The short answer
Set the day once: the first hour, the last, how long each runs. Every session is made from that, capped at four players a court times the courts you have, and people pick a day and a time from the calendar on the event page. When an hour is full, the next person joins its waitlist.
Sell paddle hire as its own ticket type beside the court ticket, so the hire count is known before you pack the bag. A checkout question asks for a level - new, social, competitive - so the first rotation can be mixed sensibly.
For you, the Sessions page is the calendar from the other side: every hour with booked out of capacity, the hours under a third full for the next seven days, and who is in each. Those are the hours to post about. The morning after, the report says who came and who was new.
Ready-made template
Sunday Pickleball Social
Pickleball social, 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.
- Hourly court sessions on Sunday mornings
- Paddle hire as its own ticket
- A required level question for mixing the first round
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Four friends who book a court themselves | The venue's own booking |
| Social sessions every hour on a Sunday, mixed play | Timed sessions on one event, on One Ticket |
| A weekly social with regulars | Timed sessions, with a subscription on the series |
| A round-robin tournament with a final | A single event with a ticket per player |
The courts are the cap: four people a court, times the courts, per hour.
How it works in practice
Nothing here is about the venue's court booking terms. Agree those first.
| What you set | What it does |
|---|---|
| First hour, last hour, length | Every session of the day, capped at the courts |
| Paddle hire | Its own ticket type; the hire count known ahead |
| Level | A checkout question for mixing the first rotation |
| The waitlist | A full hour opens a place to the next person |
| Sessions | Which hours are not filling, for the next seven days |
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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