How to schedule a live event

Scheduling an event takes three short steps: Basics, Schedule and Review. You can save a draft at any point and come back later.

Before you start

• [Set up your channel](/support/guides/become-a-creator) — you need one to schedule.
• For a paid event, set your payout currency under Settings › Payment preferences.
• A 16:9 cover image (it's shown at 1280 × 720, the same shape as the homepage card).

Step 1 · Basics

1. Click Create › Schedule Event in the top bar (or open [Schedule event](/creator/event-schedule)).
2. Enter a title (up to 80 characters) and, optionally, a description of what attendees can expect.
3. Pick a Format:

• Open room — everyone can speak, share video and join the conversation. Best for classes, circles and workshops.
• Managed stage — you invite speakers up to the stage; the audience watches and chats. Best for talks and panels.
• Broadcast — you go live from OBS or another encoder; the audience watches and chats but doesn't join in.

1. Upload a Cover image, crop it and click Apply cover.
2. Click Next: Schedule.

Step 2 · Schedule

1. Pick the Start date and time — or use a quick pick such as In 1 hour or Tomorrow morning. Times are in your browser's time zone, shown next to the field.
2. Choose the Event duration: 30 min, 1 h, 1 h 30, 2 h or a custom length (15–480 minutes).
3. Repeat (optional): turn on Repeat this event, click Set up, and choose daily, weekly (pick the days), monthly or yearly, and when it ends — never, after a number of sessions, or by a date. The modal shows the next dates; click Apply.
4. Recording & Replay: choose who can watch the recording afterwards (by default Attendees only) and for how long (by default Forever).
5. Meeting permissions (open room and stage): decide whether attendee camera and microphone are Allowed or Ask host, and who can share their screen. For a stage, set how many people can have mic and camera at once (up to 15).
6. In the Access panel, choose Free or Paid:

• Free — Anyone can join, or Require approval to approve each request first.
• Paid — enter the Ticket price, choose how the 10% platform fee is handled, and set the Free cancellation until deadline (default: 5 hours before). See [Pricing, fees and payouts](/support/guides/pricing-fees-and-payouts).

1. Choose the Visibility: Public (homepage, search, recommendations), Unlisted (link only) or Private (invitees only — paste their emails, one per line).
2. Click Next: Review.

> Open-room events can also sell a cheaper live-broadcast ticket for people who just want to watch: turn on Also sell a live-broadcast ticket in the Access panel and set its price (0 = free).

Step 3 · Review

1. Pick at least one Category (Mind, Body, Soul) and, optionally, tags and languages.
2. Check the Live preview card — it shows exactly what attendees pay.
3. Click Publish event (or Save draft) and confirm.

You'll get share links straight away. The event appears under Media › My Content, and attendees who registered get reminders before it starts.

Changing or cancelling

• Open the event and click Edit to change details, then Publish changes. Once an event has started, its start time is locked.
• If you cancel an event yourself, every ticket holder is refunded in full automatically.

Next

• [Go live and end your event](/support/guides/go-live-and-end-an-event)
• [Stream a broadcast with OBS](/support/guides/stream-with-obs)