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Everything you need to run your parade

Practical product walkthroughs and best-practice planning guides, laid out in the order you'll actually work through your parade.

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Using ParadeWorks

Step-by-step walkthroughs of the app, grouped into the five stages of building a parade. Work top to bottom, or jump to what you need.

Set up

4 guides

Your first parade, start to finish

How the five setup stages, the checklist, and the audit work together, and the order to tackle things so you're never guessing what's next.

4 min read

Set your web address

Your web address has two parts, the organization and the parade. Learn where to set each one, and why changing them later can break links you've already shared.

3 min read

Edit your parade map

Reshape your route, add lineup and dispersal lanes, place stations and resources, close roads, and choose which layers show on the map.

3 min read

Add your team and set access

Invite people to help run your parade and control exactly what each of them can see and do, using capabilities.

3 min read

Organize

2 guides

Building and finalizing your lineup

Set up lanes and numbering, spread out the parade's energy, order your units, and understand what locking the lineup does before you commit.

7 min read

Staffing your parade

The role, position, and assignment model explained, the order to build in, and the three ways to get people into slots.

3 min read

Recruit

5 guides

Accept payments with Stripe

Connect a Stripe account so your parade can take sponsor payments, application fees, and donations, and understand the fees and the verification wait.

3 min read

Set up your parade application

Open the form editor, edit each section and its questions, add your own fields, preview, and publish. Plus how to charge a fee.

9 min read

Build your public parade website

Create the public pages people see, order them in your navigation menu, decide what's public, and take the whole site live when you're ready.

2 min read

Recruit volunteers

Publish the volunteer signup form, choose which roles appear on it, and understand where signups land so nobody falls through the cracks.

4 min read

Sponsorships and finances

Define sponsorship levels, bring sponsors in through applications or your own outreach, and track every dollar in and out.

3 min read

Prepare

3 guides

Watch your parade before it happens

Play the simulation to see your whole parade move, check the total running time, catch spacing problems, and fix them while they're still free to fix.

4 min read