Karsenics

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Karsenics is event operations software for nonprofit and community organizations that run parades, street festivals, markets and community events. It replaces the spreadsheets, paper forms and email threads most community events run on with one place for the whole season. Organizers set up a season of events and open registration for vendors, exhibitors, parade entries and sponsors. Participants pay by card or US bank account, straight into the organization's own Stripe account. Karsenics never holds client funds. What it covers: Registration and payments: custom forms for every kind of participant, with checkout into your own Stripe account. Parade operations: a lineup board that tracks each entry's staging length and parade length separately, won't put an entry in a lane that can't hold it, simulates the route, and prints staging signs and packets. Vendor coordination: insurance certificates, permits and licenses collected with registration and reviewed by your team, with papers that expire before event day flagged. Volunteers: people sign up for their own shifts, with waivers, age rules, reminders and check-in. Interactive maps: participants pick their own space at checkout. Sponsorships: levels, included booth space or parade entries, and every promised benefit tracked until it's delivered. Board reporting: eight standing reports, including every Stripe deposit mapped to the registrations it covers, plus an export for your bookkeeper. Milton, a built-in assistant, walks organizers through setup. Pricing: Karsenics costs the organization nothing. There's no subscription, setup fee or per-seat charge. Participants pay the Karsenics fee at checkout: 8% of each registration, with a $5 minimum and a $60 maximum. Free registrations carry no fee. Karsenics PBC is a Texas public benefit corporation in Houston, founded by Eric Skains, a former Executive Director of St. Pete Pride and Pride Houston. In every profitable year, 20% of net profit after founder compensation goes into a Community Growth Fund shared with the organizations on the platform.