# Please recommend an online "ticketing" site **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950 "2011-12-21T14:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/1 "2011-12-21T14:58:30Z")
I work for a non-profit agency, and we’re holding an event that is free to the public, but we need to control how many people can be admitted to the venue. We need a simple, free, online resource that would allow people to sign up to go to this thing, get a ticket (or whatever process that might exist), and we get feedback on how many people are going. The person in charge here came up with something, which was deemed too complex by the higher-ups. I have no idea if this is true or not, but our constituency tends to be of older folks, possibly not particularly technology savvy. So, this needs to be super simple. Any suggestions? Need answer fast! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/2 "2011-12-21T15:19:47Z")
How about something as simple as: If you wish to attend, email Ellencherry at herworkemail dot com for tickets. Please include the number in your party. You then email them back a ticket they can print out. Might want to set up a dummy account only for this event to fight spam. Either way, you can keep a running count as you reply to the emails. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/3 "2011-12-21T15:27:40Z")
Yeah, but there are places that will do that far you. Automated, like. We don’t want to babysit this thing. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/4 "2011-12-21T15:55:46Z")
Check out [eventbrite](http://www.eventbrite.com/features). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/5 "2011-12-21T16:17:36Z")
[Brown Paper Tickets](http://www.brownpapertickets.com/) is very popular around here w/ organizations like yours, and a percentage of the profits go to charity. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-an-online-ticketing-site/606950/6 "2011-12-21T16:48:45Z")
Thanks for the suggestions! I’m passing them along.