How to accept registrations without specific dates

By default, every event on Corsizio must have a primary start and end date associated with it. These dates are critical for several reasons and cannot be avoided.

The system needs to know when to start accepting registrations, when to stop accepting registrations, when to show the event on the portal site and calendar, when to send out important automated emails related to the event registration, and, of course, to let your audience know when the event will take place.

However, there are a few rare cases where you may wish to hide the event dates from public view. For example:

• Date To Be Determined: You may need to accept registrations for some arbitrary event that does not have a specific date yet. 
• Ongoing Events: You may offer ongoing classes or sessions that are arranged manually on a per-needed basis after the person registers.
• Registrations for Memberships or Event Passes: Even though it is outside of the scope of Corsizio, you may want to collect registrations for a membership or event pass, which your customers need to register and pay for before they get access to any events. 

For any of the above or similar cases, you have the option on Corsizio to hide the event dates from public view.

Hiding Event Dates from Public View

To create an event and publish it without any event dates showing publicly, follow these steps:

STEP 1: From your Corsizio dashboard, go to Step 1 – Main Details when creating an event. STEP 2: Provide an arbitrary date and time for the start and end of the event. Even though these dates will not be displayed publicly, they are needed by the system, as explained above.

• The dates you pick will dictate when the event appears on your portal site and when it disappears.
• Depending on your needs, you may wish to make this arbitrary date span a day, a week, a month, or even a year.
• Make the event dates as close as possible to your required event case scenario.

STEP 3: Modify the registration open and close dates to reflect your needs. For more information about how these dates work, please read the help doc: Event registration open and close dates. 

STEP 4: Check the box "Hide the display of dates from public view" to enable this feature. This will ensure that your audience does not see any dates on the public-facing event page, and it will also hide the event from the calendar view.

STEP 5: When you are finish configuring this step, Save & Exit, or proceed to the next step.