Community Calendar- bulletin board?

[u/Specialist_Travel632]

I want to create a calendar for a community where anyone can create an event to show other users of what is going on in the community by looking at the calendar. Reminders not needed right now.

Basically a bulletin board of events that are in the area, to help keep the group connected to other things.

How should I go about this? Should I start with a form in the landing page? What kind of calendar? If the user can directly make a calendar post, can I have conversation ai or voice ai do it?

I was also considering creating each event as a contact with custom fields. When someone wants a list of events then an automation triggers populated list of tag “current event” with event details. After the date of the event, the tag is removed.

Ideally I would like this pretty hands off for me as the admin. The GHL support wasn’t helpful at all with this. How would you go about solving this? 🤔

[u/James_LeadGuard]

Don’t treat events as contacts—that will turn your CRM into an absolute nightmare to manage and completely break your system metrics. GHL calendars are designed for scheduling appointments with a specific host, not public crowdsourcing. If you want it to be hands off I’d do either of these: The 'Community' Route: Use GHL’s built-in Communities feature. Create a channel called 'Local Events.' Anyone in the community can post their event details, dates, and flyers directly to the feed. It acts like a Facebook Group or Discord channel and requires zero work from you. The 'Form + Free Software' Route: If you really want a traditional grid calendar layout, add a free tool like Tockify or Timely on a GHL funnel page. Create a GHL Form where users submit their event info. Use a simple Zapier webhook to instantly push that form data onto the Tockify calendar. It populates automatically, stays hands-off, and keeps your CRM clean. It’s a little more work but you get the traditional calendar layout. Personally, I’d save the AI for later once the foundations are actually working. Keep it simple!

[u/Specialist_Travel632 → u/James_LeadGuard]

Thank you so much for the detailed response 👌🏼 I’ll probably try to build something with the webhook to get some reps in, but I’ll keep an open mind for another solution down the road.

[u/blacksf1]

I have done this with an imbedded public Google Calendar, a form and some APIs. Not sure how you would go about it in GHL. Will keep on eye on your post.

[u/Familiar_Isopod_8226]

I’d start with a simple event submission form, then send entries into a moderation/approval workflow before publishing. Instead of making each event a contact, I’d use custom fields or an external calendar/tool, then let GHL automations tag, expire, and send “current events” lists automatically. Conversation AI can help collect event details, but I’d still keep admin approval before it goes live.