Add a guest to an event manually

Add guests directly from your event page to record walk-ins or manual signups. You can add one guest at a time or paste a list for bulk registration.

Open the Add Guest panel

1. From your Eventually dashboard, navigate to Events.

2. Select the event you want to add guests to.

3. Find the Guests section. This shows your current attendee count and any checked-in guests.

4. Click Add Guest to open the registration panel.

Adding one guest

In single-add mode, fill out the guest details, choose how many tickets to add, and decide whether to send the confirmation email.

1. Full Name — The guest's complete name.

2. Email Address — The email to associate with the ticket.

3. Ticket Type — Select which ticket type to assign. If your event has multiple ticket types, choose the appropriate one from the dropdown.

4. Tickets — Choose how many tickets to register, from 1 to 10. A quantity above one creates a separate ticket for each seat, so each can be checked in independently and can receive its own confirmation email.

5. Send confirmation email — Leave this checked (the default) to send the same branded ticket confirmation email a purchase sends. Uncheck it if you do not want this guest emailed yet — for example, for a quiet comp or an influencer you will invite later.

If your event has custom registration questions configured, the form shows only the questions for the ticket type you selected in Ticket Type. Complete all required fields before saving.

Click Register Attendee on the attendees panel, or Add guest on the event page Add Guest modal, to save the guest. Use Save & add more if you want to keep the form open for another guest.

When Send confirmation email is checked, each ticket receives the branded confirmation with QR code, calendar details, and event information. For a multi-ticket add, one confirmation email is sent per ticket, so every seat has its own QR code and can be checked in independently. Customize that message in Customize your event emails. If you skip the email now, you can still send it later with Resending a confirmation email.

Adding multiple guests at once

Use bulk paste mode to add several guests quickly. Pasted guests are added without confirmation emails, so a large import does not trigger a mass send.

1. In the Add Guest panel, switch to Paste list mode.

2. Guest list — Enter one guest per line using this format: Name, Email

3. Ticket Type — Select the ticket type to assign to all guests in your list.

4. Click Add N guest(s) to process the list.

Lines without an @ symbol are automatically skipped. If a line doesn't contain a valid email format, that entry won't be processed.

After processing, you'll see results inline:

• X added — The number of guests successfully added.

• Y failed — Any entries that couldn't be processed.

Individual error lines explain why specific entries failed.

Capacity warnings

If your event is at capacity, you'll see a warning:

This event is at capacity. Adding an attendee will exceed the limit.

Manual additions cannot be oversold: if the requested number of tickets exceeds the seats left, the add is refused and you see the shortfall rather than a partial registration. Adding a guest also refreshes Squarespace product stock for every ticket variant on that event, so paid sibling tiers reflect the new remaining room capacity. See How Squarespace sync works.

Walk-in and manual registrations

Newly added guests appear in your Guests section immediately. You can check them in from the Check-in tab by searching for their name or email and pressing Enter. For a focused door workflow that covers adding and checking in unregistered attendees, see Check in walk-in guests. From the guest list you can also:

• Export your attendee list as a CSV using Export

• Check in guests using QR codes — see Using QR code check-in

Related guides

• Resending a confirmation email — Send a ticket confirmation later if you skipped it on add

• Customize your event emails — Edit the confirmation email template guests receive

• The attendee detail view — Open a guest record for resend and other actions

• Check in walk-in guests — Door workflow for unregistered attendees

• Using QR code check-in — Confirmation emails include the QR code for entry

• Import events from a CSV file — Bulk import event data

What happens if an email is invalid

If you type a malformed or blank email address when adding a single guest, an error message appears directly under the Email Address field. The form keeps everything you typed, so you can fix the email and click Register Attendee again without re-entering the other details.

When you paste a list of guests, the server validates every email. Any line with a malformed or blank email now shows a specific inline error in the results rather than failing silently. Correct the line and re-submit the list if needed.