Create your first event

You and your fellow organizers create every neighborhood event; residents never see this side. Go to Events and press New Event. The Create Your Event window opens with Start from Scratch first, then a card for each template: the platform's Core Templates (block party, garage sale, trunk-or-treat, and more) and any your team saved. Create Event on a template card builds the event straight away, already filled with that template's capacity, tickets, volunteer roles, activities, theme, and default location, dated for its next usual date, and drops you on the edit page. Pick a template whenever one is close; changing a few fields beats typing them all.

Host is the first field on the form. Your neighborhood is the default; every active club in your neighborhood that you can manage is listed too. Picking a club makes it a club event: it lives on the club's page, uses the club's members and payments, and is managed from the club's own manage area afterwards. Need a club that doesn't exist yet? + Create new club makes one on the spot, with you as its first organizer. Your plan sets how many clubs your neighborhood can hold and how many one person can run, so if creating one stops at a limit and you need more, email [email protected].

Event type has three choices. Hosted in Neighborly Events is the normal one: registration, tickets, and check-in all happen here. Partner event is the same, plus vendors who can share in the revenue, which you add on the next screen. External event is for something organized elsewhere (a city fair, a school play): you list it on your calendar, add their signup link and contact details, and they handle the rest.

Event Date, Start Time, and End Time sit under the title. Leave the date blank and the event shows as "To be announced" until you know. Times are always read in the host's time zone: your neighborhood's (set under Settings → Neighborhood), or the club's for a club event. So an organizer travelling in another state still schedules a 5 PM block party for 5 PM at home. The Description box takes formatting and images, and it's what neighbors read before deciding to come.

Under Location choose Select existing location for one of your saved places, Create new location to add one right here (it's saved to your Library for next time), or To be announced. Once a location is chosen, Private location hides the street address until someone registers, and the Public display label ("House on Elm Street") is what everyone else sees. If the place is a facility that needs reservation approval, the form asks right away whether it's already approved, should be requested when you save, or will be handled later.

Press Create and the event is saved as a Draft, then you land on the full edit page. The status pills at the top of the edit page (and on the event's manage page) are how it goes public. Draft is hidden from everyone but your team. Preview makes the page and its link public, with a social preview image, but only your team can register: handy for a save-the-date. Published is live and open for registration. Closed keeps the page up but ends registration. Saving with Published picked may first take you to a short page asking whether to announce the event to residents, and by which channels.

Calendar in the sidebar opens the same Events page on its Calendar tab: a month grid of your events and contests, with arrows to move between months. Click any entry to open its manage page. It's the quickest way to spot a clash before you commit to a date, and New Event is right there in the corner when you find a free weekend.