# Run last year's event again | Ticket Fairy Guides 1. [Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/) 2. [Guides](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides) 3. Run last year's event again Start to finish # Run last year's event again An event that worked once is the best starting point for the next one, and rebuilding it from an empty form throws away everything you learned. Promoters running an annual festival, a returning club night or a second city on a tour copy the setup, change what moved, and sell the first tickets to last year's buyers. Copy the event that worked, change the dates and prices, and open it to the people who came last time before you announce it to anyone else. For: Running an event you have run before Takes: 12 minutes - [Read what last year sold before you copy it](#step-1) - [Copy the event](#step-2) - [Check the dates and change the prices](#step-3) - [Sell to last year's buyers first](#step-4) - [Open the public on-sale](#step-5) ## Before you start - Last year's event is still on your account. A copy takes its setup, so an event you deleted cannot be the starting point. - You have read what last year actually sold: which tiers went first, which never moved, and what people bought as add-ons. - You know the new dates, and whether the venue, capacity or prices have changed. 1. ## Read what last year sold before you copy it Open last year's event and check **Sales by Type** for what each tier actually sold. **Note:** A tier that sold out in an hour was priced too low, and one that never sold is worth cutting rather than copying. This is the only step that improves the event rather than repeating it. ![Ticket Fairy sales breakdown showing how each ticket type performed for an event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-analytics--sales-breakdown.png) The sales breakdown for a finished event. 2. ## Copy the event Select **Duplicate Event** and choose what the copy takes with it. **Note:** The copy is a draft. Nothing about it is public, and last year's event is left exactly as it was. ![Ticket Fairy duplicate event dialog with the new event name, dates and the choice of what to copy across](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-nightclub-operations--duplicate-night.png) The duplicate dialog, copying a night that worked. 3. ## Check the dates and change the prices Open the copy, check every sale window against the new date, and change any price that has moved. **Note:** Give the new dates in the duplicate dialog and the copy moves the sale windows, door times and validity by the same number of whole days. Check the weekday, which a whole-day move can change. 4. ## Sell to last year's buyers first Email the people who came last year before the public on-sale, with an access code or an invitation. **Note:** They are the audience most likely to buy and the cheapest to reach. A presale to them also tells you what demand looks like before you commit to the public price. 5. ## Open the public on-sale Put the copy on sale once the presale has run and the ticket types are right. **Note:** Treat the copy as a new event on its opening morning: the run-through in the on-sale guide applies to it in full. ## Or have it done for you Fai can read last year's event back to you, copy it once you approve, and tell you who bought a ticket to it. The CLI copies the event in one command. ### In your dashboard, with Fai Copy \ for next year, keep the ticket types and add-ons, and show me the new event in draft with the dates I give you before anything is published ### From your own assistant, over MCP Connect your assistant to [our MCP server](https://www.ticketfairy.com/mcp-server) and ask it: Keep `--read-only` in your MCP configuration. This task only reads data, so your assistant does not need tools that make changes. Pick the brand, find the event \ and show its ticket types, add-ons and final sales ## From your terminal Install the CLI from [our CLI page](https://www.ticketfairy.com/cli), sign in with `ticketfairy auth login`, and choose the brand you are working on with `ticketfairy brand use `. `ticketfairy brand list` and `ticketfairy event list` show the IDs the other commands use. Copy the event, then edit the copy. ### Copy an event into a new draft ticketfairy event clone \ ## Repeat an event every week or month 1. ### Make it a series instead of a copy Set up a recurring series when the event repeats on a schedule rather than once a year. **Note:** A series carries the setup forward for you and keeps the dates together, which a copy does not. Fai can open the recurring-event setup for you. Building the series is a dashboard job; she creates one event at a time. ### In your dashboard, with Fai Open the recurring-event setup for \ so I can make it a weekly series ### From your own assistant, over MCP Keep `--read-only` in your MCP configuration. This task only reads data, so your assistant does not need tools that make changes. Pick the brand, find the event \ and show its dates ### From your terminal Copy the event once per date when a series does not fit. #### Copy an event into a new draft ticketfairy event clone \ ## Save the setup as a template for another promoter 1. ### Share the event as a template Share the setup as a template when you want another promoter to start from it without seeing your event. **Note:** A template carries the tiers and allocations, not your prices or sales. Fai can open the sharing page for the event. ### In your dashboard, with Fai Open the template sharing page for \ ### From your own assistant, over MCP Keep `--read-only` in your MCP configuration. This task only reads data, so your assistant does not need tools that make changes. Pick the brand, find the event \ and show its ticket types ### From your terminal Sharing a template is done in the dashboard. #### Show the event you are about to share ticketfairy event get \ ## Questions you might have Does a copy carry last year's orders?: No. A copy takes the setup, not the sales. Last year's orders, tickets and buyers stay on last year's event, which is where you look them up. Does copying change the event I copied?: No. The original is untouched and stays exactly as it was, including its reports. What happens to the sale windows in a copy?: They move with the event when you give the duplicate dialog new dates, by the same number of whole days. Copy without new dates and they keep last year's, which have usually closed. ## Related guides - [More ways to use Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/features) - [Duplicate an event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/duplicate-an-event) - [Run a recurring event series](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/run-a-recurring-event-series) - [See how your event is selling](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/check-your-sales) - [Open your ticket on-sale](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/open-your-ticket-on-sale) - [Change the date or call off an event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/change-or-call-off-an-event) - [Every Ticket Fairy guide](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides) ## Do this on your own event Create your account, build your event and follow the steps in your own dashboard. You do not need to book a sales call. 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