Events
Create a free or paid event, share its page, and find your way around everything you can do with it.
An event is anything people sign up for at a set time: a class, a workshop, a meetup, a three-day retreat. Each one gets its own public page and link, tickets that are free or paid, a guest list, check-in at the door, reminders, and numbers on how it's selling.
What you can do with events
- Run it once, on several dates, or on a repeating schedule like a weekly class. See Dates and location.
- Sell several ticket types, cap numbers, approve every sign-up by hand, and ask your own questions. See Tickets and registration.
- Add people yourself, invite them by email, and check them in by scanning their ticket. See Guests and check-in.
- Schedule reminders and send updates by email or text. See Updates and reminders.
- Share the event with a partner organization that sells it with its own link. See Cohosting.
- Track page views, registrations, revenue and check-ins. See Insights.
Create your first event
Northside Pottery runs a two-hour wheel-throwing class for beginners. Here's how to set it up.
In the sidebar, select Events, then Create Event.
Pick a cover. The form suggests a photo to start with, and it's kept if you leave it. To use your own, select the image and choose one from your library or upload it.
Type the event name, for example "Intro to Wheel Throwing". The menu beside the name sets who can find the event: Public, Private or Third-party. See the table below.
Under When, set the start and end. To add more dates, make the event repeat or change the time zone, select the calendar button beside When. See Dates and location.
Under Where, search for the address, or paste a video call link for an online event.
Write the Description. It's the main text on the public page, and it can hold headings, lists, links and images.
Open Tickets, approval & capacity if you need more than a free event with no limit:
- Paid tickets turns on ticket types, each with a name, a price and how many there are. Select Add ticket type for more.
- Capacity caps a free event. Leave it empty for no limit.
- Require approval turns every sign-up into a request you accept or decline.
- One ticket per person limits each registration to a single seat.
Select Create event. The event opens on its Overview tab, ready to share.
A free event gets one free ticket called "General admission". Paid tickets need Stripe connected first. See Get paid.
Who can find the event
| Option | What it means |
|---|---|
| Public | Listed and open to anyone with the link. |
| Private | Kept off every listing. Only people with the link can find it. |
| Third-party | The event runs somewhere else. Your page points people to the link where they register, and nothing is sold or sent from Lahuta. |
The event page in your dashboard
Open any event from Events to manage it. The tabs across the top each cover one job.
| Tab | Use it to |
|---|---|
| Overview | See and change the dates, place, description and visibility. |
| Registration | Set up tickets, questions, sign-up settings and the confirmation email. |
| Guests | See who's coming, approve requests, add or invite people, and check them in. |
| Hosts | Invite partner organizations to cohost and see what each one sells. |
| Updates | Schedule reminders and send messages to everyone registered. |
| Insights | Follow page views, registrations, revenue and check-ins. |
On the Overview tab, the When card lists the dates and how many people registered for each. The Details card shows what the public page says. Select Edit to change the name, place, time zone, description, visibility or Brand colour, which sets the color of the buttons on the public page. Under Share message, you can write the text that goes with the link when people share the event.
A third-party event shows only the Overview tab, since there's nothing to sell or send.
Copy, duplicate or delete an event
The menu button next to Event page at the top right holds three actions:
- Copy public link copies the address of the public event page.
- Duplicate makes a copy of the event and opens it. Guests and messages are not carried over, so it's a quick way to set up next season's class.
- Delete event removes the event with its dates, tickets, guests and messages. This can't be undone.
Your list of events
Events has two tabs, Upcoming and Past, each with a count. Every card shows the next date, the place and how many people have registered. A Repeats badge marks a repeating event and a Private badge marks a private one. Events another organization runs and you cohost show a Co-host badge.
What your guests see
Every event has a public page at lahuta.org/events/<code>, with a short link at luta.co/e/<code>. Select Event page at the top of the event to open it.
The page shows the cover, the name, the date and the place. Times appear in each visitor's own time zone, and hovering over the date shows it in the event's time zone. When there are several dates, a picker lets people choose one. The tickets card lists what's on sale, and the button reads Register Now for free events, shows the total for paid ones, or says Request Approval when you approve sign-ups.
Registering opens a checkout with name, email, your questions and a coupon code field. Paid tickets go through Stripe checkout. Afterwards, each guest gets an email with their ticket, a QR code for the door and a calendar file, and the page offers to add the event to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
Visitors can share the event from the page by copying the link or sending it to WhatsApp, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, Instagram, SMS or email.
A link that's always your next event
lahuta.org/e/upcoming/northside-pottery always opens your next upcoming
event, so it's a good fit for a bio link or a poster QR code. When nothing is
coming up, it opens the Lahuta events listing instead. Use your own
organization's page address in place of northside-pottery.
Related
Dates and location
Multiple dates, repeating events, time zones and online events.
Tickets and registration
Ticket types, questions, approvals and the confirmation email.
Guests and check-in
The guest list, requests, invitations and scanning tickets at the door.
Get paid
Connect Stripe so you can sell paid tickets.