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Notes from the door
Guides, releases and what we are learning about selling tickets from your own site.
2 Sep 2026
Workshop booking with deposits in WordPress: eight benches and £60 up front
Take workshop deposits on WordPress: £60 now, £130 on the day. Airbnb Experiences charges 20%, which is £38 on a £190 class. Lead times, required checkout questions and small capacities, with screenshots.
2 Sep 2026
Walking tour booking in WordPress: a business with no building
Take walking tour bookings from your own WordPress site. Bokun is $49/mo + 1.5%, Rezdy $49/mo + 3%. Meeting points, group size, free child tickets and daily dates, set up step by step.
2 Sep 2026
Music venue ticketing in WordPress: who pays the booking fee
Sell gig tickets from your own WordPress site. Skiddle charges fans 10% + 27p; Stripe charges you 1.5% + 20p. Capacity, advance pricing, guest lists and a working waiting list, with screenshots.
2 Sep 2026
Conference ticketing in WordPress: three days, bought once
A conference is one date three days long, not three dates. Seven steps: rationed ticket types, an early bird that expires, VAT, invoices and a question at checkout.
2 Sep 2026
Cinema ticketing in WordPress: setting up a single-screen cinema
A platform takes 21% of a EUR12 cinema seat. Six steps to build the same schedule on your own site: showings, ticket types, weekend pricing, check-in.
2 Sep 2026
Free WordPress event ticketing: what you get, where it stops
No event limit, no booking limit, no time limit. What the free Eventnetic plugin does, what is paid, and where a competitor free tier beats ours.
2 Sep 2026
Timed entry ticketing in WordPress: eighteen people on a stair
A platform takes 18.5% of a €15 tour ticket. Seven steps to build timed entry yourself: a slot per date, one pool behind three prices, and a real cutoff.
1 Sep 2026
WordPress seating charts: building a room that holds 104
A three-week run costs £5,112 on a ticketing platform and £1,609 in card fees on your own site. How to draw the hall, band the prices and sell the seats.
1 Sep 2026
Recurring event tickets in WordPress: selling one class, ten Tuesdays
Studio software costs £700 to £1,400 a year and calendar plugins cannot sell a dated ticket at all. How to build a ten-week term in WordPress instead.
1 Sep 2026
Eventbrite fees: what a sold-out night actually costs
Eventbrite charges two fees, not one: 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket and 2.9% per order. What that costs on a sold-out night, and what you pay instead.