V2: Event Participant Contacts
Learn how to manage event participant contacts with custom views, filters, and tracking tools in V2.
Updated: February 4, 2026
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Permissions and accessibility
Staff access:
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Admin: Full access
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Manager: Full access
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Staff: No access
MyStudio plan restrictions:
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Starter: no access to in-app messaging
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Filter limits
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Starter: save 3 filters
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Growth: save 10 filters
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Scale: save 20 filters
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Legacy basic: save 3 filters
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Legacy premium and white label: save 10 filters
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Contacts general overview
What is the contacts section used for?
The contacts section lets you manage three types of people:
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Customers – Paying adults responsible for memberships
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Leads – Interested prospects who haven’t signed up for a trial or membership yet
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Participants – Anyone enrolled in a trial, event, or membership
You can customize columns, filter views, and adjust how many entries appear per page in all sections.
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What is an event participant?
An event participant is a customer who is registered for one of your events.
Event participants table
Access event participants table in V2
To access the event participants table in V2:
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Login to V2.
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Go to contacts > participants.
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Make sure you’re in the “events” tabs at the top of the page.

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Customizing the event participants table
You can customize the event participants table by:
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Required columns that cannot be unpinned from the table:
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Participant
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Toggle columns on/off, reorder them, or pin them to stay visible. Available columns include:
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Event / Category
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Registration date, registration method
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Email
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Birthday, age
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Cancellation date
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Quantity
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Total cost
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Total paid
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Balance due
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Cancelled future payments
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Refunded
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Paid marketing ID
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Level/rank
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Primary customer
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Page size: Show 5, 10, 20, or 50 entries.
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Search: Use name or contact info to find event members more quickly.

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Event participants communication
Send an email or mobile message to event participants by:
- Going to contacts > participants.
- Accessing the events subcategory from the top.
- Check the box next to the desired event participants.
- Click either email or mobile message above the table.
- Compose and send your message.

Note: SMS and emojis require add-on and connected Twilio. For more information, check out one of our articles:
- Twilio Step 1: Buy MyStudio’s Communication Add-on
- Twilio Step 2: Set Up Twilio Account
- Twilio Step 3: Regulatory Compliance Onboarding (Brand Registration and A2P 10DLC Campaign Creation)
- Twilio Step 3 Alternative: Toll-free Verification
- Twilio Step 4: Connect Your Twilio Account to MyStudio
- Porting your MyStudio Number into your Own Twilio Account
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What is paid marketing id?
Our scale plan members have access to connect their Google Ad and Facebook Pixel marketing ids. This column tracks which specific ad or marketing campaign brought someone in. It is useful for evaluating paid advertising efforts.

Editing event registration
To edit an event registration, including status changes, payment edits, and more, you will need to do so from V1 for now.
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Login to V1.
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Go to all customers > event participants.
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Click on the name of the participant.
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Make edits to the registration.
Note: This method is only temporary until we add internal registration and profile pages to V2.

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Add a new event participant
To add a event participant,
- Click on the "+ Add new" button on the top right of the screen.

- Click "Customer/Participant."

- Select event and the type of event they will be attached to by clicking a dropdown option.
- Once complete, click "Continue." A new tab will open with the V1 public point of sale (POS) to complete the registration process.
- Once the registration has gone through, you can return to the contacts table in V2 to see the new event participant listed.
Filters
You can filter the trial participants table by:
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Event type
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Events
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Status
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Levels/ranks
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Ages
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Program registration
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Birthday
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Sources

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Benefit of filters
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Opportunities to sell memberships.
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Where to put marketing funds for sources that get more event sales.
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Communications with specific events.
Less guessing. More action. All your most important lists, ready when you need them.
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Saving a filter
To save a filter for event participants:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory from the top.
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Click the “more filters” button above the table.
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Select the desired filters.
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Click “save new filter.”
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Name the filter and select whether you want to “email report for this filter.”

Once saved, the filter will automatically create a pin above the table for easy access. If you save more than three filters, the third pin will be replaced automatically with the newly saved filter, but these can be changed out easily.

Note: MyStudio plans for the amount of saved filters across all customer tables applies:
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Starter: save 3 filters
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Growth: save 10 filters
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Scale: save 20 filters
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Legacy basic: save 3 filters
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Legacy premium and white label: save 10 filters
Editing a filter
To update saved filters with different or new filter options:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory from the top.
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Click on the pinned saved filter.
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Open the filter options from the “more filters” button.
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Edit the existing applied filters or add additional filters.
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Click “update filter.”

Changing pinned filters above the table
The system only allows 3 pins above the tables to appear at a time, but if your MyStudio plan allows you to save more than 3 filters across the customer tables, you can easily switch out which ones show:
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Click the “x” on the tab to remove it from the view.
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Click the “+” button to select which filter gets pinned.

Why only 3 pinned filters?
We have limited saved pinned filters to 3 in order to allow seamless flow across devices including mobile views.
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Sending filter reports
When saving a filter, you will be prompted to select whether to send the filter as a report. If you turn this on, you will also be asked:
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Report frequency: select how often to send the report
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Minimum: once a week
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Maximum: once a year (12 months)
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Which staff gets the report

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Editing filter reports
To turn the reports on/off:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory at the top.
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Click “manage filters” above the table on the right.
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Turn the “email report” toggle on/off to pause or activate any existing saved filters.
To edit the report frequency or recipients:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory at the top.
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Click “manage filters” above the table on the right.
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Click the three dots next to the filter.
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Select “edit email frequency.”

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Common filters
How to filter event statuses
To filter event participant statuses:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory at the top.
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Click “more filters” above the table
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Click the “status” filter drop down.
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Select the desired status.

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How to filter by specific events
To filter by specific events:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory at the top.
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Click the events filter above the table.
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Select the desired event.

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See past events
To see a list of past events’ participants:
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In V2, go to contacts > participants.
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Access the events subcategory at the top.
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Click the “events (live)” drop down above the table.
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Choose “events (past)” from the list.
