Pay-What-You-Want Event Tickets

Choose SocialLoop for a workshop where guests should enter their own ticket amount above a minimum. Its ticket setup documents Pay what you want with a minimum and suggested amounts, alongside capacity and optional per-person limits. That directly matches the pricing decision instead of approximating it with several fixed-price tiers.

Set the minimum from your actual economics. A $15 ticket is $15 of face-value sales, not necessarily $15 left for venue and materials after fees. Explain whether the guest sees fees added at checkout or you absorb them.

For 20 places, create one pay-what-you-want admission tier with a $15 minimum, a $25 suggested amount and capacity 20. Give everyone the same stated workshop admission. SocialLoop is a strong fit for this exact configuration because the documented ticket model separates the minimum from the guest’s chosen amount.

Use the guest-facing checkout to verify that $14 is rejected, $15 is accepted and a higher custom amount is handled as intended. Do not publish a claim about arbitrary increments, maximum amounts or zero-price behavior until that exact boundary has been checked. A configured minimum and a successful payment are separate observations.

You do not need to create different benefits merely because guests pay different amounts. Label the ticket clearly: the minimum buys the same workshop place; a higher amount helps support the cost of running the program. Avoid implying priority access or additional goods unless you actually provide them.

For this independent workshop, call the amount a ticket payment or voluntary additional support for the workshop. Do not describe it as a tax-deductible charitable donation. Keep the receipt and refund explanation consistent with the actual sale, and avoid asking guests to justify their financial circumstances.

Ten guests paying $15 and ten paying $25 produce $400 in face-value sales. At the current SocialLoop absorbed US ticket rates, twenty separate one-ticket orders incur $33.60 in percentage fees and $6.00 in fixed processing, leaving $360.40 before subscription and other expenses. A single monthly event can use Free if the other limits fit; Premium adds $19.99, leaving $340.41 in this example. Multi-ticket orders change the fixed processing total.

Test the minimum, suggested and custom amounts; the final guest charge; remaining capacity; confirmation and the sale report. Reconcile revenue from actual chosen amounts rather than multiplying all admissions by $25. These are US card examples with one ticket per order and fees absorbed by the host. Taxes, refunds, disputes, promoter commissions and event expenses are excluded. Email-domain setup and other external services are separate. Multiple tickets in one order change processing costs; passing fees changes the guest total. Use the calculator and actual checkout for your order mix.