Publishing and Sharing Your Event

Events in Hi.Events start as a Draft by default. They are not visible to the public until you publish them.

Publish Your Event

To make your event live:

1. Open the event you want to publish
2. Look for the status button in the event’s top bar — it shows Draft — Click to Publish (or Live — Click to Unpublish)
3. Click it to open the publish dialog and confirm

Before publishing, Hi.Events runs a few checks:

• Payments — if your event has paid tickets and Stripe is enabled but not connected, publishing is blocked. You can either connect Stripe (Organizer Settings → Payouts) or take the alternative the dialog offers — enable offline payments and disable Stripe in Event Settings → Payment & Invoicing
• Tickets — you’ll be warned if the event has no tickets or products yet
• Dates — recurring events with no dates scheduled will trigger a warning

When your event is Live, it is publicly visible and attendees can view the event page and purchase tickets.

Verify Your Account First

You must verify your account before you can change an event’s status — that applies to publishing and unpublishing. Look for the Verify your email step on the event dashboard checklist, or resend the confirmation email from your profile page.

Pending Review

Newly published events on Hi.Events Cloud go through an automated content check. If an event is flagged, it moves to Pending Review, and you’ll get an email letting you know. The event shows a Pending Review badge in your events list and a banner reading “This event is pending manual review and is not visible to the public”.

While an event is pending review:

• The event page isn’t publicly visible
• You can’t change the event’s status — publishing and unpublishing are both blocked until the review finishes
• You can still edit the event as normal

Our team reviews flagged events quickly. Once a review clears, the event is published again automatically — nothing is needed from you. If you have a question about a review, reply to the email you received.

Editing a live event’s title or description re-runs the check on the new content, so an event can be flagged after an edit as well as on first publish.

This check runs on Hi.Events Cloud. Self-hosted instances only run it if the operator has turned it on.

Sharing Your Event

Click Share Event in the top bar of any event page to open the share dialog. It has three tabs:

• Share — post straight to X, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit, Pinterest, or send by email
• QR Code — a scannable code you can download for printed materials
• Copy Link — the event’s unique public URL

To embed a ticket purchase form on your own website, use Widget Embed in the event sidebar (under Integrations) instead — it’s separate from the share dialog.

For recurring events, you can also share a link to a specific date from the Occurrence Schedule page.

Unpublishing

You can switch a live event back to Draft using the same top-bar button. This hides the event page from public view but does not affect existing orders or attendees. An unverified account is blocked from unpublishing as well as publishing — see above.

Tip: Preview your event page before publishing to make sure everything looks right — click Preview Event page while managing the event. While logged in, you can even complete a test checkout on a draft event; see Testing Your Checkout.