Help & guides
Short guides for finding karaoke, sharing updates, and keeping local nights easy to trust.
Using KaraokeCrowd
Getting started
How to browse venues, use filters, read the map, follow listings, RSVP, and find the full notification guide.
Karaoke categories
How Hosted shows, Private rooms, and Self-serve work, what details each category needs, and how to choose the right one when adding karaoke.
Following and Notifications
How following a venue triggers email digests, what changes appear, how RSVP works, "not happening" alerts, and the friends system.
Memories
What Memories are, what to share after a karaoke night, where they appear, and how they differ from reviews.
Signing in and your account
Browse without an account, sign in with Google, an email link, or an optional password, and manage your profile.
For hosts
Set up your host profile
Find or create your profile, claim it, add public details, and connect your schedule.
Manage your host page day to day
Add shows, confirm dates, handle cancellations and schedule changes, and check the public page.
What is a host page?
What a host page shows, and how singers, venues, hosts, and local contributors can use it.
Improving listings
Ways to help KaraokeCrowd grow
The highest-impact ways to help the directory grow: promote your listing, keep local data accurate, spread the word, and send feedback.
How contributing works
What happens after you share a venue, host, or karaoke night. Status meanings, matching, karaoke evidence, and attribution.
Adding karaoke with the chat assistant
A guided, chat-based way for hosts, guides, and moderators to set up a listing from a flyer or a few details.
Events and recurring karaoke nights
How recurring karaoke nights generate individual events, what Scheduled, Check first, and Confirmed mean, and how cancellations or schedule changes work.
Event tags
What each event tag means, when to use it, and how custom tags help singers find the right kind of karaoke night.
Confirmation statuses
What Confirmed, Scheduled, Check first, and Needs check mean on event cards, and what each venue banner is telling you.
How schedules repeat
Turn host and venue schedule wording into the right KaraokeCrowd recurrence, including floating dates and fifth-week cases.
How to Give Good Evidence
What counts as useful evidence, why direct confirmation matters, and how to help improve local data quality.
Images and Memory photos
What makes a good public listing image, what to avoid, and how alcohol, people, rights, and reports are handled.
Linking a host to existing events
Why a host page can show no upcoming events even when the host is performing, and how to link existing events to a host.
Roles and ownership
Claiming your venue or host profile
How venue operators and karaoke hosts take control of their listing, what Owner and Manager roles mean, and what changes after claiming.
Being a KaraokeCrowd guide
Guide privileges, no-pressure expectations, review standards, and how to handle your own auto-approved edits.
Need something else?
Use the feedback form for bugs, incorrect listings, safety concerns, or anything the guides don't cover.