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Creating an event

Events are for the nights that do not fit your normal service — tasting menus, supper clubs, mother's day specials, anything ticketed. Once an event is created and published, guests can book a place on it from the your restaurant listing.

Where events live

Sign in to manage.makearezzy.com, pick your business, and open Events from the left-hand menu. The list shows every event you have set up — past, present, and draft. Click any event to see its summary; click Add Event to start a new one.

The event form

The form is split into four sections. You fill them all in on the same page, in any order, and click Save at the bottom.

1. Event Details

  • Event name — what the event is called. Must be unique within your business.
  • Short description — the line guests see in the listing.
  • Publish this event — leave this unticked while you are still drafting. The event will not appear to guests until it is published and within its scheduled date range.
  • Event menu — optionally attach one of your uploaded menus to the event. See Linking a menu to an event.
  • Cover image — The photo guests see on the listing.
  • Sitting time (minutes) — how long a guest will be at the event. Used to work out when their table frees up.
  • Notice hours — minimum lead time before a guest can book. Leave blank to allow last-minute bookings.
  • Minimum pax per booking — the smallest party size you will take.
  • Maximum pax per booking — the largest party size you will take. Leave blank for no per-booking limit.

2. Limits

Pick how the event is capped — by table availability, by total pax per day, by total bookings per day, or not at all. See Event ticketing and pricing for what each option does.

3. Payment

Pick whether the event is free, paid on arrival, paid online in full, or has a deposit. Paid options unlock a price and an optional free-cancellation window. Detailed in Event ticketing and pricing.

4. Schedule

Pick how often the event runs:

  • Daily — runs every day from a start date, with an optional end date.
  • Weekly — runs on selected weekdays only, between a start date and an optional end date.
  • One-off — runs on a single date.
  • Multiple dates — runs on the specific dates you add to a list.
  • Date range — runs every day between a start and end date (no skipped days).

Whichever you pick, the event also needs a start time and an end time for each day. So a daily event from 1st to 30th April that runs 18:00 to 21:00 is one event, not thirty.

Publishing and unpublishing

An event needs three things to be visible to guests:

  1. The Publish this event checkbox ticked.
  2. The current date inside the event's schedule.
  3. The current time inside the event's start/end window.

The detail page shows whether an event is currently Published or Unpublished. Toggle by editing the event and saving. Unpublishing an event hides it from new bookings immediately but does not cancel any existing bookings.

Editing and removing an event

Open the event from the Events list and use Edit to change anything on it. Changes take effect straight away.

To remove an event entirely, use Delete from the detail page. As with unpublishing, deleting does not automatically cancel existing bookings on the event — handle those first.

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