Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Taking $20 from thirty people you already know, once | A Payment Link |
| Selling a product, not a place in a room | A Payment Link |
| A cap, a waitlist and a QR at the door | One Ticket |
| A series, a season pass and a report the morning after | One Ticket |
One Ticket runs on Stripe too. The rows that point at a bare link are the ones where the platform would be in the way.
Ready-made template
Beginners Pottery Workshop
Pottery 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.
- Eight places, one to a wheel
- Experience asked at checkout
- The waitlist for the next one
What each costs on a $25 ticket
| Payment Link | One Ticket | |
|---|---|---|
| Organiser keeps | $25 minus Stripe's card fee | $25.00 |
| Buyer pays | $25.00 | $26.45. The $1.45 booking fee is the buyer's line on the receipt |
| Card processing | Out of the $25 | Out of the booking fee, not the $25 |
| Door, cap, reminders, list | Not included | Included |
What a link cannot do
Everything on the right is what the $1.45 pays for.
| At the event | A Payment Link | A ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the room is full | You stop sharing the link | A cap closes the tier and opens a waitlist |
| At the door | A list of payments to read | A scan, a green tick, a name search |
| The reminder the day before | You write it | Sent for you |
| The one who paid twice | A refund from the Stripe dashboard | A refund from Orders; the ticket voids itself |
| The morning after | A payments export | Who came, who was new, who stopped coming |
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 |
Sources and method
Every statement about another platform on this page is checked against a dated page from that platform, kept in this list. Where a claim could not be sourced it is not made. Comparative claims about a named competitor are advertising, and we treat them that way.
- Stripe Australia pricing: stripe.com/au/pricing.
- Stripe Payment Links: stripe.com/au/payments/payment-links.
- One Ticket fee schedule: 35c to $1.45 a ticket, then 1.5% of the price above $100, as on the pricing page and the fee calculator.
- One Ticket payouts: every ticket is charged to the organiser's connected Stripe account; a refund reverses that transfer and refunds the booking fee.
One Ticket
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