The short answer
Set the day once: the first session, the last, how long each runs and the rest between them for the puppies. Every session is made from that with its own cap, and people pick a day and a time from the calendar on the event page. When a time is full it says so, and the next person joins the waitlist instead of your messages.
Put the questions that matter at checkout and make them required: allergies to dogs, the age of anyone under sixteen, and that the attendee has read your rules about handling the puppies. Nobody holds a ticket without answering, and the answers are on Orders the night before, not on a clipboard at the door.
Demand runs ahead of the room, so a cancellation is not lost. A refund before your cutoff voids the ticket and the first person on the waitlist is told a place has opened. On your dashboard the event panel shows how many people opened the page beside how many bought, so you know when it is time to add another day.
Ready-made template
Puppy Yoga
Puppy yoga, 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.
- Weekly timed sessions, 45 minutes with a rest between
- A cap of twelve, a cap per order and the waitlist
- Required questions on allergies, under-sixteens and the handling rules
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| One session, once, for a launch or a fundraiser | A single event with a cap |
| Several short sessions a day, every weekend, each with its own small cap | Timed sessions on one event, on One Ticket |
| A regular class where the same people come back each week | A series, with a subscription for the regulars |
| A private session for a hens party or a team | A private event with a password, on One Ticket |
The cap is set by the puppies and the room, not by demand. The page has to say how many places there are before anybody asks.
How it works in practice
Nothing here is advice on animal welfare. Your breeder, shelter or council sets those rules, and the page should say them.
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| First session, last session, length, rest between | Every session of the day, each with its own cap |
| Required checkout questions | Allergies, under-sixteens, the handling rules, answered before a ticket exists |
| A cap per order | One person cannot take a whole session for their friends |
| A refund cutoff | A place given back before it goes to the waitlist |
| Visitors and tickets sold | Whether another day would fill |
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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