Passes, prices and who pays the fee

Free RSVPs and paid tickets can sit side by side. You choose whether the fee comes out of your price or goes on top.

What a pass is

A pass is one thing someone can hold: a free RSVP, a paid ticket, a day pass, a table. Each has its own price and its own limit, and free and paid can sit on the same event.

Who pays the fee — your choice, and it is visible

Selling a ticket costs 5% plus a small fixed amount per ticket. You decide who carries it.

The attendee pays it

The default. Your price is what you keep; the buyer sees a slightly higher total and what it is made of.

You pay it

The buyer pays exactly your price, and the fee comes out of your side. Cleaner to advertise, less in your pocket.

Selling out, and the waitlist

When a pass is gone, people can still join a waitlist. If someone cancels, their seat is offered automatically to whoever has waited longest. You can also let a particular person in from the waitlist yourself — Let in on a free pass, Offer spot on a paid one.

A paid pass only sells once your payouts are set up. Until then, checkout is refused.

Longest-waiting, not fastest-refreshing. It is the difference between a queue and a scramble.

Passes that need a yes first

A pass can also be apply-first: instead of paying on the spot, people apply, you approve or decline, and only the ones you approve go on to pay. A vendor booth is the usual case — you want to know what they sell before you sell them the space. How it works, what you can ask, and where the vendors end up is in Booths that need approving, below.