Every open mic has a list. Yours should outlive the night.

Yes. Sharing your schedule, running recurring nights, taking free registrations with a capacity limit, generating a flyer for each night, and syncing with Google, Outlook, or CalDAV are all free forever. Selling is free too, up to 25 paid tickets a month per schedule, which covers a monthly night comfortably. Pro at $5 a month lifts that ceiling and adds custom questions on the sign-up form. Event Schedule charges zero platform fees on tickets either way.

Yes. Turn on registration for the night and set how many spots there are; on a recurring mic the count is per date. Performers claim a spot from the event page, the page shows how many are left, and it stops taking names once they are gone. A poet who cannot make it cancels from the link in their confirmation email, which frees the spot, and once a night is full the next poet can join its waitlist and is emailed when a spot opens. Registration and its waitlist are free on every plan.

Yes, on the Pro plan. Custom fields let you add your own questions to the sign-up form, so a poet answers "what are you reading", "how long is it", or a content note when they take a spot, and each answer is stored with their registration. You can also let people submit a whole event for your schedule, on any plan, and it lands on your Requests tab. On Pro your own fields can appear on that form too, where a text answer can be checked against a pattern with a hint you write.

Set it up once as a recurring event with a day-of-week pattern, then add date exceptions for the weeks the room is closed or the holiday lands on your night. Recurring events and exceptions are free on every plan.

Yes. Sub-schedules split one schedule into strands, so the weekly mic, the featured reading series, and your workshops each sit in their own section of the same link. Sub-schedules are free on every plan.

Yes, and a monthly reading night rarely needs a paid plan to do it. The free plan sells 25 paid tickets a month per schedule, paid through your own Stripe or PayPal account, or by payment link or cash, with the QR code scanned at the door like any other. Pro at $5 a month lifts the ceiling and adds the live check-in dashboard, and it is also what a season pass across the whole series needs. Event Schedule takes zero platform fees on any of it, so the only deduction is your payment provider's own, and a Stripe or PayPal sale can be refunded in full or in part from the Sales page.

Yes. Anyone can leave just an email address on the night's page, with no account and no subscription to your schedule. They get a reminder shortly before it starts, word if it is cancelled, and any change notice you send, and if the night sells tickets, one email when they go on sale. Registration takes names from the moment you switch it on, so there is no opening email for it.

There may be. When a bookstore, venue or series names a reader who is not on Event Schedule, its event page still shows that reader by name, and the app creates a page for them. That page says which schedule created it and that you have not claimed it, credits each date to the schedule that added it, and stays out of search engines until it is claimed. If it carries your email address, create an account or sign in with that address and press Claim this page: it becomes your schedule, and the series that already listed you keep listing you without asking again, while anyone new sends a request you accept. If it is not you, This is not me takes it down.