Creating an event
The create form, what each field means, the launch checklist, and what actually happens when you publish.
Creating an event takes under a minute — Bookitive asks only for the basics and leaves everything else to the event workspace, where you can change it anytime.
Create the draft
Open the form
Click Create event at the top of the organization sidebar (or in the event switcher). You need the create events permission — Owners and Admins have it.
Fill in the basics
- Name — the public headline of the event.
- Slug — pre-filled from the name; becomes part of the public URL.
- Start and end — date and time; the end can cross midnight for balls and parties.
- Where — pick one of your venues, type a free-form place name, or paste an online URL for a virtual event.
There's no currency or timezone field to fill in: the event's timezone is inherited from your organization, and the currency is CZK.
You land in a draft
The event is created as a draft — invisible to the public. Now build it out: ticket types, seating, payment methods, emails.
The launch checklist
A new event's Overview shows Get ready to launch — a short checklist that tracks the things an event genuinely needs before selling:
- capacity to sell (a seating plan or standing ticket capacity),
- at least one ticket type,
- at least one payment method,
- publishing.
It disappears the moment you publish. It's guidance, not a gate — you can publish with just one standing ticket type and nothing else.
Publishing
Publish lives in the event header. Publishing flips the event to on sale: the public page goes live, embeds start selling, and the event appears in search and the event switcher as on sale.
Two things worth knowing:
- If your organization's billing profile is incomplete, the publish dialog asks for it (Save and publish) — or lets you Skip for now. Bookitive invoices its commission monthly, so it eventually needs invoicing details; skipping never blocks the sale.
- Publishing is reversible — unpublish returns the event to draft, hiding it from the public again. Existing orders are untouched.
Publish when the setup is truly ready: ticket types, prices, and the seating plan. You can edit everything after publishing too, but changes to things buyers already paid for (prices, seats) have consequences — the relevant pages call these out.