The Inapub.co.uk site is made up of 3 core sections:

• Events
• Venues (pubs, bars and clubs)
• Communities.

Each core section allows a user to browse, search and create within it – i.e., you can browse for events, search for events or create events, or browse for venues, search for venues or create a venue etc. There is also a “My Account” section where you can:

• Amend your personal details;
• Change your password;
• Set your reminders; and
• Configure your privacy settings.

Guidance on completing our website forms is shown to the right of the form in order to help make the process as clear and simple as possible and provide handy help tips when you need them most!

Registering on the site is a simple process. Firstly you are asked for a few details:

• Name
• Surname
• Email
• Password
• Date of Birth.

Once the form is completed and you have clicked ‘Register’ you will receive an email to validate your email address. This requires the clicking of a link: it proves you own the email address you registered with and is to ensure security. Once validated your account will be set-up.

You don't need an Inapub account to connect with Facebook - but you will make registering on Inapub easy if you connect to Facebook first as we're able to get all your details and remove the "confirm your account step" as you've already done that with Facebook! To get the most out of Inapub it's best to create an account with us!
Connecting with Facebook is easy - just look for the Connect to facebook buttons either in the header or on certain pages - a few are shown below:
When you click the link or button a pop-up will open which looks like this:
Simply login with your facebook account details and BAM you'll be connected to Inapub and can share content with your Facebook Friends via your wall!

Publishing to your wall is easy - as shown in the above images you can see the links as shown on both a venue and an event page - there are lots of things on Inapub that can be shared!
But you can also share events that you create on Inapub - just look for the tick box as shown below - it only appears when you make your event public:
Once you create or find something you want to share with Facebook on Inapub you will be given the opportunity to add some publish notes in a pop-up prompt, shown below:
Clicking Publish will share the content with Facebook.

• Enter the pub name in the “name field” and ideally your “postcode” and click search.

• If the pub is returned click the link “See full details”.

Adding a venue if it’s not in the database

• Within the Venues section and on the sub navigation at the top of the page look for the menu item “Add” and click it.
• On the “Create a Venue” form, add the venue name, postcode and town and as many of the other details as you can.

• You can double check that the venue isn’t already in the database by clicking the “Does this venue already exist” button.
• Once you are satisfied that you’ve entered all the details you can, tick the “I agree to content policy” checkbox and click the “Add Venue” button.
• You will then be taken to the new full venue detail page.

We recommend registering before applying to manage a venue online – otherwise it’s best to call us on 0845 230 1986 or email venues@inapub.co.uk. Once registered the process is very simple. The rest of this section assumes you’re logged in and are looking at the full venue details page.

• In the top right corner of the full venue details page you’ll see an information box as below:

• Click the “Find out how our site can help you” link.
• You are then taken to an Information page – detailing all the benefits and showing the 3 subscription packages.
• Choose your subscription package.

• Then click “Sign up and apply online”
• This takes you to the “Apply to Manage a Venue form”

• Make sure that your venue is listed in the “Your Venue” section.
• Select the subscription package you want.
• Review your contact details and add any comments and click submit.
• We will then get in touch with you directly to take payment details and switch on your account.

A free venue listing allows you to add standard contact details and opening times, an enhanced listing (gained with a subscription) allows for facilities, description, and photos to be added. Enhanced listings also come with the following capabilities:

• Online blackboard for event listings
• Menu for daily fare and specials
• Beer listings
• Online community
• Personalised web address.

Updating a free venue listing

• To the right of any Free venue listing you’ll see the “Edit Venue” link: click this to be taken to the form to add/amend any contact/opening time details.
• In the event that you or someone else has made a mistake, use the “Venue Version History” link to undo any changes.

Updating an enhanced venue listing

Shown below is an empty Enhanced venue listing. We will now explain how to update the details.

1: Update contact details, facilities, opening times and add a description

• By clicking the link “Edit Venue” you will be able to add/amend and update all contact and general details about your pub.
• You can add a description of up to a 1000 words – although we suggest you stick to a punchy description.
• As before, you can easily undo any changes you make using the “Venue Version History” link.

2: Adding photos

• Clicking the “Add Images” link will take you to your gallery.

• Simply browse to the location on your machine where you store photos of your pub, add a caption describing the photo and click the “Upload Photo” button.
• You can change the order the photos are displayed and the first one will always be displayed on your Venue page.
• You can currently add as many photos as you like.

3: Creating your online community

• See the “Creating and Managing your Online Community” section below.

4: Your personalised web address

Making your Inapub web address more memorable will help your customers find your details quickly. It will also be of benefit to you with creating marketing and promotional information.

• Simply add the name you’d like in the box shown the right of the number 4.
• Web addresses are unique, therefore you may not get your first choice.
• Your address will be www.inapub.co.uk/WhateverYouWrite

5: Adding beers

Adding beers is very easy:

• Click the link shown next to 5 in the above image.
• This takes you to a form where you enter the beer name and its alcohol content and click “Add Beer”.
• That’s it!

You must create an Online Community before you can add events to your online blackboard. This is because as you build your Online Community those people will be automatically reminded about any events, special offers, and promotions you run.

Creating a community

• As shown in Figure 8, No.3 click the “Start your new community today” link.
• This brings you to the “Start Community” form, add the required information i.e., Community name, description, and tags.

• If you already have email details of customers then invite them to join your new community using the Invite form.
• Make sure you add a message for those you invite so they understand why you’re writing.
• The email will be sent to them by us but will look like it’s come from you as per below:

• In order to not be treated as spam we send emails like this: auto@inapub.co.uk; on behalf of; The Pub Name Town [manager@pub.co.uk]
• Clicking the “Create Community” button will complete the process and email any invitees.

Managing your community

Your community dashboard page shown in Figure 13 is the hub which all community tools hang together. Everything is accessible from this page – and the sub navigation at the top of the page provides a permanent set of links should you wish.

1: Changing your community details

• By clicking the postcode or town, you are taken to the community details page.
• You can navigate to the same place using “Manage” on the sub nav.
• On this page you can:
• Suspend the community
• Delete the community
• Upload/Change the community image
• Change the name
• Change the location
• Change the community description (shown to those who search/join communities on Inapub)
• Change community tags (used in searching communities).

2: Managing members

• By clicking the “members” link you will be taken to the managing members page
• Here you can:
• Email selected or all members
• Delete Members
• Give members management rights
• Use this for other pub managers etc or those you want to maintain your information.

3: Inviting members

• On this page you will see a list of those you have invited and have yet to accept.
• You can re-invite those listed
• Or you can invite more prospective members to join.

4: Personalised community web address

As with your personalised venue web address you can also create a memorable community web address by adding it in this box. Making your Inapub web address more memorable will help your customers find your details quickly. It will also be of benefit to you with creating marketing and promotional information.

• Simply add the name you’d like in the box shown to the left of the number 4
• Web addresses are unique – therefore you may not get your first choice
• Your address will be www.inapub.co.uk/communities/WhateverYouWrite

5: Managing SMS bundles

See the “SMS” section below.

6: Message box

This is a facility which allows you and your customers to post comments to everyone in the community. As manager of the community you will have full control over what is post here and can delete any posts you don’t like. All members of the community can post messages. You should encourage your members to post comments and suggestions here and review them regularly.

7: Setting reminders

Here you are setting your own personal reminders as Manger of the community. This ensures that should you wish you can receive the same reminders that all your community members receive.

• Click “Set reminders” and then choose what you’d like.
• You (as with all community members) can have email and/or SMS reminders sent:
• On the day of the event
• The day before the event
• The week before the event
• In any combination you wish
• WARNING: Setting reminders at the community level will overwrite any reminders you have sent at event level

Clearly displayed on the right of the Community Dashboard Page is the community “Events” area. Here you can:

1. Manage all events by clicking the link “Community Events”
2. Add a recurring event – like a weekly Quiz
3. Add a one off event – like a themed party.

Adding a recurring event

• In order to ensure that your event is exposed to the most potential customers make sure you make it “Public” – please note that if you want to create a one-off event rather than recurring you can do so here by clicking the link “Add a one-off event”
• Set the frequency of the event
• Enter event details and upload an event photo or any artwork you have
• Your community members will be selected by default but you can:
• Edit the members
• Invite other people to join the event
• Your venue will be set as the default venue for the event but you can:
• Add as many venues as you like with differing start times (see Figure 16 No.3)
• Delete your venue should the event be taking place somewhere else (See Figure 16 No.4)
• You can add a venue:
• By searching the venue database – look for the “Use this Venue” buttons (See Figure 16 No.1)
• Or by entering a new venue (See Figure 16 No.2).

• When you add the event you’ll be taken to the “managing community events” page.

Adding a one-off event

Adding a one-off event is exactly the same as adding a recurring event except the “When” section changes as per below:

Managing community events

Managing all community events is easy when using the “Managing Events” page. In Figure 14 the link to this page is shown “Community Events”. You are also brought to this page when you add an event to your community as shown below in Figure 18:

• Recurring events are shown in Figure 18 No.1.
• Once a recurrence is set, the Inapub website creates 20 instances of that recurrence, this means you can amend each individual event as required. WARNING: they will still be linked by the recurrence so changing the recurrence details may overwrite any changes you’ve made to event instances.
• You can sort events by date, start, venue, and event title - as shown in Figure 18 No.2. Simply click the heading to order by that heading.
• Figure 18 No.3 shows how you navigate to view an Event Detail Page shown in Figure 19 below.
• Figure 18 No.4 shows how you edit an individual event instance – or a one-off event.
• You’ll also be able to see at a glance how many people have set their attendance for each event here as well as delete selected events should that be necessary.

• Any events you create in your community will automatically appear on your Enhanced Venue Listing page in your Online Blackboard, as shown below:

Online Blackboard

Your Online Blackboard – as displayed on your Enhanced Venue Listing is what your customers will use to see at a glance what you have planned. We split recurring events from one-offs in order to make it easier to see what’s happening when. For certain subscription packages we will automatically update venue community with all high profile televised sporting fixtures, such as premiership and international football, rugby and cricket.

User Ratings

What do points make?

That’s right, prizes, and rewards!

The Inapub points system is here to make sure that you get credit where credit is due. So if you add a missing pub/bar to the site for the benefit of everyone, you get 10 points. If you notice a pub/bars details are incorrect you’ll get 5 points, if you add a beer to a pub/bar you’ll get 2 points and so on!

Community points are given for just about everything that you do on the site which adds to the community for others.

To find out how points you’ve scored check in My Account.

And remember 2 things! The person who scores the most points in a given period will win the prize (we’ll also have an annual prize). And also, those who make it to "Golden Guru" level will get our special, precious, extremely limited edition badge (OK maybe it’s not that limited!) but we’re speaking to our subscribing landlords and getting them to give our badge holders discounts.

Like we said, points make prizes and rewards!