Creating Your First Event

Create an event to start managing registration, scheduling, scoring, ticketing, and more.

Before You Begin

You must have created an organization before creating an event.
You must have write access to the organization. Read-only users cannot create events.

Creating an Event

From your organization's Events page, click the button to create a new event.
Fill in the event details:

Basic Information

Event Name (required) - The name of your event, up to 100 characters. Example: "Atlanta Invitational".
Date & Time (required) - Select the event date and time using the date picker.
Time Zone (required) - Choose the time zone for the event. Marching Maestro auto-detects your local time zone as the default.
Circuit (optional) - If your organization has circuits, you can check "This event belongs to a circuit" and select the circuit from the dropdown. Circuit events share some registration settings at the circuit level.

Venue Information

Venue Name (required) - The name of the venue. Example: "Memorial Stadium". Up to 100 characters.
Venue Address (required) - The full street address, up to 191 characters. Must be a valid U.S. postal address. This is used for sales tax calculation and is displayed on the event website.

Registration Fees

If your event does not belong to a circuit, you'll also set up registration fees during creation:

Registration Fee (required) - The fee registrants pay at the time of registration. Can be set from $0.00 to $100.00 in $0.25 increments. A fee breakdown showing Marching Maestro and payment processing fees is displayed as you adjust the price.
Performance Deposit (required) - A deposit that can be collected if a registrant is a no-show. Can be set from $0.00 to $100.00 in $0.50 increments.

Tip: Both fees show a breakdown of what the registrant pays, what goes to processing fees, and what you receive. You can adjust these later in Registration Settings.

Click Create Event.

You'll be redirected to your new event's dashboard, where you can begin configuring the details.

What Comes Next

After creating your event, you'll want to:

Pay the event fee to unlock all features.
Configure event settings to add a description and fine-tune details.
Set up registration so groups can register.
Create your schedule for event day.
Set up scoring if your event includes adjudication.