Recent Events row: turnout and attendance on past events

What this row is

On the Events page in Verinode HQ, the Recent Events row is the horizontal scroll of tiles below Upcoming Events. Where the Upcoming Events row shows what your association has scheduled, Recent Events shows what actually happened: for each event that has already taken place, how many people registered and how many of them showed up.

This is turnout reporting, not a job or task list. Verinode HQ does not manage event logistics, ticketing, or check-in. It reads the registration records your association already has and turns them into a readable attendance picture, one tile per past event.

Where to find it

Open Events in the HQ sidebar, or go directly to hq.verinode.ai/events. The page loads three rows top to bottom:

1. A hero panel with your event totals at a glance
2. Upcoming Events, events still ahead of you
3. Recent Events, events that have already happened

Recent Events is the third and last row on the page.

How a Recent Events tile is built

Each tile in the row represents one past event and shows four pieces of information:

• Headline, the event's name, exactly as it was entered (an event with no name shows as "Untitled event")
• Label, "X attended," where X is the number of registered people marked as attended
• Sub line, the event date and, if one was recorded, the location, separated by a middle dot (for example, "Mar 14, 2026 · Grand Rapids, MI")
• Meta line, the turnout detail: "X of Y attended," where X is the attended count and Y is the total number of registrations

If an event has no registrations at all, the meta line reads "No registrations" instead of a fraction, since there is nothing to compute a turnout rate against.

The date is always shown in readable form (for example, "Mar 14, 2026"). If a date is ever missing or malformed, the tile shows "Date TBD" rather than a raw timestamp.

The row shows up to 12 past events at a time, most recent first, so the event you just ran is always the first tile you see.

What counts toward "registered" and "attended"

A registration counts toward an event's total as long as it has not been cancelled. Both "registered" status and "attended" status count as active registrations. Cancelled registrations are dropped from every count on this page, past and upcoming, so a cancellation never inflates or drags down turnout math.

"Attended" is a stricter subset: only registrations explicitly marked attended contribute to the attended count. A registration that stayed at "registered" status past the event date is not counted as a no-show separately. It simply is not counted as attended, which is what drives the "X of Y attended" fraction down.

The upcoming and past split

Every event on the page falls into exactly one of the two rows, and the line between them is drawn fresh every time you load the page: an event is "upcoming" if its start time is still ahead of the moment you opened the page, and "past" the instant that moment passes. There is no separate status field to update and no manual step to move an event from one row to the other.

This has one practical consequence worth knowing: an event that is currently underway (start time has passed, but it is not over yet) already shows in Recent Events, not Upcoming Events. The split is based on start time only. If you check the page mid-event, you'll see it counted as recent, with turnout still filling in as attendance gets recorded.

Within each row, the ordering is different on purpose:

• Upcoming Events sorts soonest first, so the next thing on your calendar is the first tile
• Recent Events sorts most recent first, so your latest event is the first tile and older history trails off to the right

The Monitor accent color

Recent Events tiles use the Monitor signal color (teal), the same accent used across Verinode wherever a metric is being observed rather than flagged for action. That is a deliberate distinction from the Upcoming Events row, which uses the Copper brand accent for events still to come.

The color choice reflects what this row is for: it is a read-only record of what already happened, not a queue of things to act on. There is nothing to approve or resolve on a Recent Events tile. It is context for planning your next event, not a task.

How the hero panel's attendance rate relates to this row

The hero panel at the top of the Events page includes an Attendance rate figure alongside your upcoming event count and next-event registrations. This number summarizes the same past-event data shown in the Recent Events row, just rolled up into one percentage.

The rate is computed by taking each past event's own attended-of-registered ratio and averaging those ratios across all past events that had at least one registration. Averaging per event this way means one unusually large event does not single-handedly swing the number: a 40-person event running at 50 percent attendance and a 400-person event running at 90 percent attendance count equally toward the average, rather than the bigger event dominating the math.

If no past event has any registrations yet, the hero panel shows "Awaiting past-event turnout" instead of a percentage. Once turnout data exists, an attendance rate of 70 percent or higher is called out in the Monitor accent as a strong result; below that, it displays in a neutral tone. Either way, this is a summary metric for the whole row above, not a substitute for looking at individual events when one underperforms.

Reading the row for planning purposes

The Recent Events row is most useful for two things:

• Spotting an event that underperformed. A tile reading "12 of 60 attended" next to others reading "45 of 50 attended" is a visible signal that something about that specific event, timing, venue, format, may be worth a closer look before you schedule the next one like it.
• Confirming turnout is flowing in at all. Since attendance depends on your association's own registration records being marked, seeing tiles populate with real numbers after an event confirms the underlying attendance tracking made it into Verinode HQ correctly.

Verinode HQ surfaces this pattern for your review. It does not draw conclusions about why an event under-attended or recommend a fix; that judgment call sits with association leadership.

The empty state

Before your association's first event has taken place, the Recent Events row shows a single line instead of tiles:

"No past events yet. Turnout will appear here once your first event has taken place."

This is expected and not an error. It simply means every event currently on the calendar is still upcoming. As soon as an event's start time passes, it moves into this row automatically and its tile begins showing turnout as registrations get marked attended.

Privacy boundary

Recent Events, like every view on the Events page, shows association-level event data, event names, dates, locations, registration counts, and attendance, not a franchise member's private business performance. Attendance and registration figures reflect people or member businesses that signed up for your association's own events. This row is not connected to any member's operational data, benchmarks, or financials; those stay owned by each membership and are never exposed here.

1. 1Open Events from the HQ sidebar, or go to hq.verinode.ai/events.
2. 2Scroll to the Recent Events row, the third row on the page.
3. 3Read each tile's meta line ("X of Y attended") to see turnout for that specific event.
4. 4Compare tiles across the row to spot events that ran hot or cold on attendance.
5. 5Check the hero panel's Attendance rate for the rolled-up trend across all past events.

Related help

• /help/hq-events-upcoming
• /help/hq-events-hero-metrics
• /help/hq-events-overview