The short answer
Make a ticket type for each bracket - say, 25 to 34 and 35 to 44 - each with its own cap, and a cap on the event for the room. When one bracket fills, its ticket closes and joins the waitlist while the others stay on sale, so the room stays as balanced as you planned.
Add checkout questions for the name to print on the badge and an icebreaker, like the last thing they learned. Export the attendees and the badges print from the list the afternoon before. At the door, scan the ticket and hand over the badge.
The day before, one message to everyone with a ticket: where to go, when to arrive, what happens. The morning after, the report says who came and who was new, and a regular who comes back is the measure that matters for a night like this.
Ready-made template
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- A capped ticket for each age bracket
- The badge name and an icebreaker at checkout
- Monthly, with the waitlist on
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A casual meet-up where whoever comes, comes | A free event |
| A balanced room, thirty people, rotations every few minutes | A ticket type per bracket, each capped, on One Ticket |
| A monthly night with a regular crowd and new faces | A series, on One Ticket |
| A night for one community only | A private event with a password, shared in that group |
Balance is the product. Thirty people who are all twenty-five is a different night from the one on the poster.
How it works in practice
A ticket type per bracket is a cap, not a check. Ask at checkout and see who arrives.
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| A ticket type per age bracket | Each capped; the room stays balanced |
| Name for the badge | A checkout question, printed from the export |
| An icebreaker question | Something to start the first rotation |
| Message attendees | The details, to everyone with a ticket |
| The morning after | Who came, who was new, who came back |
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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