Most of this is already unlocked.
You can read a schedule, buy a ticket, register for a free night and often submit an event without signing in to anything. What an account adds is ownership: your name on the record, the record in one place, and the right to change it later.
One login
A different key for each door
Five keys, and not one of them costs anything. Everything on this ring is on the free plan.
No key needed
An account is not a turnstile.
These plates are blank on purpose. Six things people routinely assume sit behind a sign-up are not gated at all, and pretending otherwise would be a poor argument for making one.
Read anything public
Every public schedule page, event page and calendar is open to anyone. Any event can be added to your own calendar as an .ics download without signing in to anything.
Buy a ticket
Checkout asks for a name and an email. The confirmation and the QR code arrive by email, and the order is stored with no owner on it. Creating an account at checkout is an optional tick box, not a step.
Register for a free event
Free registration works the same way, capacity limits included. A name and an email address, and the schedule sees the sign-up straight away.
Add photos and comments
Photos, video and comments on an event take a name and an email, and they go through the schedule's approval queue before anyone else sees them. A schedule can choose to require an account here instead, and some do.
Hear about new events
Leave an email address in the panel on any schedule page and confirm it from the message that follows. From then on you get a digest when that schedule publishes new events, at most one every few days. One link in the footer of any of them takes you back off the list.
Submit an event
Most schedules will take a submission from anybody. The form is public, and it is the interesting case on this page: the door opens either way, and what changes is whose record the event becomes afterwards.
None of that needs a key. The ledger below is where the difference actually shows up: same action, two records, and only one of them is yours to change afterwards. See both records
The same action, twice
One action. Two records.
Almost nothing here is about permission. It is about whose record the thing becomes, and that is the whole argument for a key.
| Action | Signed out | Signed in |
|---|---|---|
| Buy a ticket | Confirmed by email. The order is stored with no owner, so it lives in that email and nowhere else. | The same order, listed on your Tickets page with everything else you have bought, upcoming and past. |
| Register for a free event | Registered, confirmed by email, and counted against the capacity for that date. | Registered, and it joins the same list as your tickets. |
| Submit an event | Saved on the schedule you sent it to. It is their record from that moment on. | Saved on a schedule of your own and linked to theirs, so it shows on both pages once they accept it. |
| Hear the verdict | Nothing comes back to you. There is no address to write to. | An email when the schedule accepts it, and an email when it declines it. |
| Fix a detail later | Ask the schedule to change it for you. | Open the event and change it yourself. It is your record. |
| Vote in a poll | Not available. A vote is a record too, so the poll asks you to sign in before it counts one. | Counted once, against your account. Polls are a Pro feature for the schedule running them. |
| Follow a schedule | The Follow button asks you to sign in first, because the record IS the link between you and them. Leaving an email address in the sign-up panel is the guest version, and it gets you the announcements without the ring. | On your ring, listed on your Following page, and one click to unfollow. |
Selling tickets starts on the free plan, at 25 paid tickets a month for the schedule doing the selling. Buying one, with or without an account, is free, and Event Schedule takes no cut of the sale either way.
On the ring
Six keys, one login.
Each one is a real surface with a plan next to it, so you can see exactly where the free plan stops.
A schedule with its own address
Pick Talent, Venue or Curator, give it a name, and it lives at that name on eventschedule.com. Add a profile image, a header and an accent colour and it stops looking like anybody else's. Everything below comes with it on the free plan, with no trial attached and no card taken.
There is no guest version of this
Following collects the schedules you care about on one page you can sort, search and prune in bulk. It also lets them write to you: 10 recipients a month on the free plan, 100 on Pro, 1,000 on Enterprise.
Worth saying plainly: nothing is automatic. A newsletter is written and sent by a person, so following is permission, not an alert feed.
Not in a search of your inbox
Buy or register while signed in and the order joins one list, upcoming and past, with the event it belongs to. Buy signed out and it exists only in the confirmation email.
Your submission, and the reply
Submit while signed in and the event is saved on your own schedule and linked to the one you sent it to. Its own page carries a pending-review banner until they decide, you get an email whether they accept it or decline it, and you can correct a time or swap an image without asking anybody.
Signed out, the event becomes the receiving schedule's record. That is not a punishment, it is just who the row belongs to, and it is why the reply has nowhere to go.
A key you were handed
A schedule can add you as an admin, who can edit it, or as a viewer, who can only look, and it turns up on the same ring as everything else. Adding more than one team member is Enterprise for the schedule inviting you, capped at five.
The ring is yours to unpick
Turn on two-factor from your settings so the ring needs a second factor to open. Export a schedule, with or without its images, and import it again. Event Schedule is open source, so a copy you run on your own server reads the same export.
And when you are done, deleting the account is one screen in settings rather than a support request. Selfhost it instead
Being straight about it
Two things a key is not.
It is not a paywall
Every key on this page is on the free plan, and the account asks for no card at sign-up or afterwards. What the paid plans buy is capability for a schedule you run: the free plan already sells up to 25 paid tickets a month and scans them at the door, Pro at $5 a month takes that ceiling off and adds the live check-in dashboard, custom fields and a waitlist, and Enterprise at $15 a month adds multiple team members, custom domains and AI agenda scanning.
Newsletters, two-way calendar sync, analytics, the embeddable calendar and free registration with a capacity limit are all on the free plan. That is unusual enough to be worth stating outright rather than implying.
It is not a notification subscription
Following a schedule does not sign you up for automatic alerts, because no such alert exists. Nothing emails followers when a schedule adds an event.
What following does is put the schedule where you can find it again, and let somebody there include you the next time they write to their audience. The traffic that is automatic runs the other way: a schedule is emailed when a submission lands in its queue.
How it works
Three steps, and only the first one is required.
Create the account
An email address and a password, or continue with Google. A verification code confirms the address, and no card is asked for at any point.
Decide later what you are
You are not forced into a schedule. If you do want one, pick Talent, Venue or Curator and it gets its own address. You can run more than one on the same login.
Start using the ring
Follow the schedules you care about, submit to the ones you play, and publish your own when you are ready.
What the free plan carries
Free forever. Upgrade when you're ready.
Zero platform fees on ticket sales, on every plan. The only deduction is your payment processor's own.
Everything you need to publish a schedule, and enough selling to find out whether you need more.
- Unlimited events, sub-schedules and recurring dates
- Two-way Google, Outlook and CalDAV sync
- 25 paid tickets a month, each one scanned at the door
No expiry, and no card asked for.
The ceilings come off, and the rest of the selling kit arrives with them.
- Unlimited ticket sales and the live check-in dashboard
- Promo codes, add-ons, passes and gift cards
- Event graphics, the REST API, and no Event Schedule branding
7-day free trial, cancel any time.
For a room with a seating chart, a team, and a domain of its own.
- Reserved seating, drawn once and reused every date
- Your own domain, and up to five team members
- Internal and unlisted events, and 1,000 newsletter recipients
Included free on every selfhosted install.
Frequently asked questions
What people ask before they hand over an email address.
Do I need an account to buy a ticket?
No. Checkout asks for a name and an email, and the ticket and its QR code arrive by email. What signing in first changes is where the order lives afterwards: it appears on your Tickets page along with everything else you have bought, upcoming and past, rather than only in that one email.
Does an account cost anything?
No. The account is free and asks for no card. What costs money is a schedule you run, once you want more than the free plan: the free plan sells up to 25 paid tickets a month and scans the QR code on every one of them at the door, Pro at $5 a month makes ticket sales unlimited and adds the live check-in dashboard, custom fields and a waitlist, and Enterprise at $15 a month adds multiple team members and custom domains. Event Schedule charges zero platform fees on ticket sales on every plan, the free one included, so past the payment processor the money is yours.
What actually changes when I submit an event signed in?
Whose record it is. Signed out, the event is saved on the schedule you sent it to, so they own it and they are the only ones who can edit it. Signed in, it is saved on a schedule of your own and linked to theirs, so it appears on both pages once they accept, you can edit it yourself, and you get an email whether they accept it or decline it.
Will following a schedule fill my inbox?
No, and it is worth knowing why, because the two lists on this page behave differently. Pressing Follow makes you an ACCOUNT FOLLOWER: it puts the schedule on your Following page and lets that schedule include you when somebody there writes a newsletter, capped at 10 recipients a month on the free plan, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise. Leaving an email address in the sign-up panel on a schedule page is the other thing, and that one does send you a short digest when new events are published, at most one every three days. Nothing fires at an account follower who has not also left an address there. You can do either, or both, or neither.
Can I have an account without creating a schedule?
Yes. Following schedules and keeping your tickets in one place need nothing else. A schedule is what you add when you want a page of your own to publish from, and you can add it months later.
Can one account run more than one schedule?
Yes, and they share one login. A schedule somebody else runs can also add you to theirs as an admin, who can edit it, or as a viewer, who can only look, and that lands on the same account. Adding more than one team member is an Enterprise feature for the schedule doing the inviting, capped at five.
How do I get rid of it?
Your settings page has a delete option that removes the account outright, on one screen rather than through a support request. Before that, backup and restore lets you export a schedule with or without its images, so you can take the data with you.
Free forever
Cut the key. Keep the record.
Claim a name now and leave the rest until you need it. Nothing on this page costs anything, and nothing here asks for a card.
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