Overview
Your Evvnt events calendar is a self-service platform that populates your site with event listings, drives local event submissions, and generates revenue through promoted placements and ticket sales. This guide walks you through the full setup — from creating your site to monitoring submissions and sales.
This article is for site partners who host an Evvnt events calendar on their publisher website — whether you are a newspaper, digital media outlet, community portal, or any site that wants to offer a branded local events calendar.
You may be launching a new calendar or managing an existing calendar, this article highlights what each part of the system does and links to more information as needed.
What You Can Do With This Info
- Create and configure a calendar tailored to your market and brand
- Populate it with quality event data from day one
- Embed the calendar and content widgets on your website
- Manage event submissions and editorial workflows
- Encourage local event creators to submit events directly to your calendar
- Track activity and understand how monetization works
Decisions to Make Before You Start
- Which page on your site will host the calendar (you will need the URL)
- What location, radius, and category settings you want for the events displayed
- How your calendar should be branded — logo, colors, and labels
How to Access the System
Your can access your dashboard where you see all your sites, calendar users, and account settings. There are options to login on your calendar page, and also can be found at evvnt.com.
When you are logged in and select a site from your dashboard, you will enter the calendar admin where you configure settings, publishing rules, themes, and content.
Create a New Calendar
Creating a new calendar is available as an Add Site button on your dashboard. The setup process collects your calendar page URL, target location, and basic details. Once created, the site appears on your dashboard and you can access its admin tools.
Add a Site: Create and Launch a Publisher Calendar
Site Settings and Branding
Your calendar URL, logo, color theme, and front-end labels are configured from Site Settings and Themes in the site admin. These controls determine how your calendar looks to visitors — the branding, layout, and core site details.
Site Settings: Set Your Calendar URL and Core Site Details
Themes and Branding: Logo, Colors, and Front-End Labels
Publishing Settings
Control which events appear on your calendar by setting your catchment area (location and radius) and choosing which event categories are allowed. Publishing settings define the geographic and content boundaries for your calendar.
Publishing Settings: Set Your Catchment Area and Radius
Publishing Settings: Control Event Categories and Allowed Content
Populate Your Calendar
Backfill data sources automatically pull event listings from trusted providers such as Ticketmaster, Bandsintown, and regional databases. This ensures your calendar has a strong base of content from launch, even before local event creators begin submitting. Your own events always take priority over backfill listings.
Data Sources and Backfill: Populate Your Calendar for Launch
Install Your Calendar Embed
The Get Code section in your site admin provides the embed code for your website and a preview option that lets you see the calendar with your current configuration before installation.
Get Code: Embed the Evvnt Calendar on Your Website
Editorial Operations
Manage your team, handle event listings, and configure content filtering from the editorial tools in site admin. Admin users have full access; editors can be assigned to specific sites. Keyword filtering helps block inappropriate content automatically.
Manage Events: Edit, Reject, and Bulk Reject Listings
Manage Team Members and User Roles
Keyword Filtering: Block Inappropriate Content
Event Submissions and Promoters
Your calendar has a unique submission URL that allows local event organizers to post events directly. Sharing this link through your site, newsletters, and social channels drives exclusive local content to your calendar.
Every new Evvnt user who submits an event on your calendar becomes a promoter in your account — you can search for them, view their contact details and event history, and impersonate their account for troubleshooting.
Finding and Managing Event Creators
Submission URL: How Users Submit Events to Your Calendar
Activity Monitoring
The Activity feed in site admin shows a running list of events submitted to your calendar, including the source and frequency. Use it to monitor what content is coming in and spot trends in submissions.
Using the Activity Feed to Monitor Submissions and Upgrades
Monetization
Evvnt calendars can generate revenue through paid promotion placements (e.g., featured or boosted listings) and, where enabled, ticket sales. The submission and event management flow is designed to surface these optional upgrades to event organizers at the point of entry and when they manage their listings.
Monetization for Publisher Calendars: What You Sell and How Users Buy