How to Create an Event

This guide takes you from a blank dashboard to a live event page with its own shareable link. It takes about five minutes.

What You Will Learn

Create an event and choose its permanent link
Set the format: in person, online, or hybrid
Control visibility and registration
Find your way around the event dashboard afterwards

Step 1: Start a New Event

Go to Events in your dashboard.
Click Create Event. The create form opens as a full page with four tabs: Basics, Location, Details, and Settings.

Only two fields are strictly required: the event name and the start date. Everything else can be added later - but the more you fill in now, the more your event page sells for you.

Step 2: Basics

Field	Notes
Event Image	Cover image, shown on the event page and social previews. 1200 x 630 pixels works best.
Event Name	Public title shown on the event page and in emails.
Event link	Your event's URL ending, shown as `trankets.com/events/your-link`. Availability is checked live as you type.
Summary	Short teaser shown on discovery cards, search results, and link previews.
Category	Used for discovery filtering.
Start Date / End Date	End date is for multi-day events. Your timezone is detected automatically.

The Event link is permanent - once the event is created it cannot be changed. Pick something you are happy to print on a flyer.

Not sure how to word it? Click Improve with AI (the sparkle button) next to the Event Name, Summary, or Description, and Trankets rewrites your copy for more registrations and stronger discovery ranking. Edit the suggestion, then apply it in one tap. Available on every plan, with higher daily limits as you upgrade.

Step 3: Location and Format

The Location tab starts with one decision - Event format: In person, Online, or Hybrid.

In-person and hybrid events get a location picker ("Where is your event?"), an optional venue name, and optional street address and directions.
Online and hybrid events can take a meeting link and access notes now, or you can add them later from the event's Virtual event page. See Host a virtual event.

Step 4: Details

The rich-text description for your public event page. This is where you make the case: what happens, who it is for, why this one is worth their evening.

Step 5: Settings, Then Create

The Settings tab controls how the event behaves:

Public Listing - shows the event on the discovery page. On by default.
Public registration - anyone with the link can register. On by default.
Total capacity, Show attendee count, and Currency visitors see first - covered in Event settings explained.

Click Create event. You land on your new event's dashboard, with the public link ready to share. (If you leave mid-way, the form warns you about unsaved changes.)

Finding Your Way Around

The event dashboard has three tabs:

Overview - stats, your event links (public page, registration, check-in), and quick actions.
Manage - cards for every working surface: Manage Tickets, Manage Attendees, Reminders, Email Analytics, Email Template, Invitation Page, FAQs, Categories & Tags, Seating, and Virtual event (for online and hybrid events).
Settings - event configuration plus the Danger Zone (cancel or delete).

Common Issues

URL ending already taken. Event links are unique across Trankets - the form checks availability live and prompts you to adjust.
Cannot save. Add an event name and start date - those are the two required fields.
Event not visible on discovery. Check Public Listing in Settings. With it off, the event is only reachable via direct link - useful for private gatherings.

Next Steps

Create Your First Event

On this page