# What is Highbar

> How Highbar's event app, registration and website fit together, and who uses which part.

Source: https://help.highbar.ai/docs/get-started
Audience: event organizers, working in the Highbar dashboard

Highbar is an event platform you set up yourself: registration, an event website and an event app with an AI Concierge, all built on the same event data. Add a speaker once and the website, the agenda and the app all show them.

## Who uses what

| Who | Where | What they do |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **You and your team** | The Highbar dashboard at [hub.highbar.ai](https://hub.highbar.ai) | Build the app, registration and website; manage attendees; send notifications; read analytics. |
| **Attendees** | Your event app, at its own link | Browse the agenda, ask the AI Concierge, meet people, get notifications. No app store, no password: they open a link and log in with their email. |
| **Speakers and sponsors** | Private links you send them | Fill in their own profiles, sessions and resources, so you don't have to chase them. |
| **Booth staff** | The event app | Scan attendees' badges to capture leads. |

## The parts of Highbar

- **Event app.** A web app attendees open from a link and can add to their home screen. It holds your schedule, speakers, sponsors, maps and resources, plus networking, messaging, 1:1 meetings, an activity stream and gamification. The **AI Concierge** answers attendees' questions about your event in plain language.
- **Registration.** Build a registration flow by describing it, with ticket types, approvals, forms and payments. Registrants can go straight into the event app.
- **Website.** Build an event website by describing it, then publish it on a Highbar address or your own domain.

## How an event comes together

<Steps>
<Step>
**Set up.** Work through the setup steps in the event sidebar: Event, AI, Content, App menu, Start page and Access. The [Quickstart](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/get-started/quickstart) walks you through them.
</Step>
<Step>
**Launch.** [Launch your app](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/launch) to publish it at its own link, then share the link and QR code with attendees.
</Step>
<Step>
**Run.** During the event, send [push notifications](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/run-your-event/push-notifications), manage the community and meetings, and keep content up to date. Changes show up in the app as you save them.
</Step>
<Step>
**Measure.** Follow registrations, app users and [engagement](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/analytics/engagement-metrics) live, then export reports for your team and sponsors.
</Step>
</Steps>

## Your account

When you sign up, Highbar creates a **Demo** event in your account, so you can explore a finished app before building your own. Events belong to an **organization**, and you can invite collaborators to work on an event with you. You only pay once attendees use what you've built: see [Pricing and billing](https://help.highbar.ai/docs/get-started/pricing-and-billing).

## Next steps

<Cards>
  <Card title="Quickstart" href="https://help.highbar.ai/docs/get-started/quickstart" description="Build and launch your first event app." />
  <Card title="Access: who can log in" href="https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/access" description="Decide who gets into your app." />
  <Card title="AI Concierge" href="https://help.highbar.ai/docs/event-app/ai/ai-concierge" description="Set up the assistant attendees ask questions." />
</Cards>