Guide

How to use Doors, end to end

A walk-through of the whole flow: sign-in, event creation, sharing your link, watching responses come in, and showing up with a real headcount. About three minutes end to end.

Step one

Sign in with your email

No password to remember. Enter your email at doors.events/signin and we'll send you a one-time sign-in link. Click it, and you're in.

~30 seconds · works on phone or laptop

doors.events/signin

We'll email you a one-time link.

jamie@example.com

Send me a link →

Step two

Create your event

From your dashboard, click Create event. It is one form in four parts, with a preview beside it that fills in as you type, so you can see the invitation your guests will get before anybody sees it.

The picture at the top

Every event gets a photograph, picked to match the kind of event you chose. If you would rather use your own, upload it and it replaces the stock one. Pick something wide, at least 1400 pixels across so it stays sharp: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 2 MB. You can always go back.

What the event is

The event type (this one is required, and it chooses that photograph for you), an event title, a custom share link (doors.events/e/your-event), event details with simple formatting, and an optional flyer or invitation to upload (image, PDF, or Word).

When it happens

Doors open and close times, and a timezone. This is also where you say whether it repeats: every day, every week, every other week, or every month, for up to 12 dates. All the dates share one link. Guests pick which ones they are coming to, and you get a separate list for each.

Where it is

Where it is, plus an optional street address. Add one and your guests get a Get directions button automatically.

Guest details

An optional RSVP deadline and a cap on total guests. A private, read-only guest list for the birthday kid or the retiree, who can also be emailed each time someone RSVPs. Whether you count one total per party or split adults and kids. And your own questions: short or long answer, number, email address, yes/no, multiple choice, or checkboxes, and you can mark any of them required.

~90 seconds · the type, the title and the dates are the only ones you fill in yourself

doors.events/events/new

New event

What type of event?

🎒 PTA / parent group

Event title

Spring Carnival

Event link

doors.events/e/ spring-carnival

Event details

Tip: *italics*, **bold**, and bullet lists work.

Event attachment · optional

Choose file No file chosen

Doors open

Fri May 24 · 5:00 PM

Doors close

Fri May 24 · 8:00 PM

Timezone

America/Chicago

Where is it?

Lincoln Elementary

Street address · optional

1200 Oak St, Biloxi, MS

+ Add a custom map link

RSVP deadline · opt

mm/dd/yyyy

Max guests · opt

Guest of honor · optional

Name

Email them each time someone RSVPs

Guest counting

Total count only

Split by adults and kids

Questions for your guests

How many in your party?Number

Any allergies or dietary needs?Long answer

+ Add question

Create event

Step three

If it repeats, one page runs every date

If your event happens once, skip to step four. Otherwise: Doors builds every date for you and gives you one page to run them all from. Open it from your dashboard with Manage.

Series Attendance

How many RSVPs across every date, how many guests that is in total, and how many different people. Somebody booked on four dates is four responses and one person, which is the number you want when you are ordering food for a room.

Series Actions

Five controls in one row, the same five the single event page carries: Add business branding, Go to the dates, Export CSV, then Cancel every upcoming date and Delete series after a divider. Go to the dates scrolls to the Dates list, where every date opens its own guest list. Export CSV gives you one file covering every date, with a date column at the front so you can tell the nights apart.

Series Sharing

One link and one QR code for the whole series, not one per date. The code opens the same link, which always shows the next date that has not happened yet, so a copy printed once and pinned to a noticeboard keeps working all year.

Each date, on its own terms

Edit any single date and each field says whether it is Same as the series or Changed for this date. A field you change stays changed: editing the series details later will not overwrite it. Reset to the series venue puts it back.

Ending it, or part of it

The last two controls in Series Actions, set apart by a divider. Cancel every upcoming date tells the guests who are booked, once. Delete series emails nobody and cannot be undone.

Up to 12 dates · one link and one code for all of them

doors.events/series/8KqM3pXt

Thursday Pizza Night

Series Attendance

18 RSVPs · 41 guests · 12 people

Add business branding View RSVPs Export CSV

Thu, Apr 10

6 RSVPs · 14 guests

Thu, Apr 17

5 RSVPs · 11 guests

Step four

Share it anywhere

Doors gives you one shareable link (doors.events/e/spring-carnival) and a QR code that points at it. Send the link by text, email, group chat or classroom app; print the code on a flyer or put it up on a screen. Every guest, every channel, lands on the same RSVP page.

No account needed for your guests

doors.events/events/8KqM3pXt

Share your event

📧 Email ▭ QR code ⎘ Copy link ⎘ Copy invite text

Step five

Watch RSVPs come in

Open your event and the numbers are there: how many people have RSVPd, how many are coming in total, and their answers to your questions. Refresh to see the latest. Export to CSV anytime for printing or sharing with the school office.

Live count when you open it · CSV export · message all your guests at once

doors.events/events/8KqM3pXt

RSVPs

112

Total guests

150

Capacity

Jamie Ortiz4 attending

Maria Chen3 attending

Pat Williams2 attending

Step six

Reminders go out automatically

Doors sends automatic email reminders to everyone who RSVP'd : about three days before your event, and again shortly before it starts. Less ghosting, fewer no-shows, zero manual work for you.

Sent at a sensible hour in the event's timezone · includes calendar attachment

Doors <support@doors.events>

Reminder: Spring Carnival is Friday

See you Friday, Jamie!

Spring Carnival is this Friday at 5pm at Lincoln Elementary. You're confirmed for 4.

Open event details

Step seven

Show up with the real headcount

Day of the event, your dashboard has the final numbers. Export the CSV for the door volunteer, share it with the caterer, or just glance at the top-line count. The system of record that started three minutes into setting up is now the system of record that runs the day.

Once an event has finished, its card moves from your dashboard to Past events and carries a Leave feedback link that asks how it went. It is a rating out of five, a few words, and an optional tick box if you are happy for us to quote you. Leave it unticked and it stays private. Nothing is published from it until a person reads it and decides, and saying no is an answer we take.

Data auto-purges one year after the event

doors.events/events/8KqM3pXt

112

attendees confirmed

Export CSV

Rather follow along on paper?

Download a clean, large-print version of all seven steps. Print it, keep it by the computer, and check off each one at your own pace.

Your turn

Ready to stop chasing RSVPs?

Three minutes from sign-in to a shareable link. Your first event is free, no card required. After that, $9.99 per event or $49.99/year.

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