How to create an event in seconds with AI

The short answer

You can create an event with AI by describing it in one sentence, the way you would tell a friend: “A handpan gig at Brown’s Mart, 7pm next Friday, $25, 60 seats.” An AI event creator turns that into a draft with the title, the date and start time, the venue, a ticket type, its price and how many places there are. You check the draft, add what it couldn’t know, and publish.

On One Ticket that is the Assistant, inside your organiser app on every plan, including the free one. It drafts; you decide. Nothing goes on sale until you press Publish.

What the AI fills in

From one sentence, the Assistant fills in what you told it and nothing else:

• The title, from what the event is (“Handpan gig”).
• The date and start time. “Next Friday” becomes a date, “7pm” becomes 7:00 pm. Several dates only for one event that runs over several days.
• The place: the venue’s name, and its street address if you gave one. It won’t look up an address for a venue it recognises, because a confident wrong address sends people to the wrong door.
• Online events: say it is online and paste the meeting link, and it drafts an online event.
• Ticket types, prices and places. One ticket type unless you describe more, priced in your account’s currency, with “free” as $0. Up to ten ticket types, such as adult, concession and child.
• A per-person limit, kept apart from the capacity. “Limit 2 per person” means each buyer can have two, not that only two tickets exist.
• A line about it and a description, when you have told it what happens and who it is for. If you only gave the bare facts, it leaves them empty rather than inventing a night you didn’t describe.
• Questions for buyers at checkout, only when you ask for them, such as a dietary need or a T-shirt size.

The draft shows as a card with each of those in a row. Under it, an Assumed line lists anything it took for granted, such as which Friday you meant. That line is there so nobody publishes a week early.

Step by step

1. Open the Assistant. Sign in to One Ticket and choose Assistant in the menu.
2. Describe the event in a sentence. Put in what you know: what it is, when, where, the price and how many people fit. Short is fine.
3. Read the draft card. Check the date, the price and the places, and the Assumed line. If something is missing, such as the venue, it asks for it in one sentence.
4. Fix it by talking. “Make it 7:30 instead”, “add a $15 concession ticket” or “it’s at 12 Smith Street” changes only what you mention and keeps the rest.
5. Choose Create draft. The event is saved as a draft. Nothing goes on sale.
6. Open it in the editor. Add a cover picture, check your refund policy and the look, and fill anything the editor’s line still asks for. Publishing needs a title, a date, a place with its street address (or a meeting link), a one-line about of at least 10 characters and a ticket type. See create an event.
7. Publish. Paid tickets go through Stripe into your own account, so connect it before you publish a paid ticket. Free events don’t need Stripe.

The whole thing is a sentence, a check and two buttons. Our publishing guide covers what happens once it is live.

Write a better first sentence

The more you put in the first message, the fewer follow-ups you need. A good sentence has five things:

1. What it is: “a pottery workshop for beginners”.
2. When: “Saturday 14 November, 10am to 1pm”.
3. Where: “at Riverside Hall, 14 Bay Street”.
4. Tickets and prices: “$65, or $55 concession”.
5. How many: “12 places”.

Put together: “A beginners' pottery workshop at Riverside Hall, 14 Bay Street, Saturday 14 November 10am to 1pm, $65 or $55 concession, 12 places.” Add a line on what happens, “everyone takes home two pieces, all clay and glazes included”, and it writes the about line and description from that too.

Some things are better said in plain words than left to guess:

• Multi-day events: “Friday and Saturday, 6pm both nights” gives one event with two dates.
• Weekly or monthly events: “every Tuesday” drafts the next Tuesday, and it tells you to set the event to repeat in the editor. See repeating events.
• Free events: say “free” and the ticket is $0, with no booking fee for anyone.

What the AI leaves to you

Some choices are yours and stay in the editor: the cover picture, the refund policy, the look of the page, and whether the event is public, unlisted or private. A drafted event starts with your usual refund policy and a public page, and you can change any of it before you publish.

The Assistant also can’t publish, take payments, give refunds, email your attendees or delete an event. Ask it to and it tells you where that is done. That is on purpose: an AI that drafts is quick to check, while an AI that publishes on its own is hard to trust.

Will it get things wrong?

Sometimes, the way anyone taking notes from a quick sentence can. That is why the draft is a card you read before anything is saved, why its assumptions are listed, and why it asks rather than guesses when the title, the date or the place is missing. Read the date and the price before you choose Create draft, and preview the page before you publish.

What it costs

The Assistant comes with every plan. The Free plan includes 50 messages a month, Pro 2,000 and Team 5,000, and they start again each month. Drafting an event usually takes a message or two, plus one for each change you ask for. A message that fails with an error isn’t counted. Pro and Team are open now: upgrade any time in Settings › Plan. Limited-time offer: A$1 for your first year (first 100 organisers), then A$29/month for Pro or A$79/month for Team. Cancel anytime.

Selling tickets on the Free plan has no monthly cost: you keep 100% of your ticket price, and buyers pay a small booking fee on paid tickets. See pricing.

Beyond the first draft

Once the event exists, the same Assistant writes the description in your voice, suggests a reply when a buyer emails you, and tells you how sales are going. If your event already has a poster, you can turn the flyer into the event page instead of typing it out.