Events is how a business on the platform runs its member mixers, workshops, paid classes, launch parties and open houses. Create the event, add ticket types, publish it, and share one link. People sign up or buy tickets on the event page, paid tickets go through your own Stripe account, and on the day you check everyone in from a list or a phone at the door.
What it is
An event here has a title, a description, a date and time, a place, an optional cover picture, and one or more ticket types. Each ticket type has its own price (free is fine) and its own quantity, so a workshop can sell 20 seats while a mixer has 100 free spots and 10 VIP passes. Discount codes take money off, or make an order free.
Once an event is published it has its own public page. Customers register or pay there, each guest gets a ticket with a QR code, and your guest list fills in by itself.
Where to find it
Open it from My Apps, or go straight to https://www.allinonenonprofit.com/business-events/. Each screen also opens directly: add ?page=dashboard, ?page=events, ?page=new or ?page=checkin to that address.
The dashboard and the list
The dashboard shows four things: how many events are coming up, how many tickets they have sold, the ticket revenue they have brought in, and which event is next. Below them sits the list of upcoming events, soonest first. Click any row to open it.
Events is the full list, with filters for Draft, Published and Past, and a search box for a title or a place. Each row shows the date, the title, tickets sold out of the capacity, the revenue, the status, and buttons to edit, see attendees, share, and publish or unpublish.
Creating an event
Choose New event. Give it a title, a short description, a date, a start time and, if you like, an end time. Put the street address in Location, or the word Online. Turn on Collect each attendee's name when one buyer often brings guests and you want every name on the door list, not just the buyer's.
Save draft keeps it private to your team. Save and publish saves it and turns its public page on. After the first save, a Cover picture card lets you add a JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF under 5 MB. A wide picture looks best on the event page.
Ticket types and codes
Every event needs at least one ticket type. The quick-add buttons fill in common ones (General admission, Member, VIP, Free RSVP), or add your own.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | What the customer sees, such as Early bird or Table for four. |
| Price | In dollars. 0 makes the ticket free. |
| Quantity | How many can be sold. 0 means no limit. The event's capacity is the total of these. |
| Per order | The most one buyer can take at once. 0 means no limit. |
| Description | Optional, for what the ticket includes. |
A ticket type that has already sold stays on the event even if you remove it from the screen, so nobody's ticket disappears. To stop selling it, set its quantity to the number already sold.
Discount codes
Add a code, then choose Percent off, Dollars off or Free (comp). Max uses limits how many orders can use it; 0 means no limit. A comp code makes the whole order free, so it works even before Stripe is connected. It is handy for speakers, staff and partners.
Publishing and sharing
Publish the event from the editor or from its row in the list. The editor then shows its public link with a Copy link button. Share and QR code opens a window with the link, a QR code you can download and print on a flyer or a sign by the register, and buttons to share by email, Facebook, LinkedIn or X.
Unpublish takes the page down and puts the event back in Draft. When the day has passed, Mark as past moves it out of your upcoming list; its guest list and numbers stay.
Getting paid
Free tickets and RSVPs work from the start. To sell paid tickets, connect your own Stripe account on My Organization at https://www.allinonenonprofit.com/team/. The customer pays through Stripe's secure checkout and the money goes straight to your Stripe account. Stripe's own card fee applies.
Ticket sales book themselves in Financial Management under Event Revenue, so your books show what each event brought in without anyone typing it. See it at https://www.allinonenonprofit.com/finances/.
Until Stripe is connected, the dashboard shows a reminder card. You can still run free events, give out comp codes, or add people by hand on the Check-in screen when they pay you another way.
Checking people in
Open Check-in and pick the event. The next upcoming one is chosen for you. You see how many guests are checked in, a search box, and the full guest list with a Check in button on each row. Click it again to undo a mistake.
Open door scanner opens a page made for a phone. Point it at the QR code on a guest's ticket and it checks them in. Anyone on your team who is signed in can use it, so two people can work the door at once.
Walk-ins
Under Add a walk-in, type a name (an email is optional), pick the ticket type, and choose Add to the list. Leave Check them in now ticked if they are standing in front of you. No charge is made, so collect any payment the way you normally would. A guest you added by hand can be removed again; a guest who registered on the event page cannot be removed here.
Canceling and refunds
Cancel event is in the editor. It refunds every paid ticket to its original payment method, through your Stripe account, and emails everyone registered that the event is canceled. It cannot be undone, so you are asked to confirm first.
An event with no registrations can simply be deleted. An event with registrations cannot be deleted; unpublish it or cancel it instead.
Repeating sessions
Some things are not one event but the same thing again and again: a 30 minute visit every half hour, a yoga class every Tuesday and Thursday, a Saturday tour. Open Sessions and choose New session type instead of making each one by hand (added October 14, 2026).
- The session: a name, a place, how long it lasts, seats per time, the price per person, and how many minutes before the start online booking stops.
- Weekly schedule: tick the days, then either list the start times or choose Repeat through the day with a first start, a last start and how often (every 30 minutes, for example). Pick the starting date, an optional ending date, and how many weeks ahead people can book. Eight weeks is the default.
- Closed days: one checkbox closes you on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Add any other dates in the box below it.
Save, and every time in the window appears on the session's booking page. Each morning the next day is added, so the schedule keeps rolling forward without anyone touching it. Copy link gives you the booking page to put on your website, in emails and on social media. When you run more than one session type, the booking page shows them all as tabs.
On the booking page a guest picks a day, picks a time (each shows how many seats are left), and books on the same page your other events use: card payment through your Stripe account, discount codes, and an emailed ticket with a QR code.
Running the day
Today's schedule at the top of Sessions lists every time for the day with how many are booked and checked in. Use the arrows or the date box to look at another day. Guest list opens check-in for that time, with the door scanner and walk-ins, exactly as for an event. Seats changes the seats for that one time only, and Cancel cancels that one time: everyone booked is emailed and card payments are refunded.
Changing or pausing a schedule
Edit changes every future time at once. Times that no longer fit the new schedule come off the booking page, except any that people already booked: those stay, marked on the schedule, until you cancel them. Pause takes all open times off the booking page and keeps the booked ones; Resume puts them back. The session list shows how full the next seven days are, and how full the last seven days were with the number of no-shows (people booked who were never checked in).
What guests receive
The booking email names the session, the date and the time, and carries each guest's ticket, a calendar file, and a link to cancel. About a day before, each booking gets one reminder with the same three things. The cancel link works until the cancellation window closes (24 hours before the start unless you change it): the guest presses Cancel my booking, a card payment is refunded through your Stripe account, the seats open up again, and you get an email saying so. After the window closes, the guest is asked to reply to their booking email instead.
Two organizations in one space
Some businesses run alongside a nonprofit in the same space, for example a cafe and the rescue whose cats live there. Nonprofits use the same Sessions screen: it opens from Repeating sessions on the Events page in Fundraising and Development (added October 14, 2026).
- Link them once. Under Sister organization at the bottom of Sessions, pick the other organization and choose Link. You need to be an owner or admin of both.
- Sell on both booking pages. In a session type's Sharing section, tick Also offer it on the sister's booking page. The payment still goes to the organization that owns the session type, and its staff run the guest list. The sister sees it on its Sessions screen, marked with the owner's name.
- Share a room's seats. Under Seats, choose A new shared room, name it and give it its seat count, then pick the same room for the other session types that use the space, from either organization. A seat booked in one is gone from the others at overlapping times, so the room is never overbooked. Each booking is still paid to the organization whose session it is.
- Your booking page at the top of the session list shows all of your session types and the ones your sister offers on it, as tabs.
One-off event tickets are always credited to the organization that created the event: create a business's events here, and a nonprofit's events in Fundraising and Development.
Coming next: monthly memberships that include sessions, and a waiting list for full times.
Your first event
- Connect Stripe on My Organization if you plan to sell paid tickets. Free events do not need it.
- Choose New event, add a title, a date, a time and a place, and keep the General admission ticket.
- Choose Save and publish, then Share and QR code.
- Open the link on your phone and register yourself, to see exactly what a customer sees.
- Open Check-in, find yourself on the list, and check yourself in.
Access and privacy
Events is scoped to your business. Your team sees every event and every guest list; a view-only member can read but not change anything, so the editing buttons are hidden for them. The public event page shows only what you put on the event. Guest names and emails stay on your side.
Questions people ask
Can I sell different prices for members and non-members?
Yes. Add two ticket types, such as Member and General admission, each with its own price and quantity.
Can I limit the total number of people?
Yes. Set a quantity on each ticket type. The event's capacity is the total, and sales stop when a ticket type runs out.
Someone paid at the door. How do I record them?
Add them as a walk-in on the Check-in screen. The walk-in itself has no charge attached.
Why can't I delete my event?
It has registrations. Unpublish it to take the page down, or cancel it to refund everyone.
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