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Ticketing essentials
The mechanics every organizer runs into: pricing, refunds, descriptions, accessibility.
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Selling tickets to your first event: what actually happensThe setup, the fees, when the money reaches you, and what can hold a listing up. A plain walk-through of selling tickets for the first time, with real figures.Read the guideIn this topic
- August 22, 2026Do you need a business account to sell tickets?What actually gets checked when you set up to sell tickets, when selling as an individual is fine, and the point at which a separate account starts helping.
- August 22, 2026Free event or a $5 ticket, and why free costs moreWhat a free event actually costs once no-shows are counted, when free is genuinely the right choice, and why a small charge changes who turns up.
- August 22, 2026Nobody bought tickets in the first week. Now whatHow to diagnose slow ticket sales before panicking, why the first week means less than you think, and the order to fix things in.
- August 22, 2026Refunds, chargebacks and no-shows, handled fairlyHow to write a refund policy before you need one, what a chargeback actually is, and why no-shows are usually a pricing problem rather than a policy problem.
- August 22, 2026Writing an event description people finish readingWhat a reader is deciding in the first eight seconds, the four questions a description must answer, and the openings that lose people immediately.