Your first event, start to finish

The whole journey in order: create the event, set up entries and payments, publish, run the day, then close it.

Every step links to its own page. Most clubs do the first five in an afternoon.

  1. Create the event. Events, then + New event: name and dates, who enters, what it costs, what you ask. Creating an event.
  2. Check the entry form. Add the questions you need and remove the ones you do not. The entry form.
  3. Connect Stripe if you are charging, or turn on test mode to try the whole thing first. Connecting Stripe and Publishing and test mode.
  4. Make it look like yours. Settings, then Appearance: a cover photo, your logo and colours.
  5. Publish, and share the link. The event's page is at we-muster.com/e/ followed by its name.
  6. Watch the entries arrive under Entries. Managing entries.
  7. In the week before, set up the stations, give each one a password, and try a band on every phone you plan to use. Setting up stations.
  8. On the day, sign people in, give out bands, and tally everyone out and back in. How the day runs.
  9. Afterwards, check the tally reads zero still out, post results to the noticeboard, and close the event. Closing an event.

Want to see the day before you build anything? Try it yourself runs the stations on your own phone, with practice bands on the screen.

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