How to Set Up Recurring Events
This guide shows you how to create one event that repeats on a schedule (a weekly meetup, a monthly workshop, a daily standup) instead of creating a new event for every date. Daily, weekly and monthly repeats are available on the Free plan.
Step 1: Create the Event
Create the event as usual, with the start date and time set to the first occurrence. See Create Your First Event for the full field reference.
Step 2: Turn On Recurrence
- Open the event in the editor.
- Open the Recurrence panel.
- Set Repeats to something other than None.
Note: Recurring events must be enabled at Eventonomy → Settings → Display → Recurring events. It's on by default.
Step 3: Pick a Repeat Pattern
The Free editor has exactly two controls, and between them they cover most regular schedules:
| Control | What you set |
|---|---|
| Repeats | Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. |
| Every (interval) | How many days, weeks or months between dates. 1 for every week, 2 for every other week. |
So "every Tuesday" is Weekly with an interval of 1, and "the first of every other month" is Monthly with an interval of 2. Both count forward from the start date you set in Step 1, which is why that date matters.
Yearly is Pro. The Yearly option appears in the dropdown, but only Pro can expand a yearly rule; on Free the event stays a one-off.
How Occurrences Are Generated
When you save the event, Eventonomy expands the recurrence rule into individual occurrence rows: each date gets its own entry on the calendar and its own attendee count. Occurrences are pre-computed up to a recurrence horizon (default: 12 months ahead, configurable at Settings → Display → Recurring events), and a daily background job extends the horizon as time passes. That's what keeps a long-running series fast to load, even years into a daily event, because the calendar never has to compute dates on the fly.
Editing a recurring event edits the whole series: change the rule and the dates are recomputed from it. There is no "this occurrence only" option, so if one date needs to differ, create a one-off event for it instead.
Advanced Patterns (Pro)
Pro feature. Available in Eventonomy Pro.
For anything more specific than a plain interval - specific weekdays ("every Monday and Wednesday"), "the last Friday of each month," "the 2nd Tuesday," a fixed day of the month, an end-after count or end-on date, dates to skip, or yearly repeats - Eventonomy Pro adds those controls to the same Recurrence panel. See Advanced Recurrence for the full set of rules and how to configure them.
Next Steps
- Recurring Events - the full reference for repeat patterns, occurrence generation, and updating a series.
- Advanced Recurrence - nth-weekday, last-day, and skip-date rules (Pro).
- Event Views - how recurring occurrences appear across Grid, List, Month, and Upcoming.