Library program calendar Story time is not one Tuesday. It is 38 of them.

Yes. Publishing your program calendar, setting programs up as recurring, organising them into sub-schedules, taking free registrations with a place limit, embedding the calendar on your library site, syncing two ways with Google, Outlook or CalDAV, and the built-in analytics are all free forever. Newsletters are free too, with 10 emails a month counted per recipient; Pro raises that to 100 and Enterprise to 1,000. Free registration has no ceiling on any plan. Charging for a program is the Pro plan at $5 a month, which also adds the live check-in count at the door. Event Schedule charges zero platform fees on ticket sales, on every plan.

Yes. Sub-schedules organise one calendar into strands, so children's story times, teen clubs, adult talks and community meetings each sit on their own strand with their own colour, and a patron can filter the calendar down to just the strand they came for. To be exact about what a sub-schedule is: it organises and colour-codes, and it cannot hide anything. A program you are not ready to publish is a Draft instead.

Four ways, and none of them is an algorithm. Patrons follow your schedule and you email them a newsletter when you have something to say. Your calendar embeds on the library website you already have. Every schedule has a downloadable QR code you can print on a bookmark, a poster or a shelf label. And each date has an iCal download so it lands in the patron's own calendar, or a patron can subscribe to the whole calendar as a live feed that follows when a date moves or comes out. Being exact about the two kinds of email: programs you publish reach the list on their own, as one digest covering the batch, while a newsletter with anything else in it is written and sent by you. A community group's accepted request stays the group's own event, so it is not in your digest.

Yes, on the free plan. Turn on registration and set a place limit, and the limit is counted separately for every date, so this Tuesday filling up does not close next Tuesday. Patrons get a confirmation email with their own link. For a paid program, take payment through Stripe or PayPal, a payment link or cash at the desk, with zero platform fees past the provider's own processing. Named ticket types that carry a price are the Pro plan at $5 a month.

The Register button on that date becomes Join Waitlist, on the free plan. When a registration is cancelled and a place comes back, whoever joined the waitlist first is emailed. Each date keeps its own list, so a full Tuesday has a waitlist while next Tuesday is still open. The waitlist for a sold-out paid ticket is the Pro version of the same thing.

Yes, on every plan. Switch on the "Notify me" card, publish the author evening before tickets are on sale, and its page offers "Tell me when tickets go on sale". A patron leaves just an email address and gets one email when tickets go on sale, one if you cancel, and a reminder shortly before it starts, plus a change notice if you choose to send one when you move it. It is not a subscription to your schedule, it does not count against the newsletter allowance, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe. The on-sale email is about tickets: opening free registration on a program does not send one.

You add a date exception and that date comes out of the run, so patrons simply do not see a session that day. Exceptions work the other way too: add a single extra date for a half-term session without setting up a second program. A recurrence can also be told to stop, either on a date or after a set number of sessions, so a school-year program is not still listed in August.

Yes. Turn on event requests and your schedule gets a public form. A submission arrives as a pending request rather than a published event, you approve or decline it, and you can keep a list of schedules whose submissions are approved without review. Requests are free, and so is the approval queue.

Not on the free plan, which is one team member. Multiple team members, up to five, are an Enterprise feature at $15 a month, along with custom domains. Plenty of branches run the whole calendar from one shared account, so it is worth knowing which you need before you pay for it. On Enterprise, a viewer login is read-only and sees no sales, but can scan tickets at the door. And before whoever set the schedule up moves on, they can hand it to a colleague, on any plan.