Events are among the best ways to keep a digital platform (or community) engaged and active. This is why Whop offers all of its creators the ability to create events with the Events app.
As you might gather from its name, the Events app is a great way to organize digital or real-life events and let members of your whop sign up for them. The Events app is a powerful addition to your whop with additional features like repeat intervals or calendar sync.
In this guide, we’re going to remember what Whop apps are, how you can add the Events app to your whop, and how you can use it.
What are Whop Apps?
To understand what Whop apps are, let’s remember what a whop is. You can think of a whop as a modular platform. When you first create one, it’s a fresh slate. It has nothing in it. If a user joins the whop, they won’t have anything to interact with. And what do we expect users to interact with? Apps.
So, we add apps to our whop. Since we’re thinking about a whop as a modular platform, let’s think of the apps as modules. You can freely add apps, remove them, and adjust their settings. You even have the option to add as many instances as you want of the same app. Let’s say you’re running a platform for soccer fans. They would probably want a place to talk with each other, so you add the Chat app to your whop. What if they have specific questions they want answering? Then add the Forums app. What about sports bets? You can do that with the Sports Picks app.
Apps can help your whop become your dream platform since they define what your platform is and what people can do on it. There’s one app we haven’t mentioned yet: the Events app. Let’s take a look at what it is.
What is the Events App on Whop?
The Events app on Whop, as its name suggests, is an app that allows you to organize events with your members. After you create an event, your members will have the option to register for the event. Creating events in this app is really easy, and you even have the option to paywall them.
The Events app is a great way to keep your whop engaged and active. There isn’t a limit to what kind of events you can hold in your whop (as long as it complies with Whop Terms of Service).
How to Add the Events App to Your whop
Before walking you through the process of adding the Events app to your whop, we want to make sure you already have a whop to begin with. To add an app to it, you should have a whop first. If you don’t have a whop, check out our How to Create Your Own whop guide to get started.
If you do have a whop, we can move on to adding apps to it. Let’s click on the Add apps button under the Admin Area of your whop. This will direct you to the list of all available apps you can add to your whop.
Once you’re on the list, you can see that there are a lot of apps. If you can’t find the Events app, you can use the “Search apps…” search bar at the top left of the app list or just scroll down until you find it. Once you do, all you have to do is to click on its Add app button.
Once you click the Add app button, you’ll be directed to the app’s Set up section. Speaking of the Set up section, let’s move on to examining how you can use the Events app and its sections.
Using the Events App
Now, while you’re viewing the app, you can see three sections: Set up, Preview as user, and Access if you take a look at the top of your screen. Almost all apps on Whop have three sections, and each one serves a different purpose. Let’s start with examining the Set up section.
1. Set up
The Set up section is where you’ll spend most of your time in the Events app. As its name suggests, the Set up section allows you to set events up in the app. When you first visit the Set up section, you’ll see that the schedule is empty, and your whop will prompt you to create a new event.
But before creating some events, let’s first take a look at the Settings of the app, which you can see by clicking on the Settings button at the top right of your screen. Once you click on it, you’ll see two settings for the app. The first one is the Connected Accounts, which lets you connect your Google account to the app. As you expect, connecting your Google account will allow you to sync the events with your Google Calendar.
The second setting you can see in the Edit settings window is the Description. The text you’ll put here will be displayed under the Events header of the app. The description should be a 1 to 2 sentences long, descriptive but to the point summary of the app. While it can help the members understand what’s going on in the app, it’s optional for you to fill out.
To add your first event to the app, let’s click on the New event button on your screen. After you create one, the “No events yet” message will be replaced by a list of your events. In that case, you can also use the New event button at the top right as well.
Once you click the New event button, you’ll be met with the Create New Event popup. There, you can find all the settings to create an event. Let’s break them down:
- Event title: This is where you decide on the title of the event. You can change this whenever you want.
- Start and End Dates & Repeats: This is where you set the start and end dates of the event. You can also choose if you want the event to repeat in set or custom intervals. Note that all dates and times you select are in your local time zone.
- Pricing: We mentioned that you can paywall the events and you can do that here. When you click on the plus icon in this section, you can set a price for the event.
- Location and event place: In this section, you can select whether you’re going to host your event in your whop, on Zoom, Google Meet, on a real-life address, or a link. In order to select Google Meet, however, you have to connect your Google account.
- Description: This is where you can explain what the event is about and what people should expect. You can make the description as long as you want.
- Host: This is where you can select who’s going to host the event. The default option is You, while you can change it to “Someone else,” which will enable another input box for the Host name.
- Add Image: This is where you can upload an image for the event. The recommended aspect ratio of this image is 1:1, while the maximum file size is 10 MB.
After you’re done filling out the details of your event, you can click on the Create Event button at the bottom of your screen to finalize the process.
After you create an event, you can see it listed in the Set up section of the app. You can change the display method of this list by using the list and calendar icon button on the top right of the Your schedule section.
You can also click on the event to see its details. Once you’re previewing the event, you’ll notice the Copy link and context menu buttons at the top right of it. You can copy the link to the event with the Copy link button and access the context menu of the event using the three-dot icon.
The context menu of the event has two options: Edit event, which allows you to change the settings of the event, like its name, date, paywall status, and more, and the Delete event, which allows you to delete the event.
2. Preview as user
The Preview as user section has a pretty self-explanatory name. In this section, you can preview the app from the perspective of a regular user. As you might’ve noticed, you can’t see the Settings or the New event buttons here. Instead, you can see the Register for all events, which allows regular users to sign up for all available events.
3. Access
Almost all apps on Whop have two access types: Free and Paid/Private. If you select the Free option on the Access section of the app, everyone on the internet who has the link to your whop will be able to use the Events app. You can also copy a link to it using the chain icon at the top right of the Free option.
If you’re looking to create a public platform, you should select the Free option so that everyone can access the app. However, this doesn’t mean selecting the Free option is the only way to make the app free to access.
Notice how the second option, Paid/Private isn’t just saying “paid” - you can make it “private” but free as well. When you select the Paid/Private option, you’ll see that all products of your whop will be listed under it with toggle options next to them. Since products of your whop can be free, paid, or private, you can control how people access your app, no matter if your product is paid, free, or anything else.
When you click the toggle button of a product, you’ll be linking it with the app. This means that only people who obtain that product will be able to use the app. If you want to create a semi-public, paywalled, or completely private platform, you should utilize this option.
If you don’t have any products, you can create them using the Create Product buttons under the Paid/Private option. Additionally, we recommend you to check out our How to Create a Whop Product guide to learn everything about creating products.
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