The short answer
On One Ticket, make a Human ticket and a Dog ticket, each with its own cap: the venue decides how many dogs, and the dog ticket closes at that number while human tickets keep selling. A required question asks the dog's name and size and confirms vaccinations are up to date.
When it sells out, the waitlist opens. Choose what happens when a place frees up: email the next person in line, who has six hours to book before the next is told, or email everyone at once and the first to book gets it. A refund or a cancelled order frees the place and the emails go by themselves.
On the day, scan tickets at the gate from a phone. Afterwards, the report says who came and who was new, and the event panel shows how many opened the page against how many booked, which is how you know when it is time for a bigger venue.
Ready-made template
Yappy Hour at the Brewery
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- Human and dog tickets, each capped
- Dog details asked at checkout
- The waitlist emails itself
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| An open dog park meetup | A post with the time and place |
| A capped dog-friendly social at a venue | Ticket types with caps and a waitlist, on One Ticket |
| A monthly yappy hour with regulars | A series with one link, on One Ticket |
| A fundraiser for a rescue | A single event with a donation ticket type |
The dogs are the cap. The waitlist is the people who would have come.
How it works in practice
Nothing here is advice on animal welfare or venue rules. Your venue and council set those.
| When a place opens | What happens |
|---|---|
| Next in line | One person is emailed and has six hours to book |
| Everyone at once | All waiting are told; the first to book gets it |
| Off | You contact them from Orders yourself |
| A refund before your cutoff | The place frees and the waitlist is told |
| A raised cap | Picked up within fifteen minutes |
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 |
Common questions
- Does the waitlist email people automatically?
- Yes. Choose next in line or everyone at once, and the email goes when a place opens.
- How long does the next person have?
- Six hours to book before the place is offered to the next person.
- Can I cap dogs separately from people?
- Yes. Each ticket type has its own cap.
- Can I ask about vaccinations at booking?
- Yes. Add a required question at checkout.
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