Admission Rules

Admission Rules decide who qualifies for a booking and what they get. You create named groups of IF/THEN rules - for example a group that gives your regulars automatic approval and a discount - and then attach the group to a guest list or an event.

You’ll find them under Settings → Policies → Admission Rules, and they’re shared by both events and the guest list.

How a group works

An admission rule group is a named collection of one or more rules. Each rule is a simple IF / THEN statement:

• The IF side is the qualification - the conditions a guest must meet.
• The THEN side is the reward - what the guest gets if they qualify.

A guest qualifies if any rule in the group matches (rules are OR’d together). Within a single rule, all its conditions must be met (AND’d), so you can build a specific condition in one rule and a different path to the same reward in another.

IF - qualification conditions

Condition	Matches when the guest…
Has tag	Carries a specific client tag - for example VIP or Regular.
Minimum bookings	Has at least a set number of past bookings with you.
Minimum connections	Has at least a set number of social connections (their Sidedoor network).

THEN - what the guest gets

Reward	Effect
Discount %	A percentage off. 100% means free entry.
Auto-approve	The guest’s guest-list request is approved automatically, with no manual review.
Extra plus-ones	Additional guests the qualifying guest may bring.

Attaching a group

Admission rule groups are referenced from your access profiles:

• A Guest List profile has an admission rule field.
• Events use them through their Event and Guest List profiles.

Build the group once, attach it wherever you want those perks to apply, and it governs qualification for that flow.

Tip

Admission Rules support Copy from another venue, so you can reuse a group’s qualification logic across a venue group. Combine them with client tags to reward your best guests automatically.

Example

A Regulars group might contain two rules:

1. IF guest has tag VIP → THEN auto-approve and 100% discount.
2. IF guest has at least 5 bookings → THEN 20% discount and 1 extra plus-one.

A VIP matches rule 1 and walks in free; a guest with six past bookings but no VIP tag matches rule 2 and gets 20% off plus an extra guest. A guest who matches neither pays and joins normally.