Who uses CerimoniereWeb
Precedence rules are not the same for everyone. A university ranks by academic office, a command by rank inside an appointment, a local authority by territorial office, a bank and a professional body by organs that appear in no statute at all. CerimoniereWeb ships with the official orders and lets you define the rest.
Two orders supplied, the rest you write
The national and the territorial orders of precedence ship configured and kept current. They are the base almost every ceremony uses, at least for the outside authorities in the room.
Underneath that base every institution has its own order, and it is almost never written in law. A university senate, the board of a bank, the council of a professional body, the chain of command of a unit: real hierarchies that have to be respected in the hall, and that no legislator regulates. In CerimoniereWeb you define each one once, as the protocol of that institution, with its categories, its offices and the criteria that separate two people holding the same office.
From then on the only thing that changes is which protocol applies to which ceremony. The register of people stays single.
When hierarchies meet
The hard case is not ranking one homogeneous group. It is the room where a prefect, a rector, a general and the president of the bar association sit together: four different logics inside one seating order: public office, academic role, military rank, elected position.
That is why protocols combine instead of excluding each other. The national or territorial order handles the outside authorities, the institution’s own protocol handles its organs. The software merges the two lists into a single ranking and lays it on the plan of the hall, with reserved seats, proxies and accompanying guests.
Five institutions, five protocols
Each card leads to the ceremonies that institution actually holds, and to the way the software ranks them.
Universities
Opening of the academic year, degree ceremonies, honorary doctorates. Academic order is written by the university, not by statute.
See how it works for a universityCivic authorities
Council inaugurations, civil celebrations, honorary citizenships. The territorial order of precedence ships configured.
See how it works for a local authorityDefence and state corps
Oath ceremonies, changes of command, anniversaries. Where rank decides, the ordering follows rank.
See how it works for a commandBanks
General meetings, annual reports, foreign delegations. The board of a bank holds no public office, and still has to be seated in order.
See how it works for a bankProfessional bodies
Admission ceremonies, general meetings, opening of the legal year. Robes and civil authorities in the same room.
See how it works for a professional bodyAdopted by
- Bank of Italy
- Defence General Staff
- Italian Navy
- National Fire and Rescue Service
- Liguria Regional Government
- Naples Bar Association
- University of Eastern Piedmont
- University of Cagliari
- University for Foreigners of Siena
- University of Tuscia
- University of Molise
Want to see it on your own order of precedence?
We will show you CerimoniereWeb on a ceremony close to yours in scale and in the kind of offices involved. If you go ahead, we configure the plan of the hall and your protocol ourselves.
Request a demonstration for your protocol office User manual