Tickets for your fair, prom or tournament: fundraising events without chaos at the door

The scene repeats at every school fair, benefit dinner and tournament: a table at the entrance, one person collecting cash, another checking transfer screenshots on a phone, and a paper list of "the ones who paid in advance." Inside, the event is wonderful. At the door, it's a bottleneck —and in the treasurer's notebook, a mystery.

Selling tickets shouldn't require a professional theater system or a table of chaos. For a fundraising event, you need exactly three things: collect in advance, verify at the door, and have it all land in the organization's ledger.

Which events it's built for#

The Events module is designed for the fundraising activities your organization already runs:

• ✓School fairs and kermesses
• ✓Senior Prom and graduating class activities
• ✓School musicals and plays
• ✓Sports tournaments with admission
• ✓Benefit dinners and galas
• ✓Church concerts and activities

One important design detail: the module is exclusively for fundraising, not commercial events. That's intentional —it keeps the flow simple, without sales tax complexity or the commercial box-office machinery your school fair will never need.

How it works: the ticket is a QR code#

1. The organization creates the event: name, date, ticket price, and —if the venue requires it— a maximum capacity.
2. Families buy their tickets online, paying by card from their phone.
3. The system generates a QR code with the number of tickets purchased.
4. At the entrance, the family shows the QR. That's the proof of payment —no paper list, no screenshot checking, no counting cash at the table.

No assigned seating, no box-office kiosk, no professional scanners —because your benefit dinner doesn't need them. What it needs is proof of payment at the door, and the QR solves that.

Private or public: you control who sees it#

• Private event → appears only on the organization members' pages. The class dinner belongs to the class.
• Public event → also appears in the Redeema app, where the general public can discover it and buy. Your school musical or tournament opens its doors —and its fundraising— to the whole community.

That lever turns every event into a strategic decision: is this for our people, or for the whole town?

The difference vs. "collecting at the door however"#

Today most organizations charge admission by transfer, cash, or generic ticketing platforms like Eventbrite. All of them work for collecting. None solves the underlying problem: the event's money stays outside the organization's ledger.

	Transfers + cash	Generic ticketing	Events in Redeema
Collect in advance	✅	✅	✅
Verification at the door	Paper list	✅	✅ QR
Capacity control	❌	✅	✅
Income lands directly in the org's ledger	❌	❌	✅
Tied to a fund (prom, trip, uniforms)	❌	❌	✅
Same place as dues, sweepstakes and sponsorships	❌	❌	✅

With the first two options, after the event comes the second shift: reconciling what came in, moving it to the notebook, and explaining it to parents. With a unified ledger, the event closes and the numbers are already where they belong —in the right fund, with the report ready.

The event as part of the plan, not an isolated effort#

A tournament that raises $2,000 is good; a tournament whose $2,000 lands automatically in the trip fund, visible to parents, next to the dues and the sponsorships, is part of a system. Events earn more when they're a piece of the annual fundraising plan —here's the full playbook: 15 fundraising ideas for your graduating class.

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