The short answer
Make it a monthly series: build the first night, repeat it, publish. One link with every upcoming night on it goes in your bio and stays there. Each night has free tickets with a cap at the seats the venue will hold for you.
The reminder the day before is what turns a yes into a reader in a chair. Someone who cannot come can hand the ticket back, and the waitlist fills the seat. If the venue changes, one message reaches everyone holding a ticket for that night.
The morning after, the report says who came, who was new and who has stopped coming. Over a few months that is the list that tells you whether the club needs a second night, and the event panel shows how many people opened the page against how many booked.
Ready-made template
Silent Book Club
Silent book club, 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.
- A free seat capped at what the venue holds
- Monthly, with the waitlist on
- A description ready to edit
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A few friends who meet anyway | A group chat |
| Thirty readers at a venue that needs a headcount | Free tickets with a cap, on One Ticket |
| A small charge that covers a drink or a donation | A paid ticket, with the booking fee on top for the buyer |
| The same night every month | A series with one link, on One Ticket |
A free ticket costs nobody anything. It still gives the venue a number and the reader a reminder.
How it works in practice
There is no booking fee on a free ticket, for you or the reader.
| What happens | On the series |
|---|---|
| Sharing | One link, every month listed |
| The venue's number | Free tickets capped at the seats held for you |
| The day before | A reminder to everyone with a ticket |
| A full night | The waitlist, told when a seat is handed back |
| The morning after | Who came, who was new, who stopped |
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 |
One Ticket
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