Which fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A ride or a run where nobody pays and nobody is turned away | The group chat |
| You are booking a court, a bus or a table and paying up front | One Ticket |
| Thumbs up is not a commitment and the venue charges you anyway | One Ticket |
| A one-off where twelve mates split a bill | The group chat |
WhatsApp is described as people use it. Nothing on this page is a claim about its terms.
Ready-made template
Wednesday Social Futsal
Social futsal, 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 player ticket capped at twenty
- A required level question for picking teams
- Every Wednesday, with the waitlist on
What it looks like today
The chat is fine for talking. It is a poor ledger, and someone ends up out of pocket.
| Each event | Today | With a ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Taking a booking | A poll, or a thumbs up, or "count me in" three hundred messages up | A link in the chat, a card, a ticket |
| Knowing who is coming | A thumbs up is a mood, not a booking | The list is the people who paid |
| Paying the venue | You pay, then chase the six who were a thumbs up and a no-show | The tickets paid for it before the night |
| The day before | You @everyone | The reminder goes to the people with a ticket |
| Cost on a $15 ticket | $0, plus the money you did not get back | A small booking fee the buyer pays |
Where it breaks
| At the event | Today | A ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing the room is full | You count, then you stop replying | A cap closes the tier and opens a waitlist |
| The six who did not turn up | You cover the shortfall | They paid when they said yes; refund the ones you choose to |
| Cash on the night | A float, a bag, a count at the end | Nothing to count |
| At the door | A list on a phone, and a queue while you find the name | A scan, a green tick, a name search |
| The morning after | You reconcile it | 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 |
Moving across
| What moves | What happens |
|---|---|
| The group | Keep it. Post the ticket link where the poll used to go |
| The regulars | A season pass or a subscription, so the same people are in without asking each week |
| The ones who only ever paid on the night | A ticket at the door, from the same list, with a card reader you already have |
One Ticket
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.