Set up your event

Where: Setup

The Setup section holds the settings that define what your event is, when it runs, and what it looks like. Most of your configuration time is spent here, and most of it happens once.

The screens

Screen	What it decides	When you set it
General	Name, web address, mode, timezone, public or private	First, before anything else
Host	Who is running the event, as participants see it	Early
Dates	Every deadline that drives the event's behaviour	Early, revisited often
Branding	Logos and images	Before showing anyone the site
Appearance	Colours, fonts, spacing, buttons	Before showing anyone the site
Feature settings	Which features are switched on	Only when you need to change a default
Domain	Your own web address	Start early — DNS is slow

There are further screens here — Social, SEO, Email Branding, Email Templates, Default Messages, Integrations, Avatars, Members — covered under Communications, Website and pages and Roles and access.

The order that saves you work

1. General first. Mode and timezone change how everything else behaves.
2. Dates next, so the event has a shape.
3. Host, Branding and Appearance together — this is the "what it looks like" pass.
4. Domain in parallel with all of it, because DNS takes as long as it takes.
5. Feature settings last, and only if a default is wrong for you.

Two things worth knowing before you start

Your mode has already set sensible defaults. When you chose Standard, Seasonal or Donation, the platform switched features on and off to match. You are adjusting those defaults, not building from nothing. Most events change very few.

Some settings get harder to change once people register. Mode, timezone and the shape of the registration form all affect people who have already signed up. The rest — colours, copy, images, most dates — stay freely editable throughout. Each page flags where this applies.