Testing your event before launch helps you check the attendee experience, practise your setup, and run through live sessions without alerting real attendees on your main event.
A test event is useful when you want to:
Try HeySummit from an attendee's point of view.
Practise creating tickets, talks, speakers, emails, pages, and checkout settings.
Run a rehearsal with speakers or hosts before your real event goes live.
Avoid scheduling live sessions at the same time across events if they use the same webinar, streaming, or live-session licence. Many external webinar and streaming tools only allow one live session to run from the same account or licence at a time.
Clone a test event when you are ready
Once you are happy with your test event's setup, you can clone the event to copy much of that configuration into a real event, as long as your plan has enough event capacity.
Clone requests can take a few minutes to process. The new event is created as a separate draft event. Attendees and purchases are not copied. You should also review live-session, replay, payment, and custom-domain settings on the cloned event before launch, because those may need reconnecting or updating for the real event.
Test a specific attendee
You can also test a specific attendee from your event dashboard. Go to Reporting > Attendees, click ... next to the attendee, and choose Run Test.
From there, you can open an Attendance test or a Chat test for that attendee. The chat test checks setup, token, realtime, authorization, and registration details, then opens a preview as that attendee without creating a real chat message.