Draft events and test mode

Every new event starts as a draft. Draft mode is a safe sandbox for setting up and rehearsing before guests are involved.

What you can do in a draft

Configure everything — guests, tables, cover photo, welcome message, features

Try every Premium feature for free — photo uploads, the guest book, and the live wall all work in drafts so you can see exactly what you'd be buying

Scan the QR yourself and walk through the real guest experience

Change the event date freely (the date locks once you go live)

Draft limits

So drafts stay a testing space:

Test uploads are capped at 10 items

Draft media lives in a small test allowance, separate from your live storage

Keep or clear your test data

When you go live, GuestQR asks whether to keep your test uploads and messages or wipe them for a clean start. Most organizers wipe — but if you staged content you like (say, a welcome photo in the gallery), you can keep it.

When should I go live?

Go live once your setup is final and you're ready to share the QR code with real guests — typically a few days before the event. Going live locks the event date and, for basic events, switches off any Premium features you were testing (upgrade to keep them).