# Create your event

> Start a new event, or a free sandbox event to practise without emailing anyone.

- Where: Organization → Events → New event
- Console path: https://aaa.attend.vip/{org}
- Do first: [Get into the console](https://www.attend.vip/help/organizers/get-access.md)
- Attend MCP tools: `events__createEvent`, `events__eventsDuplicate`, `events__eventsPublish`
- Updated: 2026-10-19

Each event has its own guest list, schedule, branding and invite. You can run as many events as your plan allows.

## Real event or sandbox?

| | New event | New sandbox event |
|---|---|---|
| Guests receive emails | Yes | No: every email goes to the host address instead |
| Cost | Billed per your plan | Free |
| Comes with sample content | No | Yes |
| Use it for | The real thing | Learning the console, testing your invite, demos |

**If this is your first event, create a sandbox too.** It's the safest way to see exactly what your guests will see. In a sandbox, invites, reminders and sign-in codes all go to the host address, labelled with who they would have reached.

## Create the event

1. On your organization's **Events** page, select **New event** (or **New sandbox event**).
2. Fill in:
   - **Name**: what guests see, e.g. "Acme Leadership Summit 2027".
   - **Slug**: filled in from the name. It becomes part of your event's links and QR codes and **can't be changed later**, so check it now.
   - **Starts** and **Ends**: in local time at the venue.
   - **Host email**: pick a team member. Replies to your invites go to this address. It's optional for a real event and required for a sandbox, because that's where all of a sandbox's emails go.
   - **Venue** and **Timezone** (optional, but set the timezone so reminders go out at the right local time).
3. Select **Create event** (or **Create sandbox**). The console opens your new event.

![The New event form](https://www.attend.vip/help/img/organizers/new-event-form.webp "Capture the 'New event' card on the Events page filled in with a realistic event (name, slug, dates, host email, venue, timezone).")

New events are live straight away. Nothing reaches guests until you add them and send invites, so you can set everything up at your own pace.

## Reusing a past event

To start from an earlier event, open it and go to **Settings → Event details → Duplicate event**. The copy is named "{name} (Copy)" and keeps the name, description, dates, venue and address, host, colour and header image.

It does **not** keep the timezone, short name, guests, schedule, travel, invite wording or [App features](https://www.attend.vip/help/organizers/choose-features.md) settings, so set those again. Duplicating a sandbox gives you a real event that emails real guests and is billed.

A duplicate starts as a **draft**. When it's ready, select **Publish event** on its home page. You can't send invites from a draft.

## Do it with Claude or ChatGPT

With Attend connected (https://www.attend.vip/help/organizers/connect-ai/), paste:

```text
Using Attend, create a new event in [organization name]:
- Name: [event name]
- Starts: [date and time], ends: [date and time] (local time at the venue)
- Timezone: [e.g. Europe/Lisbon]
- Venue: [venue name]
- Host email: [a team member's email]
Make it a sandbox event if I say so: [yes / no]. Confirm the details with me before creating it.
```