Stop running a cash box at the door.
Let MeetMaker sell your admission tickets. Spectators pay online and get a QR code by
email. Your volunteers scan it at the gate from their own phones. No cash, no bank
run, no queue down the hallway – and every dollar accounted for before anybody
walks in.
Add Ticketing To Your Event »
See How It Works
Works alongside a meet you already list with us – or completely on its own.
You do not need a sporting event to sell tickets.
About the screens on this page: they are real screens from MeetMaker, filled with a
demonstration event. Every name, date, ticket price and every business name – gyms,
clubs and venues alike – is fictional and was made up for this page. No real
person's information and no real business appears anywhere on it. Any name here that happens
to match a real person or a real business is purely coincidental.
Why directors add it
The door is the worst-run part of most meets
Two volunteers, a cash tin, a roll of raffle tickets and a line of parents out to the car
park. Somebody has to count it, somebody has to bank it, and nobody really knows how many
people came through. It does not have to be your Saturday morning.
The money is already in
Tickets are paid for online before anyone arrives. Nothing to count, nothing to
carry, nothing to lose on the way to the bank, and no volunteer holding your
gate takings in a shoebox.
The line actually moves
A scan takes about a second. No making change, no arguing over who paid, no
hunting for a wristband. Your spectators get to their seats and your session
starts on time.
Nothing to buy or install
No scanners to rent, no card reader, no app for anybody to download. Your gate
team uses the phones already in their pockets, and they do not even need a
MeetMaker account.
Nobody gets in twice
Every QR code is unique to one ticket on your event. Once it is scanned it is
spent – unless you chose to allow re-entry. Passed-along tickets and
photographed screens simply do not work.
Grandma can buy a ticket
Spectators no longer need a MeetMaker account. Name, email, phone, done. That one
change is the difference between a sale and a closed tab.
You know your numbers
Watch sales come in while you are still building the schedule, and finish the
weekend with a report of exactly what sold instead of a guess and a bag of cash.
Start to finish
Four steps, and you are selling
1
List it
Pick Tickets in the Event Wizard. Attach it to your meet or run it on its own.
2
Price it
Add your ticket types – day passes, weekend passes, adult and child, whatever you sell.
3
Sell it
Spectators buy from your public listing, in advance or standing at the door.
4
Scan it
Your volunteers point a phone at the QR code. Green means in, red means not.
Set it up
Ten minutes, once
Choose Tickets at the start of the wizard and the form gets out of your way – all the
competition setup disappears, because a ticket listing does not need any of it. Next season,
copy this one and change the dates.
One dropdown is the whole decision.
Sell as many kinds of ticket as you like. Each one gets its own price, its own
description and its own limits.
- Sell out on purpose. Cap a ticket at your venue capacity and it stops selling itself, so you never oversell the building.
- Let people come and go. Turn on re-entry for the passes you want, and put a deadline on it if you want the doors shut by finals.
- Saturday tickets work on Saturday. Give each ticket the window it is good for and the gate enforces it for you, in your event's own local time.
- Keep selling at the door. Run ticket sales right through the event and a spectator can buy in the car park and walk straight in.
- Sales tax handled where you need it, with a report at the end.
The settings behind one pass. Fill in what you need and ignore the rest.
Already run your meet with MeetMaker? Link the two listings together and a green
Buy Tickets button appears on your meet page, right under Register Now –
plus a ticket link beside your event everywhere it is listed on the site. Every parent
who looks up your meet is one tap from buying admission.
Clubs click Register Now. Everybody else clicks Buy Tickets.
Your spectators
No account. No app. No excuses.
This is the single biggest thing we changed. Spectators used to have to create an account
before they could buy admission – which is a lot to ask of a grandparent on a phone in
a parking lot, and a lot of sales quietly lost. Now it is a name, an email address and a
phone number.
Buying tickets without an account. Tickets arrive by email the moment the card goes through.
- Card payments only, so a ticket is never issued against money that has not landed.
- Tickets go straight to their inbox and open on their phone. Nothing to print.
- One ticket on screen at a time, so the person on your gate is always looking at exactly the right QR code.
- Lost the email? They can re-send it themselves, at midnight, without calling you.
- They can still have an account if they want one – offered at checkout, and their tickets come with them.
Your tickets, on your public listing.
Your gate
Hand a volunteer a code. That is the training.
The scanner is a web page. Whoever is working your door opens it in the browser they already
have, types the code you gave them, and points the camera. No account to create, no app to
install, nothing to charge overnight.
Your code and their name. That is it.
One tap and the camera is live.
- Green and a chime, or red and a buzz. Loud and obvious in a noisy lobby – your volunteer never has to read a screen to know what to do.
- A red result says why, in plain words: already used, re-entry expired, too early, too late, or not a ticket for this event. Nobody has to come and find you.
- One code per event, so a scanner signed in for your meet cannot let anyone into somebody else's.
- Rehearse before the doors open. Every event comes with test QR codes, so you can train your gate team on a Tuesday.
Green admits, red does not. These two are the test codes we generate for every
ticketed event, which is why they say so – a real ticket reads Approved.
This is the whole ticket. No wallet pass, no printout, no laminated
wristband. The spectator holds up their phone, you scan it, they walk in.
One ticket fills the screen at a time – ticket 1 of 10 here –
so your volunteer is always looking at exactly the right code. This one already
reads Scanned, which is precisely what a second try at your door would
be told.
See every dollar
Your ticket sales, on the same dashboard as your meet
Ticketing gets its own tab on your event dashboard. Copy the scanning details out of it for
your gate team, grab the test codes to practise with, and put a ticket right yourself if
something goes sideways at the door.
Everything your gate needs, on one screen, ready to copy and send.
- Fix a ticket in seconds. Scanned one by mistake? Put it back. Refunded a ticket? Void it, and it will not open the door again.
- Reports when it is over – every ticket ID against the buyer, totals by ticket type, and your sales tax.
- Refunds run the same way as the rest of your event, and the money goes back the way it came.
- You choose who pays the processing fee – your buyers or you. See what it costs.
What it costs
One processing fee, and you choose who pays it
No setup fee, no monthly fee, and nothing to pay for tickets you do not sell. MeetMaker
charges a 3% online processing fee on what you sell, and you decide whether your
ticket buyers cover it or you absorb it into your proceeds. You make that choice on your
event, and you can change it before tickets go on sale.
| Your choice |
What the ticket buyer pays |
What you receive |
| Pass the 3% to your buyers |
Ticket price + 3% processing fee + sales tax if you charge it, then a 3.5% card surcharge on the total |
The full ticket price plus any sales tax you collected |
| Absorb it yourself |
Ticket price + sales tax if you charge it, then a 3.5% card surcharge on the total |
The ticket price less the 3%, plus any sales tax you collected |
- Tickets are card only. That keeps the gate simple, and it means the 3.5% card surcharge applies to every ticket sale – it is shown to the buyer at checkout, before they pay.
- Sales tax is yours to set. Put your rate on the event and tick which ticket types are taxable. Untaxed ticket types stay untaxed.
- Ticket money moves with the rest of your event. It is disbursed the same way, on the same schedule, and refunds go back the way they came.
- Listing your event is priced separately and set per event, and some hosts hold a negotiated processing rate. Ask us and we will tell you exactly what yours would be.
Important legal notice
The Event Director is solely responsible for reporting and remitting all applicable
sales taxes to the appropriate tax authorities for ticket sales associated with their
event.
Your next meet could sell its own tickets
Give us a call before you build your next listing. We will get ticketing switched on,
walk you through pricing your passes, and make sure your gate team is ready long
before the doors open.
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Same note as above: every screen on this page is a real MeetMaker screen filled with
fictional demonstration data. No real person and no real business appears on it.
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