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title: Event Categories
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description: Learn how event categories can enhance the user experience on your ticketing portal. This document explores the advantages of using event categories, such as choir, band, orchestra, musicals, plays, and opera, to help patrons easily navigate through a div
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createdAt: 2023-06-07T21:35:00.000Z
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Whether you have two events or twenty-seven, you may wish to use event categories to help your patrons navigate through the listing of your various events. This is particularly great if you have different types of events. For instance, choir vs. band vs. orchestra, or musicals vs. plays vs. opera.

### How it Appears to Patrons

When patrons are on your ticketing portal, there will be different tabs for each event category with an active show. They can click each tab to pull a list of that specific category of events.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/hZcZIA5As4EsukOh0OMVE/2_qezdVUUgxQ-6e-IZJDZ_categories.png)

Check out the articles below to learn how to add and manage your event categories.

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[Set Up Event Categories](docId\:fvPyeZt3sh5nM_M6kKeJy)
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[Edit/Delete Event Categories](docId\:Id9jAwPW34BCCdQkn50OU)
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[Add/Remove an Event From a Category](docId\:qQp5SD-fYcuwJPXtxmwjg) 
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[Link to a Category](docId\:vUxwZIW1TQnt7ny5367fX) 
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