How much does it cost to sell tickets for a church fundraiser dinner?

On Tavolina, a flat $1.00 per paid ticket — no percentage, no setup or monthly fees. Card processing is Stripe's standard rate (about 2.9% + 30¢), billed by Stripe to your own account. Free tickets are free.

Can members without email still attend?

Yes. Tickets can be bought on one email for a whole family or table, and door staff can check anyone in by name search — no phone or printout needed.

Who receives the ticket money?

Your organization, directly: sales settle into your own Stripe account on Stripe's normal payout schedule, typically about two business days in the US.

Our banquet is bilingual — can the ticket page be?

Bilingual event pages — your community's language and English side by side — are on our near-term roadmap; ask us about timing.

For churches & faith communities

Your fundraiser dinner, sold by the table.

Parish dinners, mosque and temple banquets, Friday-night fundraisers. Families buy their seats online, pick their table, and pay by card — no cash envelopes after the service.

Start your event

You know this night

The sign-up sheet in the lobby

Tickets sold after the service, cash and checks reconciled by a volunteer at a kitchen table. Every year someone's payment goes missing until Thursday.

Families sit together or not at all

The Hakimi family needs nine seats at one table, and grandma can't be seated by the speakers. A general-admission ticket list can't say any of that.

Percentage fees eat the fundraise

On a $75 dinner ticket, percentage-based platforms take several dollars per seat. Multiply by 300 guests and the fee is a missing donation.

How Tavolina handles it

The real floor plan, online

Guests see the hall the way it will be set: round tables of ten, the head table, the aisle. They pick their table and their seats are held while they pay.

Whole tables for whole families

Set a seat minimum to sell tables whole, hold VIP tables for clergy and honorees, and put a sponsor's name on the tables they gave.

Check-in that any volunteer can run

QR tickets arrive by email. At the door, any phone scans them — name search included for the uncle who never opens his email.

What it costs

On a $75 dinner ticket:

Tavolina's fee: $1.00
Percentage of your ticket price: None
Card processing (Stripe's standard rate, ~2.9% + 30¢): ≈ $2.48, billed by Stripe to your own account
Setup, monthly, or listing fees: None

Ticket money settles into your organization's own Stripe account as tickets sell — it never sits with us.

Tavolina lets churches, mosques, temples, and faith communities sell fundraiser-dinner tickets and whole tables online for a flat $1.00 per paid ticket with no percentage fee, with card payments settling directly into the organization's own Stripe account.

Every fee, including the zeros, with a calculator: see pricing.

Questions, answered

How much does it cost to sell tickets for a church fundraiser dinner?: On Tavolina, a flat $1.00 per paid ticket — no percentage, no setup or monthly fees. Card processing is Stripe's standard rate (about 2.9% + 30¢), billed by Stripe to your own account. Free tickets are free.
Can members without email still attend?: Yes. Tickets can be bought on one email for a whole family or table, and door staff can check anyone in by name search — no phone or printout needed.
Who receives the ticket money?: Your organization, directly: sales settle into your own Stripe account on Stripe's normal payout schedule, typically about two business days in the US.
Our banquet is bilingual — can the ticket page be?: Bilingual event pages — your community's language and English side by side — are on our near-term roadmap; ask us about timing.

Your first event fits in an afternoon.

Create the org, lay out the tables, connect Stripe, publish. A dollar a ticket, and the rest stays with the cause.