If you run a networking group, a chamber, a venue or a business park, your website probably has an events page that somebody has to remember to update. Usually it falls behind: last month's breakfast is still there, and next week's isn't.

Business Event Stack takes that job away. You put your information into Studio once, and it shows everywhere you want it: on the region's site, on your own website, on partners' websites and in people's calendars. Change a time or cancel a date in Studio and every one of those places follows within a few minutes. Nobody copies anything across by hand.

What you can show on your site

In Studio this is called a feed. You can make one for:

  • Your events, as a list or with a map beside the list.
  • A venues directory or an organisers directory, with each venue's arrival details: parking, the nearest station, step-free access and the right door.
  • Room hire, so people can see when your rooms are free and send an enquiry.
  • A search box, for your header or homepage, that searches events, venues and organisers as people type.

You choose what it covers (your own events, a set of venues, a few towns, certain kinds of event) and which tools visitors get, such as search, filters and a Near me button.

Make it look like your site

You pick the colours, fonts, corners, date style and wording, and see the result change as you go. Studio warns you if two colours would be hard to read. You can also choose how an event or venue page looks when someone opens it: a big Showcase page, a Standard one or a Compact one.

If you already have your own page for each venue or event, the feed can link to those instead, so visitors stay on your site.

Works with the website you already have

Once your feed is ready, Studio gives you a short piece to copy and a step-by-step guide for your kind of website. You paste it where the listings should appear, the same way you would add a video or a map. It works with:

  • WordPress, including WordPress.com, with a plugin you can download from the app. The plugin can also write your listings into the page itself, so search engines read them as part of your site.
  • Squarespace, Wix and Webflow, using each one's own "embed" or "custom code" block.
  • Any other website, whoever built it. If your web designer looks after it, send them the piece Studio gives you; it takes them a few minutes.

The feed sizes itself to fit, so it sits in your page like any other part of it, and you can put more than one on the same page. You can also lock a feed to your own website, so nobody else can show it on theirs.

In people's calendars too

Guests can add any event to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook with a click, and their booking confirmation carries the calendar entry. Regions can also offer a calendar people subscribe to, so new events appear in their own diary without them visiting any website at all.

Building a whole website from it

A region, or a larger organisation, can go further and build its whole public website from what is in Studio, with its own design. That is how hampshire.events works, and it is how the events, venues and organisers pages on this site are made.

Who can make feeds

Each region decides who can make feeds and whether they carry a fee. If your region hasn't switched them on for you, ask its team. If you, or the agency that builds your website, would like a hand, get in touch. There is more on the integrations page.