Example (made-up): a 40-seat Tuesday Supper Club at $60 a seat, 11 parties booked by phone, email and DM. The list below seats 9 parties in 40 of 40 seats, puts 2 parties on the waitlist, finds $780.00 still unpaid at the door, and shows that a ticketing platform at 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket would lose you $160.40 in service fees on this one dinner (40 × ($60.00 × 3.7% + $1.79) = $160.40), or $641.60 a month at 4 dinners.
One flat plan, not a fee on every ticket. Per-ticket fees are what hosts and their guests complain about. Eventbrite's US service fee is 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing per order (eventbrite.com/organizer/pricing, read 2026-11-08). Here bookings come to you by link, email or phone, your guests pay you the way they already do, and the fee line below shows what that keeps.
Tuesday Supper Club, 2026-11-24 19:00
| Tickets at full price | 40 × $60.00 = $2,400.00 |
|---|---|
| Collected (23 paid seats, 12 on deposit) | $1,380.00 + $240.00 = $1,620.00 |
| Still unpaid at the door | $2,400.00 - $1,620.00 = $780.00 |
| Platform service fees, this event | 40 × ($60.00 × 3.7% + $1.79) = $160.40 |
| Platform service fees, a month | 4 × $160.40 = $641.60 |
| You keep after platform fees | $2,400.00 - $160.40 = $2,239.60 |
Check: Ben Ito has paid but is on the waitlist: give them a seat or return their payment.
Door list (tick guests as they arrive)
| In | Name | Party | Payment | Contact / note |
|---|
Waitlist
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How this event booking system works
First come, first seated. Bookings are seated in the order you list them. A party is never split: if it is bigger than the seats left it goes to the waitlist, and a smaller party that booked later can still take the seats that are left.
Money. Paid seats count at full price, deposit seats at the deposit, unpaid seats at zero. What is left is due at the door.
Fees. The fee line uses the per-ticket formula you enter. Card processing (2.9% per order on Eventbrite; 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction on Stripe's US pricing, read 2026-11-08) is charged by whichever card processor you use, so it is shown apart and not counted as a saving.
Guest booking link (Pro). Guests open your link, see the event, and send a booking request to your email. Paste the request lines into the list and they are seated or waitlisted like every other booking.

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