Neighborhood organizer guides

What the Overview page tells you, how the sidebar is organized, and where help, your account, and your other neighborhoods live.

The basics, logo, theme, and contact details that shape your public neighborhood page, and where each one shows up.

Why the map outline of your neighborhood matters, how to draw it, and how to let residents prove their address with a shareable link.

Invite fellow volunteers to help run the neighborhood, what owners can do that organizers can't, how owners change who else is an owner or take someone off the team, and how a treasurer gets access without joining the team.

Connect the Stripe account that receives ticket money, understand the published fees, and manage your plan with NeighborlyEvents.

Start from a template or a blank form, pick who hosts it, set the date and place, and decide when the public gets to see it.

Decide whether people sign up at all, how many can come, what tickets they pick, which dates they attend, and what they answer or agree to on the way in.

Every event gets a hub: status and actions up top, tabs for the work, and everything you need to share it once it's live.

Group events that repeat, give the series a rhythm, and let it remind you to schedule the next one or draft it for you.

Templates, activities, locations, waivers, and themes: set them up once and every new event starts further along.

One searchable list of everyone who has signed up for your community's events, with each person's history, your private notes, and tags that can change how registration treats them.

What happens when an event fills, how people come off the waitlist (by themselves or when you say so), and the registrations that wait for your decision.

Add someone by hand, change their tickets, record a comp or money you collected yourself, ask them to pay, refund a card payment, or cancel a registration.

Ask registrants to confirm before the event and let silence free up seats, then use predicted turnout and the cap calculator to set a capacity that fills the room.

Send an update to the people registered for an event, invite the neighbors who haven't signed up yet, and check exactly who each message reached.

Choose which reminders go out before your event, whether each one is an email, an app push, or both, and what they say.

Announce new events and remind the whole neighborhood, not just registrants, and control which events, which channels, and when.

Build survey templates, attach one to an event, choose who gets it and when, and read the results for one event or all of them.

Hand the door a check-in link that needs no account and keeps working offline, print a paper backup, and register walk-ins on the spot with a single-use pass.

Tell the check-in table what each party gets, run a food-table station off the same QR, and watch what's been given against what's due.

Every event has a pre-show reel that builds itself from what's happening in your community. Add your own slides, set it to loop or count down, and play it full screen or record it as a video.

Begin from a ready-made template or last year's contest, set the entry and voting windows, and move it from planning to closed.

Decide what people compete in, what an entry needs, who counts as a resident, and whether entries can include video.

Clear the residency approval queue, take down a photo or video, fix up an entry, or remove one entirely.

Choose what voters give you, keep it to residents, share the voting link early, and see how one-vote-per-person is enforced.

Share the entry, voting, and results links, print QR codes and flyers, and email the people who entered.

Close the contest, check or override the winners, test and send the winner emails and the results announcement, and choose which contest emails reach you.

Turn "can someone help?" into named jobs with shifts and a headcount, let neighbors sign up with a free volunteer ticket, and move people between shifts yourself.

See who is on each shift and who has arrived, nudge the ones who haven't, and reach the whole team or one crew in a couple of taps.

Give neighbors one link to upload their event photos, decide what goes public, and keep an eye on your clubs' galleries without running them.

Decide which places need booking, name the person who approves, and keep one calendar of who has the clubhouse, the courts, and the pool.

Keep track of the tables, canopies, and coffee urns your neighborhood owns: what you have, where it's stored, and who has it right now.

Keep your neighborhood's links in one place: the Facebook group for residents, the shared drive for your team, and the one sign-up you want every neighbor to see.

Where new club proposals and clubs asking to join or leave wait for you, and the link, QR code, and flyers that invite neighbors to start one.

Decide who approves new clubs, what their organizers agree to, what they're handed on day one, and how you end an affiliation that isn't working.

Require a short report from each affiliated club every quarter, half, or year, with its events and membership filled in for it, and read what comes back.

Set aside money for club events (so much an event, so many a month, first come first served) and let clubs claim it themselves without asking you each time.

Keep a list of the businesses that work your events, tell them what you require, collect their insurance certificates, ask for bids, and put them on an event.

Set up a sponsorship ladder, decide whether businesses can sign themselves up, add sponsors to events, ask businesses to sponsor, and show them on your banners.

Local businesses can apply to work your events, sponsor them, or both. One queue holds their applications, and approving one puts them on your partner list.

Where ticket money shows up, how payouts reach your bank, how refunds work, and what to do when your revenue has to be mailed to the association as a check.

Write down when people get their money back if they cancel, choose which policy each paid event follows, and see how cancellations, refund requests, and disputes then play out.

A period budget, sliced across events, that fills itself in as reimbursements are approved, so the board can always answer what's left without a side spreadsheet.

Set up the no-login reimbursement form, review each request with its receipts in view, and send packets to whoever writes the checks.

The Reports page gathers what you hand to people outside the day-to-day: a one-page summary for the board, a deck explaining your club program, our vendor packet, and a full export of your community's data.

Where your neighbors download the NeighborlyEvents app, how signing in works without a password, and the three quick screens everyone sees the first time.

A tour of the app from a resident's side, so you can answer their questions: tickets that work offline, changing a registration, clubs, contests, and notification choices.

The organizer tools in the app: live numbers, the check-in link, registration and seats, the roster, handouts, your team, and the wrap-up list after the event.

What your volunteers see on the day, so you know what to tell them: their shifts with a check-in button, their station, team messages, their to-dos, and the opt-in team map.

Ask the assistant about your events from the app and approve its proposed changes, and know which jobs still need a computer.