The short answer
Build the first Saturday, set it to repeat weekly and publish. The series has one link with every upcoming run on it, and each run has its own free tickets. Share that link once, in the bio and the group chat, and it never goes stale.
The reminder goes the day before to everyone with a ticket, and a free ticket means the person who will not make it can hand it back rather than just not showing. When a run is moved or rained out, one message reaches everyone holding a ticket for that run, not the whole chat.
The morning after, the report says who came, who was new and who has missed a few weeks. Give the cafe the real number, and give the regular who has drifted a reason to come back. A sponsor gets a true count, not an estimate from a photo.
Ready-made template
Saturday Social Run Club
Social run 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 weekly ticket with a cap for the cafe
- An optional pace question
- Saturday at 7am, repeating weekly
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A handful of friends who always come | The group chat |
| Thirty to a hundred people a week, free, with a cafe expecting you | A free weekly series, on One Ticket |
| A sponsored run with a goodie bag per runner | Free tickets with a cap at the number of bags |
| Paid coaching on top of the social run | A paid ticket type beside the free one |
A free ticket costs nobody anything, on either side. It is still a ticket: a name, an email and a reminder.
How it works in practice
Free tickets cost the organiser nothing and the runner nothing. There is no booking fee on a free ticket.
| What happens | On the series |
|---|---|
| Sharing | One link, every Saturday listed |
| Knowing the numbers | Free tickets per run, with a cap if the cafe needs one |
| The day before | A reminder to everyone with a ticket |
| A moved or cancelled run | One message to the people holding tickets for it |
| The morning after | Who came, who was new, who has 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 |
One Ticket
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.