Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A dozen people, no money, one date | A form |
| Chasing transfers is somebody's Tuesday night | One Ticket |
| Knowing who has stopped coming without reading the spreadsheet | One Ticket |
| A room where the whole point is that nobody pays | A form, or a free ticket here, which costs nobody anything |
No other platform is named on this page, so there is nothing to source and nothing to argue with but the arithmetic.
Ready-made template
School Holiday Art Camp
School holiday art camp, 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.
- Twenty places, up to four children an order
- Required child, allergy and pick-up questions
- The waitlist when the day fills
An hour has a price too
Forty weeks of twenty minutes is more than thirteen hours a year, before anyone is reminded of anything.
| Each week | Form and transfer | One Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Matching payments to names | 20 to 40 minutes | None |
| Reminding people | A message you write | Sent for you |
| Who came back | You compare two columns | In your inbox by 7am |
| Cost on a $25 ticket | $0, plus the hours | $1.45, paid by the buyer |
| Cost on a free ticket | $0 | $0 |
What a form cannot do
| At the event | A form and a transfer | A ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the room is full | You close the form | A cap closes the tier and opens a waitlist |
| The person who said yes and never paid | A message, then another | No ticket without payment |
| At the door | A spreadsheet on a phone | A scan, a green tick, a name search |
| A refund | A transfer back, by hand | A refund from Orders; the ticket voids itself |
| The morning after | Two columns to compare | 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 your list across
| What moves | What happens |
|---|---|
| Your spreadsheet | Keep it. Everyone who buys a ticket here is on the new list from their first purchase |
| The next session | Build it here in a sentence, set your colours, publish, send the link where you used to send the form |
| The people who always pay at the door | Sell them a ticket at the door, from the same list, with the same card reader you have |
One Ticket
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.