A live Q&A is a conversation, so plan it like one.
Registration with a real limit on places, an agenda your audience can read before they arrive, a poll they can add their own option to, and one link to wherever you are hosting. Zero platform fees, on every plan.
Agenda segments are free on every plan, and each one can take its own comments. The places counter is per date, so next Thursday starts again at forty.
The only three numbers on this page
How does anybody actually get in?
Registration. It is free, it is native, and it counts places per session date. A name and an email is all your audience has to type, and no account is required of them.
A list, not a form you built
FreeSet the session to Registration instead of Tickets and it collects sign-ups itself. Every registration lands in the same place your ticket sales would.
A limit that counts per date
FreeGive the session a number of places. A weekly office hour counts each Thursday separately, shows how many are left, and closes registration when that date is full.
The confirmation email is yours to write
FreeRegistration notes ride along with every confirmation. Put the joining instructions, the house rules, or an invitation to reply with a question in there once.
The honest limit: custom questions on that form, the ones asking what somebody does or what they want covered, are a Pro feature. The free list collects a name and an email, and one registration per person per date.
Can I ask my question before we start?
Three real surfaces, and it is worth being precise about what each one is. A poll the room can add options to. Comments held for approval, which can hang off a single agenda segment. And the email you already send.
What the room sees
ProWhich should we spend the hour on?
Results appear once you have voted: one vote each, from a signed-in account, counted per date. Close the poll and the results are on the page for everyone. More on event polls.
What you see
ProTurn on suggestions and you can also require your approval, so a suggested option waits here until you accept it. Ten options is the ceiling, pending ones included.
The Polls tab always carries a count of what is waiting. The email about it is a toggle you switch on, and on the hosted plan that one sends through your own email settings. Either way, the notifications run toward the host.
Comments, on the segment they are about
FreeYour audience can leave a comment on the session, or on one agenda segment, with just a name and an email. Nothing shows until you approve it, and the pending count sits on the Fan Content tab; the email about it is a toggle you switch on. A per-schedule toggle can require an account instead. More on audience content.
Or just ask by email
FreeThe registration note goes to everyone who signed up. A newsletter goes to everyone who follows you, and once you are on Pro a poll can be dropped into it with a button that votes on the session page.
What Event Schedule does not have, so you are not surprised on day one: an upvoting question queue with a moderation console. A poll is a poll. Your question, up to ten options, one vote each, and a small approve or reject on any option the room suggests.
So where do we actually meet?
Wherever you already host. Mark the session online, paste the link, and it appears on the session page and on each attendee's own registration page.
One field, any platform
FreeZoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, YouTube Live, or the thing you switch to next year. Learn more about online event features.
In the room and online
FreeIn person and online are separate ticks, so a town hall can have a venue on the map and a join link for everyone who cannot be there.
The link lands where they will look for it
FreeRegistering gives somebody their own page for that date, and the join link is on it. The confirmation email links straight there, so nobody has to search their inbox for a link you sent in March.
Being straight with you
This is one link field, not a streaming integration. There is no embedded player, no viewer count, and nothing reads back from the platform you host on. That is also why it has never broken when a platform changed its API: it is a URL, and it is yours.
Is this a one-off, or every Thursday?
Office hours are one recurring session, not fifty copies. Pick the days it runs, take out the dates you are away, and give the run an end so it is not still open in eighteen months.
One session, one agenda, one link, and its own count of places on every date it runs. Change the time once and every remaining Thursday follows.
The days it runs
FreeA day-of-week pattern with a start time. Read more about recurring events.
The weeks you skip
FreeDate exceptions take single dates out, or put an extra one in, without rebuilding the series. A skipped date is simply not there for your audience.
Two kinds of hour
FreeSub-schedules keep the weekly office hour and the quarterly AMA apart on one link, each with its own colour, so nobody scrolls past what they came for.
In their calendar too
FreeAnyone can download a single date as a calendar file, and your own Google, Outlook or CalDAV calendar syncs both ways.
Six things an audience asks, and the setting that answers it
Every row names where the setting lives and which plan it is on. Nothing on this page is anywhere else.
| They ask | You turn on | Where it lives | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can I come? | Registration, with a limit on places The session's ticket section, Registration mode | Free | |
| Where is the link? | One join link on the online session The session's location fields | Free | |
| Can you ask this one for me? | A poll your audience can suggest options for Engagement, then Polls, on the session | Pro | |
| Can I say it in advance? | Comments, held until you approve them The session page, or one agenda segment | Free | |
| Tell me when the next one is | Follow, then a newsletter you write Followers, then Newsletters | Free | |
| Can I pay for the deep dive? | Named ticket types through your Stripe The session's ticket section, Tickets mode | Free |
Pro is five dollars a month, and on the ticketing row it is what lifts the free plan's ceiling of 25 paid tickets a month. Zero platform fees on ticket sales applies on every plan, including the free one.
Everything else
Between one hour and the next.
Tell the people who already follow you
FreeYour audience follows the schedule, and you see who they are. When there is something worth saying, you write a newsletter and send it, to everyone or to a segment, and you get open and click rates back.
Nothing goes out on its own. The allowance is 10 recipients a month on free, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise, counted per recipient rather than per send. Read more about newsletters.
A code people can point a phone at
FreeEvery schedule has a QR code that takes somebody to your page and lets them follow you. Put it on the last slide of the session, which is when people actually want it.
On the site you already have
FreeEmbed the calendar so your sessions sit where people look you up, and sync two ways with Google, Outlook and CalDAV so your own week stays honest.
Built-in analytics show page views, the devices people are on and where the traffic came from. That is what they measure, and nothing more. Embedding the registration form itself on another site is free too; it is the ticket purchase widget that is a Pro feature.
Not announced yet
FreeA session you are still thinking about sits on your calendar as a draft. You can see it, your audience cannot, and publishing is one switch when the date is real.
When the session is worth paying for
FreeConnect your own Stripe and sell named ticket types for a paid AMA or a small-group deep dive, each with its own price, quantity and sales window. Selling starts on the free plan, at 25 paid tickets a month.
Scanning a ticket's QR code at the door is free too. Pro takes that ceiling off and adds the rest of the door tooling: the live check-in dashboard, discount codes for the people you want back, add-ons and a waitlist on a sold-out ticket type. Quantities count per date, the same way places do. Event Schedule takes zero platform fees on every plan, so past Stripe's own processing the money is yours. See all ticketing features.
Ask how the hour went
ProPost-event feedback collects a star rating and a comment from the people who were there, which is the quietest way to find out whether the hour was worth theirs. On the hosted plan the request sends through your own email settings.
Perfect for every type of live Q&A
A product AMA or a Thursday office hour, it is the same hour of turns. Also see Event Schedule for Webinars and Virtual Conferences.
Tech Founders
Product AMAs, roadmap Q&As, and investor office hours. Let the room vote on what the hour covers before it starts.
Coaches & Consultants
Client office hours, group coaching Q&As, and expert sessions. Cap the places so the hour stays useful for everyone in it.
Learn moreAuthors & Thought Leaders
Book Q&As, fireside chats, and audience discussions. Connect with readers and followers directly.
Learn moreCommunity Managers
Town halls, member Q&As, and community feedback sessions. Collect what people want raised, then approve what goes on the page.
Learn moreEducators & Professors
Student office hours, exam review sessions, and open Q&As. One recurring session with a place limit on every date.
Learn moreHR & Internal Teams
All-hands Q&As, leadership town halls, and policy discussions. Keep the agenda public and the draft ones private until they are ready.
Three steps to a full hour
Set the hour
Date, time, and the join link. Add agenda segments if the hour has a shape, each with its own start and end time.
Open registration
Switch the session to Registration, set how many places there are, and write the note that rides along with every confirmation email.
Collect the questions
A poll the room can add options to, or comments on the page. Then host the hour wherever you already host it.
Free forever. Upgrade when you're ready.
Zero platform fees on ticket sales. You only pay Stripe's processing fee.
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Frequently asked questions
What Q&A hosts ask before they move a series across.
Can I collect audience questions before the session?
Yes, three ways, and it is worth knowing exactly what each one is. A poll on the session lets people vote between your options and, if you allow it, suggest their own, which you approve before anyone sees them; polls are on the Pro plan. Comments are free: your audience can leave one on the session, or on a single agenda segment, and nothing appears until you approve it. And the note you attach to registration goes out with every confirmation email, so you can simply ask people to reply with what they want covered.
What streaming platforms work with Event Schedule?
Any platform that gives you a meeting or streaming link. Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, YouTube Live, or whatever you move to next year. Mark the session as online and paste the link: it shows on the session page and on each attendee's own registration page. To be straight with you, this is one link field rather than a streaming integration, and there is no embedded player.
Can I charge for live Q&A sessions?
Yes, and you do not have to pay us before you start. Connect your own Stripe account and sell named ticket types for a premium AMA or a paid deep dive, each with its own price, quantity and sales window. The free plan sells up to 25 paid tickets a month per schedule, and scanning a ticket's QR code at the door is free on every plan; Pro, at five dollars a month, removes that ceiling and adds the rest of the door tooling, including the live check-in dashboard, discount codes, add-ons and a waitlist on a sold-out ticket type. Event Schedule charges zero platform fees at every plan level, free included, so past Stripe's own processing fee the money is yours. Free sessions do not need any of this: registration with a place limit is free.
Is Event Schedule free for hosting Q&A sessions?
Yes. Unlimited sessions, registration with a capacity limit, the agenda, recurring office hours, the embeddable calendar, the embeddable registration widget, two-way Google, Outlook and CalDAV sync, built-in analytics and newsletters are all free forever. Selling is free to start too, at 25 paid tickets a month. Polls, custom questions on the registration form and unlimited ticket sales are on the Pro plan at five dollars a month. There are zero platform fees on ticket sales on every plan.
Do my followers get an email when I schedule a new session?
No, and no page here will tell you otherwise. Nothing is sent to your audience automatically. You write a newsletter and send it when you have something to say, with 10 recipients a month on the free plan, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise, counted per recipient rather than per send. The automatic emails run the other way, and even those are opt-in: you switch on a notification to yourself for when somebody suggests a poll option or leaves a comment waiting for approval.
Can I cap how many people join?
Yes, and the count is per session date. Set a number of places on the session and every occurrence of a weekly office hour counts its own registrations, so this Thursday filling up does not close next Thursday. The page shows how many places are left, and once a date is full it stops taking registrations for that date. A waitlist for a full registration date is free as well; it is the waitlist on a sold-out paid ticket type that is a Pro feature.
You already have the answers. Give them somewhere to ask.
Publishing your sessions, the agenda and registration with a place limit are free forever, and so are your first 25 paid tickets a month. Five dollars a month buys polls and no ceiling on what you sell. Nothing is ever taken from the door.
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