The short answer
Build the first breakfast, set it to repeat monthly on the first Thursday, and publish. The series page lists every upcoming breakfast; the link never goes stale, so it lives in the email footer and the LinkedIn bio. Each breakfast has its own cap and its own tickets.
Two ticket types: Member and Guest, at their prices. Members can hold a subscription on the series so they are in every month without booking; guests buy the one breakfast. The venue number on Tuesday is the count on the event, no reconciling.
The morning after, the report says who came, who was new and who has missed three months, which is the committee's follow-up list without anyone compiling it.
Ready-made template
Monthly Networking Breakfast
Networking breakfast, 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 breakfast ticket capped at sixty
- Company and dietary needs 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 one-off launch event | A single event |
| The same breakfast every month, members and guests | A monthly series, on One Ticket |
| A committee that tracks members in its own database | Keep the database; sell the breakfasts here |
| A private dinner for twelve invited people | An email and an invoice |
The series is the thing. One link that is always the next breakfast is what a committee stops having to re-send.
How it works in practice
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| A monthly series | One link, always the next breakfast |
| Member and Guest tickets | Two prices on one page |
| A subscription for members | In every month, no booking |
| A cap of sixty | Closes at sixty; the waitlist takes the rest |
| The report | Who came, who was new, who has stopped |
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
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.