Sell event tickets

Your marketplace can work as a simple ticket shop for concerts, workshops, classes or tours. Organisers post a listing with the event date and the number of tickets, buyers pay with Buy Now, and the listing shows as sold out when the last ticket is gone. Once the event has passed, the listing disappears from your category pages and search results by itself.

Set it up

1. Go to Listings › Custom Fields and create a field with the Name eventdate (exactly this, in lower case), the Type Date and a Label such as Event date. Choose the categories it applies to, or none for all.
2. Switch on Buy Now with a method that pays organisers: Stripe Connect, PayPal’s Buy Now button or the eWallet. See Let members sell with Buy Now.
3. Go to Settings › Payments, switch on Stock Control under Pay to post and click Save changes. Organisers can then set the number of tickets in In Stock. See Stock control.

Organisers now pick the event date when they post. Each sale takes the number of tickets bought off the stock; at zero, the listing is marked as Sold.

What happens with the date

As soon as an eventdate field exists on your site:

• Past events are hidden. Listings whose event date has passed no longer appear in category pages and search results. Listings with no event date aren’t affected.
• Sort by date. In Listings › Settings › Listing pages, set Sort Listings to Event date to list the soonest events first. With this sort, only listings that have an event date are shown.
• Calendar. A calendar of upcoming events is available at /calendar.html on your site. Add it to your menu so visitors can find it.

What buyers get

After paying, the buyer receives the ads-purchased email with the order number and listing details. Yclas doesn’t generate tickets with barcodes; the order number serves as proof of purchase. To send entry details, add a buyer_instructions field (see Special-purpose fields): its text is included in the email, for example Show this email at the door. Doors open at 7 pm.

Organisers see who bought tickets in My Sales.

Tips

• Create a separate Events category and attach the eventdate field only to it, so other listings don’t ask for a date.
• If your whole site is about events, make Event date the default sort.
• Free events work too: with no price, the listing has no Buy Now button and works as a normal listing.

Related guides

• Let members sell with Buy Now — payments to organisers, stock and quantities.
• Custom fields — creating the date field.
• Menu and footer links — add the calendar link.