Event Schedule

What it is

Event Schedule is an event calendar, ticketing and booking platform for anyone who keeps a schedule other people need to see. The company's site names musicians, DJs, comedians, venues, bars, theaters, galleries, studios, markets, libraries and the curators who list them all in one place. Its home page puts it this way: "One page for your events and your open hours. Sell tickets and take bookings with zero platform fees, and scan people in at the door." It is free to start, with a paid Pro plan and an Enterprise plan, and it is open source and "AAL licensed": "Selfhost it on your own server for full control over your data and every paid feature is included, or use the hosted platform at eventschedule.com."

What you build and how

You build a schedule page. Every schedule gets a free subdomain such as yourname.eventschedule.com, and on that page you publish events, take free registrations, sell tickets and email your audience. The home page says setup takes under 2 minutes with no credit card.

Events can be one-off or recurring. Recurrence repeats daily, weekly, every few weeks, monthly or yearly, you can skip or add single dates, and each date sells its own tickets. Sub-schedules give a run of events a name, a color and a link of its own, described on the page as perfect for a weekly series or a season of shows. Event polls let you add multiple-choice polls where signed-in guests pick one option and the count comes back with their vote.

Appointments are a newer addition, labeled "Appointment booking, built in." Guests pick an open time in their own timezone and the booking lands on your schedule. You set weekly hours with buffers and minimum notice, appointments can be free or paid through Stripe, and a slot is never double-booked against your synced calendars. That puts open hours and events on the same public page.

Booking and ticketing are the center of the product. Free registration and RSVPs are unlimited on every plan, and a QR code on every ticket can be scanned at the door on any plan. A ticket that carries a price needs the Pro plan, which adds extras like parking or merchandise, promo codes and a waitlist for sold-out tickets, along with passes, gift cards and a live check-in dashboard. Gift cards arrive by email with a running balance, and a pass admits the same guest across a season or a whole festival. Payments go to your own Stripe or PayPal account, so the company says it never holds your money and never takes a cut. Payfast for events priced in South African rand, Invoice Ninja, a payment link of your own and cash at the door also work. Refunds can be full or partial from the Sales page. A partial refund leaves the tickets valid and a full refund puts them back on sale, and a sale paid by cash can be marked as refunded so your records match.

Custom fields come in six types, from a yes/no toggle to a multi-select, and you can ask at checkout or put the question on your public event request form. Reserved seating, on Enterprise, lets you draw a room once, with rows, tables, standing areas and a box office console for phone bookings, and guests pick their own seat.

Audience tools sit next to the ticketing. An interest list lets a visitor leave an email address with no account to hear when tickets go on sale, and the visitor gets one email on sale, one if the event is canceled and a reminder shortly before it starts. Newsletters let you email your audience directly, and you can bring a list across by pasting addresses or uploading a CSV of up to ten thousand rows. Event graphics generate shareable images and formatted text for Instagram, WhatsApp, email and other channels. Fans can add YouTube videos and comments to your events, and nothing goes live without your approval. Private events have four levels of visibility, from a public listing to an unlisted page behind a password, so you can hide an event from your calendar and still send someone the link.

Calendars sync both ways. Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 sync two ways, with webhook updates so a change in either place shows up in the other, and you choose whether an event deleted there is kept, marked canceled or deleted. Any CalDAV server works as well. Guests can add a single event to Apple, Google or Outlook from the event page, or subscribe to your whole schedule as a live calendar feed. Existing events can be brought across from Eventbrite, and a REST API and webhooks handle whatever is left.

AI import is the nearest thing to a builder feature. You paste event details in any format, and the page says AI extracts everything automatically so you skip a lengthy setup. The page gives the allowance as fifty a day on the free and Pro plans, ten during a Pro trial and a hundred on Enterprise.

One detail separates it from a marketplace. Public events can be listed on its browse and search pages, but the company says a listing is "not a marketplace's built-in audience," and that what fills a room is your own page, an embeddable calendar, a follower QR code, newsletters and the interest list. The performers and venues you list do not need an account. Name one who is not on Event Schedule and the event page still shows them, with a page of their own that says it has not been claimed yet and stays out of search engines until they claim it.

The evidence from the pages

The pricing is public. Free costs $0 forever with no card, and the page lists unlimited events, sub-schedules and recurring dates, two-way Google, Outlook and CalDAV sync, and unlimited free registration. Pro is $5 per month with a 7-day free trial and cancel any time, and adds paid tickets, promo codes, add-ons, passes, gift cards, the REST API, webhooks and no Event Schedule branding. Enterprise is $15 per month, for a room with a seating chart, a team and a domain of its own: reserved seating, your own domain, up to five team members, internal and unlisted events and 1,000 newsletter recipients. The site states that every paid feature is included free on every selfhosted install. Zero platform fees apply on every plan, and the only deduction is your payment processor's own.

The free plan is one person per schedule. Extra team members are an Enterprise feature capped at five on the hosted platform, and Enterprise schedules can serve the guest portal from a domain you own, with the certificate issued automatically. Selfhosted installs run on your own domain from day one.

The home page FAQ adds that Pro and Enterprise bring event boosting, custom branding and AI image generation on top of paid ticket sales. The company is also candid about its limits, listing "three lines we do not claim": no marketplace audience, seat maps only on Enterprise, and one team member on Free.

Who it suits and who it doesn't

Event Schedule suits a venue, a performer, a market or a small organizer who wants a public calendar, ticket sales and a mailing list on one page, without a cut taken from each ticket. A developer or a team that wants to own its data can run the open source version on its own server. A solo organizer can start on the free plan and add Pro the first time a ticket needs a price.

The caveats are stated on the company's own pages. Plan on bringing your own audience, because a listing is not a marketplace. Reserved seating and team members need Enterprise, so a venue with a seat map and a staff of more than one pays $15 per month. Appointment booking is labeled new, so a practice that runs many staff calendars will want to try it on the free plan first, and a selfhosted install is yours to maintain.