When it comes to choosing the best event registration software for nonprofits, you want to pick one that has your unique organization’s needs in mind. Ticketstripe offers charities a simpler, better way to sell tickets, collect donations, and get the word out about their fundraising events.
We use feedback from the dedicated efforts of nonprofit organizations, their teams, volunteers, supporters, and everyone involved in making a positive difference. Our nonprofit ticketing software supports nonprofit events of all sizes—from large fundraisers to cozy community gatherings—enabling you to raise funds with ease and flexibility.
Ticketstripe Puts Nonprofits First
Ticketstripe’s mission is to give nonprofits a better way to manage events and maximize the funds they collect. From our start and every day since, we have fostered close collaboration with nonprofit organizers, inviting real-life conversations and listening to event organizers’ needs. Many of our current features have come from these collaborations and from simply asking charity event organizers: What would make for a more streamlined event-planning and ticketing experience for your organization and your attendees?
We’ve learned that these answers can vary from state to state and even country to country. If your organization or event is looking for a solution, our customer success team is available to talk you through the process, answer questions, and even work with our developers to create tools to suit your needs.
No Monthly Fees, Subscription Fees, or Per-Event Fees
You read that right. Ticketstripe costs nothing for event organizers to create or maintain an account, and we don’t charge any fees to list your event with us, no matter how many tickets you intend to sell or how many events you organize—and this is true for nonprofits and businesses alike.
The only fees occur at the point of sale, and for nonprofits, we reduce our already fair ticketing fee of 2% + 99¢ to 1.5% + 50¢ per ticket sold. You, as the organizer, can opt to absorb the fees within your ticket cost or pass it along to the purchaser, thereby making it completely free for your organization to use Ticketstripe! Our fees are also transparently listed on the purchase page, so the purchaser isn’t surprised at checkout.
This commitment to affordability underscores our position as a leading event registration software for nonprofits, ensuring that every dollar raised goes directly toward your mission.
Easy Payment Processing Puts Funds in Your Account Instantly
We know that events can be pricey to pull off, especially for charities where every penny counts toward supporting your mission. When it comes to collecting payments, simply link your Ticketstripe account to your organization’s existing PayPal or Stripe account. Funding is immediate, and you have complete control over payout intervals.
What’s more, we don’t hold your money until the event is over, like some other nonprofit ticketing software. This lets you sink your early sales back into the planning and prep for the event itself.
Unlimited Ticket Types Maximize Sales
We know from working with charities that the more ticketing options you have, the more sales you can make. That is why our event registration software for nonprofits offers unlimited ticket types, which means you can offer more ways to enjoy your event that appeal to every segment of your audience.
General Admission Tickets
You can elect to sell General Admission tickets at one rate or offer discounted Early Bird tickets — with an automatic cutoff deadline — to capitalize on those quick decision-makers who can’t resist a deal.
You could segment your admission offerings by putting together a VIP ticket that offers a more luxe experience at an increased cost.
Got a multi-day or multi-session event? You can offer various ways for attendees to bundle which days or sessions they want to attend.
Value-Add Tickets
You can sell tiered tickets that come with merchandise or other incentives at various price levels, and you can sell “tickets” to claim merchandise at the door (which has the bonus of helping you estimate how much merchandise to order) or sell raffle tickets ahead of your event.
Budget-Conscious Tickets
You can even offer free tickets (which are actually free, with no fees attached), free admission with donation, or pay-what-you-wish admission or increase your attendee count with BOGO (buy-one-get-one) tickets. Plus, with our hidden ticket feature, you can even create private tickets that are only visible to those with whom you share the direct link as another way to offer promotions or discounts.
Package Tickets
With our Ticket Bundle feature, you can sell tables to sponsors or packages to groups — and the purchaser can send the individual tickets to be claimed by their invitees. Our organizers report more attendees at events because sharing tickets is so easy! What’s more, the invitees must register their own attendee data in order to claim their tickets, which means that organizers have a complete picture of who is coming to their events.
Manual Orders are Free—and Easy to Track
We know that many nonprofit sponsors are large companies that verbally reserve tables but prefer to send out a check versus pay for the table online. While most event management software companies will charge for every feature, including entering manual orders for purchases that happened outside the platform, we don’t! We understand that offline transactions are a big part of how nonprofits collect funds but that charging them for each manual order would cut into fundraising.
Our software offers organizers the ability to add manual orders in their Ticketstripe account and send out electronic tickets for free. The organizer benefits from syncing all attendee info in one system, and the Sponsor is able to receive electronic tickets that can be shared with guests. Oh, and electronic tax receipts are automatic, too!
The bottom line: Our platform makes it simple to track cash/check purchases or external credit card payments within your account, making sure all your electronic tickets and attendee data are in one centralized place.
Unlimited Donation Options, Too
Working closely with charities has proven that any time you offer a way for supporters to support you, they will. That’s why we offer unlimited donation options, allowing you to set amounts or add flexible donations that let the donor customize their desired contribution.
Tiered donations are another way to package event tickets and/or merchandise, with different donation levels that come with a certain number of tickets or types of swag.
Collecting online registrations for a free event but also want to allow your guests the option to donate? That’s easy to do with a Ticketstripe event page!
Want to keep all your attendees and donors’ information in one system to easily email and/or export? No problem! Create an exclusive donation page on Ticketstripe and link to it on your website.
Want to encourage donations at your event? Simply print out a QR code of your donation page and set it in the middle of each table or station.
A Promoter Tool to Help You Fundraise
Getting the word out is often one of the biggest challenges to beefing up your guest list. Get your most avid supporters to help do the selling or fundraising for you with Ticketstripe’s Promoter tool, which creates a unique URL that you can share directly with a sponsor or group leader to share with their networks to increase sales or donations.
You can even use this tool to turn general fundraising or raffle ticket sales into a competition, as you can track each Promoter’s impact individually. Just don’t forget to offer a reward for whoever brings in the most support!
A Centralized Database of All Your Attendees and Donors
Another challenge for nonprofits is collecting information on all attendees and donors.
Before working with us, one Lousiana nonprofit organization was collecting, at best, 50% of attendees’ info manually, which presented many challenges and took endless hours of processing, including inaccurate or incomplete information. This was especially problematic because each ticket purchase included a membership to the organization. Since using Ticketstripe, it now boasts 100% percent attendee data collection.
Because all tickets are either sold or logged through Ticketstripe, you’re able to access all attendee data in one centralized, secure location. From there, you can email attendees or easily export data based on ticket type — VIPs, donors, sponsors, and so on — or by any demographic or custom info you collected at checkout. And we never sell your data or use it for our own marketing purposes.
Fast Check-In and At-the-Door Sales With Our App
With electronic ticketing and our easy-to-use mobile app, check-in on Event Day can be a breeze. Depending on the number of attendees and whether you expect day-of sales, the app equips your event staff with the ability to scan and sell in-person tickets at the door. Each ticket sold has a unique QR code to eliminate double scans and prevent fraud while keeping lines moving. And with our box office, you can sell cash tickets on the spot or accept digital payments and log all day-of attendee data on the fly.
Scalable for All Event Sizes
Ticketstripe is the best event registration software for nonprofits, regardless of organization size or event type: from festivals with 50,000 attendees and organizations with 150+ chapters to intimate community gatherings and nascent community charities, we help:
- Improve attendance with electronic tickets
- Exceed fundraising goals with custom and flexible donations on event pages
- Collect more money by passing on low fees to the buyer
- Sell more raffle tickets
- Make check-in easier
- Save volunteer time with ticket sharing, claim-your-ticket, and data export
Customer Support for All Organizers
Customer support for everyone is a key feature of our event registration software for nonprofits, designed to ensure that every event is a success, no matter the size or scope. Our organizers can always get help from our experienced and friendly customer success team. Unlike other event management software companies, we do not reserve human support for high-spend organizers. We value all our customers and work hard to ensure they all feel supported!
And these conversations are very much a two-way street: With feedback from our customers, we continue to improve our nonprofit event registration software to save you time, help you raise more funds, and improve your guests’ experience.
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