Selling tickets and collecting RSVPs directly on your website is an excellent way to handle registrations and grow your event revenue. Setting up built-in checkout systems allows you to accept secure credit card payments or digital wallet options without sending users to external platforms. When you configure your capacities, pricing tiers, and purchase options correctly, you ensure a smooth checkout experience that encourages more conversions.

This collection provides straightforward guides to help you create tickets, configure payment settings, and customize your checkout rules. You will learn how to set up reusable templates, handle shared inventory pools for different ticket types, and apply automatic processing fees during checkout. Use these resources to build a seamless ticketing system that simplifies attendee registration and maximizes your sales.

The Events Calendar Event Tickets articles

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Explore these guides to learn how to create tickets, manage capacities, and set up payment gateways on your WordPress site.

Charging Fees with Event Tickets
Why Use Fees? When selling tickets to events, you may want to cover processing costs, venue fees, or other expenses without adjusting the base ticket price. The new Fees feature in Event Tickets allows you to automatically apply percentage-based or flat-rate fees to ticket purchases. This feature provides flexibility in how fees are structured, ensuring…
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Configuring Event Tickets Settings
This is an overview of the settings included in Event Tickets. We’ll first look at the settings available when the plugin is used as a standalone solution, then cover the additional settings that appear when Event Tickets is used alongside The Events Calendar. All settings are found under Tickets → Settings in the WordPress dashboard.…
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Creating Coupons for Event Tickets
When selling tickets to events, offering discounts can be a powerful way to boost sales, reward loyal attendees, or run limited-time promotions. With the new Coupons feature in our free plugin Event Tickets, you can now create percentage-based or flat-rate discounts directly within Tickets Commerce. This flexible tool gives you full control over your promotional…
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Creating Event Tickets
Creating tickets with Event Tickets and Event Tickets Plus is easy and fast. This page walks you through the process of making tickets for your site’s posts, pages, or events. Before getting started, make sure you review your settings. The article is divided up into two main parts: You can get a quick overview of using…
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Creating Series Pass Tickets
Working hand and hand with our Event Series, Series Passes is an exciting new ticketing feature that we’ve built for our amazing plugins, Event Tickets and Events Calendar Pro. With Series Passes, you can sell a pass ticket that grants attendees access to a whole Series of events. Series Passes are perfect for multi-day events,…
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Creating Waitlists for Event Tickets
The Waitlist feature allows you to manage events with limited space or high-demand situations with ease. It lets you keep a list of interested attendees when an event is sold out or during pre-sales. You can effortlessly create a waitlist for both free and paid events by adding it to your tickets and RSVPs. 👋…
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Customizing Event Tickets
Many sites want to tweak how tickets and RSVPs look or behave on event pages. This article collects a range of common customizations — from small visual adjustments on the event page to filter hooks that change how tickets are presented across your calendar. See also: Hide Number of People Attending from Event Pages If…
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Customizing Tickets Commerce Purchases
Tickets Commerce is the built-in payment system in Event Tickets that allows users to purchase tickets through PayPal, Stripe, or Square. You may want to adjust how it handles the checkout experience, the order process, or the information it captures. This article collects customizations for Tickets Commerce purchases. Creating Custom Views Tickets Commerce looks good…
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