The short answer
Build the series with its ten Saturdays and add a season pass beside the single tickets. The pass is one purchase and one QR, valid at every session in the term. When the term ends, it ends; the next term is a new series and a new pass.
A pass holds a place at every session, so it counts against the cap for all ten. If the room is twelve, eight passes leave four casual places each week, and the single tickets sell into those.
A pass holder who misses a week is on the morning-after report as absent, which is how a studio knows who to check on before the term quietly ends for them.
Ready-made template
Mat Pilates, Tuesday Evenings
Mat pilates term, 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 eighteen mats
- A required health question
- Weekly, ready for a subscription for the term
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Ten dates, paid once, then it ends | A season pass, on One Ticket |
| Every week until they stop, paid monthly | A subscription, on One Ticket |
| A pack of ten to use on any class in the timetable | Your studio software |
| A term with a few casual places kept open | A pass with a cap, and single tickets for the rest |
A pass is tickets to fixed dates. A pack you spend on any class is a different thing, and studio software sells it.
How it works in practice
| Season pass | Subscription | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid | Once, for the term | Monthly |
| Covers | The ten dates | Every session until cancelled |
| Cap | A place at every session | A place at every session |
| Ends | With the term | When they cancel |
| Next term | A new series, a new pass | Carries on |
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.