Bounce is a Canadian campus engagement platform actively used by almost 1 in 2 Canadian University students and has deeply integrated workflows across over 20 of the largest campuses in the country (learn more). Bounce's mission is to support a generation in connecting and creating memories. Through partnerships with student unions, Bounce helps build a campus ecosystem where students can connect, engage, and build their community together. 

Check out how Bounce helped clubs like the Chinese Varsity Club achieve +42% student attendance, and +52% event proceeds, in their first year on the platform HERE

For the SSMU’s constituent clubs, ISGs, departments, services and committees, Bounce will serve as the underlying event ticketing, RSVP tracking and event sanctioning form provider for ‘25/’26. Bounce consolidates the previous assortment of administrative and communications tools used by the SSMU (ie: Wufoo, Eventbrite, E-transfer, Outlook, etc), into one streamlined platform for club event management and communications. 

To access the SSMU’s club activity hub (link), and all constituent club and faculty society pages, students must verify their @mcgill.ca email.

No. McGill students can RSVP and buy tickets to events directly from Bounce’s desktop or mobile website, as well as the mobile app.

To gain full access to Bounce and learn how to use it effectively, your group must:

1. Submit the Student Group Information Form for the 2025–2026 academic year

2. Complete these setup instructions to join your club on Bounce as an ‘Admin’ CLICK HERE

Clubs are required to track RSVPs and sell tickets on Bounce after receiving approval of their University Centre Booking Request, or Event Declaration Form 

In line with the existing process for all events and activities, clubs are required to submit SSMU University Centre Booking Requests, or Event Declaration Forms, in order for activity pages to be published on Bounce. If a club is selling paid tickets, they must add their club’s bank account to Bounce (details).

Clubs will require a Bounce account to submit event approval requests to the Events Coordinator or Events Specialist. The Bounce account acts as the @mcgill.ca email authentication layer, gates the platform from bad actors, and enables the SSMU to understand performance of form completion/incompletion on a more granular level.

Non-students are still able to RSVP to events. The new Bounce suite enables groups to:

• Have an active student authentication check in the RSVP tier creation settings, if desired. This helps organizations that host student only activities to protect their event and audience. 

• Have a student organization provide specific perks and discounts to their membership through specific organization gating on tiers. This mitigates the risk of discount codes being leaked or having to operate an overly manual system. Learn more HERE

Time Savings: 

• Students will get their events approved by the SSMU faster: Bounce provides an easier and more centralized workflow for the Events Specialist & Events Coordinator, which makes it faster for them to approve events at large (i.e. at the scale of 1,440+ event requests last year). 

• Students now have end-to-end control of event pages: Before, group leaders had to work through the SSMU to get event pages created, and modified leading up to each event. With Bounce, you have complete control over your group’s event page, so you can easily make design and pricing changes directly. 

• Form fields get auto-populated for the student organization, reducing manual form completion time. 

• Payment insight and reconciliation can be done in a matter of seconds as opposed to a multi-hour process with e-transfers and manually building excel sheets. 

• Event performance is centralized to a single dashboard as opposed to needing to build custom pivot tables with a fragmented set of data pipelines. 

• Re-engaging past attendees can be done with 3-clicks, instead of starting campaigns from scratch for future events. Organizations will see 10-20% of their activity populate using Bounce's custom invite-back feature which can be complimented with other in-platform tools.

Club Activity Awareness & Performance: 

• On average, hosts on Bounce have seen 16-30%+ lifts in activity attendance.

• Hosting your activity on Bounce allows you to display on the central activity feed for all public campus activities. This makes it easier for students you wouldn't traditionally reach to find your activity.

• Bounce's built in social notifications of which friends are attending what activities automatically support marketing your event, and help students discover events in a more social manner. This also drives more comfortability as they have a peer or someone they know that's attending.

Event Safety & Reporting: 

• Bounce's custom safety ratings (like Uber) and post event reviews make it possible to drive event quality thresholds and review processes at the scale of 300+ organizations.

• Club leaders will be able to understand if students felt uncomfortable at their events, and they can optimize for the future. 

• Bounce allows the SSMU to understand risk earlier, and support clubs with the material and processes needed to maintain high quality activities.

• The step-by-step instructional setup and onboarding presentation for SSMU club leaders is HERE.

Selling memberships on Bounce are free for club leaders, and membership purchases. Bounce’s membership suite, including digital membership cards and real time member list tracking, incurs no payment processing or transaction fees.

Free RSVP activities:

Free RSVP tracking is free, and incurs no host or purchaser fees on Bounce. 

Paid tickets:

Bounce charges a $1 ticketing service fee, along with a passthrough 2.9% + $0.30 payment processing fee for each paid ticket. Event hosts (ie: club leaders) have the option to absorb the fees, or pass them on to ticket purchasers. For context, 99%+ of Bounce’s student union and club partners choose for purchasers to pay these fees. 

For reference, please see the comparison of Bounce vs Eventbrite’s fees here.

All paid tickets follow the same fee structure. For student organizations donating their event revenue to registered charities, Bounce typically offers individual club partnership opportunities where they donate the Bounce ticketing service fee ($1) to the registered charity, in exchange for product usage stipulations being met (ie: 20+ photos uploaded to the event page). 

To learn more about service fee donation opportunities, contact [email protected].

No. Each ratified SSMU student club already has a pre-created Bounce Organization. Once added to your club’s organization, you will have complete control to modify org elements like membership lists and branding (ie: display pictures). During year/year club transition, new club leaders will similarly be added as ‘Admin’ users, eliminating the need for password sharing. 

You can join your club’s organization HERE.

Right now, the SSMU’ Event Sanctioning form workflow requires submission approval before each club’s event page can start tracking RSVPs, or selling tickets. Approval by the Event Specialist, or Event Coordinator, is required on Bounce to comply with the SSMU’ policy for constituent organizations to be covered by the SSMU’s insurance.

Please send an email to [email protected].