Set up your first venue

Summary: Create the venue where your first event takes place so you can attach it to an event.

A venue is a location where events take place. Every event is tied to a venue, so creating one is the first thing to do before you can schedule an event.

Before you begin

• Live Events must be installed and open in your Shopify admin. See Install & connect Live Events.
• Have the venue's address handy. For a venue, the country and state/province are required.
• This article covers creating the venue in Live Events. Pairing POS hardware (card readers, receipt printers, the POS app itself) is a standard Shopify setup — see Shopify Help.

Steps

1. In the Live Events admin, open Locations from the navigation (or the Pages grid on the Dashboard).
2. Select New in the top right to open the location form.
3. Enter the venue Name.
4. Leave the Inventory location option unchecked. When it's unchecked, the location is a venue. (Checking it would make the location an inventory site instead.)
5. Fill in the Address — including Country and State/Province, which are required for venues — along with city and zip code as needed.
6. Optionally add Contacts (name, phone, email) for the venue.
7. Select Save. Your venue now appears on the Locations page and can be selected when you create an event.