Ticketing for seated events
One dollar a ticket. That’s the fee.
Tavolina sells tickets and whole tables for galas, banquets, and fundraisers. No percentage, no monthly fee. Ticket money lands in your own Stripe account.
Card processing is Stripe’s standard rate, billed to your own account.
This is not a demo.The Albanian Independence Gala is selling tables on Tavolina right now. It’s our own event, and it’s how we test everything. Walk through the real checkout.
See the live eventPricing
One dollar a ticket. That’s the fee.
No percentage of your ticket price, no setup or monthly fees, and free events stay free. Card processing is Stripe’s standard rate, billed to your own account.
- Per paid ticket
- $1.00
- Percentage of your ticket price
- None
- Setup, monthly, or listing fees
- None
- Free tickets and free events
- Free
The calculator on the pricing page adds up every cent, including where a competitor beats us.
Table sales
Your floor plan is the ticket page
Before
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group chat: “wait, who is at table 9?”
After
One link. Guests see your real room and pick their own table, so the “who am I sitting with” calls stop. The seating chart fills itself, and on event night you know exactly who sits where.
- Sell whole tables in one checkout. Set a minimum, like eight seats, and a family takes the table in one payment.
- Mark VIP tables. Give sponsor tables their own name and logo on the plan.
- The guest board tracks every seat by name. The room filled itself, and you can still move anyone, any time.
- Check-in knows the table. The door scanner tells your staff where each guest sits.
Fundraisers
Built for nights that raise money
Donations in checkout
A guest who can’t attend can still give.
We take nothing from donations
Not a dollar, not a cent.
Sponsor tables
The sponsor’s name sits on the public floor plan.
Your event page, in their language
Every guest can read your event in their own language with one tap — Albanian, Spanish, Greek, and more. Your grandmother reads the invitation without help.
Event night
The door, handled
- Every ticket has a QR code. Scan it with any phone. No hardware to rent.
- A guest with a dead phone gets found by name in two taps.
- Live counts show who’s in the room while the night runs.
- Scanned twice? The second scan gets caught on the spot.
Also included
Everything else, in the box
- Electronic tickets and check-in
- Promo codes
- Comps
- Waitlists
- Full and partial refunds
- Custom checkout questions
- Branded email to guests
- CSV exports
- Team roles
- Audit log
The fair question
Why trust a new platform?
We run our own events on Tavolina
The gala linked above is ours. If checkout breaks, our night breaks first.
Your money never touches us
Cards are processed by Stripe on their hosted checkout, and ticket revenue settles in your Stripe account, not ours. If Tavolina disappeared tomorrow, your money would already be with you.
Everything exports
Guests, orders, customers, all CSV. Your data leaves with you any time you want.
Founding organizers
69¢ a ticket, locked.
Founding organizations keep that rate. You also get a direct line to the people who built this, and a real say in what we build next. The rate locks before public launch, then it’s gone.
On sale now
Real events from organizations selling with Tavolina.
Coming next: checkout embedded on your own website, and multi-day events. Watch this space.
Questions, answered
- What’s the catch on fees?
- There isn’t one. $1 per paid ticket, plus Stripe’s card rate which they bill you directly. The pricing page has a calculator that shows every cent, including where a competitor beats us.
- When do I get my money?
- As tickets sell, into your own Stripe account. Stripe pays out on its standard schedule, typically about two business days in the US.
- What if I cancel my event?
- Refund your buyers from the dashboard, full or partial. We give our fee back on refunded tickets. Stripe keeps its processing fee; that’s their policy.
- Will my guests trust the checkout?
- The price on the event page is the price at checkout, to the cent. Payment happens on Stripe’s own hosted page. Try the live event above and see.
- How long does setup take?
- Your first event fits in an afternoon: create the org, lay out tables, connect Stripe, publish.