Event Ticketing & Registration for Nonprofits
Sell admission, take registrations, and let supporters give more than the ticket price – with 0% platform fees.
Nonprofit Event Ticketing and Registration, With 0% Platform Fees
Most ticketing platforms take a cut of every ticket a nonprofit sells. Ticket Spot charges a flat monthly subscription and adds 0% in platform fees, so the only per-transaction cost is your payment processor's standard rate. On a $75 gala ticket that difference is the whole argument, and it grows with every ticket you sell.
Ticketing and registration are the same job here, not two products. Sell paid admission for a gala, open free registration for a volunteer briefing, or let supporters name their own amount — then collect the details you need at checkout, send confirmations and reminders, and check people in on the door.
What Nonprofits Use It For
Donation Tickets
Sell a ticket as pay-what-you-want, from Professional up. You set the minimum; the supporter enters their own amount above it. That is how a donation ticket works here — it is a ticket type, not a field added to a fixed-price ticket.
Registration Questions
Collect meal choices, dietary requirements, table preferences and accessibility needs at checkout, from Professional up — and from Business up ask sponsors a different set of questions than general admission.
Tiered Table & Sponsorship Pricing
Offer VIP tables, sponsor packages, and general admission at different prices. From Business up a group ticket is composed of other ticket types in set quantities, so one purchase can cover a whole table.
Offline and Phone Orders
Add attendees by hand from Professional up, so cash at the door, cheques in the post and phone orders land on the same attendee list and the same check-in app as online sales.
Running the Event
- 0% platform fees on every ticket type – paid, free and pay-what-you-want alike. Your payment processor charges its standard rate; Ticket Spot adds nothing on top
- Free and paid tickets on one event – a free volunteer registration and a $250 sponsor table can sit side by side
- Confirmations and reminders – automatic confirmation emails on purchase, and reminders before the event
- Door check-in – scan QR codes with the check-in app, or find a named guest by last name when they arrive without a code; the device needs a working connection, so check the signal in the hall before the night
- Sponsorship tiers – separate ticket types for sponsors, patrons and general supporters, each with their own price, allocation and questions
- Your own branding – your logo and colours on tickets, emails and event pages, from Business up
One boundary worth stating plainly: Ticket Spot is a ticketing and registration platform, not a fundraising platform. It does not manage donor records, run peer-to-peer or recurring giving campaigns, or issue tax receipts. If you need those, most organizations run a fundraising tool alongside a ticketing tool — Ticket Spot is the second of the two, and it is deliberately good at that job rather than adequate at both.
Compare Plans →Frequently asked questions
Yes. A nonprofit can sell paid admission, offer free registration, or let supporters choose their own amount, and Ticket Spot adds 0% in platform fees on any of them — your payment processor's standard rate is the only per-transaction cost. Whether ticket income is taxable for your organization is a question for your accountant, not a ticketing platform.
Yes, by selling the ticket as pay-what-you-want, available from Professional up. You set a minimum and the supporter enters their own amount above it, which is how a donation ticket works here. A ticket is either free, fixed-price or pay-what-you-want, so this is a choice you make per ticket type rather than an extra field bolted onto a fixed-price ticket.
Yes. Registration questions are available from Professional up and collect whatever you need at checkout — meal choice, dietary requirements, table preference, accessibility needs. From Business up you can attach different questions to different ticket types, so a sponsor answers sponsor questions and a general-admission guest is not asked them.
Yes, using group tickets, from Business up. A group ticket is composed of other ticket types in set quantities, so one purchase can cover a table of eight, or admission plus a fixed number of extra entries. It is one product built from several, not a discount rule.
No. You can sell raffle or prize-draw entries as a ticket type and bundle them with admission, and your attendee list gives you every entry that was sold — but there is no winner-drawing tool in the product, and the draw itself happens outside Ticket Spot.
Yes. Add attendees by hand from Professional up, so cash at the door, cheques in the post and phone orders end up on the same attendee list and the same check-in app as online sales.
Every organization gets the same 0% platform fee, so there is no nonprofit discount to apply for. Pricing is a flat monthly subscription rather than a cut of each ticket, which means the more you sell the less it costs you per ticket.
No, and it is worth being direct about that. Ticket Spot runs ticketed and registered events — selling admission, collecting attendee details, checking people in. It does not manage donor records, run peer-to-peer or recurring giving campaigns, or issue tax receipts. Organizations that need those generally run a fundraising platform alongside a ticketing platform, and Ticket Spot is the second of the two.