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Privacy, passwords and guest permissions

The Settings workspace is where the practical decisions live: who can see your page, what guests are allowed to do on it, and what happens to everything afterwards. It’s organised into sections, which this guide walks through in order: Event details, Access & permissions, Guests, Co-organisers, Archive event and Account.

Event details

Your date, time, end time and timezone. The help text underneath explains why they matter: Used for the gallery unlock, countdown, and your event header. If the countdown on your page looks off, or the photo album opens at a strange moment, this is the first place to check.

The Event details section in Settings, with wedding date and time, an optional end time, and the timezone
Event details: date, time and timezone for the whole page.

Access & permissions

Who can access this event? offers two answers. Anyone with the link is the normal choice: the page is live and anyone you share the link with can open it. Organisers only takes the page out of guests’ reach while keeping it intact for you and your co-organisers, useful while you’re mid-rebuild.

The Access and permissions section, with Anyone with the link selected, an Organisers only option and an optional password field
Access and permissions: choose who can open the page, with an optional password.

Password (optional) adds a password on top of the link, so a forwarded link alone isn’t enough to get in. One subtlety is worth knowing, and the panel spells it out: New password applies to new joiners only. Existing guest sessions remain active. Changing the password doesn’t evict people who have already joined. Removing the password prompts a warning too: Anyone with the link will be able to join without a password.

What can guests do? is a row of toggles: View photos, Upload photos and Leave comments. The moderation toggles live here as well, controlling whether uploads wait for your approval before they appear. How moderation fits into the album as a whole is covered in Set up the photo album.

A common pattern: leave uploads on with moderation during the day, then switch Upload photos off once the album window closes and you’re happy with what’s there.

Guests

The Guests section lists everyone who has joined your event: how they joined, shown as QR code or Link, when they joined, and how many photos they’ve uploaded. Each guest has a Revoke access action, which ends their session.

Revoking access doesn’t stop someone rejoining through the same link. If you need to keep a revoked guest out, change the password as well; they won’t know the new one, and existing guests aren’t affected.

Co-organisers

Invite someone to share the dashboard: they can edit the page, manage RSVPs and moderate photos, while billing stays with you. The full detail, including invite links and tier limits, is in Invite a co-organiser.

Archive event and Account

When the wedding is over, Archive event gives you two options. Making the event read-only keeps the page and photos viewable but stops anything new arriving. Deleting it removes the event permanently, including its photos and guest data, and there’s no undo, so download anything you want to keep first.

Finally, Account covers your own login rather than the event: signing out and deleting your account live here.

Stuck on something this guide doesn’t cover? Email hello@ode.events and a founder will reply.