The short answer
On One Ticket, make a Couple ticket that admits two. One booking, one price, two places counted against the cap, so twelve wheels never become thirteen couples. Keep a Single ticket beside it for people who come on their own, and both count against the same total.
Ask what you need at checkout: a dropdown for experience, and a free-text question for anything the teacher should know. Answers come with the attendee list. The reminder the day before carries the ticket and the address, so nobody arrives at the wrong studio.
When date night falls through, the ticket holder can transfer the booking from their ticket page to a friend: the new holder gets a fresh QR and the old one stops working. You keep the sale and the wheel is used.
Ready-made template
Pottery Date Night
Pottery date night, 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 couple ticket that admits two
- Singles beside it
- Experience asked at checkout
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A class where everyone comes alone | Single tickets |
| A date night where a wheel takes two | A ticket that admits two, on One Ticket |
| Both: couples and a few singles | A couple ticket and a single ticket on one event, on One Ticket |
| A private session for a group of friends | A private event with a password |
The wheels are the cap, and a couple is two places, not one.
How it works in practice
A couple ticket is one ticket with two places, not two tickets bought together.
| You set | It does |
|---|---|
| A couple ticket that admits two | One booking, two places against the cap |
| A single ticket beside it | Counted against the same total |
| An experience dropdown | The teacher knows who has never thrown |
| Transfers | A couple who cannot come pass it on |
| The reminder | The ticket and the address, the day before |
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
- Can one ticket admit two people?
- Yes. Set how many people a ticket admits, and it counts that many against the cap.
- Can I sell singles and couples at the same event?
- Yes. Both ticket types count against the same event cap.
- Can a couple give their booking to friends?
- Yes. The ticket holder can transfer it; the new holder gets a new QR code.
- Can I ask questions at booking?
- Yes. Dropdown and free-text questions, optional or required.
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