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Set the meet once, then stop rebuilding it

A cars and coffee, a cruise-in, a monthly meet: set the show to repeat and the next one creates itself when this one ends, with the same classes, awards, sponsors, entry form and schedule, dated for next time and open for registration.

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Set once

The next one builds itself

Choose weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, and you are done. When a meet ends, the next one appears within the hour carrying everything across: your classes, your awards, your sponsors, your entry form, your schedule, your settings. It arrives dated for next time with registration already open, so there is nothing waiting on you between meets. A club running something every Saturday sets it up in the spring and does not touch the setup again.

The repeat setting in show settings, scheduling a show to recur weekly
Every week counts

Each meet gets its own winners, and its own page, forever

This is the part other tools get wrong. Every occurrence is a show in its own right, not one long event whose date keeps sliding forward. That means each week has its own entrants, its own voting, its own Best of Show, and its own permanent results page that stays up at its own address. A year in you have fifty archived meets with fifty sets of winners, not one smeared-together record where nobody can find the night their car won.

Results page for one week of a recurring cars and coffee meet
The fiddly parts

First Saturday stays the first Saturday

Monthly means the weekday, not the number, so a first-Saturday meet lands on the first Saturday every month rather than drifting to whatever the date happens to be. Start times hold across daylight saving too: a nine o’clock Saturday meet is nine o’clock in March and nine o’clock in November. And the next occurrence is created when the current one ends rather than a whole season up front, which is deliberate. It means changing a class, a venue, or an entry fee takes effect the very next meet instead of needing fifty events edited.

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Registration and payments

The same entry form and payment setup carry into every occurrence.

Spectator voting

Each meet runs its own QR voting and its own tally.

Results and awards

Every occurrence keeps its own winners page permanently.

Recurring show questions, answered

Can I set up a weekly cars and coffee?

Yes. Set the show to repeat weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, and the next meet creates itself when the current one finishes, carrying your classes, awards, sponsors, entry form and schedule with it. Registration on the new one is already open.

Does it create the whole season in advance?

No, and that is on purpose. It creates the next occurrence when the current one ends, one at a time. That way changing a class, moving the venue, or adjusting the entry fee takes effect at the very next meet instead of needing every event in the year edited.

Does a first Saturday meet stay on the first Saturday?

Yes. Monthly repeats follow the weekday rather than the date, so the first Saturday stays the first Saturday every month. Start times also hold through daylight saving changes, so a nine o'clock meet stays a nine o'clock meet all year.

What happens to the results from last week's meet?

They stay put. Every occurrence is its own show with its own entrants, its own voting, and its own permanent results page at its own address, so last week's winners are still there next year when someone goes looking for the night they won.

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