While easy registration and successful promotion are essential to pulling off a successful event, at Ticketstripe, we know your bottom line boils down to one thing: how you’ll get paid. That’s why we’ve partnered with PayPal to ensure you collect funds from ticket sales quickly. The fact that PayPal is one of the world’s largest online payment systems isn’t the only benefit of using it to collect money for an event. Here’s how—and why—Ticketstripe makes PayPal event registration easy!
Because PayPal is not an event registration platform, you can’t just create a PayPal event link to share with potential attendees. But by setting up your event with Ticketstripe and connecting to PayPal, you can get a shareable event page link. You can start selling tickets and receive funds in just a few minutes. That’s right: Ticketstripe doesn’t handle or hold on to your proceeds like some other event management software. What’s more, Ticketstripe doesn’t charge a subscription or per-event fees, making our platform free for the organizer when fees are passed on to the buyer.
Create a personalized event page to showcase your brand, list all the event details to entice ticket buyers, and get a custom event URL to share with your audience. As ticket buyers make their purchase, they’ll be offered payment options, such as credit/debit cards, PayPal Checkout and, if enabled, Venmo, and Buy Now Pay Later.
Use PayPal Event Registration for Any Event
Whether you are hosting a large-scale festival, a cozy food and drink gathering, or a crucial fundraiser, Ticketstripe’s seamless integration with PayPal ensures that every transaction is smooth, secure, and immediate.
When organizing events, each one has unique components that are key to its success, from planning to promotion to execution. Here’s a closer look at how PayPal + Ticketstripe streamlines event management and enhances your attendees’ experience.
Multi-Day Events
- Simple registration and ticketing: Ticketstripe’s unlimited ticket types and ticket bundles let you clearly list multi-day event options. However, if you want to offer admission—from a total ticket package for the full event to one-day admission for a particular day to tickets for specific attractions or sessions within the event—Ticketstripe lets you list them all.
- Detailed schedules: Your attendees will want to see a comprehensive schedule that outlines the activities, sessions, and breaks across the multiple days of your event. With Ticketstripe’s customizable event pages, you can share the details to get attendees excited about it all or help them decide what sessions are must-dos for them.
Nonprofits, Charities, Fundraisers, Class Reunions
- Budget management: By connecting PayPal to your Ticketstripe account, you’ll receive immediate funding from every event ticket purchased and donation made—no waiting around for your event management software to ante up after the event takes place. This puts money directly into the budget to cover costs as you go.
- Fundraising goals: In addition to selling tickets to your charity event, Ticketstripe includes plenty of donation options (see more below) to encourage your attendees to support your cause, getting you closer to your fundraising goals even before the event has begun!
Festivals and Music Events
- Tickets: With a strong lineup of artists, strategic ticket launch is key. Early bird and presale tickets can sell out in minutes. Ticketstripe’s option to set a start and end date/time for each ticket allows you to automate when early bird tickets stop selling, and general tickets go live. Ticketstripe’s unlimited ticket types allow you to sell VIP tickets, backstage passes and even presell merch.
- Sponsorships and Partnerships: Securing sponsorships to help fund the event and enhance your audience’s experience is essential. Tickestripe simplifies individual ticket disbursement of sponsor tickets with our Ticket Bundles option. A sponsor buys a bundle and can share individual tickets with their party electronically—while you automatically collect attendee data in your Ticketstripe account when they claim their tickets, effectively increasing your marketing database for future events. For marquee partners, you can upload and display their logos on your Ticketstripe event page and tickets to promote their involvement to all attendees.
Performing Arts
- Audience Experience: Your audiences’ experience of your event is everything—and it starts with the ticket purchase. Choosing Ticketstripe as your ticketing platform allows you to brand and customize your event page to match your aesthetic. It also ensures your guests can easily and quickly purchase tickets to your event without needing to create an account and without being marketed to. Ticketstripe does not sell or reuse your attendee list for our own purposes or to market other events.
- Promotions and Attendee Management: Ticketstripe’s tools help you promote and manage your events efficiently, from promoter accounts to reach a wider audience to discount codes that drive purchases to emailing ticket purchasers with promotions that get them excited and eager to bring friends.
Food & Drink Events
- Endless Ticket Options: Your ability to sell unlimited ticket types really shines for food and drink events, whether you want to offer separate options for vendors and exhibitors, First Taste and Last Taste, general admission tickets, VIP tickets, sponsor tickets, table tickets, group tickets, and so on.
- Promoter Tracking: With Ticketstripe’s promoter option, you can assign custom URLs for each promoter so they can share specific ticket types with their audiences while you track their sales.
Add Donations to Your Event Page
Serving nonprofits is one of Ticketstripe’s top priorities. And, with charities often relying on fast payments from their PayPal accounts, connecting the two for event ticketing and donations is a no-brainer.
Ticketstripe lets any organization include donation options on their event page, from set amounts to flexible donations to pay-what-you-wish with admission. You can also set up donation tiers that entice donors to open their purse strings by offering a reward and instant gratification. Rewards can be tangible items or titles you bestow upon the donor in relation to your fundraising.
Smooth At-The-Door Ticket Sales
If you expect attendees to purchase tickets on-site the day of the event, you’ll want to offer them an easy way to do so. Print out a QR code that links to your Ticketstripe event page and post it at the front of the venue. Attendees can scan and buy tickets on their phones instantly. This makes it easy to keep your attendee list complete and up to date, as you’ll collect each attendee’s information. Alternatively, you can use our mobile app to sell tickets for cash at the door with no fees.
Ticketstripe + PayPal Can Boost Your Bottom Line for Free Events
You might not think you need a payment processor if you’re offering free admission or collecting free registrations. But what about donations or merchandise? By having your Ticketstripe account linked with PayPal, you can offer free tickets that are truly free—Ticketstripe doesn’t charge organizers for “selling” complimentary admission tickets—yet you can still include an option for donations and even to purchase a commemorative T-shirt or mug (or whatever cool souvenir you’re shilling) in advance of the event to be picked up in person.
Bonus: Knowing how many items you’ve sold in advance will help you determine how many to order.
At the heart of every event’s success is how smoothly you can manage attendees and receive payments. Our PayPal event registration simplifies the logistical aspects of managing tickets and payments but also enhances the overall attendee experience by offering flexible payment options, including instant donations.
Ready to be the hero of your own event story? Sign up for a free Ticketstripe account today and transform the way you organize events. Connecting PayPal to your Ticketstripe account literally takes seconds.
