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Set up a hybrid event

Many events need both public registration and private invitations — for example, a conference with open ticket sales but invite-only speaker and sponsor passes. This guide shows you how to set up both in a single event.

What you’ll set up

  • Public ticket types for open registration
  • Invitation-only ticket types for VIPs, speakers, or sponsors

1. Create your event

From your account dashboard, click New event and enter your event details.

For full details, see Creating an event.

2. Create public ticket types

Navigate to Tickets and create ticket types for your general attendees.

For full details, see Ticket types.

3. Create invitation-only ticket types

Create additional ticket types for your invited guests — speakers, sponsors, VIPs, or anyone who needs special access.

4. Set up invitations

Go to Invitations and add your invited guests. Assign each invitation to the appropriate ticket type. Guests receive a personalized link that gives them access to their specific ticket type.

For full details, see Invitations.

5. Create a public landing page

Go to Access and create a new Landing page. This creates a public event page.

You’ll want to choose to only show your the relevant ticket types. Click Edit and enable the Show specific ticket types toggle and select your public ticket types then click Save.

You can now share the URL of the public landing page to allow people to self-register for your event.

6. Monitor both channels

The status of sent invitations can be seen in the Invitations view and public registrations can be seen in the Orders view.

The combination of attendees from public orders, and accepted invitations can be seen in the Attendees view.

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