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. Basic repeat patterns 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.
- Toggle Repeats on.
Note: Recurring events must be enabled at Eventonomy → Settings → Display → Recurring events. It's on by default.
Step 3: Pick a Repeat Pattern
Choose a frequency and set its options:
| Frequency | What you can set |
|---|---|
| Daily | Interval (every N days) |
| Weekly | Interval, plus specific days of the week (e.g. every Monday and Wednesday) |
| Monthly | Interval (e.g. the 15th of each month) |
| Yearly | Interval (once a year on the same date) |
For any frequency, set an Ends rule: never, after N occurrences, or on a specific date.
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, its own RSVP counts, and its own attendee list. 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 - the calendar never has to compute dates on the fly.
You can edit a recurring event and choose the scope of the change: this occurrence only, this and future occurrences, or all occurrences. You can also cancel a single date without cancelling the whole series.
Advanced Patterns (Pro)
Pro feature. Available in Eventonomy Pro.
If you need a pattern Free's basic frequencies can't express - "the last Friday of each month," "the 2nd Tuesday," a fixed day-of-month, or specific dates to skip - Eventonomy Pro's advanced recurrence engine handles those. 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.