The short answer
Make two ticket types: Early bird at $120 with sales ending on a date, and Full price at $150 with sales starting the same day. The early-bird type can also carry its own cap, so the first twenty places are the cheap ones whatever the date.
When the early-bird window closes, the type disappears from the page. The full-price type is hidden until its sales start, so the page is never showing a ticket nobody can buy yet. On the day, it simply appears.
The cap on the event is forty across both types. When it fills, the waitlist opens, and a refund before your cutoff gives the place to the next person. Checkout questions collect dietary needs and the emergency contact once, at booking.
Ready-made template
Wellness Retreat Day
Wellness retreat day, 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.
- An early bird and a general ticket
- Required dietary needs
- The waitlist when it sells out
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A retreat you sell by conversation, twelve people | A deposit invoice and a call |
| Forty places, early bird then full price, a waitlist when it fills | One Ticket |
| A residential retreat with rooms and dietary needs | A ticket per room type, with checkout questions |
| A day you are not sure will fill | A small early-bird tier first; the number by week two tells you |
Early-bird is a ticket type with an end date, not a discount code. The difference is that nobody has to know a code.
How it works in practice
Put your own prices into the calculator: the booking fee steps with the price.
| Ticket type | Setting |
|---|---|
| Early bird, $120 | Sales end on a date, or a cap of twenty, or both |
| Full price, $150 | Sales start when early bird ends; hidden until then |
| The event | Cap of forty across both |
| Refunds | A cutoff a week out; the seat goes to the waitlist |
| Dietary needs | A checkout question, answered once |
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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