Is Townbase a single product or a platform?

Townbase is a platform — a suite of products built on shared infrastructure. You can use a single component like a widget or API, or deploy a full white-label city guide. Most customers start with one product and expand over time.

Do I need a developer to get started?

Not necessarily. A full branded city guide can be up and running in around two days with no development work. If you want to build custom experiences using our API or embed widgets into an existing site, a developer will be useful — but the barrier is low.

Is this only for cities and municipalities?

No. Cities and municipalities are a core customer segment, but Townbase powers event discovery for media organisations, tourism boards, destination marketing organisations, regional portals, and businesses of all sizes. If your audience needs to find out what's happening locally, Townbase is built for you.

How is Townbase different from Eventbrite or Facebook Events?

Eventbrite and Facebook Events are tools for individual event organisers. Townbase is infrastructure for the organisations that aggregate, curate and publish local content at scale — cities, media houses, and platforms. We don't sell tickets and we don't compete with your existing ticketing provider. We make your entire local event ecosystem discoverable in one place, under your brand.

Can I use just the API, or do I have to take the full platform?

You can use just the API. Or just a widget. Or just a branded guide. Townbase is modular by design — you take what fits your use case and can add more as your needs grow.

Is Townbase GDPR-compliant and EU-hosted?

Yes. Townbase is built and operated in Northern Europe, data is stored within the EU, and the platform is designed to be GDPR-compliant by default. For public sector and municipal customers, this is a core requirement — not an afterthought.

How quickly can we get started?

A branded event guide can be live in approximately two days. Widget integrations can be done in under an hour. API access is available immediately upon request. There are no lengthy procurement cycles or heavy implementation projects.

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A Powerful New Discovery Management Platform for local engagement Is Born

A Powerful New Way to Help People Discover What’s On - By You!

Townbase makes it quick and easy to launch and manage your own branded communities, guides and directories — connecting people with your community and communities with each other and to; local events, activities and places.

Trusted by more than 50,000 municipalities, media groups, schools and local businesses and organisations; Townbase helps to showcase everything communities offer and allows everyone to collaboratively work together and contribute.

We build it. You brand it. People love it. Let's make it digital!

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Launch professional looking media guides in days

Launch your townbase TownGuide®, LocalGuide®, EventGuide®, DestinationGuide®, ActivityGuide® our other guides or your custom guide in just weeks - with your own brand, look and feel.

What customers say about us

I have recommended you to all our neigbouring towns!
Anonymous
City Government Client

Before we found townbase, organising and promoting our local events was a major headache. We struggled to reach our audience and coordinate schedules effectively. Now, with townbase, we can easily manage events and see increased attendance, making our community's offering come alive!
Outi Ruso
Event Director
City of Hyvinkää

"Townbase EventGuide gives our area's event offering plenty of visibility. Both event organisers and event attendees are very satisfied with the new event calendar. Customer service people are expert and fast."
Anonymous
City Government Client

Working to bring everything local in to one place.

Our Guides are full-blown CMS systems used by more than 50 000 municipalities, DMO's, media groups and their publications, educational institutions, local businesses and communities.

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Townbase
Comes with Content®

As our customer, you can operate for example our amazing EventGuide, enjoy the most comprehensive selection of existing event channels like ticketed events in your area and build a vibrant community of your own with crowd-sourcing features which allow everyone to create, share and publish.

Following principles apply to all our products:

Quick & easy to build
Require zero maintenance
Easy to edit
Tailor to your own look & feel requirements
Saves time as much of the manual updating work is automated
Content reviewing and moderation: Turn-on / Turn-off
GDPR (EU & UK) compliant
EN 301 549 & WCAG A compliant
Transparent PaaS & SaaS pricing

Comprehensive analytics at your fingertips

We provide you with detailed analytics to monitor your services uptake, performance and analytics, and we help you make smarter decisions for facilitating thousands of future events in your area

Easy integration with existing tools

Connect with your favorite platforms. We make it straightforward to incorporate Townbase EventGuide into your event management process.

How It Works
Run your own services with confidence

BUILD | ENGAGE | MARKET | GROW

Build Your Branded EventGuide

Customise your local event guide with your logo's and other branding elements like fonts, colors and languages, and add your favorite 3rd party content channels. Never start from scratch.

Monitor & Manage and increase economic activity

Keep tabs on event performance, event organiser satisfaction and their needs by collecting feedback with our Townbase ImpactProcess®. Make your area, region or a city THE PLACE to organise future events and conferences!

Townbase EventGuide
Comprehensive event creation, discovery, marketing and management tools in one service

A MARKETING SUITE CONNECTING LOCAL DISCOVERY

Role-based organiser permissions

Control access levels for different participating actors like; event organisers, event goers and local businesses, marketing and sales partners and other stakeholders, and allow them to contribute to local and regional success

Cloud-backed infrastructure

Ensure data security and systems reliability while managing your guide, your users, your local businesses, stakeholders and events and activities.

Robust analytics

Analyse your regional performance metrics to make informed decisions for future planning. Make your area stand out as the destination to organise events and activities.

Customisable branding options

Tailor your city and local guides to reflect your organisation's unique identity.

Integration support

Connect with popular event platforms for a streamlined event management experience.

Efficient admin tools

Manage thousands of organisers, event publishing and content platform effortlessly with intuitive tools designed for marketing and community engagement leaders and media producers.

Learn more about publishing Guides and Local Engagement services

Create your own Guides, feed in existing local events, activities and businesses, and allow people and businesses to publish content on your new service

Launch Local engagement services and Guides with Townbase.

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