Delete an event

Read this before you delete anything

Deleting an event takes its registrations, orders, badge templates, sessions, exhibitors and reports with it. There is no undo and no archive to recover from.

Almost every reason people reach for delete is better served another way:

• The event is over and you want it out of the way. Leave it. Past events keep your reporting history and your attendee data, and cost you nothing.
• You want to stop people registering. Set it to Draft instead — Take your event from draft to published. This closes the public site without touching anyone who already registered.
• The event is cancelled. Set it to Draft, then email the registrants before you delete anything. Once the event is gone you cannot contact them through evenclo, because their records go with it.
• You created it by mistake and it has no registrations. This is the one clean case for deleting.

Steps

1. Go to Your events.
2. Click Edit on the event you want to remove.
3. Click Delete event.

   

4. Confirm.

What happens next

The event disappears from Your events immediately, along with its data.

Its public address stops working. Anyone following an old link, or scanning a printed QR code from that event, gets nothing.

The slug does not necessarily come free for reuse — if you are deleting in order to recreate the event under the same address, contact support first rather than assuming you can claim it back.

Common problems

There is no Delete event button. Only owners and admins can delete an event.

You deleted the wrong event. Contact support immediately and do not keep working. The sooner you ask, the better the chance anything can be done — but treat recovery as unlikely, not expected.

You want to reuse the event for next year. Do not delete and rebuild. Create a new event for next year and keep this one for its history. Two events never share data, so last year's event sitting there affects nothing.