Ticket platforms take a cut of every seat and hide your buyers from you. Here is how to sell tickets from your own site and keep both the fee and the customer.
The simplest way is a platform where a ticket is a product with a set quantity. You list the event, cap the seats, take payment, and each buyer gets a confirmation. Instinctor handles this in the store, so you skip the ticketing site and its per-ticket cut.
STEP BY STEP
1. Create the event
Add the event with the date, time, place and a description, so buyers know exactly what they are getting.
2. Set capacity
Give the ticket a quantity equal to your seats. When they sell out, sales stop on their own.
3. Price your tiers
Offer early-bird, general and VIP as separate tickets, each with its own price and count.
4. Take payment
Connect a card processor so buyers pay by card or wallet, with money going straight to you.
5. Send confirmations
Each buyer gets an order confirmation to bring on the day, and you get their details.
6. Keep the buyer
Attendees land on your list, so you can invite them to the next event directly.
YOURS VS A TICKET SITE
A big ticketing site adds a fee to every seat, brands the event as theirs, and keeps the buyer list. Selling on your own site fixes all three.
Keep the fee
You pay only the card processor, not a per-ticket cut on top of every seat you sell.
Keep the buyers
Attendees are your customers, on your list, so you can fill your next event without paying to reach them again.
It is your brand
The event page is yours, so it looks like your business, not a listing buried on a giant ticket site.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Set the ticket quantity to your real capacity. When they sell out, sales stop automatically, so you never sell more seats than you have.
Yes. Sell early-bird, general and VIP as separate tickets, each with its own price and its own count.
An order confirmation they can bring on the day, and their details land in your dashboard so you know who is coming.
No. Tickets are sold from your own store, so you keep the buyer list and pay only the normal card fee, not a per-ticket cut.
By card or digital wallet through a processor you connect once. The money goes straight to your account.
The card processor charges its standard rate. Instinctor does not add a per-ticket cut of your sales.