the architecture: event management (orgs publish), event discovery/marketplace (attendees find nearby events), and multi-tenant SaaS (many orgs, isolated data and billing).

Constraints

Delivery stayed inside the client’s stack. Ticketing, QR check-in, WhatsApp automation and AI Voice below are labeled future extensions, not shipped features. Card data via gateway—not stored in custom columns; do not treat this page as a PCI attestation.

Three surfaces, one API

  • Event management — church org portal creates/edits listings, images, schedule, geo, cost
  • Event discovery — React Native categories, Near Me, maps, detail, share, Plan to Attend
  • Platform ops — lightweight admin: onboard congregations, trial/pricing/notification rules

Multi-tenant event SaaS

PLATFORM
   ├── Organization A · B · C
   │     Events · Users · Analytics · Billing
   └── Public discovery → Mobile / Web
Church users never see platform registry after login.

Role separation after one login screen: platform admin vs church org dashboards. Church-scoped queries on every mutating route.

Church organization login with email password and remember me
Platform admin church registry with contact details and activation status
Admin settings for trial period per-event cost and notification limits

Trial windows, per-event pricing and notification caps—knobs without redeploying code.

Organization portal — publish & analytics

Core desk: each congregation manages only its own events and sees engagement that matters before renewals—listing views, detail views, social shares and plan-to-attend totals per row.

Church portal events grid with listing views detail views social shares and plan to attend metrics
Church event edit form with category schedule geocoded address cost descriptions and image upload

Full publish payload: category, type, schedule, geocoded address, cost, contacts, website, short/long descriptions, image, extra info.

Church organization create event form triggering Authorize.net charge on publish

Self-service creation; saving a paid listing charges the vaulted Authorize.net profile using platform pricing rules.

Event listing marketplace & monetization

Shipped model: pay-to-publish via Authorize.net card vault + admin pricing rules. Avoid double-charging edits. Future packaging: free/basic, featured, org subscription, sponsored placement, ticketed events, enterprise multi-location.

Church profile with contact address Authorize.net card vault and password reset

Authorize Card validates the profile before paid publishes are allowed.

Mobile event discovery (React Native)

Church it UP! iOS/Android on the same Laravel JSON API—browse by category, open geo-tagged detail, share and tap Plan to attend. Mobile is not a brochure; it is the discovery surface.

Mobile App → Categories · Near Me · Map
        → Event detail → Share · Plan to Attend
Mobile home screen with Music Events Projects and Seminars categories

Home · browse categories

Mobile music event list with near me and map tabs

Category list

Mobile music events near me sorted by distance

Near Me · distance sort

Mobile map view with music event pins

Map · geo pins

Mobile event detail with map description social share and plan to attend

Event detail · map & RSVP

Mobile plan to attend confirmation thank you screen

Plan to attend · confirmation

Location-aware event discovery

Geo fields validated before publish to maps and search. Near Me → distance sort → map pins → geo-tagged detail. Reusable for city/region filters, radius search and geographic campaigns.

Event → Lat/Lng · Address · Category → Geo search
              Near Me · Radius · Map view

Event performance analytics

  • Acquisition — listing views, detail views, social shares
  • Engagement — Plan-to-Attend / RSVP totals per event
  • Future — view→register conversion, attendance, geography, listing/ticket revenue, campaign ROI

Event lifecycle — shipped vs future

Shipped: Publish (paid) → Discover → Detail → Share → Plan to Attend
Future:  Register/Tickets → Payment → Reminder → QR check-in → Follow-up

Future ops: organizers/volunteers/speakers/sessions; QR check-in; in-person/online/hybrid; WhatsApp reminders; white-label domains/apps.

Working-system video

Watch on YouTube → · 1:17 · Dedicated watch page →

Original architecture

Platform admin → MySQL
Church portal → Authorize.net → MySQL
Mobile JSON API → MySQL → React Native app

AI event layer — future architecture

Not claimed as shipped. Evolution on the same Event API:

  • AI creation — draft title/description/promo; human approves before publish
  • Recommendations — location + interests + shares + attendance history
  • Marketing automation — email/SMS/WhatsApp/social from event objects
  • AI Voice — “events near me this weekend?” → search → register → confirm
  • Organizer insights — why views ≠ RSVPs; suggest CTA/radius promotions using real metrics

Links AI Automation, AI Voice and AI & Data.

Product roadmap narrative

V1 Existing: Listing + Mobile discovery
V2 Registration + Ticketing + Check-in
V3 CRM + Marketing automation
V4 AI event assistant
V5 Recommendations + AI Voice
V6 Predictive event intelligence

One event platform, many industries

IndustryExample
ChurchesWorship, youth, seminars
EducationClasses, workshops
TourismTours, excursions
Associations / NGOsConferences, fundraising
Sports / localMatches, festivals
Corporate / hospitalityWorkshops, dinners

Pattern: Organization → Event → Location → Attendee → Engagement → Payment → Mobile.

Modern architecture path

Web / Mobile / WhatsApp / Voice → API Gateway
  → Event · Booking · CRM services → PostgreSQL (+ PostGIS)
  → Redis · Queue · Search → AI · Analytics

Historical stack remains Laravel 5.5 + MySQL + React Native + Authorize.net + Google Maps.

Security & payments

  • Church-scoped queries on every mutating route
  • PCI-aware handling — card data via gateway, not custom columns (not a compliance certificate)
  • Geo validation before publish
  • Future: audit logs, rate limits, webhook validation, secure media uploads, privacy controls

My role

  • Laravel SaaS architecture — tenancy, billing hooks, admin UX, mobile API contract
  • Org portal — events grid, analytics columns, publish/charge flow
  • Platform admin — onboarding + global pricing/notification rules
  • Mobile integration — JSON API for React Native discovery/RSVP
Multi-tenant SaaSOrg portalAuthorize.netGeo / MapsReact Native APIEvent analyticsRSVPPlatform admin

Technology stack

Laravel 5.5MySQLReact NativeREST APIAuthorize.netGoogle Maps

Outcomes

  • Churches manage paid listings and engagement metrics on their own portal
  • Mobile browse/RSVP on the same API as the org desk
  • 1:17 demo and gallery document org admin and mobile flows
  • Reusable multi-tenant event marketplace pattern beyond the church vertical
FAQ

Event management & booking questions

Events, geo discovery and multi-tenant SaaS—telecom FAQ leftovers removed.

An event management platform lets organizations publish and manage events while attendees discover, register/RSVP and engage—often with maps, mobile apps, payments and analytics on one API.

Yes. In this build each church organization portal manages only its own events: category, schedule, geocoded address, cost, descriptions, images and paid publish.

Yes. Laravel multi-tenant SaaS: org users never see the platform registry; platform admin handles onboarding and global pricing rules.

Yes. The React Native app includes Near Me distance sort, map pins and geo-tagged event detail on the same Laravel JSON API.

Yes. Church it UP! (iOS/Android, React Native) browses categories, lists, maps and Plan to Attend against the shared API.

Yes. Plan to Attend with confirmation is shipped. Full ticketing, capacity/waitlists and QR check-in are labeled future extensions.

Yes. Vaulted Authorize.net card; saving a paid listing charges using platform pricing rules (trial windows, per-event cost, notification caps).

As a future extension: ticket types, early-bird, coupons, group registration, capacity and QR tickets. Original monetization is pay-to-publish listings.

Yes—that is the original vertical. Architecture also adapts to conferences, schools, NGOs, tourism, associations and local activities.

Yes architecturally: org portal → events → discovery → RSVP/tickets → analytics. Church events prove the pattern.

As a future assistant: draft title/description/promo copy for human approval before publish. Not claimed as shipped.

As a future layer using location, categories, shares and Plan-to-Attend history. Not claimed as shipped.

As a future extension: phone → AI Voice → Event Search API → recommend/register → confirmation. Not claimed as shipped.

As a future automation channel (confirmations, reminders, updates)—especially relevant for India-focused deployments. Not claimed as shipped.

Yes as a productization path: branded domains/apps, categories, notification settings per tenant on the multi-org core. See SaaS development.

Building event listing or booking SaaS?

Share billing model, analytics, who publishes content and whether tickets, QR check-in or AI Voice come later. First reply maps org portal, API and mobile discovery.

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