The short answer
Every way of taking money is easy at the moment of payment. The difference is afterwards: matching the money to a name, telling people the class is full, reminding them, and knowing on the day who is coming.
A ticket is the only one of the four that does the afterwards for you, and it is the only one where the buyer pays the fee as a line rather than you losing it from the price.
For a class that runs every week, the report the morning after is the part nobody expects to care about and then cannot do without: who came, who was new, who has stopped coming.
Ready-made template
Photography Basics Workshop
Photography workshop, 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.
- Ten places, paid up front
- A required question on what they will bring
- Monthly, with the waitlist on
Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Six people, once, cost price | A bank transfer |
| A class that runs every week | One Ticket |
| A product plus a class | Your shop for the product, a ticket for the class |
| A cap and a waitlist | One Ticket |
The first row is the honest one; for six people you know, a transfer is fine.
How it works in practice
| Afterwards | Bank transfer | Payment link | Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matching money to names | You | You, from a dashboard | Done |
| The class is full | You stop replying | You stop sharing | The tier closes |
| The reminder | You | You | Sent |
| At the door | A list | A list | A scan |
| Who came back | Two columns | An export | In your inbox |
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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