Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A market stall, a raffle, a gold coin donation | The door |
| You need to know by Thursday whether Saturday is worth running | One Ticket |
| A cap, and a queue outside that does not know it | One Ticket |
| A regular room where most people decide on the day | Both: tickets online, and the door from the same list |
Card readers are described as people use them. Nothing on this page is a claim about any provider's fees.
Ready-made template
Thursday Bingo Night
Bingo night, already set up as an event you can open now. Pick a date and a venue, change what you like, and publish. Nothing is saved until you do, and you can start without an account.
- Entry with the first book, capped at the room
- A required 18 and over question
- Every Thursday, with the waitlist on
What it looks like today
The door is fine for money. It is blind about everything before the night.
| Each event | Today | With a ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the numbers | On the night | By Thursday, from the tickets sold |
| The float | Someone goes to the bank | None |
| The queue | One person taking money, one counting heads | Scan the ones who bought; sell the rest a ticket at the door |
| Cost on a $25 ticket | The reader's fee, out of the $25 | $1.45, paid by the buyer |
| Cost on a free ticket | $0 | $0 |
Where it breaks
| At the event | Today | A ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Cancelling a quiet night | You find out too late | You can see it on Thursday, and message everyone with a ticket |
| Knowing the room is full | You count, then you stop replying | A cap closes the tier and opens a waitlist |
| Who came last month | A count, not names | Names, and who is new |
| A refund | A transfer back, by hand, when you remember | A refund from Orders; the ticket voids itself |
| The morning after | You reconcile it | Who came, who was new, who stopped coming |
One Ticket for a recurring room
Everything below follows from one decision: a series is one object, not a list of dates.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Who came back | After every session: how many came, how many had been before, who is new and who has stopped coming, by name, with an address to write to |
| Subscriptions | One subscription covers every session in a series. Each night's ticket is minted ahead of time |
| Paid out | Every ticket is charged to your own Stripe account. A new account is paid out to your bank two days after each event, once guests have said how it went; after a first clean event it is paid out as it sells |
| Fees | No platform fee on the ticket price. The buyer pays a booking fee: a platform tier of 35c to $1.45 a ticket, then 1.5% of the price above $100, plus card processing. On a $25 ticket that is $1.45 all in, so the buyer pays $26.45. Free tickets cost nothing |
| Refund if it changes | Move the date, start time or place after people have booked and every one of them can refund in full, booking fee included, until it starts, whatever your refund policy says. You are warned before you save, and everyone booked is emailed the new details |
| Refund requests | On a case-by-case event the buyer asks from their ticket. You have 3 days to refund or decline; a request nobody answers goes to One Ticket support, and your payouts are held until it is settled |
| Guest ratings | After each event, ticket holders rate it: stars and a few words. From 5 ratings the average shows under your name on every event page, good or bad. Notes are for you alone, and never say who wrote them |
| Scam protection | Every page is read before it can send an email, and our emails carry none of an organiser's own links or phone numbers. A new organiser's money is held until after the event, and anyone can report an event from its page |
| Verified tick | Earned by selling here: 3 past events, 25 tickets, no chargebacks, no ignored refund requests, and an average of 4 stars once there are 10 ratings. A chargeback or an ignored request takes it away at once |
| Block a person | Block an address from a ticket type, for this event or every one after it. No public list, no conversation at the door |
| Your page | Your colours, your title font, your cover. Nobody else's event on it |
| Import | Paste an Eventbrite link and the title, description, date, venue and ticket types come across |
| Not included | A marketplace. There is no search page and no audience to sell into; the people are the ones you bring |
Moving across
| What moves | What happens |
|---|---|
| The reader | Keep it. A door sale is a ticket from the same list, paid on whatever you already have |
| The regulars | A season pass or a subscription, so they are in without queueing |
| The night itself | Scan the people who bought; the door is for everyone else |
One Ticket
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.