Website to sell tickets on for charity night?

LaDiva_2

I do hope I'm posting this in the right place.


I'm entering Race for Life and I am hoping to host a Curry Night to boost the money I make for the Charity.


I was wondering if anyone is aware of any websites which allow you to 'sell' tickets to the event without any charge? I wish to set up a 'page' as I know some people can commit to a good cause and then forget so rather than waste food I would prefer to get the money in the bag for the cause.


Any ideas anyone?


Thank you.

Owain_Moneysaver

Cancer Research suggest using JustGiving, which apparently can handle event ticket sales

Otherwise you could look at Pure Charity but note there are fees (and chargeback risks) associated with card payments.

LaDiva_2

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Cancer Research suggest using JustGiving, which apparently can handle event ticket sales

Otherwise you could look at Pure Charity but note there are fees (and chargeback risks) associated with card payments.

Re: Just Giving: I'm petrified of someone selecting Giftaid and me not noting it in time to reverse it. I know GiftAid cannot be applied for on Curry Nights and similar events.

Savvy_Sue

LaDiva wrote: »

Re: Just Giving: I'm petrified of someone selecting Giftaid and me not noting it in time to reverse it. I know GiftAid cannot be applied for on Curry Nights and similar events.

I think if you set the page up right, it will generate a message to say "this isn't eligible for Gift Aid" but it might be worth getting advice from Cancer Research if you're not clear about this.

You could also look at Virgin Giving. I think that's who we use at work and you can do ticket sales through them.

paddyrg

Try EventBrite - probably the best of the e-ticketing systems, it allows you to check people in and out electronically, create campaigns, ticket variations, all sorts of permutations. Very good system.

Owain_Moneysaver

I noticed Eventbrite but didn't suggest it as their fees are 2.5% of the ticket value plus £0.65 per ticket, and 3.5% for card payments.

paddyrg

Yes they charge fees, and there are cheaper e-ticketing companies, but in terms of campaign tracking etc they are by far the best of the lot at the moment. For instance, if you want person x to be able to sell their first 5 tickets at a 10% discount by a certain date assuming person y hasn't sold all of their allocation, you can. If you want to offer interested parties the chance to organise a table by giving them a tracking code and offering that they get a comp if they bring 12 others (who can all sign up and pay individually), you can. If you are selling tickets with three different campaigns and want to see which is most effective, you can.

The other upside is that you can set what details you collect about attendees, this can form the basis of a mailing list for other campaigns. And the tablet/smartphone check-in with real-time reporting is also actually useful.

So yes, they do charge a fee for charged events (free for free events), but you also get quite a lot of benefits for that. You can even push the charges into a booking fee should you choose, it can be calculated dynamically and you can even add a booking fee profit if you want!