Getting started

Your home base, come back here any time to see everything at a glance.

1. Open Home from the sidebar. Every event you are on shows here. If you are on just one, Bazaar opens it for you the first time you arrive, and Home is always there in the sidebar when you want it.
2. List is the default view. It shows everything coming up across every month, soonest first, with a countdown and anything the event needs from you.
3. Use the filters beside the search field to switch between Upcoming, Needs attention, Overdue, and Past.
4. Use the view toggle to switch to Day, Week, or Month, where "Jump to" and the arrows move the calendar by period.
5. Search by event name to find any event, past or upcoming.
6. Click an event to open it, or use View on its row.

Start a new event from a sentence, a link or a form, or import several at once.

1. Open Home. The "New event" button sits above the calendar.
2. If you have not created anything yet, Home also offers a "Create your event" button in the middle of the page, which does the same thing.
3. Pick "Describe it" and type a sentence ("Sarah's 40th, June 14 at 7pm, Brooklyn Bowl") or paste an invite link. Check the card, fix anything it got wrong, then Save.
4. Pick "Reminder" for something that just needs a name and a date, or "Event" for the full form with guests, vendors and a schedule.
5. Pick "Ticketed" to sell tickets from the start: choose the business hosting it, Free or Paid with a price, and an optional capacity. The event is created with its first ticket on sale. Paid needs payouts set up and Bazaar Lite or Plus; until then the form says so and Free still works.
6. Pick "Import CSV" to create several events at once from a spreadsheet.
7. Pick "Import from calendar" to pull upcoming events from a Google or Apple calendar you have connected.
8. The calendar re-centers on the new event, so you can open it and keep going.

Set something up once and Bazaar does it every time: when you are booked, when a deposit lands, when an event ends.

1. Open Routines in the sidebar. A routine watches for something happening and then does what you would have done.
2. Click "New routine" to start one. It is created switched off, so nothing runs until you say so.
3. Pick when it should run: an inquiry arriving, being booked, a deposit landing, an event ending, a call coming up.
4. Add what should happen. Steps your plan does not cover are still shown, and the rest of the routine still runs without them.
5. The panel on the right says in one sentence what the routine will do, so you can read it before switching it on.
6. Switch it on with the toggle. Your plan sets how many can run at once; switching one off frees a slot.
7. To have it put a task list on an event, add the "Add my task list" step and pick one of your Playbooks.
8. Or skip the form: click "Describe a routine" and tell Bazaar Agent what you want. It drafts the routine, switched off, for you to read and turn on.

The task lists you reuse: written once, added to an event by hand or by a routine.

1. Open Playbooks in the sidebar, just under Routines.
2. Click "New playbook" to write one, or capture one from real work with Run of show, More, then "Save as Template".
3. Use it on an event by hand, or have a routine add it for you with the "Add my task list" step.

Try guests, seating, meal choices and guest cards on a ready-made wedding before building your own. Nothing in it reaches a real person.

1. Open Home. With no upcoming events, press "Or explore a sample wedding first" under "Create your event".
2. The sample opens with guests, tables, a menu with meal choices and guest cards already filled in. A banner on every tab says it is a sample.
3. Try anything. Nothing is sent, and nobody can be invited or reply.
4. When you are ready, press "Start your own event" in the banner.
5. To remove it, press "Delete sample" in the banner, or "Remove sample" on its card once you have a real event. It is removed on its own 30 days after you open it.

See only the events that need something from you, or that have slipped.

1. Open Home. List view is the default; if you are in Day, Week, or Month, switch back with the view toggle.
2. Use the chips beside the search field: Upcoming, Needs attention, Overdue, or Past.
3. "Needs attention" shows any event with something outstanding, including a contract that was only just sent.
4. "Overdue" is narrower on purpose. It shows only what is actually past its date, such as an overdue task or invoice.
5. Each row says what it needs, so you can go straight to the event that is holding things up.

Switch the dashboard between list, day, week, and month views.

1. Open Home. The view toggle sits on the same row as the search field, above the calendar.
2. List is the default. It shows everything coming up across every month, soonest first, rather than one calendar page at a time.
3. Day, Week, and Month show a single calendar page. Step through it with the arrows, or use "Jump to" to land on a date.
4. Your choice is remembered on this browser, so Home opens the same way next time.
5. An event that sells tickets carries a ticket mark, and a reminder is drawn light with a bell, so the three read apart at a glance.

Re-center the calendar on a specific day, week, or month.

1. Open Home and switch the view toggle to "Day", "Week" or "Month". The date controls are hidden in "List" view.
2. Click the "Jump to" button beside "Today". Its label follows the view: "Jump to day", "Jump to week" or "Jump to month".
3. Pick any date, past or future. The calendar moves there and stays in the view you were using.
4. Click "Today" to come straight back to now, or use the arrows on either side to step one period at a time.

Find an event by name from anywhere on the calendar. Results cover all time, not just the period you are looking at, and split into Upcoming and Past.

1. Open Home.
2. Type into the "Search events" field in the calendar bar. On a narrow screen, tap the magnifier beside the date arrows first.
3. Results replace the calendar and cover all time, grouped into Upcoming and Past, so you do not have to be on the right month.
4. It matches the event name, so a venue or a note will not find it.
5. Click an event to open it, or clear the field to get the calendar back.

Not everything needs a guest list and a budget. A Reminder asks only for a name and a date, and gives you one page: when everyone is reminded, and who is coming. The Event tab is the full thing whenever you want it.

1. On Home, open the "New event" dropdown and choose Reminder.
2. Type what it is and when. That is the whole form.
3. Optionally pick what kind of thing it is: a film, a concert, a trip, a reservation. That is how Bazaar knows to remind you about a film the way you like to be reminded about films.
4. Save, and Bazaar opens the page for it.
5. From there you can set your reminders and invite people.
6. If it turns out to need more, "Add planning tools" at the bottom of the page gives it guests, vendors, a budget and a schedule. That is one-way.
7. Planning something bigger from the start? Choose Event instead, either from the dropdown or from the tabs at the top of the dialog, or Ticketed to sell tickets from the start.

A reminder event reminds everyone who said they are coming. It starts at the day before and an hour before; the reminders row on the page changes that, or turns it off. Anyone who has set their own timing in account settings gets theirs instead. People with the app get a push; everyone else gets a text or an email.

1. Open the event.
2. The row under the date says when everyone is reminded. Choose Change.
3. Tick any of four weeks, two weeks, a week, a day, three hours, an hour, or fifteen minutes before. Up to five at once: at five the rest gray out, so untick one to swap it.
4. Save. Anyone who has said they are coming gets this, unless they have set their own timing in account settings.
5. Untick everything to switch reminders off for this event.

A routine can put your usual list of things to do onto anything you are counting down to, with each one dated back from the day itself. Tick them off as you go.

1. Open the event. If anything has put tasks on it, they are under "What needs doing", with a count of how many are done.
2. Click a task to tick it off, and click it again to undo. There is nothing to save.
3. A task shows the date it should be done by when the routine that added it set one.
4. Nothing is shown at all until something adds tasks, so an event you have not automated looks exactly as it did.
5. To put tasks there, open Routines, add a routine on "you create an event", and give it the "Add my checklist" step. Every event of that type gets the list from then on.

Invite is one step: pick people from your contacts or type a phone number or an email, and Bazaar adds them and sends the invite together. They can reply without an account, and anyone who has the app also gets a push.

1. Open the event and choose Invite.
2. Search your contacts, or type a phone number or an email for someone who is not in them.
3. Everyone you pick is listed above the results, so a search cannot lose them.
4. Choose Send. Bazaar adds them and sends the invite in one go.
5. The first time, you confirm you have permission to contact them, and confirming sends the invite. That is asked once per event.
6. Their replies show under "Who's coming".

While you type a new event, Bazaar checks the ones you already have. If it finds a match it says so before you save, and offers to open the existing event instead. Nothing is ever created or removed for you. You choose, and "It's a different event" creates it anyway.

1. On Home, click "New event" and choose "Event" or "Reminder".
2. As you type the name and set the date, Bazaar checks the events you already have. A match appears in the form, below the date and time fields, with its date and venue.
3. "You already have" a matching event means creating this one would give you two. Click "Open it" to go to the existing one instead. If you have typed anything, Bazaar asks before discarding it.
4. "This looks like another event in" an existing event means the new one may be part of the same celebration. Click "They're unrelated" if it is not.
5. Click "It's a different event" to dismiss the warning, then save as usual. The warning never blocks a save, and nothing is created or removed for you.
6. If a vendor already has your date booked under their own copy, Bazaar may ask you afterwards, from the bell, "Is this your event?". Answer it there to bring their booking onto your event.

Create several events at once from a spreadsheet.

1. On Home, click "New event", then "Import CSV". The "Upload Spreadsheet" dialog opens.
2. Click "sample CSV template" to download an example of the format.
3. Your file needs the columns Name, Type, Start, End and Address; only Address is optional. Dates look like 2025-01-31 13:30, in 24-hour time, and Type must be one of the event types the dialog lists.
4. If the events are bookings for clients, add an optional Client Email column with each client's email. If that client already has the event on Bazaar, they are asked whether it is theirs, so the two can become one. Nothing about them is shown to you.
5. Click "Upload File" and choose your .csv file. Every row appears in a preview.
6. If any row has a problem it is flagged, and "Create" stays off. Nothing is created until the whole file is clean, so fix the spreadsheet, close the dialog and upload it again.
7. Click "Create".

Pull upcoming events from your connected Google or Apple calendar and import them into Bazaar.

1. On Home, click "New event", then "Import from calendar".
2. If no calendar is connected yet, click "Connect a calendar" to set one up first.
3. Everything is selected to begin with. Untick the events you want to leave out, or use "Deselect all" and pick a few.
4. Use "Search events", change how far ahead to look (such as "Next 3 months"), or pick one calendar when you have more than one connected.
5. Click an event to change its "Name", "Type", "All day", "Start", "End" or "Location" before it comes in.
6. Click "Import selected", or "Import all". Events already in Bazaar are not offered again, so importing twice does not create duplicates.

Set something up once and Bazaar does it every time.

1. Open Routines from the sidebar, then click "New routine". It is created switched off, so nothing runs until you say so.
2. Under When, pick the moment it should run: an inquiry arriving, being booked, a deposit landing, an event ending, a call coming up. Add a delay if it should wait.
3. Pick "the event is coming up" to work backwards from the event date instead. That one takes several moments at once, so "6 months", "3 months" and "2 weeks" is one routine, not three. A moment that has already passed for an event is skipped rather than sent late, and if the date moves the rest re-schedule themselves.
4. "A call is coming up" and "a call has finished" take several moments the same way, on a scale that suits a call: an hour before and the day before is one routine. If the call is moved, a moment that no longer lines up is held back rather than sent at the wrong time.
5. With more than one moment chosen, each step under Then gets a "Runs at" row. Every moment is lit by default, which means the step runs at all of them; tap one off to have that step run only where you want it. That is how one routine sends the questionnaire at six months and the final headcount at two weeks.
6. Under If, add a condition to narrow it, such as at least a certain number of guests, or how close the event is. The page tells you how many times it would have run over the last 30 days, so you can see what a threshold actually costs you.
7. Under Then, add the steps. If you add "Add my task list to the event", pick which playbook from the list beside it, or that step will do nothing. Steps your plan does not cover are still shown, and the rest of the routine still runs without them.
8. On a personal routine (not a business one) the steps are different, because the moments are: you get "Add my checklist" and "Send me a reminder". Write the checklist straight into the step, one line each, and set when each one is due relative to the date. There is no playbook to make first, and personal routines are free with no limit on how many run.
9. Read the dark panel on the right. It says in one sentence what the routine will do.
10. Use "Try it on a real one" to see what would have happened on your most recent record. Nothing is sent.
11. Switch it on with the toggle at the top. Your plan sets how many can run at once.

Say what should happen and when, and Bazaar Agent drafts the routine.

1. On Routines, click "Describe a routine", or ask Bazaar Agent in any chat, e.g. "Create a routine that thanks the client two days after the event".
2. It answers with the routine as a card: when it runs and each step. Nothing is saved until you click Apply.
3. Apply saves it switched off and opens it in the builder, so you can read it and turn it on.
4. Changed your mind? Undo on the card removes it, as long as you have not edited it since.

See what a routine would have done, without sending anything.

1. Open the routine and click "Try it on a real one".
2. It runs against your most recent matching record and shows what would have happened, step by step.
3. For a message, it shows the real wording with the names filled in, so you can catch a "Hi there," where you expected a name.
4. Nothing is sent. This is a rehearsal, and you can run it as often as you like.
5. If a step says it would be held back, the reason is the same one the routine would record in its log.

Remove a routine for good. What it already did stays in the log.

1. Open Routines and find the one you want gone.
2. Use the "..." menu on that routine and choose Delete, then confirm.
3. It stops running straight away and cannot be brought back. If you only want a pause, use the switch instead, which keeps everything you wrote.
4. What it already did stays in the log, so a message it sent last month is still accounted for.
5. Deleting a routine you copied from one of ours does not remove ours; you can copy it again from the empty state.

Start or stop a routine. Switching one off never deletes it.

1. Open Routines and use the switch on the routine you want to change.
2. Switching one off stops it acting. Everything you wrote is kept, so switching it back on picks up where it left off.
3. For a business, your plan sets how many can run at once. If you are at the limit, switch one off to free a slot, or use "See plans" on the message that appears to run as many as you like.
4. Your own personal routines are free, with no limit on how many run.
5. On the app, the Routines screen under More lists what is running and lets you switch one off there too.

Build a reusable task list, which a routine can put on an event for you.

1. Open Playbooks from the sidebar, just under Routines. A playbook is the task list a routine adds to an event.
2. Click "Add playbook" for a blank one, or open a playbook already there to edit it. With none yet, "Or start from one of ours" copies one of Bazaar's in, ready to edit. You can also capture one from real work (below).
3. Rename it, then add the schedule items you want to reuse.
4. Under Checklists, click "New list" for each stage of planning you want every event to start with, name it, and add its tasks. Use the arrows on a list to put them in the order you work.
5. Under each list, choose who can see it ("Everyone on the event", "My team" or "Only me") and who it is assigned to (the host, or a vendor role). It arrives on every event that way.
6. To capture one from real work instead, open an event’s Run of show, pick More, then "Save as Template" and tick "Include checklists". Your named lists come across as they are, with their reminders, repeats and due dates.
7. Then add an "Add my task list to the event" step to a routine and pick this playbook, and it goes on every matching event without you.

Find anything from anywhere: a page, one of your events, a vendor, or a product update, plus step-by-step answers for the screen you are on and a place to ask in your own words.

1. Click Find at the top of the sidebar, or press F from anywhere (Cmd K or Ctrl K also works). With the sidebar collapsed it is the magnifying glass at the top of the rail.
2. Inside an event, Find leads with that event's sections, only the ones you can open. Elsewhere it shows help for the page you are on and your recent searches.
3. Type to search. Results are grouped by kind (this event, pages, events, celebrations, vendors, actions, updates) and each row is tagged, so you can tell a page from an event with the same name.
4. Use the chips under the field (All, Pages, Events, Vendors) to narrow a long list. Arrow keys move, Enter opens, Cmd Enter opens in a new tab, Esc closes.
5. Nothing matching? Choose "Ask Bazaar" to put the question in your own words.
6. The Help Center, "Show me around" and "Send feedback" are at the bottom of Find before you type.

New features, as cards you can swipe away once read. Past updates keeps everything you have read, and Find searches it.

1. Click the gift button in the header. The number on it is how many updates you have not read.
2. Only new updates are shown. Use the link on a card to try the feature.
3. Drag a card sideways, click its X, or press Delete on it once you have read it. Undo appears for a few seconds before it is put away.
4. Everything you have read is under Past updates at the bottom of the popover. You can also type its name into Find.

Email the Bazaar team when you need a person rather than a step-by-step. Usually answered within one business day.

1. Open bazaar.events/support, or click Support in the footer of any public page.
2. The page leads with the help center, which answers most questions without waiting for a reply.
3. If you still need a person, click the support@bazaar.events button to start an email.
4. Say what you were doing and what happened. Screenshots help.
5. The same page links the privacy policy, the terms, and account deletion if that is what you were after.

Open the notification panel to read and clear alerts.

1. Click the bell icon at the top right of the header. A red count on it shows how many are unread.
2. Use "Unread" for what is new and "All" for everything.
3. Click a notification to open what it is about. It is marked read, and if it belongs to another of your businesses, Bazaar switches to that business first and tells you which one.
4. Click "Mark read" on a row to clear it without opening it, or "Mark all as read" at the top to clear them all.
5. On "All", click "Show older" to load earlier notifications.
6. The gear icon beside them takes you to your notification settings.

When a vendor holds their own copy of your event, Bazaar asks you, then them, whether it is the same one. Two yeses bring the booking onto your event, so you plan in one place. Neither side sees anything private before both agree.

1. Bazaar Agent asks from the bell. If you are the client, it reads "Is this your event?": a vendor has a booking on a date, and Bazaar asks whether it is one of your events. You see only the vendor's name and the booking date.
2. Click "Link" if it is yours. That shares only your first name with the vendor, who confirms before anything moves. Click "Not mine" if it is not: that is final, Bazaar never asks about the pair again, and the vendor is never told.
3. If you are the vendor, you are asked only after the client says Link. "Your client linked a booking" names their first name and your own booking.
4. Click "Confirm" to move your booking, with everything on it, onto your client's event. Your client owns that event, so you will no longer own your copy: you stay on theirs as their vendor. Click "Decline" if it is not the same job: that is final and the client is never told.
5. After Confirm, both of you get an email saying the booking moved, and old links to your copy open the client's event.

Switch between your personal account and a vendor business you manage.

1. Click the dark workspace button at the top left of the header, next to the home icon. It shows "Personal" or the business you are working as.
2. Pick your name under "Personal" to work as yourself, or a business under "Your businesses" or "Teams you're on".
3. Bazaar takes you to that workspace's home page, and the sidebar changes to match.
4. Your events stay the same in every workspace: Home lists every event you are on. One from another workspace carries a tag saying how you are on it, such as "Staff" or the business name.
5. To start another business, choose "Add a business" at the bottom of the list. It reads "Become a Vendor" if you do not own one yet.
6. If you are not part of any business, the button itself reads "Become a Vendor" and there is nothing to switch.