Getting set up

Running wine events? Sommly gives you a public profile, ticket sales, and a set of tools for managing orders. The whole thing is free to use. You pay a small platform fee per ticket sold, and that is it.

This guide walks you through the first five minutes: creating your account, getting into the dashboard, and the small set of things to do before you list your first event.

Head to /register and pick Event Organiser. The next screen asks for your name, your email, the name of your business, and a password.

Hit Create Business Account, verify your email, and you land straight in the dashboard.

Left-hand sidebar:

• Dashboard. Stats and recent orders at a glance.
• Events. Create, edit, duplicate, and publish events.
• Venues. Manage the locations where your events happen.
• Box Office. Real-time sales view, one event at a time.
• Orders. Every ticket sold, filterable by status.
• Reviews. Customer feedback, and links you can share.
• Settings. Business profile, contact info, Mollie connection.
• Guide. This thing you are reading.

In order, these three steps get you from signed-up to selling tickets:

1. Fill in your business profile. Description, logo, cover image. This is what visitors see first.
2. Connect Mollie. Without it, you can list events but not take ticket payments through Sommly.
3. Add a venue, then create your first event.

Run more than one business? You can. Once the first one is set up, an admin can link you to further businesses and a dropdown appears at the top of the sidebar to switch between them. Every page (events, orders, settings) is scoped to the currently selected business.