The short answer
A season pass is one purchase for a fixed run of dates: the term, the season. The buyer gets a ticket to every session in it and shows the same QR each week. When the term ends, it ends.
A subscription is a monthly charge that keeps the buyer in every session of a series until they cancel. It is the right shape for a room that runs indefinitely, and the report the morning after tells you who is drifting before they cancel.
Both sit beside single tickets on the same event page, so the casual attendee and the regular buy from the same place, and the door scans them the same way.
Ready-made template
Thursday Barre Class
Weekly barre class, 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 drop-in capped at the barre spaces
- An injuries question for the instructor
- Weekly, ready for a subscription
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Ten weeks, paid once, fixed dates | A season pass, on One Ticket |
| Every week until they stop, paid monthly | A subscription, on One Ticket |
| A club membership with no events attached | Your membership software |
| Casual attendance with the odd regular | Tickets, and a pass for the regular who asks |
A membership that is not tickets to anything is a different product, and a good one, elsewhere.
How it works in practice
| Season pass | Subscription | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid | Once | Monthly |
| Covers | A fixed run of dates | Every session until cancelled |
| Ends | With the term | When they cancel |
| Best for | A term, a season | A room that never stops |
| At the door | Same QR each week | Same QR each week |
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 |
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