Events, tours & the public side

Not everyone who visits your space has an account, and MakerOps doesn’t make them get one. Visitors use links sent to them and the public pages you choose to publish.

Public pages

Your space can publish public views (an equipment catalog, upcoming events, tour booking) on its own address, and each is embeddable in your existing website. What appears is controlled by per-item visibility flags: nothing is public unless you marked it public. They live at yourspace.makerops.ai/catalog, /events and /tours. The bare space address opens the sign-in page, so link people to the public pages themselves.

Catalog-wide options, such as Ask the shop, are in Settings › Public Catalog. Settings › Bookmarklets has browser buttons for adding items and equipment from supplier pages.

Anyone who can edit an item, a machine or an event can make it public, and a public page can be seen by anyone on the internet. Decide who holds those edit permissions (Settings › Roles & Permissions), and look over your public pages whenever you publish something new: staff notes, prices you did not mean to share and people’s names should stay off them.

Events and sessions

To create an event, open Events & Tours › Events and click New Event. Give it a title, location, start and end, and optionally a capacity, a waitlist and a reminder. Set it to Published when it should appear publicly, and click Create and publish. Left as Draft, the button reads Save as draft and the event stays off your public pages. Needs Manage events.

Visitors sign up with just an email. The confirmation has a link to view or cancel, with no login. If a visitor later becomes a member, their event history moves to their account. Staff manage rosters and attendance in the platform.

Tour requests

Your public tour-request form feeds Events & Tours › Tours, where staff schedule visits and reply using email templates. Confirmations and reminders can also go by text message where that’s turned on. Needs the Tours module and Manage tour requests.

Visitor waivers

Create waivers in Settings › Waivers with New Waiver, then Publish… when it’s ready. Each waiver has a public signing link that works on the visitor’s own phone or a front-desk device, and lets them sign for themselves or for their child. Invite groups sends the link to a group. What visitors and parents see is in Sign a waiver.

Signed waivers attach to the person’s record. To make a waiver a condition of training and machine use, add it under Training Catalog › Entry Requirements. Publishing a new version of a waiver can require everyone to sign again.

Announcements and messaging

Staff can post announcements to the membership, and discussion threads support @mentions with per-person notification preferences across in-app, push, and email channels.