Managing Event Registration without Fees

If you’re an event planner, online event registration is a beautiful thing.

One reason? Collecting event registrations helps prepare for your events with an accurate headcount. Even better: You can make money from ticket sales. And you can earn even more ticket revenue by selling tickets with a free ecommerce solution like Tickets Commerce.

Tickets Commerce is different from most other options for selling event tickets online. It lets you sell tickets on your own website, and more importantly, it doesn’t take a cut of your profits. 

Here’s what you need to know about getting started with Tickets Commerce for your WordPress site. It’s easy to set up and start managing your event registrations and sales without fees.

1. Tickets Commerce comes built into the free Event Tickets plugin.

Our Event Tickets plugin is one of the most popular plugins for selling tickets on any WordPress site. Once you’ve installed the plugin, simply enable Tickets Commerce and connect your payment pathway—more on that below.

2. Connect to either PayPal or Stripe to power sales.

The first step after enabling Tickets Commerce is deciding which pathway you prefer for making your ticket sales: PayPal or Stripe. 

Choose one or enable both options to give customers more choices. Either way, you’ll be offering a trusted purchase method for event attendees. You’ll never need to send customers to a third-party site or sketchy payment gateway to enter their credit card information.

One important note: You incur a 2% transaction fee if you use Stripe with Tickets Commerce in the free Event Tickets plugin. If you upgrade to Event Tickets Plus, the commission fee is waived, but you may still incur fees from Stripe.

3. Use professional features and tools to optimize ticket sales.

Tickets Commerce does more than simply power sales. It also gives you the tools to run a professional event ticketing operation.

Use test mode to test ticket payments before promoting tickets to customers. Event Tickets also ensures a smooth experience for attendees by automatically redirecting customers to a success page after each sale is completed. Plus, confirmation emails give attendees peace of mind and key details. 

Tickets Commerce also includes stock handling features that let you decide when in the ticket process the number of available tickets decreases.

Start managing event registrations without fees

Install the free Event Tickets plugin today and enable Tickets Commerce to get started. If you want to take the tools for a test spin first, request a demo site to try out all our plugins for free.