Introducing EventNook Toolkit — Free Add-to-Calendar, QR Code, Countdown and Campaign Tools for Event Organisers

Fill in the event details once — title, location, date and time with timezone handling — and get back working "add to calendar" links for Google, Outlook, Office 365, Yahoo and Apple, plus a shareable page, an email-ready snippet and a website embed. A free account turns that into a permanent link, so moving the session by an hour updates it everywhere it's already embedded.

We wrote a full walkthrough of this one specifically — the .ics file Outlook and Apple need, plus save-the-date campaigns and events that run across two different venues.

The Countdown Timer is an embeddable, timezone-aware ticking clock for any event page — pick a style, a layout, and what happens at zero (a message, a redirect, or hiding it entirely). Output is one line of HTML that works on almost any website builder, with an optional register button built into the same embed.

We wrote a full walkthrough of this one specifically — setup steps, every style option, and the second use case most countdown widgets miss: running it live on the day for Q&A timing and session transitions.

The QR generator (also called NookQR) makes a QR for a link, a WiFi network, a vCard, an email, a phone number — and a Singapore PayNow QR code, complete with the SGQR/EMVCo checksum that makes it scan correctly in DBS/POSB, OCBC, UOB and the other local banking apps. Every code can carry your own colours and logo instead of a plain black-and-white square, and downloads as a print-ready PNG or SVG.

We wrote a full walkthrough of the PayNow side specifically — how to generate one, when to leave the amount blank versus fixed, and where a plain QR stops being enough for a ticketed event. For event use, the pattern repeats everywhere: a QR on signage that points to the agenda, one at the registration desk for walk-in payment, one on a badge for check-in.

A button that looks right in a browser often collapses in Outlook, because Outlook's rendering engine is Word, not a browser engine, and it ignores most of the CSS a normal button relies on. The Register Button tool builds two versions from one design: a website button with proper hover and focus states, and an email version using VML markup for Outlook alongside standard HTML for Gmail, Apple Mail and Outlook.com — so "Register now" looks the same whichever inbox it lands in. Pick a style (brand pill, soft rounded, sharp, outline, solid dark, urgent), set your colours and text, and copy the two snippets into your website or straight into Mailchimp, HubSpot or Klaviyo.

Enter a destination URL and your campaign details once in the UTM Campaign Builder, tick which channels you're posting to — email, social, paid ads, press — and get back properly tagged links for every one of them, ready to paste. The tool lowercases and hyphenates every value automatically, which matters more than it sounds: without it, "LinkedIn" and "linkedin" show up as two separate rows in your analytics, and a quarter's worth of campaign data quietly splits down the middle. No account is needed to generate links; a free account lets you save a campaign's link set to reuse for the next event.

List the regions your speakers and attendees are actually in on the Time Zone Planner, set a working-hours window and a session length, and the planner lays out all 24 UTC hours as a grid with each region's local time and a "fit" score, so the best start times are visually obvious instead of something you work out on paper with three browser tabs of timezone converters open. Useful for anything with participants split across Singapore, London and New York in the same session.

The Event Budget Calculator takes fixed costs (venue, insurance, anything that doesn't scale with headcount), per-attendee costs (catering, badges, swag) and your ticket types and prices, and returns the minimum tickets you need to sell to break even, a projected surplus or deficit at your expected attendance, and the effective cost per head — the numbers worth knowing before signing a venue contract, not after. It runs entirely free with no account; a free account just lets you save the model and revisit it as vendor quotes come in and the numbers move.

Paste your email platform's exported HTML into Email Template Hosting — Mailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo, whatever you use — and get back a permanent, public URL that renders it as a proper browser page, with an optional subject line shown above it. That URL is exactly what a "view this email in your browser" link should point to, for the inevitable recipient whose inbox renders your campaign as a wall of broken CSS. Since the page has to be hosted somewhere, this is the one tool in the toolkit that needs a free account from the start.

The newest tool in the kit, and the one that bundles the rest: the Event Landing Page builder combines a banner, title, date and venue (with timezone conversion and an embedded map), a countdown that hides itself once the event starts, an add-to-calendar button, and a register button — all on one page you publish without touching a website builder. Pick a theme (Gradient, Light, Dark or Minimal) and a colour, choose whether the calendar button shows as a single button or a dropdown with all five providers, and it's live. A free account is what publishes the page — there's no page to embed without one.

Paste any page's address into the Social Preview Checker and it fetches the page and reads its Open Graph tags — exactly what LinkedIn, Facebook, X and WhatsApp do the moment someone pastes your link — and shows you all four previews side by side before you post anywhere. A missing og:image turns a launch announcement into a grey box, and normally you only find out once it's already live and shared. Nothing about the page you check is saved.

The Email Signature builder collects your name, title, company and contact details, a photo (uploaded or a public image URL — either way it's hosted for you), and a row of social links, then lays them out image-left, image-right or stacked, with a choice of email-safe fonts and an optional divider rule. An optional banner underneath promotes whatever you're running this month. Export as a Gmail-ready block, an Outlook web/new signature, a downloadable .htm for Outlook desktop, or raw table-based HTML with inline styles for anything else.

Lay out sessions, speakers and rooms in the Event Agenda tool, pick from a Timeline, List, Cards or Table layout (Table adds track columns automatically for parallel programming), and embed it or share the link. Change a speaker or a room at 9pm the night before and the embed updates itself — nobody re-exports a PDF. Toggle banner, speaker bios, descriptions, rooms, tracks and type badges (keynote, workshop, break) independently, and add a per-session "add to calendar" button so attendees can save only the sessions they're actually going to. Publishing the embed needs a free account.

The Digital Business Card turns your name, title, company, contact details and social links into a shareable profile page — print it as a QR on a badge, or just hold your phone up at the booth. The person on the other end taps once to save your details straight to their contacts, instead of typing your number into their phone while you both stand there. Pick a theme (Gradient, Light, Dark, Minimal), a photo shape (Circle, Rounded, Square) and an accent colour; publishing the live page needs a free account.

Generating a QR one at a time works for a poster, not for 400 personalised badges. The bulk endpoint at qr.eventnook.app/docs takes a single request with a list of items — each with its own data and an optional name — plus one shared design, and returns every code as JSON or streams the whole batch back as a ZIP. It's capped at 50 per request by default, with the response telling you plainly if anything was truncated or failed, so a script can retry just the parts that need it. Authenticate with an API key as a bearer token, and wire QR generation straight into your own registration flow instead of generating codes by hand.