How to sell tickets

Apply once

Any AllEvents account can apply to become an organizer — including one you already buy tickets with. Go to Sell with us and tell us the name of your business, a number we can reach you on, where you are based, and a sentence or two about the kind of events you run.

A real person reads it. That is why the form asks for more than an email address: an admin approving on a name alone is not a review, and the questions are the ones a reviewer would otherwise have to come back and ask.

While you wait

You do not have to sit still. Once you have applied you get a studio straight away, and you can build everything in it — events, ticket types, seat maps, your branding, your team. What you cannot do until you are approved is publish. We email you the moment a decision is made.

If we cannot approve it, we tell you why, and the form reopens so you can correct it and send it again. A refusal is not the end of it.

Price your tickets

An event can have as many ticket types as you need — early bird, standard, VIP, group. Each one has its own price, its own quantity, and its own sale window, so an early bird can close on a date while everything else keeps selling.

You choose the currency when you create the event, and everything sells in it. Once an event has taken money, the currency is locked: repricing a ₦10,000 ticket as $10,000 by changing a dropdown is not an edit anybody means to make, and every receipt already in a buyer's inbox says otherwise.

Reserved seating

If your venue has seats rather than a floor, build a seat map and assign sections to ticket types. Buyers then pick actual seats, and a seat sold is a seat gone — the stock for a seated ticket type is the seats mapped to it, so the two cannot disagree.

Maps are reusable. Build your venue once and clone it for every event you run there.

Getting your event live

Submit it for review when it is ready and a platform admin checks it. Approved, it goes on sale immediately. Sent back, you get the reason and can fix it.

Editing a live event sends it back for review. Approval is approval of something specific, and a date, venue or price that changes afterwards was never seen by the admin who approved what used to be there. The event comes off sale until it is approved again — tickets already sold stay valid — and the editor warns you before the first change rather than after.

Money

Buyers pay through card, bank transfer or mobile money, whichever can take your event's currency. There is no listing fee and nothing to pay up front; the platform's commission comes out of what you sell, and the rate that applied to a sale is stored with it, so a later change never rewrites what a completed order was worth.

You can see every order as it happens under Orders in your dashboard, with what was sold, to whom, and whether the money has cleared.

On the day

Every ticket carries a QR code. Check people in from the dashboard and a ticket that has already been scanned, or that belongs to a refunded order, is refused at the door.

Working with other people

Invite your team into your studio and give each person a role — someone who can build events, someone who can only work the door, someone who can see the money. They sign in with their own account and see only what their role allows.

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How to create an event walks through building the listing itself, and how to promote events covers filling it.