The Evvnt platform supports several event formats to match how your event actually runs. Choosing the right format affects how tickets are created, how dates are displayed, and how buyers select their attendance. This article covers the different event formats available and when to use each one.

For a broader overview, see Getting Started Selling Tickets.

Event Type and Category (Required Metadata)

Every event you create must have an Event Type and a Category. These are filtering and discovery fields — they help our systems and your buyers find events. Pick the one option from each list that best describes your event.

Note: "Event Type" here refers to a metadata field selected during event creation, not the format options described in the rest of this article (single-date, multi-day, recurring, etc.). Both apply to every event.

Event Type Options

Appearance or Signing • Attraction • Camp, Trip, or Retreat • Class, Training, or Workshop • Concert or Performance • Conference • Convention • Dinner or Gala • Festival or Fair • Game or Competition • Meeting or Networking Event • Other • Party or Social Gathering • Race or Endurance Event • Rally • Screening • Seminar or Talk • Tour • Tournament • Tradeshow, Consumer Show, or Expo

Category Options

Arts & Entertainment • Classes & Workshops • Community • Conferences & Expos • Festivals • Food & Drink • Health & Wellness • Holidays • Kids & Family • Lifestyle & Interests • Live Music • Nightlife • Retail & Business • Sports & Leisure • Tours & Attractions

If more than one option seems to fit, pick the one that best captures the overall feel of your event.

Single-Date Events

A single-date event is the most common format — one event on one date with one start and end time. Use this for events like a concert, a fundraiser dinner, a workshop, or any event that happens once on a specific day. Tickets are sold for that one date.

Multi-Day Events

A multi-day event spans several consecutive days as one continuous event. Use this format for events like a weekend festival, a multi-day conference, or a retreat. The event has a single start date and a single end date, and tickets grant access to the entire run of the event rather than individual days.

For a weekend festival or other multi-day event, you actually have three options depending on how you want to sell and check in tickets:

Option 1 — One Multi-Day Event (Recommended)

Create a single event with a start date and end date that span all the festival days. Buyers see one ticket page and can mix and match tickets for any day in one checkout. This is the cleanest experience for buyers.

Trade-off: a multi-day pass exists as one ticket and can only be checked in once. If a buyer uses their weekend pass on Friday, they'll show as already checked in when arriving on Saturday. If that's acceptable for your gate process, this option is the best fit.

Option 2 — Multiple One-Day Events

Create a separate event for each day of the festival, each with its own ticket page and its own check-in record. This works well if you expect most attendees to come for only one day, or if you need a clean check-in record per day.

Option 3 — One Recurring Event

Set up a single recurring series with one occurrence per festival day. Buyers pick the day they want during checkout. Like Option 2, this gives you per-day check-in.

Selling a Weekend Pass with Options 2 or 3

If you split your festival into separate-day events but still want to offer a weekend pass, use a Ticket Package to bundle one ticket from each day into a single purchasable item. The buyer gets a separate ticket for each day, so each can be checked in independently.

If you're unsure which option fits your festival best, contact the support team — there are nuances depending on your gate setup and ticket types.

Recurring Event Series

A recurring series is for events that repeat across multiple individual dates — like a theater production running Thursday through Sunday for three weeks, or a weekly class that meets every Tuesday. Each occurrence in the series is its own date that buyers select when purchasing.

Creating a Recurring Series

From your event list, start a new event. In the Event Dates section, select Recurring, then click Add Dates. Choose how the event repeats:

• Daily — every day across a date range (for example, August 1–31)
• Weekly — specific weekdays at specific times (for example, Thursday–Saturday at 6 PM)
• Custom — pick individual dates that don't fit a regular pattern

Set the start and end times for each occurrence and the run time for the series, then click Save Dates. The system generates every occurrence based on what you entered, and you can review and remove any individual dates that don't apply (for example, a holiday week off).

You can run Add Dates more than once on the same event to layer multiple patterns together — for example, a weekly Thursday–Saturday 6 PM run plus a separate weekly Sunday 2 PM matinee.

Tickets for a Recurring Series — Create Once, Not Per Date

Important: create your tickets only one time, not once per date. The system automatically applies the tickets you create to every date in the series.

Don't create individual tickets named "June 5 Ticket," "June 12 Ticket," and so on — those will appear on every date and confuse buyers. Instead, just create a "General Admission" ticket once. Buyers will pick a date first at checkout, then choose from the tickets available for that date.

How a Series Appears to Buyers

By default, each date in the series shows up as its own item in your organization's event list, so buyers can find a specific date directly. Each series also has a parent URL — a single link that lets buyers pick from a calendar of all upcoming dates in the series. To find the parent URL, use the Preview option in the menu next to the event title, or look at the URLs section on the event's Edit page.

Managing and Editing a Recurring Event

Click the event title in your event list to land on the Manage page for the series. The Manage page shows a sales overview across the whole series and gives you quick access to reports. The Event Dates filter on this page lets you narrow the view (and any reports) to one or more specific dates — useful for pulling per-date orders or attendance.

Click Edit to change event details. Anything you edit on this page applies to every date in the series. To add a new date to the series, scroll to the bottom and use Add Dates. To edit or remove a single occurrence, use the menu next to that date.

Duplicating Events

If you're running a similar event again, duplicating an existing event is faster than building a new one from scratch. Duplicating copies the event details, ticket configuration, and most settings into a new event you can then edit with new dates and pricing.

How to Duplicate an Event

From your event list, open the event's Edit page. Click the three-dot context menu next to the event's title and choose Duplicate.

Conditions for Duplication

Not every event can be duplicated. The event must:

• Be a single-instance event — recurring and ongoing events cannot be duplicated
• Not contain deprecated features that are no longer supported
• Be accessed by a user scoped into the organization

What Doesn't Carry Over

Several settings won't transfer to the duplicate and need to be re-entered:

• Event contacts
• Additional fees
• Registration form restrictions
• Early access codes that aren't connected to specific tickets
• Ticket descriptions on e-tickets — the toggle is reset to "do not show on e-tickets"
• Specific sales start and end times — these are converted to "times before start" relative to the duplicate's new event date

Always review the duplicated event end-to-end before publishing. If the original event was created a long time ago, some features may not carry over cleanly and could prevent the duplicate from working — a quick review catches these issues before any tickets go on sale.

Online Events

The platform supports online events for performances, classes, or experiences delivered virtually. Online events work the same as in-person events for ticket sales and order management, but the event page displays the event as a virtual experience rather than showing a physical location.

Timed-Entry Events

A timed-entry event lets buyers select a specific time slot rather than just a date. This is useful for tours, exhibits, workshops, or experiences where you need to control the flow of visitors by capping how many people enter during each window.

Under the hood, a timed-entry event is built using two existing features together:

• A recurring event with each time slot set up as its own occurrence (for example, three Saturday tours at 12 PM, 2 PM, and 5 PM)
• Ticket settings with a fixed quantity per occurrence to enforce capacity (for example, 10 tickets per tour)

Buyers pick their preferred time slot during checkout, and once a slot sells out, it disappears from the available options. See Recurring Event Series above for setup steps.

Reserved Seating Events (Floor Plans)

For venues with assigned seating — theaters, banquet halls, performance spaces — you can attach a floor plan to your event. Buyers select specific seats or tables on the plan during checkout, and ticket inventory is determined by the seats assigned in the plan rather than by category quantities.

Floor plans are managed at the venue level, so once you've built a plan for a venue, you can reuse it on every event held there. For setup steps and management details, see Venues and Floor Plans.

Important constraint: reserved seating sales cannot be processed in the Mobile Box Office app. New ticket sales for floor plan events require a laptop or desktop. Scanning and check-in still work in the app.