# 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, run single or double-blind peer review, centralize scoring and comments, and auto-generate a formatted book of abstracts.
- **Free tier & flat pricing**: Start free; flat per-event pricing with no per-registrant fee.
- **Public API**: Pull form fields, registration and submission data, and the full program from all your events (api.fourwaves.com/documentation); new endpoints added over time.
- **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.
- **Event Assistant (AI)**: Fourwaves' AI review tool, included free on every plan. It combines artificial intelligence with built-in rules to review your event website, settings, payments, and forms before you publish, flagging misconfigurations, missing translations, inconsistencies, and typos, grouped by severity (critical issues, warnings, suggestions).

## 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)
- Event Assistant (AI-powered event review, free on all plans)

## 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

## Customer stories
Real examples of how academic organizers run their events on Fourwaves:
- [Customer stories](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/): How universities, research networks, and scholarly societies run remarkable academic events with Fourwaves.
- [UBC Department of Physical Therapy](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/university-of-british-columbia-physical-therapy-event-registration/): Simplifying registration and payments for certification exams and continuing-education programs.
- [Michigan State University (MXR conference)](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/michigan-state-university-mxr-conference/): Why the Management in Extended Reality conference returned to Fourwaves to unify abstracts, peer review, registration, and payments.
- [Microscopical Society of Canada](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/microscopical-society-of-canada/): Running a national scientific meeting (abstracts, peer review, registration, payments) in one place since 2019.
- [McMaster Online CBT Training](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/mcmaster-online-cbt-training/): Centralizing workshop registration, payments, and communications, with a Moneris integration.
- [PROTEO research network](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/proteo-research-network-uqam-symposium/): Keeping a rotating annual symposium consistent across host universities since 2013.
- [McGill's The Neuro (ISCM2026)](https://fourwaves.com/customer-stories/mcgill-the-neuro-cholinergic-mechanisms-symposium/): Replacing ConfTool and Eventbrite with a modern platform connected to McGill's Moneris payment gateway.

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

## Recognition & Awards
Fourwaves earned nine G2 Summer 2026 badges based on verified customer reviews:
- Leader in Event Registration & Ticketing
- High Performer in Event Management Platforms
- High Performer in Virtual Event Platforms
- High Performer in Canada
- High Performer, Small Business
- Best Support in Event Management Platforms
- Best Support, Small Business
- Most Implementable, Small Business
- Best Estimated ROI, Small Business
Review profiles: [G2](https://www.g2.com/products/fourwaves/reviews) and [Capterra](https://www.capterra.com/p/237345/Fourwaves/).

## 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
- **Changelog:** https://fourwaves.com/changelog/

## 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.