For many years, we have been hosting webinars via GoTo, with the twist that we run registration on our own domain and add people to GoTo via the REST API (using Zapier for convenience). We take this approach because we are a membership-based business and the GoTo-hosted registration web UI doesn't meet our requirements.
A few months from now, we plan on running a "Webinar Week", using a GoTo Virtual Event. However, we have run into a problem: there is no support for Virtual Events in the GoTo REST API, preventing us from adding registrants to GoTo as they arrive via our registration mechanism.
GoTo's suggested workaround appears to be "bulk registration": manually uploading a CSV file containing names and emails using a web UI. Unfortunately, with several hundred registrants expected, it will be tedious and error prone to insert a human into the loop. We can rejigger our process to use bulk registration for early birds, but as the event date nears, it will become increasingly difficult for us to respond in a timely and reliable manner to late registrations.
Any suggestions?
Any news of when REST API support for Virtual Events might arrive?
Although we've been using GoTo for a long time and our team is comfortable with it, I've purchased a Zoom subscription so that we can explore our options. This won't be the last multi-webinar event we run and while we might make the CSV-upload workaround work once, it will become problematic for us in the long run.
