Publishing a Splash page
When you're ready to publish your Splash page, follow the steps below.
1. Check your account access
First, check to see if you have the ability to publish your page. You can tell by going into Settings, and seeing if you can toggle the "Event is Published" slider.
If you do not have the ability to publish, it means that someone on your team has to review your page before publishing it. If you're unsure who this is, take a look at this list of Splash Users. "Group Managers" and "Integration Specialists" (under "User Type/Permissions) have the ability to publish a page.
2. Double-check your work (or ask a colleague to take a look):
It's a great idea to comb through all the elements of your page, from Settings, to the Registration or Ticketing Form, Share Card, and Confirmations. Remember to send test confirmation emails to yourself.
When setting up a ticketed event, you can run test transactions to ensure that it's a smooth checkout for your guests. First, lower your ticket price, and create a discount code, so your credit card won't be billed a high amount. While you can refund sales, the Stripe fee is not refundable (2.9% + $.30 per transaction; click on this Stripe Guide for more information), but this should be negligible on a small charge.
3. Check these fields in your Settings:
- Consult this list of Tags to see which ones you can use to further promote your event by adding them to the "Tags" field.
- Select the right "Event Audience". If it's for everyone, click on JUST "General Public". There is no need to check off all the boxes if the event is for all audiences.
4. When everything looks good:
- If you want your event or hub page to appear on the university's Events Calendar, go to the section "In these Hubs" > Click "Add to Hub" > Select "Published Events". If you don't want your page to appear on the Events Calendar, skip this step; your page can still be live.
- If you want your page to be live online but not searchable via search engines, go to the Site Metadata tab, and click on the "Request search engines NOT to index this page" checkbox at the bottom of the page.
- Toggle on the "Published Status" slider.
NOTE: When promoting your event, share the "Vanity URL" (the one that starts with "event.newschool.edu/"), not the "Event URL".