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

Hook up Stripe Connect in a few minutes and ticket revenue lands directly in your bank account — BuzzHive never holds your funds. Throwing a free show? You can skip this entirely.

Standard Stripe Connect onboarding, about 3–5 minutes
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)
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. Start from one of 25+ vibes, or open the Vibe Studio and build your own — no design skills, and it can’t break on a phone.

Choose a vibe that matches your scene, or build a custom one in the Vibe Studio
Match colors from your flyer, draft a look with AI, upload a logo/images/video — then save it to reuse on every event
Paste a Spotify or SoundCloud link — it auto-embeds so fans hear the lineup before they buy
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
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 promo engine for the weeks leading up to a show. Pick an event and it writes you four ready-to-post caption options plus a custom promo image — fresh every week, with your ticket link already baked in.

Four AI caption options + a custom image per event, every week
Your ticket link is built into every post
Prefer your own words? Write your own post & upload your own image anytime — no weekly limit
Open the Run Up →
9
Autopilot

Connect your socials to the Run Up

Want BuzzHive to actually post for you? Connect your accounts once and the Run Up auto-posts to your Facebook Page and Instagram. You stay in full control — it runs through your own Meta app, completely separate from BuzzHive.

One-time setup using your own Meta app credentials
Fully separate from BuzzHive — your accounts, your app
Set it once and every future event auto-posts on schedule
Connect your accounts →
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. We are the underground, and we are expanding.

Create your free account →