How to limit who can reserve on an Event Hub page

A public link does not have to mean a public event. You decide who gets a spot.

Set the rule

1. 1Open the page's console and press Edit.
2. 2Tap the ticket to open the Tickets panel, and find Who can reserve.
3. 3Choose one of four:

• Anyone with the link (the default): no code, guests reserve in three taps.
• Anyone who confirms their e-mail: anyone with a real address.
• Only e-mails at certain domains: addresses at the domains you type, such as "apple.com, beats.com". A subdomain counts, so an address at uk.apple.com gets in too.
• Only my guest list: the addresses you paste, one per line or straight from a spreadsheet column. The list is never shown to guests or sent to their browser.

1. 1Add A line for guests if you like, shown beside the Reserve button: "For Apple employees. Use your work e-mail."
2. 2Press Save changes (or Publish).

What guests see

Above the Reserve button the ticket shows a shield and the rule in bold: "Only for @apple.com e-mails.", "Guest list only." or "Confirm your e-mail to reserve.", with your line under it. The phone field is not shown on such a page: the e-mail is what is checked.

Reserving with a code

1. 1The guest types their e-mail and taps Send me a code. An address outside your domains is stopped at once.
2. 2A six-digit code is e-mailed to them. It works for a short time and once only; Send a new code replaces it.
3. 3The guest types the code and taps the button. One press checks the code and reserves.

Once confirmed, the address stays confirmed on that page for a couple of hours, so a guest who goes back to pick another time needs no second code.

On a guest-list page, every address is told a code was "sent", but a code is only mailed to an address on the list. Whoever types an address learns nothing about who is on it.

What it does not change

• Guests you add yourself from the console, and reservations made before you set the rule, keep their spots.
• Approval, the waitlist, discount codes, card payments and several dates and times work as on any page.
• Changing the rule later applies to new reservations only.
• In your guest list, a guest who confirmed with a code shows a tick after their address.