# Creating Events

Section: Events · Page: https://artsvp.com/docs/events/creating-events

(Plans: All plans)

Every new event starts in a four-step wizard that saves as you go. Nothing is
visible to guests until you publish, so you can build in peace, leave halfway
through, and come back later, the draft reopens at the first step that still
needs attention.

## Pick a starting point

**New Event** first asks what kind of occasion you are planning, and pre-fills a
sensible schedule, ticket, and visibility to match:

- **Public Event**: open an event to anyone, with one bookable time.
- **Private View**: invite collectors and guests to one private opening.
- **VIP Preview**: welcome VIPs before the public opening.
- **Press Preview**: host press, with focused one-person registrations.
- **Public Day Passes**: one pass for each day of a public event.
- **Timed Entry & Appointments**: guests choose a precise visit time.
- **Register Interest**: collect requests, and approve bookings before confirming.
- **Start from scratch**: a blank event with no presets. You choose everything.

An artist's occasions fit the same starting points: an open studio across a
weekend works well as **Public Day Passes**, studio visits as **Timed Entry &
Appointments**, and a workshop with a set number of places as a **Public Event**
with a capacity.

A starting point is only a head start. Every choice it makes can be changed in
the wizard, or later in the event's settings.

## The four steps

1. **Basics & Schedule**: the event title, venue, date and time format
   ([three formats to choose from](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/dates-and-availability)), and
   capacity.
2. **Tickets**: ticket types, extras, and promo codes. See
   [Tickets and pricing](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/tickets-and-pricing). Tickets are free
   until you connect Stripe under **Settings** → **Payouts**; after that, you can
   charge.
3. **Event Content & Guest Controls**: the **Banner Image** and **Event
   Information** guests see, and whether guests may change or cancel their
   own bookings. See [Event page design](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/event-page-design).
4. **Review & Publish**: a summary of what is actually saved, anything still
   blocking publication, and the **Publish** button.

Publishing stays blocked until the event is genuinely bookable, and the Review
step tells you exactly what is missing. In practice that means: a title, a venue,
a schedule that produces at least one bookable slot, and at least one ticket.

## Venues

An event's venue comes from your organisation's saved locations, so an address is
entered once and reused ever after. Pick one from the list, or add a new location
without leaving the wizard, it is saved for every future event.

A venue carries a currency and a time zone, and the event inherits both unless
you set its own. Changing the venue's **Time Zone** later (from **Settings** →
**Details** → **Edit location**) only reaches events that still inherit it. If
those events have bookings, you choose whether the bookings move: see
[Dates and availability](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/dates-and-availability#changing-the-time-zone).

A location can also stay private, which suits a home studio. Switch on **This
Location is Private** when you add or edit it, and the booking page shows
*"Private Location"* instead of its name and address. Guests see the address only
once their booking is confirmed, on their confirmation and their ticket.

Worth checking before you start selling: an event charges in one currency only,
so a programme that spans two venues works best as one event per venue, grouped
in a [collection](https://artsvp.com/docs/collections/overview).

> **Tip:** For anything you have run before, **Duplicate** the old event instead
> of rebuilding it. The copy arrives as a draft with the same setup, ready for
> new dates.

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Keep reading: [Dates and availability](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/dates-and-availability) ·
[Tickets and pricing](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/tickets-and-pricing) ·
[Event page design](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/event-page-design) ·
[Publishing and sharing](https://artsvp.com/docs/events/publishing-and-sharing)

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