Military reunions

A registration page your treasurer can defend.

Unit, ship, squadron and veterans' association reunions run on a budget, a roster and a treasurer's report. Reunionly gives you one page for the whole weekend, one predictable line item, and registration money that lands in the association's own account.

One flat fee by headcount, from $50No cut of registration incomeNo EIN or nonprofit status requiredRoster and CSV export for the banquet count

Built for the association that does this every year.

Most military reunions are not one-off events. There's an association — a unit, a ship, a squadron, a company, a class — that meets annually or every other year, rotates the host city, keeps a roster, and has someone who has been carrying the registration binder for a decade. What changes each year is the hotel, the banquet count and the price; what doesn't change is that somebody has to collect money from a few dozen to a few hundred people and account for it afterward.

That's the job this is built for. You build one page for the whole reunion: arrival day and hospitality room, the memorial service, the tours, the banquet, the business meeting, the departure brunch. A schedule section handles a multi-day agenda, a venue section carries the host hotel and its room block details, an FAQ section absorbs the questions that otherwise arrive by phone, and a gallery carries photos from the last one. Registration is just ticket types, so a full-weekend registration, a banquet-only ticket, a guest or spouse rate, a tour add-on and a memorial-brick donation line can all live on the same page at their own prices.

For the treasurer, the important part is that the fee is a single, knowable number. Reunionly charges one flat fee for the event, chosen by how many registrations you expect — $50 up to 100, $125 up to 300, $250 up to 750, $500 with no limit — paid once when you publish. It is a line item you can put in the budget before you open registration, not a percentage that grows as the reunion does. There is no per-registration cut, so a $110 weekend registration is $110 into the association's account, less Stripe's standard card processing of 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. If more people register than you planned for, upgrade a tier and pay only the difference.

You also don't need to be a legal entity to use it. Plenty of associations are informal — no articles of incorporation, no 501(c)(3) determination letter, no EIN — and several of the free fundraising platforms are open only to registered nonprofits that can produce one. Reunionly doesn't ask for that. What you do need is a Stripe account, which you create from inside Reunionly in a couple of minutes; it can be set up by an individual acting as treasurer or by the association if it has an EIN, and payouts go to the bank account you connect. Registration money is paid directly to that account — we are never holding the association's funds.

Outreach is usually a roster problem: a mailing list from the last reunion, a newsletter, a Facebook group, and a handful of members who only check the mail. One short link works in all of them, and the page stands on its own for anyone who receives it printed in a newsletter and types it in later. Reunionly emails registered attendees a reminder as the date approaches, and the attendee list — names, registration types, order detail — exports as a CSV for the hotel's banquet guarantee, the name badges, and the treasurer's records.

When something changes, and it always does, you edit the page and republish: a moved banquet, a new hotel rate, an added tour. Refunds are issued from the dashboard for the member who can no longer travel, and if the reunion has to be called off entirely you can refund every registration and get the flat fee back too.

Pricing

Pick a size. Pay once. Keep the rest.

The only thing that changes between tiers is how many tickets you can sell. Every feature is included in all of them.

Small

Up to 100 tickets

$50 once

Good for a single-night gathering or a family get-together.

Choose Small
Most reunions

Medium

Up to 300 tickets

$125 once

The typical 10- or 20-year class reunion with guests.

Choose Medium

Large

Up to 750 tickets

$250 once

Multi-class weekends and big alumni chapters.

Choose Large

Unlimited

No ticket limit

$500 once

Homecomings, reunion weekends, anything at scale.

Choose Unlimited

Included in every tier

  • Your own published event page
  • Unlimited ticket types & prices
  • Photo gallery and schedule
  • Attendee list & CSV export
  • Refunds and order management
  • Direct deposits via Stripe

The one other cost is Stripe's standard card processing — 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction — which every platform pays and we don't mark up. You can absorb it or build it into your ticket price.

Questions

What association officers ask.

Still unsure? Email hello@reunionly.app and a person will write back.

Do we have to be a registered nonprofit with an EIN?+

No. Reunionly doesn't require the association to be an incorporated entity or hold 501(c)(3) status — a common requirement on free fundraising platforms. You do need a Stripe account to receive payments, and that can be opened by an individual acting as treasurer or by the association itself if it has an EIN.

What exactly does the association pay?+

One flat fee for the reunion, based on the number of registrations you need: $50 up to 100, $125 up to 300, $250 up to 750, and $500 with no limit. Paid once, at publish. Nothing is taken out of registration payments, so the only variable cost is Stripe's card processing at 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction.

Can it handle a multi-day reunion with separate events?+

Yes. The schedule section lays out the full agenda day by day, and each paid piece — full registration, banquet, tours, hospitality room, guest rate — is its own ticket type with its own price. Members can select several in a single order.

Where does the registration money go?+

Straight into the bank account connected to your Stripe account. Payments are made directly to that account rather than routed through us, so the association's funds are never sitting on our books waiting for a payout.

We do this every year — can we reuse the page?+

Each reunion is its own event with its own page, dates, prices and roster, so last year's records stay intact instead of being overwritten. You keep the previous year's attendee export, and the flat fee is charged per event, which keeps the annual cost predictable.

How do we get the banquet count to the hotel?+

The attendee list shows who has registered and for which pieces of the weekend, and exports as a CSV. That's what most treasurers hand to the hotel for the banquet guarantee, and what the registration desk works from on arrival day.

Many of our members aren't comfortable online. Is that a problem?+

The public page is a single scrolling page with a clear registration button — no account to create and nothing to install. Members who still prefer to mail a check can be handled the way you've always handled them; the page carries exactly the same details as the letter, so both groups are working from one source and one link.

Ready when you are

Build the page tonight. Send it out tomorrow.

Free to start. Nothing to pay until you publish, and nothing taken from your ticket sales after that.