Overview

The Event Builder dashboard is the central place for managing your events, bookings, attendees, organizers, and plugin settings. From here you can quickly access every major feature of the plugin.

Dashboard Features

The dashboard provides quick access to:

• Events
• Categories
• Tags
• Labels
• Organizers
• Speakers
• Locations
• Templates
• Event Schedules
• Attendees
• Coupons
• Calendar Settings
• Shortcodes
• User Approvals

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Recommended Before Publishing

• Assign a category
• Add tags
• Select a location
• Choose an organizer
• Enable booking
• Configure ticket settings

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Events

Events Manager

The Events section contains every event created on your website.

Navigate to

Zozo Events → Zozo Events

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Available Actions

• Add New Event
• Edit Events
• Delete Events
• Duplicate Events
• Publish or Draft Events
• Search Events
• Filter by Category
• Filter by Status

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Event Information

Each event includes:

• Event Title
• Event Date
• Event Time
• Organizer
• Location
• Booking Status
• Ticket Availability
• Event Status

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Categories

Event Categories

Categories help organize your events into logical groups.

Examples include:

• Conference
• Workshop
• Webinar
• Festival
• Concert
• Training
• Sports

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Why Use Categories?

Categories help visitors:

• Browse similar events
• Filter event listings
• Improve website organization

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Tags

Event Tags

Tags provide additional keywords for your events.

Example tags:

• Online
• Free
• Paid
• Networking
• Live
• Virtual
• Family

Unlike categories, tags are optional and more specific.

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Labels

Event Labels

Labels are visual badges displayed on events.

Common labels include:

• Featured
• New
• Trending
• Popular
• Sold Out
• Free
• Limited Seats

Labels help important events stand out.

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Organizers

Event Organizers

Organizers represent the people or companies hosting events.

Each organizer can include:

• Name
• Profile Image
• Email
• Phone
• Website
• Social Links
• Biography

One organizer can be assigned to multiple events.

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Speakers

Speakers

Manage all event speakers from one location.

Each speaker profile can include:

• Name
• Designation
• Biography
• Profile Image
• Company
• Social Media

Speakers can be assigned to multiple events.

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Locations

Event Locations

Locations define where events take place.

Each location supports:

• Location Name
• Address
• City
• State
• Country
• ZIP Code
• Google Maps
• Contact Information

Locations can be reused across multiple events.

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Templates

Event Templates

Templates allow you to reuse predefined event layouts.

Benefits include:

• Faster event creation
• Consistent layouts
• Standardized information
• Easy customization

Templates save time when creating recurring events.

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Schedules

Event Schedules

Schedules allow you to manage multi-session events.

You can create:

• Multiple Days
• Multiple Sessions
• Time Slots
• Break Sessions
• Speaker Sessions

Perfect for conferences and workshops.

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Attendees

Attendee Management

Every booking creates attendee records automatically.

Each attendee includes:

• Name
• Email
• Phone
• Gender
• Age
• Ticket Number
• QR Code
• Booking Status
• Check-in Status

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Manage Attendees

Administrators can:

• View attendee details
• Search attendees
• Export attendee data
• Check in attendees
• Print tickets

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Coupons

Discount Coupons

Coupons allow you to offer promotional discounts.

You can configure:

• Coupon Code
• Percentage Discount
• Fixed Amount Discount
• Expiry Date
• Usage Limit
• Minimum Purchase

Coupons are applied during ticket booking.

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Event Calendar Settings

Overview

The Event Calendar Settings section allows you to configure the global behavior and appearance of your event calendars across your website. These settings serve as the default configuration for all calendar layouts, ensuring a consistent experience for your visitors.

Whether you’re displaying events in a full calendar, grid, list, timeline, countdown, or yearly view, this section provides centralized controls to help you customize how event information is presented.

What You Can Configure

The Event Calendar Settings include options for:

• Calendar display preferences
• Default event layout configuration
• Date and time presentation
• Event visibility settings
• User interaction options
• Display customization
• Performance-related settings
• Responsive behavior
• General calendar preferences

Why Use Event Calendar Settings?

Configuring these settings helps you:

• Maintain a consistent event display across your website
• Improve the visitor browsing experience
• Customize event presentation to match your website design
• Simplify event management using global defaults
• Reduce repetitive configuration for individual event layouts

Learn More

The Event Calendar Settings section is covered in detail later in this documentation, where every available option and configuration setting is explained with examples and screenshots.

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Shortcodes Settings

Overview

The Shortcodes Settings section provides centralized configuration options for the shortcodes included with Event Builder. These settings control the default behavior and appearance of shortcode-generated content, allowing you to maintain consistency throughout your website.

Instead of configuring every shortcode individually, you can define global defaults that apply automatically whenever a shortcode is used.

What You Can Configure

Shortcodes Settings allow you to configure:

• Global shortcode preferences
• Default display behavior
• Layout and presentation options
• Content visibility settings
• Filtering and sorting behavior
• Responsive display preferences
• General shortcode functionality

Benefits

Using global shortcode settings helps you:

• Keep event pages visually consistent
• Save time by reducing repetitive shortcode configurations
• Apply site-wide changes from a single location
• Improve the user experience with standardized layouts
• Simplify future maintenance and updates

Available Calendar Layouts

• Full Calendar
• Grid
• List
• Timeline
• Timetable
• Countdown
• Yearly Calendar

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Available Shortcodes

Built-in Shortcodes

Event Builder includes the following shortcodes:

Each shortcode can be added to any page, post, widget, or Elementor Shortcode widget.

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User Approval System

The User Approvals section allows administrators to review and approve frontend event submissions before they are published.