Getting started as a Zoom Events host

Zoom Events is a versatile platform that allows you to create a variety of engaging virtual experiences for attendees will love. You can manage your own branded event hub, track ticketing and registration, control user access from one dashboard, and allow networking during your Zoom Events.

Zoom Events hosts can easily create and host events, whether internal or external events. This platform is useful for businesses, organizations, and enterprises—both large and small—to reach out and engage with their attendees.

This article covers:

• How to get started with the Organizer Mode and Attendee Mode
• How to get started with billing and payments
  • Add a payments account to your Zoom Events Hub
  • Add billing information
• How to get started with hosting Zoom Events
  
  • Create and manage a Zoom Events hub
  • Create a Zoom Event
  • Start events
  • Use registration management
  • Cancel and refund a Zoom Event

Prerequisites for Zoom Events hosts

• Pro, Business, Enterprise, or Education account
• Zoom Events Unlimited license or Zoom Events Pay Per Attendee license
• Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS, or Linux: Global minimum version or higher
• Zoom mobile app for Android or iOS: Global minimum version or higher

Note: For access to the latest Zoom Events and Webinar features, we strongly recommend hosts to update to the latest version of the Zoom desktop client/mobile application.

How to get started with the Organizer Mode and Attendee Mode

As a host, you can switch between Organizer Mode and Attendee Mode.

Note: Only users with a Zoom Events license can switch to Organizer Mode.

Organizer Mode

The Organizer Mode provides an easy-to-understand site to help you create events with features and functionalities specific to your experience as a host. When you sign in to Zoom Events, you will always land on your event organizer page.

• In your Zoom Events page's left navigation menu, you have the following features/functionalities:
  • My Events: View and manage all your created events, which are organized into Upcoming, Drafts, and Past tabs.
    • Create Event: Create a recurring series event or multiple sessions event.
  • My Recordings: View and manage all your events’ recordings.
  • Default hub (or selected hub): Click the hub dropdown menu to do the following actions:
    
    • Select other hubs to access from the dropdown menu.
    • Under your default hub or the hub that you selected from the dropdown menu, view and manage your hub’s following pages:
      • Events
      • Recordings (Hub on-demand recordings)
      • Content Library
      • Hub Summary
      • Event Listing Profile
      • Event Organizers
      • Billing Management 
        • Payout Methods (Stripe or PayPal)
        • Billing Information
        • Cancellation
      • Business Information
      • Settings
• In the top right corner of the screen, click your profile picture to do the following actions:
  
  • Manage profile (Host Profile)
  • Switch to Attendee Mode
  • Notifications (Notification Center)
  • Attendee Payments & Billing
  • Sign Out

Attendee Mode

As a host, you can switch to Attendee Mode to use an attendee-specific Zoom Events site and experience Zoom Events from the attendee perspective. This mode provides an organized event browsing experience for attendees. Additionally, users who do not have a Zoom Events license will be automatically set with Attendee Mode and cannot switch to Organizer Mode.

After you switch to Attendee Mode, you will be directed to the landing hub, if specified by the hub owner. When no landing hub is specified, you will be directed to the Events Portal when you first sign in to Zoom Events.

For more information on attendee controls, visit Getting started as a Zoom Events attendee.

How to get started with billing and payments

Add a payments account to your Zoom Events hub

Hosts can publish paid events only if their hub has a payments account added to it. If a payments account is not added, then hosts can only publish free events. 

To sell paid tickets to your Zoom Events, you will need to link a payment account for processing ticket transactions and payouts.

1. Sign in to Zoom Events.
2. In the navigation menu, click the hub dropdown menu and select the hub you want to manage.
3. Click Billing Management.
4. Click the Payout Methods tab.
5. Select the payment platform (Stripe or PayPal) your hub will use to process transactions and click Link New Account. 
6. Follow the steps to link a Stripe or PayPal account to your Zoom Events hub.

Add billing information

1. Sign in to Zoom Events.
2. In the navigation menu, click the hub dropdown menu and select the hub you want to manage.
3. Click Billing Management.
4. Click the Billing Information tab.
5. Under the Billing Address section, enter your billing address and tax information.
6. Click Save.

How to get started with hosting Zoom Events

Create and manage a Zoom Events hub

A Zoom Events hub is a collection of upcoming, current, and past events that are created by a group of hosts. Hubs are ideal to separate events related to a specific subject. As a Zoom Events license holder, you can create hubs.

A Zoom Events Unlimited or Pay-Per-Attendee plan is required to set up a Zoom Events hub. If you are not a Zoom Events license holder, please contact your Zoom account's admin.

After you create a hub using a Zoom Events Unlimited or Pay-Per-Attendee license, you can manage your hub's event listing profile, event organizers, on-demand recordings, and more. You can also track your hub's analytics for your upcoming and past events. Additionally, you can manage your payments and billing information and set cancellation policies for your hub.

Create a Zoom Event

The multiple sessions format allows for multi-day events scheduled with multiple meeting or webinar sessions that can run concurrently. 

The recurring series event format is where meetings or webinars are scheduled to run linearly on a recurring basis.

Attendees will have access to an enhanced lobby with chat capabilities, sponsor networking, and booths.

For more information about creating an event, visit the support article on how to create a Zoom Event.

Notes:

• Hosts can also choose to create simulive webinars in Zoom Events, which allows you to share pre-recorded content in a webinar session that starts automatically at the scheduled time. Learn more about hosting simulive webinars in Zoom Events.
• To view the single-session event setup, visit Creating a Zoom Sessions event or Zoom Sessions support for more information.

Start events

Hub owners and hub hosts can start an event.

Note: If the host's Zoom Events license is expired, revoked, or reassigned, they will lose their host privileges, such as starting an event. Hosts will have a 168-hour (7-day) grace period to have a Zoom Events license assigned to them.

1. Sign in to Zoom Events.
2. In the navigation menu, click My Events.
3. Click the Upcoming tab.
4. To the right of the event you want to start, click Start (for recurring series events) or Join Lobby (for multiple sessions events).
   1. After you click Join Lobby, click the Sessions tab.
   2. Find the session you want to start, then click Start.

Use registration management

Zoom Events registrant management provides a single location for the event organizer to easily manage their registrants and event registration, helping them create successful events.

For more information, please visit the support article on how to use Zoom Events registration management.

Cancel and refund a Zoom Events

Hosts can cancel a live event from the Events page, resulting in sessions ending immediately and the canceled event being removed from the web portal.

Additionally, attendees will see a message that the event was canceled followed by an email notification that informs them the event has been canceled and they will receive a full refund if the canceled event was a paid event.

For more information, please visit the support article on how to cancel and refund a Zoom Event.