Create an Event
You must be logged in and have a club selected (or be a club manager/owner) to create an event. If you don't yet have a club, create one first: Create a Club.
Every Create Event button in the app opens the same page, targetscore.com/event/create. It starts with a short form: a name, a date and a description are enough to put an event on your club calendar. If the event needs registrations, payments, matches or scores, click Set up a full event and the full form opens with everything you have typed carried over.
Simple events and full events
Target Score has two kinds of event:
- A simple event is a calendar entry: name, dates, description and, optionally, a location, an entry fee, a contact email and a discipline. It gets its own public page and link, but has no registration form, matches, scores, waitlist or online payment. The entry fee is shown for information only, for example "$10 at the door". A simple event is published as soon as you click Create Event; tick Hide Event from Public to keep it off the public listings.
- A full event adds registrations, online payment, matches, scoring, squadding, results and everything else under Manage Event.
You can start simple and upgrade later: open the event under Manage Event > Edit Event, click Set up a full event, and it is upgraded in place with nothing to re-enter. The short form is described on the Club Calendar page. The rest of this page covers the full form. Click Keep it a quick event at the top of the full form to go back.
The full event form
Club, discipline and name
- If you manage more than one club, select the club in the top bar first. The event is created for the selected club.
- Discipline (shown only when your club has disciplines set up) tags the event with one of your club's disciplines.
- Event Name is required.
Event Slug (the event's web address)
Every event has a readable address, https://targetscore.com/<slug>, shown under Event Slug. It is built from the event name as you type, using lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens only, so "Spring Open 2026" becomes spring-open-2026. Click the pencil (Edit web address) to choose your own. While you type, the form checks the address and shows Checking, Available or Not Available; if it is taken, click Use next to the suggested alternative. Once you have edited the slug yourself, changing the name no longer changes it. The slug can be changed later from Edit Event, but that changes the event's link, so share the address only once you are happy with it. A simple event gets its address from its name automatically.
Dates and location
- Event Date: pick the day. For a multi-day event click + Add End Date; Single Day Event removes the end date again.
- Location (optional): the range or venue name, shown on the event page.
Overview, welcome email and entry dates
- Overview (optional): formatted text shown on the event page.
- Welcome Email Body (optional): sent to participants when they register.
- Entry Dates: the From and to date and time between which participants can register. When you set the event dates, the closing time is filled in for you as 11:59 PM on the event's last day; change it if entries should close earlier. Entries must open on or before the start date and close no later than the end of the last day. Times are checked against your club's time zone; if the club has none yet, the form says so and links to Update Club Info.
Contact email and pricing
- Contact Email is required. It defaults to your club's email and appears on the event page for participants with questions.
- Entry Pricing: a new event is free until you click Add Pricing. Each price tier has a label, an amount, an optional description, applicable taxes and an optional availability window (for early-bird pricing); one tier is the default offered first at registration. Add up to 10 tiers with Add Price Tier, or click Make this event free. See Pricing Tiers for details.
Entry Request Notification Email(s)
- Choose who is emailed when someone registers:
- Send notification to contact email.
- Send notification to all club managers.
- Other Email Address: a comma-separated list of up to 10 addresses.
- Don't send entry notifications.
Event Settings
What used to be hidden under "More Options" is now an always-visible Event Settings box. Everything in it is enabled by default; untick anything you want to exclude from this event.
- Select Features: Registrations, Matches and Stats. Untick Registrations to use the event page for information only, Matches if you do not run matches on Target Score, and Stats if you do not publish scores.
- Limit Entries at: the number of entries after which registration closes automatically. Tick Allow Waitlist to let latecomers join a waitlist. Clubs connected to Team Up Mate also see Notify on Guest Entries.
- Divisions: your club's own divisions from Manage Club > Club Divisions. If none exist yet, click Configure Divisions.
- Categories: your club's participant categories, for example Junior or Veteran. Click Configure Categories if the list is empty.
- Payment Gateways: shown once your club has at least one payment gateway. Untick any you do not want to offer for this event.
Age, gender and classification are no longer switches on this form. They are System Fields that you add to the event's entry form, alongside any questions of your own.
If your club has digital waivers set up, a Waivers section also appears here; waivers are attached once the event has been saved.
Final options
- Allow Target Score to collect donations on registration. Shown when a Stripe gateway is selected; adds an optional donation to the registration page.
- Hide my event & results from public listings. Makes the event Private: it stays off the public listings, but anyone with the link can open it. Find the link under Manage Club > Club Events. See Private Events for everything this setting does.
- By checking this, I agree to the terms and conditions and privacy policy. Required to publish, not to save a draft.
Save Draft or Create
The form ends with two buttons:
- Create publishes the event (or makes it Private if you ticked the hide option) and takes you to Matches, or to the participants list if Matches is off.
- Save Draft stores the event without publishing it. You do not have to agree to the terms yet, and you can come back to it whenever you like.
An event is therefore always in one of three states:
| State | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Draft | Only your club's owners and managers, from Club Events and Manage Event. Anyone else who opens the link sees "not found". |
| Private | Hidden from the public lists, but anyone with the link can open it and register. See Private Events. |
| Published | Listed publicly and reachable by link. |
Come back to a draft under Manage Event > Edit Event. The same two buttons, Save and Save Draft, publish it or keep it as a draft.
If you click Configure Divisions, Configure Categories or Set up waivers while the form has unsaved changes, Target Score offers to Save Draft first so nothing is lost.
If the event has a price but your club has no payment gateway, publishing asks you to confirm No payment gateway configured: participants will register without paying on Target Score and you collect payment yourself. Click Continue to publish anyway, or Cancel and add a gateway first.
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Got a question? Reach out to us at support@targetscore.com.