# Events overview

> Create and share club activities, from a one-off dinner to a weekly meetup, with RSVP, ticket sales, recurring schedules, and eligibility rules.

Canonical: https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/overview
Section: Events & ticketing

Events let you create and share activities with your club members, from a one-off club dinner to a weekly meetup, and optionally sell tickets to them. You can use events for club-wide activities or keep personal events private for your own schedule.

Administrators manage all club events from **Admin > Events**.

![The admin Events list showing title, dates, visibility, and recurring status](https://www.clubpal.app/img/docs/admin-events-list.png)

## Event types

Events have three visibility levels:

**Club Event**  
Visible on the club calendar to all members. Only members with the **Manage Events** [permission](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/general/permissions) can create club events.

**Public (Personal event)**  
Visible on your personal calendar and can be shared with others outside the club. Useful for personal training plans or social arrangements.

**Private (Personal event)**  
Only visible on your own calendar. Useful for personal reminders or events you don't want other members to see.

## Recurring events

Events can be set to repeat on a schedule: daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. You can configure how often the event repeats and when the recurrence ends (never, after a set number of occurrences, or until a specific date).

## Location

You can add a location to any event:

- **Address**: a text address or venue name, searchable via Google Maps Places.
- **Map pin**: a precise GPS location shown as an interactive map on the event detail page.
- **What3Words**: an optional What3Words address for locations that are hard to find by street address.

## RSVP

Club events can optionally allow members to RSVP. When enabled, members can mark themselves as **Going**, **Maybe**, or **Not Going**. The attendee list is visible on the event page. See [RSVP](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/rsvp) for details.

## Ticket sales

Club events can also sell tickets, charging members through the same [payment provider](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/payments/overview) already configured for the club. This is separate from RSVP: an event can use RSVP, ticket sales, both, or neither. See [Tickets](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/tickets) for details.

## Eligibility rules

You can restrict who is allowed to buy tickets to a club event using eligibility rules, for example by age, gender, or required group membership. See [Eligibility rules](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/general/eligibility-rules) for details.

## Event chat

When **Enable Event Chat?** is on at **Admin > Chat > Settings**, an event's page carries a conversation, in the same shape as a [session's chat](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/sessions/overview#session-chat). It is where lift-sharing gets arranged and "what time are people getting there?" gets answered.

Three things have to be true for it to appear:

- The member is signed in. Event chat is never shown to a signed-out visitor, unlike a session's.
- The event is not [private](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/creating-events). A private event has no chat.
- The event has not been cancelled. From its cancellation date onwards the conversation is withdrawn.

Each occurrence of a recurring event has its own conversation.

### Who gets notified

Members are followed into an event's conversation automatically:

| What the member did | Result |
|---|---|
| RSVPed to the event | Subscribed to that event's chat |
| Bought a ticket for it | Subscribed to that event's chat |
| Posted or replied in it | Subscribed to that event's chat |

**Mute notifications** in the chat's own header silences one event without touching any other. What arrives, and by which route, is set once under **Event messages** at **My Profile > Notifications**, which defaults to a bell alert and no email. See [Notification preferences](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/general/notification-preferences).

See [Using chat](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/chat/messages) for posting, replies, attachments and reactions.

## Event media

Signed-in members can view photos and videos from an event on its **Media** tab. The event's creator and members with **Manage Events** can upload them, and each occurrence of a recurring event has its own gallery. See [Event media](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/media) for details.

## Cancelling an event

Administrators with the **Manage Events** permission can cancel an event, including individual occurrences of a recurring event, at any time. See [Cancelling events](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/cancelling-events) for details.

## In this section

- [Creating events](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/creating-events): learn how to create and configure events
- [RSVP](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/rsvp): how members respond to events
- [Tickets](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/tickets): selling tickets to an event
- [Event media](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/media): sharing photos and videos from an event
- [Cancelling events](https://www.clubpal.app/docs/events/cancelling-events): cancelling an event or an occurrence of a recurring event