Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A free meet-up where a rough headcount is enough | A Facebook event |
| People pay, and you are the one matching transfers to names | One Ticket |
| A cap, because the room holds forty | One Ticket |
| You want the reach of the event page and none of the admin | Both: the Facebook event, with the ticket link as its only button |
Facebook is described as people use it. Nothing on this page is a claim about its terms.
Ready-made template
Night Market Stall Bookings
Market stall bookings, 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.
- Stall, powered and food sites, each capped
- Business name and what they sell, required
- Monthly, with the waitlist on
What it looks like today
The DMs are the job. A room of forty is forty conversations, each with a follow-up.
| Each event | Today | With a ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Taking a booking | A message, a reply, a bank detail, a screenshot | A link, a card, a ticket in their inbox |
| Knowing who is coming | "Interested" is not "coming", and "going" is not "paid" | The list is the people who paid |
| The day before | You message everyone who said yes | The reminder goes for you |
| Cost on a $25 ticket | $0, plus the evenings | $1.45, paid by the buyer |
| Cost on a free ticket | $0 | $0 |
Where it breaks
| At the event | Today | A ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the room is full | You count, then you stop replying | A cap closes the tier and opens a waitlist |
| The person who said going and never paid | Another message | No ticket without payment |
| At the door | A list on a phone, and a queue while you find the name | A scan, a green tick, a name search |
| 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 Facebook event | Keep it. It is where people find you. Put the ticket link where "DM me" used to be |
| The people already in your messages | Send them the link once. They are on your list from their first ticket |
| The next post | Same event page, one button, no inbox |
One Ticket
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