Publish your first event
Creating an event takes five steps. A step bar at the top shows where you are and lets you jump back to any step you've finished, and on a wide screen a preview of your event's card updates beside the form as you type. Here is what each step asks for, and the three rules worth knowing before the end.
The five steps, in order
About your event
Title, description and media.A title, a description of at least ten characters, and a category. The cover image goes here too: JPG, PNG or WEBP, and we compress it so the page loads quickly. Everything else on this step is optional and tucked behind a link — Add more categories, Add music genres for music events, and Add photos or videos for a gallery.
Cover required to publish
Where & when
Location, date and time.Where first: for an event people attend in person, all four location fields — venue, street address, city and country — or switch on Online event and skip them. Then the start time, which has to be in the future, and an optional end time after it. The time zone is picked up from the city as you type it; a Change link is there if it guessed wrong. Date polls, guest-picked days, bookable times and repeating events are under More date options.
Entry
How people get in.Who can come
Who can find it, and how guests join.One choice to make — who can see the event — and a line of guest settings underneath, already set to the sensible defaults: guests confirmed instantly, no guest limit, all ages. Press Change only if you want approval for each guest, plus-ones, a visible guest list, invite sharing, a capacity or an age limit.
Review & publish
One last look.Your event's card, then every answer with an Edit link beside it that takes you straight back to the right step. If the cover is missing, this step says so and offers Add a cover before you try. Confirm the policies, then Publish event — or Save as draft to come back later.
What it costs to publish
Nothing. There is no listing fee, no monthly minimum and no exclusivity. Keep selling wherever you sell today. Glentio earns a percentage only when a ticket is sold through Glentio: nothing on a free reservation, and nothing on the bookings you take yourself. Lower rates come with the paid tiers, though publishing never requires one. The pricing page has the detail.
Three rules worth knowing
The wizard now tells you about each of these where it applies, but it helps to know them before you start.
A cover image is required to publish, but not to save
You can choose Save as draft at any point and come back later. The cover only blocks the final step: Review warns you if it is missing, so a photo you don't have to hand never costs you the work.
All four location fields, unless the event is online
Venue, street address, city and country. Where & when won't let you move on with three of the four, so you meet this on the step itself rather than at the end. An Online event needs none of them.
Paid tickets mean a public event
Choosing Paid tickets on the Entry step locks visibility to Public on the next one, and the step says why: it is the only setting that supports selling, since buyers have to be able to find the event. Entry comes before visibility so this never changes an answer you've already given.
If you arrived from a link we sent you
The form is already filled in: title, description, date, venue and address, drawn from your own listing. Your job is to check it and publish, not to type it out. Anything we got wrong is yours to change, and it stays private until you publish it.