Built by people who ran these events.
We're Luke and Eric. We met at St. Pete Pride, and between us we've spent nearly thirty years putting on Pride festivals, parades, and galas, and handling the money and paperwork that come with them.
We started where you probably are.
We both got our start at small nonprofits, running events on a patchwork of spreadsheets, email threads, and paper forms. The registration list lived in one place, the money in another, and the insurance certificates in somebody's inbox. The weeks before every event meant late nights holding it all together.
Later, working in different places, we each got to see how larger organizations do it. They had real systems: registration, payments, vendor paperwork, and reporting that actually talked to each other. They were the kind of tools a small organization could never afford.
Karsenics is what came out of all of it. It's the system we wish we'd had back then, built for the organizations still running on spreadsheets and late nights, and they pay nothing to use it.
Good tools, each built for one piece of the job.
RegFox is built for registration. Jotform is built for forms. Zeffy is built for nonprofit fundraising and ticketing. Each does its part well. None of them was built around a nonprofit running a festival and a parade at once: 200 vendor applications, 60 parade contingents, hundreds of volunteers, and the contracts, insurance certificates, booth assignments, payments, and event-day logistics that come with them.
So small teams stitch those tools together and fill the gaps by hand. Registration lives in one system, the money in another, and the parade lineup in a spreadsheet.
Karsenics was built as one workflow from the start, for that job and nothing else.
Free to your organization. Paid by your participants.
There is no platform charge to your organization. 8% of what the participant pays for each registration, never less than $5 or more than $60, on every event in your season. A free registration carries no fee. Participants pay it at checkout, and the rest of what they pay goes into your own Stripe account. When Karsenics is profitable, 20% of net profit goes back to the organizations that generated it.
How we think about this work.
Community first
We serve nonprofit and community organizations exclusively. No corporate events, no for-profit producers. That focus is intentional and permanent.
Operational dignity
Small staffs and volunteer teams deserve the same tools as large institutions. Budget size shouldn't determine operational quality.
Shared success
The Community Growth Fund returns 20% of annual net profit to client organizations, pro-rated by registrations generated.
Ready to stop managing your event in spreadsheets?
If you run a festival, parade, or community event, let's talk about whether we're a fit.