Reuse, Recycle, RELAX with our Festival Rollover feature 😎

2026 is just around the corner, and that means you are already working on next year's festivals, just like the majority of Crescat users then 😉

We know that while every festival is different - different lineup, different volunteers, maybe new stages - a lot of elements remain the same. That's why we make it super easy to reuse elements from your previous festival in Crescat, with Festival Rollover.

Festival Rollover is available to all of our Festival customers, and allows users to import assets, templates and settings from another festival including Events, Accommodations, Performance Settings, Advance Settings, Email Templates, Users, Accreditation Settings and much, much more!

In this article, we walk you through the basis of using Festival Rollover, so you can reuse, recycle and RELAX!

The Basics

The festival’s settings are where you will see the import function used the most.

Clicking on items in the settings menu will often reveal a new button in the upper right of the resulting settings page—the Import button.

Let’s take a look at what it does and how to use it. In this example, we’ll use a festival’s users settings page under Members. Importing other types of assets will always follow a similar process.

This is the slide out for importing users. Like most of the import slide outs, this one lets you select the Group and Festival that contains the assets you’d like to import.

Designed to reduce unexpected results, the slide out warning informs of potential pitfalls before you commit. In the Import Users slide out in the image above, we’re encouraged to import Roles from the related festival first. This lets Crescat add those Roles to the Users on their way into your festival.

Clicking Add All will instantly select every item in the list. You can then deselect some if you wish, or import everything! Naturally Remove All unchecks everything.

Not Just For Settings

For the most part, the process is similar wherever you click the import button. Let’s see two more quick examples.

Scheduler

In your usual Create New Event slide out, you can click the brand new Import button in the upper right corner.

This one allows you to import some or all events from another festival in your group—handy if you will have the same format as last year. You can even override the event’s name with a placeholder of your choice.

Festival Sections

When creating a new Festival Section, you may click Import in the upper right to reuse festival sections from other festivals in your group.

This one cautions us to import Accreditation levels from the relevant festival first if we’d like to completely mirror the other festival’s setup.

So there you go, that's festival setup made simpler. If you need any more guidance, we always recommend checking out the knowledge base at help.crescat.io