Making a page look like yours

Where to find it

On the console, open "How it looks, and who gets in". It's only there for the person the page belongs to; people helping you run it don't see it.

It needs the page to be on a paid plan, which means saved to an account that has one. A page made without an account is on the free plan, so save it to your account first ("Save this to your account" on its console). On the free plan the section explains what each part needs, with a link to the plans.

Your own link ending

Every page gets a short link with a jumble of letters at the end. "How the link ends" lets you swap that for something people can read out or type from a poster, like whenabouts.link/e/spring-concert.

It can be 3 to 40 lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens. A few words are kept back, like "help", "admin" and "whenabouts", because a link with them in would look like it came from us. If somebody else already has the ending you want, the form suggests adding a year or your group's name.

The short link keeps working alongside it, so nobody who already has it is left out. A page has one ending at a time, though: change it again and the ending you had before stops working. Leave the box empty and save to go back to just the short link.

An ending you let go of, by changing it, taking it off or deleting the page, is kept for your account for a year, so a link somebody saved can't lead to somebody else's page. You can use it again on any of your pages in that time, and after that anybody can. A deleted page keeps its ending until it's gone for good, 7 days later.

A PIN in front of it

"A PIN in front of it" asks for 4 to 10 digits before the page opens. Send the PIN the same way you send the link. People see a page asking for it and nothing else, not even the title, until they type it. Once they have, that browser remembers it for 90 days, unless it opens a lot of other Whenabouts pages in between.

We can't show you the PIN afterwards, because it's stored the way a password is. Type a new one to change it, and everybody is asked for the new one. Leave the box empty to take it off.

A PIN keeps a page off the open web, so a link that ends up somewhere public doesn't let strangers in. It isn't a secret: anybody you give it to can pass it on. Don't put anything on a page that would matter if it got out.

Somebody who already answered can still get back in with the link in their own email, without typing the PIN.

Your colour and your logo

"Accent colour" changes the buttons and links on the page people see. Type it as a hex code, like #1F7D60; leave it blank for ours.

"Logo" sits above the title. It takes a PNG, JPEG or WebP image up to 100 KB. We don't take SVG files, because they can carry a script. We keep the file ourselves and serve it from your page, so no other site learns who opened it. "Take the logo off" puts it back to just the title.

Press "Save how it looks", then open the link people see to check it. A browser that had the page open already can take up to an hour to show a new logo or colour. Your colour and logo show on the page people answer, including when it's on your own site.

The Made with Whenabouts line

On the free plan, the foot of every page people answer says "Made with Whenabouts. Create your own, free". On a paid plan it isn't there. There's no setting; it follows the plan the page is on.

Two things stay on every plan: the line under the title saying who organized it, and, on a page shown inside another site, a strip with our name and a way to report the page.

If your paid plan ends

• Your link ending keeps working, and you can still go back to the short link.
• A PIN stays on, so nobody is let in without it. You can take it off, but putting one on again needs the plan.
• Your colour and logo stop showing. We keep them, and they come back if you take a paid plan again.
• The Made with Whenabouts line comes back.

What's on each plan has what else changes, and when.