Most Open Day registrations are a name and an email in exchange for nothing. The student has invested ten seconds, so ten seconds is what their attendance is worth. The Open Day Experience gets them to build their own day first — sessions chosen, clashes resolved, a plan they own. By the time it asks for an email, they have already decided to come.
The form comes after the plan, not before it. A student who has spent four minutes choosing sessions, resolving a clash and saving an itinerary is not a lead who might turn up. They have already committed — and the email address arrives as a consequence, not a toll gate.
Passive pages get scrolled. A planner gets used. Students filter by what they are actually considering, meet a mentor who took the same path, find the room on a map, and come back to the plan in the days before — every visit a fresh signal of intent.
Capacity, waitlists, clashes and room changes are handled by the product, not by someone with a spreadsheet and an inbox. Your team stops rekeying registrations and starts reading a live picture of who is coming and what they want to see.
One self-contained build on your own subdomain, or embedded in a landing page. It does not need to live inside your CMS, so Squiz, AEM, Sitecore, Drupal and Optimizely are all equally fine.
If registration is already a first-party form wired to your CRM, this sits in front of it and hands the lead over warmer. There is no ticketing platform to rip out.
Sessions, rooms, capacities and campus content come from your source of truth. Plans, consent and session choices go back to your CRM and marketing automation.
The plan is a phone itinerary with rooms, a campus map and what is next. Print it, add it to a calendar, or scan a QR at the gate. No install, no account, no signal anxiety.
Nothing is captured before the plan exists. Comms opt-in is explicit and channel by channel, and the wording is written with your compliance team rather than around it.
Imagine warms them up all year, Open Day converts the visit, Orientation lands the first week. One engine, one visual system, and each edition links to the other two.
Open Day is the one moment in the year when a prospective student physically shows up. Everything before it is trying to earn that day, and everything after it is trying to keep the momentum. It is also the only part of the funnel most universities still run on a PDF programme and a registration form.
Send us your session list and a campus, and we will come back with this same experience running on your brand.
Twenty minutes, screen shared, your questions. We will bring a version running on your brand.
Demo form — nothing is sent and nothing is stored. In a live build this posts straight to your CRM.