1. Overview
Elevate your storefront with the Event Calendar section, a dynamic tool to showcase your events, promotions, announcements, and product releases. This feature has several prominent benefits such as:
- Effectively communicate important dates and engage your audience with upcoming activities.
- Link products to your events and sell them as tickets, creating a seamless shopping experience.
- Provide map directions and event details to help attendees easily locate and participate in your events.
- Allow users to add events to their personal calendars, ensuring they stay informed and engaged with upcoming activities.
- Enable users to confirm their attendance and manage event capacity.
2. How to set up events on the storefront?
Find the part of the event calendar you want to change below to learn how to set up:
a) Event Details:
Provide essential information such as the event name, date, and time. Optionally, include the event location. There's an option to display both start and end times, ensuring flexibility for events spanning multiple days.
b) Description:
Craft a concise description that will be showcased on the event card:
- For event preview description: Enter the content in the Summary field.
- For event pop-up description: When your customers click on the heading, a new pop-up containing detailed information about the event will show. If you want to add/change this information, do it in the Detailed description field. Select the heading tag for this section to enhance the SEO of the page.
c) Direct Calendar Integration:
Customers can easily add events directly to their personal calendars with a single click - no additional setup is required. This feature is enabled by default, making it simple and convenient for busy users to stay organized. For more details, refer to the following section.
3. How can customers add the event directly to their calendar?
Discover the uniqueness of our event calendar feature, enabling customers to easily add comprehensive event details, including names, dates, and locations,... directly to their calendars.
This functionality extends across various platforms, such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, Yahoo and Ical, streamlining the process without the need for additional calendar apps.
4. How to sell tickets to your events?
This feature allows you to link an event to a product, setting the product as a ticket for users to book for the event. Ensure that the ticket product is properly configured with the necessary variants (e.g., seat types, dates).
- Enable the option “Offer tickets for this event” to offer tickets for the event.
- Paste a link or search for the ticket page.
- Add a ticket page to sell tickets to attendees: Create a digital product to provide more information about the event, and optionally hide it from product listings.
- For more advanced customization, you can contact our support to exclude ticket products from internal search results and product recommendations.
- Set the label for the ticket button, e.g., "Buy Tickets."
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