Backstage: run your page

Backstage is where you run the pages you've claimed. Reach it from the account menu (your avatar, top right), or from Settings under Managing.

A strip up top shows your pages, your audience, and your upcoming shows at a glance, with anything unanswered called out.

A venue's sections

• Schedule: your weekly nights and your one-off listings, added and edited here. This is the part that reaches Explore. Use Call off a night to skip one date of a weekly night without touching the rest; it tells anyone who marked Interested in that night or made a plan around it. Editing a weekly night also lets you add who runs it (the trivia host, the open mic's emcee): they're asked to confirm, and once they do the night shows on their page too.
• Part of a Marquee: when a metro-scale happening is on (a gem show, a festival week, a bowl game), a listing's form offers this field so you can say your night is part of it. Explore's card for the Marquee then counts it among the nights around it, which is how an afterparty gets found by people who came for the main event. The field hides itself the rest of the year.
• Photos: the page's gallery.
• Details: your hours (so the page can say whether you're open right now), phone, menu link, reservation link, and what you've got (pool, darts, a patio, and the rest).
• Profile: name, location, description, website, the profile photo and banner.
• Insights: how the page and its listings are doing, plus the thanks guests leave after a night. You get counts (how many said going or maybe on each show, how many people the page has reached), never who: a guest list belongs to its guests, so it isn't something a venue is shown or sold.
• Plans here (under Insights): how many people made plans of their own around your venue on each of the next two weeks' nights, like a trivia team that comes every Tuesday. Counts only: never who, never the plan's name, and never a night with fewer than 3 people. A host can keep their event out of it.
• Team: who else runs the page, and the way out if you're stepping back.

A performer's Backstage is the same idea. The first tab is named for whatever your act does (Shows, Nights, Dates), and there's a Booking tab for whether you're taking inquiries and on what terms. Its Insights carry Plans here too, counted around the weekly nights you run or play. Host a night a venue already runs? Pick Weekly and the venue, and the nights it already runs show up so you can join yours instead of proposing a second copy.

Plans people make at your venue

Plans people make at your venue show under Plans here on your page. If one doesn't belong there, tap the eye button on its row to hide it from your page and from Explore. It stays the host's plan and nobody is told; only your team sees it after that, and the same button puts it back.

Get your page ready

A page that isn't live yet carries a short checklist instead of a wall of empty forms: add a photo, set your hours, put a few pictures up, get something on the schedule. When it looks right, Request to go live and I'll review it. The checklist disappears once you're listed.

Messages and bookings

• Every page has its own inbox, and you reply as the page, not from your personal account. On a wide screen it reads as two panes, threads on the left and the conversation on the right.
• A venue answers Bookings to confirm (acts asking onto a bill). A performer answers Invites to answer (venues putting them on one). Gig inquiries from the public land in the page inbox alongside your messages.
• Post to the page's wall, where anyone who can see the page can react or reply.

Your team

Invite co-managers by email so the whole team can run the page. Co-managers aren't shown publicly. Somebody without an account can open the invite link too: it shows which page they were invited to, with Create account and Sign in, and brings them back to accept it. Everyone who runs a page can see who else does and step back on their own; only the owner adds and removes people.