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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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