How to use our site

First of all, the website does work. :) If you don't see any event in your local zip code, that because there is no event listed yet. With your help, we can make it happen. If you want try search some San Francisco bay area zip code, like 95132, you will find some events listed.

1. How to submit/Update an event:

A. First register on the site, it is very easy, just click "submit/update event" tab.

B. Then click "register", fill out your contact information, after you click submit button, you will go to the next page, and tells you have registered, and you can pay the $20 online with credit card by click the pay pal button (it is safer than you use your card on restaurant, and we don't have your credit card number, Pay Pal will charge it for us), or you can mail a check to Mark Luo/openevents.com at P.O.box 360023, Milpitas, CA 95036

C. Then you can click the "submit/update event" tab again, this time you will login with the email address you registered, and input password, you will be login,

You will click the first link says submit an event, the next page will be the information input page, fill out the form, and click submit, your event is live in the database, you can search it right away use the zip code of your events

2. How to collect payments/sell tickets for an event online:

A: First you have to have a PayPal account/email to collect the credit card payment from your customers. You can input this account (it is the email address you register with PayPal) to your profile/contact information. All your fee/tickets sale proceeds will go to this PayPal account, and you can transfer the money from your PayPal account to your own bank account later. Openevents.com will not touch the payment and transactions, and all your customers' credit card information are directly go to PayPal without even pass through Openevents.com's website.

B.Find the exact event by searching the event using the event zip code and category.

C. After you found the event, then click the event title, it will open another window for event details, you can copy the event url for this page from your browser's "address"(IE)/"Location"(netscape), which start with an http://

(example: http://www.openevents.com/scripts/eventdetail.asp?eventID=289)

D. Then you can send this link/url to all you customers, they can click this link, and pay the event online by click the "Book It" button on the bottom of this page. (or you can give the eventID "289" to your customers, they can go to the same page by search this event with eventID "289".) That is all, simple and easy.

3. How to send event alert to your email/cell phone.

A. When you found an event and like to receive an reminder email for this event, you can click the event title go to event detail page.

B. On the top of the event detail, there is a button says "Set Reminder for This Event", click it, it will bring you to next page.

C. On "Set Reminder for Event" page, there are two blank input field, you can put your email or mobile device email address in the blank, and pick time(s) to set email, click the "Set Alert Email", then you all set. The system will automatically send an email on the time you set to your email account with the brief event information, like time, address, title, etc.

If you are a registered user, you can login before setup your alert, then the website will input your email address automatically for you. You can also check the alerts you have set on your login page.