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The whole product, written down

39 guides, from a first schedule to an install of your own. Search them, get a reading list for what you are setting up, or look inside a guide before you open it.

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People ask How do refunds work? Embed my calendar Events that repeat Import from Eventbrite Scan tickets at the door Use my own domain

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From nothing to a live calendar

Tick what you want to do. The list is the shortest way through the guide for exactly that, in the order you will need it.

The shortest way through the guide, in the order you will need it.

A tag names the plan a goal needs. No tag, no cost.

Your reading list Everything, in order 21 steps
  1. Create your schedule Getting Started, Create Your Schedule
  2. Make it look like yours Schedule Styling, Overview
  3. Add your first event Creating Events, Creating Events Manually
  4. Bring in the rest from a link, text or a flyer AI Import, The Import Page Import my events
  5. Keep it in step with your calendar Creating Schedules, Calendar sync Import my events
  6. Open free sign-ups Selling Tickets, Free Registration Take free sign-ups
  7. Connect a way to get paid Selling Tickets, Payment Sell tickets
  8. Set up your ticket types Selling Tickets, Ticket Types Sell tickets
  9. Draw your seating plan Allocated Seating, Step 1 - Build the plan Reserved seats
  10. Put the seats on sale Allocated Seating, Step 2 - Put it on sale Reserved seats
  11. Create a pass Subscriptions & Passes, Step 1 - Create the pass Sell passes, gift cards
  12. Switch on gift cards Gift Cards, Step 1 - Enable gift cards Sell passes, gift cards
  13. List what can be booked Appointments, Appointment types Take bookings
  14. Set your weekly hours Appointments, Weekly hours Take bookings
  15. Share your page Sharing, Your Schedule URL
  16. Put the calendar on your website Sharing, Embedding on Your Website Embed on my website
  17. Start collecting subscribers Sharing, Building Followers Email my audience
  18. Send your first newsletter Newsletters, Newsletter Builder Email my audience
  19. Make a graphic of your events to post Event Graphics, Overview Make social graphics
  20. Scan tickets at the door Selling Tickets, Check-in at the Door Sell tickets
  21. Bring in your team Managing Schedules, Team Work as a team
  22. Tick something and its steps join the list, in their place.

Your ticks ride in the link, so the link is the list: copy it to keep it, or to send it.

User Guide

Every part of the product, act by act

These follow the app screen by screen. Point at one to put it on the stage: its screens, and its own contents, every line a way straight to that section.

These follow the app screen by screen. Tap one to see its screens and its contents, every line a way straight to that section.

19 guides that follow the app screen by screen, and what each one holds. Every line goes straight to that section.

Already in the app? The Help button at the foot of the sidebar opens the section for the screen you are on, down to the tab.

01

Set up

Create an account, a schedule, and make it yours.

Getting Started

Getting Started: A schedule in the admin panel, on a month of events Getting Started: A schedule in the admin panel, on a month of events
A schedule in the admin panel, on a month of events

Getting Started

Create your account and set up your first schedule.

Read the guide
6 sections

Creating Schedules

Schedule Styling

02

Events

Add events by hand, from text, or from a photo.

Creating Events

AI Import

Scan Agenda

Scan Agenda: The Scan Agenda page Scan Agenda: The Scan Agenda page

Scan Agenda

Use AI to scan a photo of a printed agenda and automatically create event parts.

Read the guide
5 sections Feature overview
03

Sell

Take money for tickets, passes and bookings.

Selling Tickets

Subscriptions & Passes

Allocated Seating

Gift Cards

Gift Cards: The Gift cards row of a schedule's Tickets tab Gift Cards: The Gift cards row of a schedule's Tickets tab
The Gift cards row of a schedule's Tickets tab

Gift Cards

Sell prepaid gift cards buyers send to someone else.

Read the guide
6 sections Feature overview

Appointments

04

Promote

Get your events in front of an audience.

Sharing

Event Graphics

Newsletters

Boost

05

Manage

Run the day to day and see how it is going.

Managing Schedules

Analytics

Analytics: The Analytics page Analytics: The Analytics page
The Analytics page

Analytics

Track views, devices, traffic sources, and conversions.

Read the guide
7 sections Feature overview

Account Settings

Account Settings: The Settings page Account Settings: The Settings page
The Settings page

Account Settings

Manage your profile, payments, and API access.

Read the guide
8 sections

Referral Program

Referral Program: The Referral Program page Referral Program: The Referral Program page
The Referral Program page

Referral Program

Earn free months by referring other organizers.

Read the guide
8 sections
Run it yourself

Host it, resell it, or script it

Three more shelves, for the people who run the software and the people who write code against it. Each opens on a line from its own guide.

REST API 2 pages

Developer

Drive Event Schedule from your own code over REST. API access is a Pro feature, on reads as well as writes.

cURL Example
curl -X GET "https://eventschedule.com/api/schedules" \
     -H "X-API-Key: your_api_key_here" \
     -H "Accept: application/json"

Every endpoint but Register and Login takes this one header. API Reference, authentication

In the reference Getting Started Auth Schedules Sub-Schedules Events Sales Feedback Appointments Boosts Reference
Glossary

Fifteen words you will meet

The terms the app uses, in three families. Open one for the fine print.

Your calendar 5 words

01 Schedule Your event calendar, with its own URL, branding and settings.

One schedule holds as many events as you like, on every plan.

Creating Schedules
02 Schedule type Talent, Venue or Curator.

The type decides what a schedule gets: a venue has a full address, a curator aggregates events from other schedules. Choose carefully, because the type is fixed once the schedule is saved.

Getting Started, Schedule Types
03 Sub-schedule A category for events inside one schedule, such as Live Music, Comedy or Workshops.

Each one has its own color and its own URL, and visitors can filter by it. It organizes and color-codes only: it cannot hide an event.

Creating Schedules, Sub-schedules
04 Embed Your schedule shown on another website inside an iframe.

The calendar embed and the RSVP form are free; embedding the ticket purchase widget needs Pro.

Sharing, Embedding on Your Website
05 Admin Panel The management side of one schedule, opened from its name in the sidebar: a row of tabs where you add events, answer requests and manage your team, with its settings behind Edit Schedule.

Not the selfhost admin panel at /admin, which manages a whole install.

Managing Schedules

What is on it 5 words

06 Event A single occurrence with a date, time, location and details.

An event belongs to a schedule and can repeat daily, weekly, every few weeks, monthly or yearly, with dates you add or skip.

Creating Events
07 Request An event waiting for your approval: one a visitor submitted from your public request page, or one another schedule added you to.

Requests sit on the Requests tab until you accept or decline them, and you are emailed when new ones land unless you turn that off.

Managing Schedules, Requests
08 Unclaimed page A schedule page created for a performer or venue you name on an event before they are on Event Schedule.

It says who created it, credits each date to the schedule that added it, and stays out of search engines. The person it names claims it with an account on the email address or phone number it lists, and becomes its owner.

Creating Events, Pages Created for Others
09 Ticket A ticket type on an event, such as General or VIP.

Buyers pay through your own Stripe or PayPal account (or Payfast, Razorpay, Invoice Ninja, a payment link or cash), with no platform fees on any plan. A ticket type that carries a price needs Pro; one priced at zero sells on every plan.

Selling Tickets
10 RSVP Free sign-up for an event, with an optional capacity limit per date.

Available on every plan, and no payment account is needed.

Selling Tickets, Free Registration

Your audience 5 words

11 Follower Someone with an account who follows your schedule, which shares their name and email with you.

Pressing Follow on its own reaches an account follower only through a newsletter you send; the automatic digest goes to people who asked for email updates (see Subscriber).

Sharing, Building Followers
12 Subscriber Someone who asked your schedule for email updates: from the sign-up panel on your page, with their name and email, confirmed from the link we send, or from a tick box when they buy a ticket or register.

Confirming the sign-up panel also sets up an account for them wherever sign-up is open. Subscribers get a digest automatically when you publish events your schedule created, at most one every few days, and it does not draw on the newsletter allowance.

Newsletters, Email Subscribers
13 Interest list The email addresses left on one event with "Tell me when tickets go on sale", or "Tell me if anything changes" once it is selling, on the “Notify me” card that a schedule switches on for the events it creates.

No account and no name. They hear about that date only: when tickets go on sale, a reminder before it starts, a notice if it is cancelled, and any notice you choose to send if the date or venue changes. It is not a subscription to your schedule.

Selling Tickets, Interest List
14 Newsletter An email you write and send to a segment.

The monthly allowance counts recipients rather than sends: 10 free, 100 on Pro, 1,000 on Enterprise, and unlimited on selfhost or with your own mail server.

Newsletters
15 Segment A saved audience for newsletters: all followers, ticket buyers, a ticket waitlist, buyers from one sub-schedule, or a list you enter by hand.
Newsletters, Managing Segments
Still stuck

Not in here? Three more places to look.

Frequently asked questions Quick answers about plans, payments and getting started. Read the FAQ Ask us Write to the people who build Event Schedule. Contact us Open source on GitHub Read the code, or open an issue to tell us what broke. Open GitHub

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