The short answer
Make ticket types for Beginners, which includes the lesson, and Experienced, and a Table for four that admits four and counts four. Cap the event at the number of seats, four to a table, so the total never needs a fifth chair. A cap on the beginner type keeps the lesson to the size the teacher can manage.
Ask at checkout which rules they play - Hong Kong, American, Riichi - so tables can be set up together. The answers are against each order, and the attendee export is the seating plan.
Make it a weekly series and turn on Subscribe: a regular holds a ticket to every week until they cancel, and single tickets sit beside it on the same page. The morning after, the report says who came and who has stopped, and the event panel shows how many opened the page against how many booked.
Ready-made template
Mahjong Night
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- Beginner, experienced and a table for four that admits four
- Which rules they play, asked at checkout
- Weekly, ready for a subscription
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Four friends and one set | Nobody needs a ticket |
| Eight tables, a lesson table, strangers matched up | A single event with two ticket types, on One Ticket |
| The same night every week with regulars | A series with a subscription, on One Ticket |
| A table booked by four friends together | A ticket that admits four, counted against the cap |
The tables are the cap, in fours. A ticket that admits four is how a group books a table in one go.
How it works in practice
A subscription is a monthly charge on a series. Single tickets still sell beside it.
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| Beginners, with the lesson | Capped at what one teacher can manage |
| Experienced | Straight to a table |
| A table for four | One booking, four places against the cap |
| Which rules | A checkout question; the export is the seating plan |
| A weekly subscription | A ticket to every week until they cancel |
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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