Let visitors submit events with Guest Events

With Guest Events, people can suggest events for your calendar, like a club meetup or a class, from your calendar page or a form on your website. Nothing goes live until you review and approve it.

Turn on guest submissions

In the menu on the left, click Calendars, then click your calendar.
Click the Guest Events tab.
Click Enable guest submissions.

You'll see "Guest event submissions enabled", and Accept guest event submissions is now on. New submissions wait under Pending.

The Guest Events tab of the Mossy Kiln Pottery Studio calendar with Accept guest event submissions turned on and highlighted, the Pending tab underlined, an Embed guest event form button, and No pending submissions — Guest submissions on, waiting for the first one

Where visitors submit events

Your calendar page now shows a Submit event button next to Upcoming Events.

A public calendar page for Mossy Kiln Pottery Studio with the Submit event button next to Upcoming Events circled — The Submit event button on your calendar page

It opens a Submit an event form with the event title, date and time, location and description, plus the visitor's name and email. A short security check runs before they can send it.

The Submit an event form: Add an event to Mossy Kiln Pottery Studio, it will be published after review, with fields for the event title, start and end date and time, All day event, Online event, location, description, Your name and Your email — What visitors fill in

Put the form on your own website

On the Guest Events tab, click Embed guest event form.
Choose iFrame to copy code for your website, or Direct link to share the form's link.
Click Copy code and paste it into your site's HTML or embed block.

The Embed the submission form window with the iFrame and Direct link options highlighted, the iframe code for the calendar's submit-event page, and a Copy code button — Embed the form, or share its direct link

Review a submission

Each submission appears under Pending with its title, date, location and who sent it.

Click Review & approve to open Review guest submission. It's the same form as a new event, filled in with what the visitor sent. Fix anything you need, then click Create Event Link. The event is added to your calendar and moves to Approved.
Click Reject if you don't want to publish it.

The Approved list of a calendar's Guest Events with one approved submission, Trail Run at Van Cortlandt Park, showing its date, location, the submitter's name and email, and Approved with the date, highlighted — Approved submissions, with who sent them

Once approved, the event is a normal event on your calendar. Subscribers get it like any other event, and you can edit it later from Events.

Turn guest submissions off

On the Guest Events tab, turn off Accept guest event submissions. You'll see "Guest event submissions disabled", and the Submit event button disappears from your calendar page.

Common questions

Do visitors need a CalGet account?

No. They fill in the form with their name and email.

Can I change a submission before it goes live?

Yes. Review & approve opens the full event form. Change the title, time, description or anything else, or turn on Collect RSVPs. Then click Create Event Link.