Create your first club event

Club events run one of two ways, and picking the wrong one is the most common false start. Either your members are assumed to be coming and confirm or decline, or they sign up the normal way. Everything else about the event, including whether you can invite people, follows from this choice. Pick it first.

This checkbox sits under Club members in the event form's first section, and it's the club-native mode — on by default. When you publish, every active member is counted in automatically and gets an email asking them to confirm or decline, so your headcount is real without anyone filling in a form. It only works for free events with no required questions. Members who join after you publish get picked up automatically too.

Turn assumed attendance off and the event behaves like any other: people register, you can charge, and you can cap it. Members get your new-event announcement when it publishes, they get a one-click I'm going button when the event doesn't ask anything complicated, and you can send invitations to members who haven't signed up yet.

From template on your Events screen opens a picker built for clubs, not for neighborhoods: a curated lineup of the things clubs actually run — book club evenings, group rides, round robins, garden workdays, game nights, supper clubs. Pick one and the event arrives with a description, a sensible run time, a capacity, and its own look already filled in, ready for you to change. Start from Scratch is right there too when nothing fits.

Whether you started from a template or from scratch, you get the full event form, not a stripped-down version, because a club event is a real event. Title, date, and time sit at the top; the rest of the form is collapsible sections you can ignore until you need them. Times are always in your club's time zone, never yours or a venue's. A new club event opens with unlimited capacity, because a club gathering is bounded by the club rather than by a seat count you had to guess at — set a real number only when there genuinely is one, like a table for twelve or a court booking.

The location picker defaults to wherever you met last time, and you can pick a saved place or add a new one. A neighborhood club also gets to choose from its neighborhood's saved locations, which is how you land on the clubhouse or the courts. Locations you create here belong to your club.

A new event starts as a Draft, invisible while you build it. Preview gives it a real, shareable page while keeping registration to your team, which is useful for a final read-through. Published is live, and it's the moment members are counted in or announced to. You change it from the status control at the top of the event's own page.

Upcoming and past events, with drafts and previews mixed in so a half-built event is never lost. Each one opens its own page: registrations, messages, check-in, and the survey afterwards. This is the screen you'll live on once the club is running.

Enable event discussion sits directly under the assumed-attendance checkbox, in the event form's Club members group. It decides whether the event gets a discussion thread: the place attendees sort out carpools, what to bring, and where to meet. It arrives already ticked on a club event, so you get a discussion unless you say otherwise, and unticking it (now or later) takes the page away. It exists only for club-hosted events: a neighborhood's own events don't offer the setting at all. Only people who are actually coming and the club's hosts can read or post — never the whole club — and the thread closes itself about a day after the event ends, still readable but no longer open. The link shows up on the event's page for those people, and in the confirmation email, once someone's in.