Additional fields (FKA Custom fields) can be used to gather all sorts of information from your event attendees! Use this feature to gather critical information during the signup process. Get answers to questions like "Do you need lodging?", "Do you have food restrictions?", "What is your member number?" or "Do you have any accessibility needs?".
Additional fields will appear below the standard signup field, like below. Read on to learn how to add these fields to your events!
Select additional fields
Additional fields allow you to collect key pieces of additional information from supporters, members, and volunteers on event signup pages.
Each organization will have its own library of additional fields, which only admins of the organization can manage and add to. As an organizer, you will be able to choose up to two fields from the library to add to each event:
Mobilize signup forms already collect essential contact information like name, phone number, zip code, and email address, which will be pre-filled for any supporter who has taken action on Mobilize previously. Additional fields will always appear on the signup page under these standard fields.
Make an additional field required
If it is absolutely necessary that supporters fill out the field to take action, you can check the box 'This field is required on the signup page' when you add the field to your event, as seen below:
Supporters will not be able to complete their signup without filling in the required field or checkbox, and will not have the option to "sign up in one tap" for an event with required fields in automated event suggestions (including via SMS).
To avoid supporter drop-off, we recommend only making a field required when absolutely necessary for your event or action. A required field will look like this:
Remove an additional field from an event
Additional fields can be removed from an event at any time, even if data has been collected. Any data previously collected will still be available in the CSV exports.
Access data collected through additional fields
Data captured through additional fields can be downloaded via the Signups CSV export. Each additional field will appear as a separate column in the CSV export.
Information collected through additional fields will also be visible for each signup on the timeslot details page:
