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.

Bring every campus event into one central, university branded hub

Give students, staff, alumni, visitors and other stakeholders a single place to find events, societies, fixtures and facilities, while departments, unions and clubs update their own feeds in one shared platform.

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A central home for campus life

Give every student, staff member, alumni and visitor one clear place to find what is happening on and around your campus.

Bring every campus event into one hub

Pull student union, faculty, club and sports events into one branded guide with dissertations and open conferences and classes so people stop guessing where to look and start turning up.

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Serve internal and public audiences at once

Run tailored views for students, staff, applicants, alumni and visitors, so you can show the right mix of events without juggling separate tools.

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Share publishing power, keep brand control

Let unions, societies and departments run their own listings while you keep a clean design, clear categories and a trusted university domain.

A single- or multi-campus events hub for everyone

Bring every lecture, dissertation, conference and open day into one trusted, branded place for students, staff, applicants, alumni and visitors.

White label campus hub

Run a fully branded events and campus guide under your own domain so your community trusts and remembers it.

Central events and calendars

Pull student union, faculty, club and sports events into a single hub so no one hunts across scattered calendars.

Multi site campus feeds

Give faculties, departments and campuses their own pages while one shared platform keeps information consistent and up to date.

Role based event publishing

Let unions, societies and teams publish under your brand while you keep oversight, standards and access rights in one place. Advanced role-based permissions and Azure Entra and Shibboleth integrations allow you to manage role based access groups yourself, whilst keeping the admin minimum and controls tight.

Smart filters and visibility

Tag by audience, topic or location and choose which events stay internal and which promote campus life publicly. With intranet version of the guide and public facing extranet versions running in synch you only ever update content once.

Campus guide and analytics

List venues, facilities and services, then track which events and categories get attention so you plan smarter programming.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Townbase for at our university?

Townbase works well if you handle campus communications, student life, marketing, web, or IT. You get one place to bring together events from student unions, faculties, departments, clubs, and sports, under your own domain and brand. You most likely you sit in the communications department or event and conference management department, but just as likely you might be looking things from ICT point of view. We are happy to assist what ever your role is.

How does Townbase fit with our current website and tools?

You keep your main university site. Townbase gives you a central events and campus guide hub that you can link to or embed in your existing pages. You can still use tools like Outlook or Google Calendar and pull events into your local calendars. Townbase API Platform and Widgets allow you to integrate to your intranet and extranet and analytics solutions like PowerBI, Matomo, Snoopi or the likes. You can choose Townbase so people see everything in one place.

Can we run different views for students, staff, and the public?

Yes. You can show some events only to students and staff and keep others open to applicants, alumni and visitors. You decide what is public and what stays inside your community.

How do faculties, departments, and clubs add their events?

You give each group the right level of access. Student unions, societies, and sports teams can add and update their own listings, while central teams keep an overview and protect the university brand.

Does Townbase support more than just events?

Yes. You can build a living campus guide with places, facilities, and services, from lecture halls and sports centers to support offices and nearby spots that matter to students and visitors.

Does Townbase University EventGuide support OAuth solutions?

Yes, absolutely. Advanced platform native role-based group permissions help to manage access rights and permissions levels within the solution. Azure ENTRA and Shibboleth integrations, amongst few to mention, can be added to the implementation project which allows you to manage users groups and permissions groups with for example GRP groups (Azure).

What does getting started with Townbase look like?

First, we learn how your campus is set up and who needs their own feeds. Then we match the hub to your brand, connect your main event sources, and help your team invite departments, clubs, and societies so they can start adding events.

Your campus events in one hub

Give students, staff and visitors one clear place for events, clubs, sports and facilities so nothing gets missed and your teams stop juggling scattered calendars.

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