How it works
Two sides of the same evening.
One page for both, because the answer is short either way: buying takes four minutes, and selling takes an afternoon to set up and then runs itself.
Buying a ticket
No account needed to look, and none needed to be sent your ticket again later.
Find something
Browse by category, city or date. Every listing shows the real starting price — the number you see is the number the checkout starts from.
Pick your seat
Where the organizer has drawn a map, you choose the actual seat or table rather than a zone. Taken seats are taken; nothing is held back for later.
You get 35 minutes
Choosing seats holds them for you, with a countdown on screen. Nobody else can buy them in that window, and if you leave, they go back on sale rather than sitting dead until the event.
Pay once
Card payment through Stripe, on Stripe’s own page. The breakdown is shown before you pay — the ticket price, and any fee the organizer has chosen to pass on.
The ticket arrives by email
With a QR code. It is also in your account under My tickets, and you can have it sent again from Find my tickets without signing in.
Show it at the door
On your phone or printed. If you cannot go, you can pass a ticket to somebody else once — where the organizer allows transfers.
Selling one
You keep the relationship with your buyers and you keep the money. We provide the shop, the seat map and the door.
Create the event
Dates, venue, category and cover art. Draft to begin with — nothing is public and nothing is for sale until you say so.
Connect a payout account
Stripe, in your own name. Money from a card sale lands in your account, not ours — we never hold your takings. This is also the step that has to be finished before anything can be sold.
Price it, and draw the room
Ticket tiers, table categories, and a seat map you lay out yourself: rows, round and oval tables, private tables behind a password.
Submit for review
You accept the organizer agreement and send it in; we publish it. Review is not a formality — it is what keeps the listings on this platform worth trusting.
Share it, sell it, watch it
A link and a QR code for the event and for each ticket type. Orders, attendees, promo codes and door sales in one place, with the money broken down line by line rather than as one net figure.
Run the door
Register a tablet with a PIN, or add your door team by email so each person signs in with their own account. Scanning works with no signal at the venue and uploads by itself when the connection returns.
Questions people actually ask
What does it cost to buy a ticket?
The ticket price, plus whatever fees the organizer has chosen to pass on to buyers. Both are shown separately at the checkout before you pay. Some organizers absorb the fees instead, in which case you pay the ticket price and nothing else.
When do I get my money as an organizer?
Card payments go to your own Stripe account at the time of the sale, and Stripe pays out to your bank on its normal schedule. We do not hold your money in between, so there is no payout request to make and nothing of yours sitting in our account.
Can I get a refund?
Tickets are non-refundable by default. Any refund is arranged between you and the organizer, because the money went to them — so contact them first; Eventsli does not issue refunds itself. If an event is cancelled, its tickets stop admitting anyone and stay in your account as a record.
Can I transfer my ticket to someone else?
Once, if the organizer has allowed transfers on that event. One transfer only, on purpose: it covers "I cannot go, take my seat" without turning tickets into something that can be passed around a resale chain.
What happens if the venue has no internet?
The door keeps working. Scans are held on the tablet with the time they happened and uploaded when a connection returns — and because each scan carries an id the device made itself, uploading the same queue twice cannot admit anybody twice.
Which countries do you work in?
Canada and the United States. Events are priced in Canadian or US dollars, decided by the event’s market and fixed once the first ticket is sold — so a price cannot change currency underneath somebody who has already paid.