The walkthrough

From sign-up
to sold out.

A plain-English walkthrough of everything you set up on BuzzHive — create your event, make it yours, and let the Run Up and cross-share fill the room. Nine steps, all free.

1
Your account

Create your free account

Sign up and you’re in — no credit card, no application to approve, no waiting on a confirmation email. Your account activates instantly and drops you straight into your dashboard.

Totally free to start — no monthly fee, no setup cost
No review queue — you’re live in under a minute
One login runs all of your events and tools
Create your account →
2
Get paid

Connect Stripe so the money comes to you

Set up your payouts without ever leaving BuzzHive — the secure Stripe form is embedded right on the page. A few minutes later, ticket revenue lands directly in your bank account — BuzzHive never holds your funds. Throwing a free show? You can skip this entirely.

Stripe onboarding happens right on BuzzHive — no bouncing to another site (about 3–5 minutes: verify your details, add a bank or debit card, done)
Choose your payout schedule — keep a balance and cash out yourself, or auto-deposit daily, weekly, or monthly
You keep the full ticket price — buyers cover the card processing fee at checkout
Free ($0) events don’t need Stripe at all
Set up payouts →
3
Build it

Create your first event

Add the basics — name, date, venue, flyer — then build your tickets. Spin up as many tiers as you want, set the rules, and publish when you’re ready.

Unlimited ticket tiers: GA, VIP, early-bird, presale
Set quantity, price, and per-order limits on each tier
Layer on discount codes, scan windows, even a full Seat-Map Studio (multi-level decks + AI charting)
Sell merch right alongside your tickets, from the same dashboard
Create an event →
4
Make it yours

Pick a vibe & customize the page

Your event page should look like your night, not a checkout form. Pick one of 25+ vibes and the real themed page loads on a live canvas — then open the Vibe Studio 3.0 and change anything by clicking it: swap any element’s look across every vibe, recolor effects and glows, layer backdrops, patterns and textures, even swap the page layout. What’s on the canvas is what goes live. No design skills, and it can’t break on a phone.

Pick a vibe and the whole themed page loads on the canvas — or start blank and build your own
Click any element to edit it in place; drag, resize, rotate, and drop in text, shapes, AI image backdrops, full-cover patterns and 37 live effects — what you see is exactly what publishes
Save it to reuse on every event, or paste a Spotify / SoundCloud link and it auto-embeds
Open your events →
5
Design it

Make the art in the Graphics Studio

Need a flyer, a logo, or merch art? You don’t need Photoshop — the Graphics Studio is built right in. It’s a full Photoshop × Illustrator × Procreate hybrid — raster, vector and paint in one — with AI and print-and-cut, free on your account.

Edit photos, draw vector logos, or paint by hand — all in one studio
Built-in AI: generate an image, generative fill, trace, remove background
Print-and-cut (CutContour, bleed, heat-press mirror) sends straight to merch
Install it as a standalone app and design anywhere
See the Graphics Studio →
6
Your site

Build your whole website in the Website Studio

Skip the $20-a-month site builder. The Website Studio is a Dreamweaver-class drag-and-drop builder for your storefront — describe your site and AI drafts a multi-page website from your real events and merch in about 40 seconds, then you fine-tune every pixel.

AI website creator: prompt → a full multi-page site wired to your real events, merch and graphics
Pro editing: transform handles, snap guides, theme tokens, saved text styles, 45+ drag-in blocks
Sell from one Product Catalog: bind a product card to a catalog product — live price and real add-to-cart, on the same stock you sell at events
TRUE live preview at a real URL — exactly what your visitors will see
Publish to your storefront, or export the site as a ZIP and host it on your own domain
See the Website Studio →
7
Your crowd

Import your email lists

You already have a following — bring it with you. Import your own email lists (past buyers, your mailing list) and send campaigns to them straight from BuzzHive.

Upload your own contacts — they’re yours, always
Send announcement & reminder blasts from inside BuzzHive
See which send actually drove ticket sales
Go to email lists →
8
Promote

Fire up the Run Up

The Run Up is your free, all-purpose promo engine. Pick what you’re promoting — a show, a merch or art drop, or just building hype — and it writes you four ready-to-post captions in your own voice plus a custom promo image, then helps you post everywhere your people are. It gets sharper the more you use it.

Four AI captions in your voice + a custom promo image — for any show, drop, or hype
Teach it your voice once (paste a few of your own posts) and every caption sounds like you
Tap a vibe or regenerate for a different image; write your own words anytime
A “Your results” view shows the clicks and sales your posts drove
Open the Run Up →
9
Post it

Post it your way

When your captions are ready, posting is one tap: copy a caption and open each of your saved accounts to paste, or hit Post on Meta to jump straight into Meta Business Suite with your caption already copied. You stay in full control — one-tap auto-posting is coming soon.

One-tap copy, then open-&-paste to your own accounts
Post on Meta opens Meta Business Suite with your caption copied, ready to paste
One-tap auto-posting to Facebook & Instagram — coming soon
Open the Run Up →
10
Reach

Cross-share to your groups

The scene lives in the group chats and Facebook groups. Cross-share turns posting your event across all of them from a 20-minute chore into a few taps.

Register the Facebook groups you promote in, once
Get one-tap open-&-paste buttons for each group
Use the Meta Business Suite multi-publish shortcut to hit them all in ~30 seconds, and check off what you’ve posted
Set up cross-share →
That’s the whole flow

Now run
your show.

Free account, free tools, zero platform fee on free events — and the more of us who run on it, the bigger our shared reach. Built by independent promoters, for independent promoters — concerts, comedy, markets, theater, festivals, and everything after dark.

Create your free account →