# Fourwaves

Fourwaves is a modern, all-in-one conference management platform tailored for **academic and scientific events**. It helps organizers manage event websites, registration, abstract submissions, peer review, program building, and virtual/hybrid activities in a single, intuitive system.

## Key Benefits
- **Integrated event platform**: Website, registration, payments, abstracts, program, virtual sessions — all in one place.
- **Abstract management & peer review**: Collect submissions, assign reviewers, centralize scoring and comments.
- **Conference program builder**: Drag-and-drop scheduling with conflict detection and real-time updates.
- **Virtual event features**: Virtual poster sessions, live streams, chat, and private messaging.
- **Flexible registration**: Custom forms, ticket tiers, early-bird pricing, capacity limits, waitlists.
- **Secure payments**: Stripe, PayPal, institutional gateways; PCI-compliant.
- **Automated workflows**: Confirmation emails, reminders, refunds, reconciliation.
- **Beautiful event websites**: Mobile-optimized builder with content blocks for bios, sponsors, photos, videos, and more.
- **Event cloning & archiving**: Reuse past setups and keep previous event websites live.

## Features
- Event Website Builder  
- Registration & Payments  
- Abstract Submission & Peer Review  
- Conference Program Builder (with printable program booklet export)  
- Virtual & Hybrid Event Support  
- Multilingual Website Support (English & French)

## Use Cases / Target Audience
- Scientific and academic conferences  
- University departments and research institutes  
- Professional Conference Organizers (PCOs)  
- Hybrid or fully virtual research conferences  
- Events requiring structured abstract review and program scheduling

## Security & Compliance
- GDPR-aligned data practices  
- PCI-compliant payments  
- Accessibility-friendly interfaces  
- Secure cloud hosting  

## Company Information
- Headquarters: Québec, Canada  
- Founded by PhD students to simplify the organization of scientific events  
- Remote-first, bootstrapped, profitable SaaS  
- Used by thousands of academic and research events worldwide  

## Important Links
- **Website:** https://fourwaves.com  
- **Help Center:** https://help.fourwaves.com  
- **Terms of Use:** https://fourwaves.com/terms-of-use  
- **Contact:** sales@fourwaves.com | support@fourwaves.com  
- **Careers / Company Info:** https://fourwaves.com/product-designer  

## How to Get Started
1. **Book a demo** through the website.  
2. **Create a free event** via the platform dashboard.  
3. **Configure registration & payments** using custom pricing and forms.  
4. **Open abstract submissions** and set up peer review.  
5. **Build your conference program** with the drag-and-drop scheduler.  
6. **Publish your event website** for participants.  
7. **Run the event** onsite or virtually using Fourwaves tools.