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Community event ticketing, run from your own venue.

Ticketing for venues that run their own events — halls, clubs, community centres and small theatres. Sell tickets from your own website for 40¢ a ticket plus card fees, with no commission on the ticket price. Available with all plans.

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Small venue ticketing, on the calendar you already run.

A standalone ticketing platform does not know your hall exists. LemonBooking does — because the event you are selling tickets for is already a booking in your calendar. The room is held, the caretaker sees it on the run sheet, and the ticket income lands against the same venue as your hire income.

  • The event holds the room, so nobody double-books the hall on trivia night.
  • One customer list — a regular hirer and a ticket buyer are the same record.
  • Ticket income and hire income report together, in one set of accounts.
  • Tickets sell from your own website, not someone else's marketplace.

How much do you keep?

Just 40¢ per ticket for cash, cheque and bank transfer (PayID in Australia) sales. For card sales, pay 1.40% per transaction via SumUp in Australia. Stripe, PayPal or, in Australia, Square can take the payments instead, at their standard rates. In New Zealand, where SumUp and Square aren't available, Stripe or PayPal take card payments. No setup fees, no monthly minimums, no surprises. Ticketing requires a LemonBooking subscription (Bronze, Silver or Gold).

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Payment method

Cash, cheque and bank transfer (PayID in Australia) payments are reconciled manually by your staff.

In New Zealand, where SumUp isn’t available, Stripe charges its standard 2.65% + NZ$0.30 on New Zealand cards.

Your earnings
LemonBooking
Ticket revenue
$1,800.00
LemonBooking fee (100 tickets)
− $40.00
SumUp 1.40% transaction fee
− $25.20
You keep
$1,734.80
  • 96.7% of revenue stays with the venue
  • Pass the LemonBooking fee on to the customer if you'd rather keep 100%

Manage your events.

Promote an event, sell tickets online and manage access via a guest list. Run one-off events (a festival, an exhibition, a conference) or repeat events (a monthly trivia night, a weekly workshop). Set up multiple ticket types, sessions, capacity limits, the lot. Track your online ticket sales in real-time.

What you pay LemonBooking: 40¢ a ticket, whatever the payment method. Card sales add your payment provider's standard transaction fee on top — cash, cheque and bank transfer (PayID in Australia) don't. No charge for free events.

LemonBooking generates an email confirmation and receipt for each order automatically.

When an event sells out, later buyers can join a waiting list, and a refund can cover part of an order rather than all of it — read about waiting lists and partial refunds for tickets.

Available on

Bronze Silver Gold

Ticketing essentials

One-off & repeat events

A festival, an exhibition, a carols night, a monthly trivia night or a weekly workshop — the model handles both with a single setup.

Multiple ticket types

Standard, Concession, Early bird, VIP — each with its own price, availability and ticket design.

QR codes & scanning

Tickets carry a QR code; staff scan them at the door with a phone or a handheld barcode reader.

Promote your event.

When you save an event, LemonBooking publishes a public web page automatically. Display it on your website, share it on social media, paste the link in your newsletter — it all points to the same place.

Mobile-first, SEO-friendly out of the box. No separate landing-page tool needed.

Customer review from Trustpilot

“We can thoroughly recommend LemonBooking to any village hall or other community venue wanting a professional looking and easy to use website to manage their bookings and event ticketing.”

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Sixpenny Handley (Village hall)
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Showtime — with a QR scanner.

Tickets carry a QR code that any staff member can scan on the door — with a smartphone, or a handheld USB barcode reader if that suits your team better. The admin interface reports total attendance and progress in real-time.

Add a logo and a description to each ticket type to make them feel like yours. Use the group email option to ask for feedback after your event.

Available on

Bronze Silver Gold

Frequently asked questions

Anything we haven't covered, drop us a line.

What makes a community event ticketing system different from a general ticketing platform?

A community event ticketing system sits on the venue that is hosting the event. The event holds the room in the same calendar the hall is booked from, ticket buyers land in the same customer list as regular hirers, and ticket income reports alongside hire income. A general ticketing platform sells the tickets and knows nothing about the room.

Is this suitable for small venue ticketing, or only large events?

It is built for small venues. There is no minimum ticket volume and no monthly ticketing fee — you pay 40¢ a ticket plus card fees, so a trivia night that sells 40 tickets pays $16 in ticket fees. Ticketing is included on every plan.

What does ticketing for venues cost in Australia?

40¢ per ticket plus standard card transaction fees, with no commission taken from the ticket price and no setup or monthly ticketing fee. Ticketing needs a subscription (Bronze, Silver or Gold), and is included on all three.

Can we sell tickets online with no fees?

No. Ticketing needs a LemonBooking plan, from $390 a year for Bronze, and we charge 40¢ for every paid ticket you sell. What we don't do is take a commission on the ticket price or charge a setup fee. You can add the 40¢ to each ticket as a ticket fee so the buyer pays it. Card sales also carry your payment provider's fee (1.40% with SumUp in Australia); cash, cheque and bank transfer (PayID in Australia) sales don't.

Can we sell tickets with PayPal?

Yes. Connect your PayPal account and ticket payments go through PayPal, straight into your account, with refunds going back through PayPal automatically. Stripe or, in Australia, Square or SumUp can take the payments instead if you prefer. Our fee is 40¢ a ticket whichever one you use, plus that provider's standard transaction fee.

Do tickets sell from our own website?

Yes. Events appear on your own site under your own domain and branding, so buyers never leave for a marketplace and you keep the relationship with them. You can also share a direct link to a single event.

Can we scan tickets at the door?

Yes. Every ticket carries a QR code, and any phone or tablet with a browser works as the scanner — there is no app to install and no hardware to buy. Guests already checked in are flagged, so a ticket cannot be used twice.

Can we handle waiting lists, refunds and discount codes?

Yes. Set a capacity per ticket type and the event closes when it sells out, with later buyers joining a waiting list. Refunds are issued from the booking, and discount codes can be limited by date or number of uses for early-bird and member pricing.

Can we sell tickets for exhibitions, conferences and workshops?

Yes. Each ticket type can cover the whole event or a single date, so an exhibition can sell day tickets, a conference can sell full passes alongside one-day passes, and a run of workshops can go on sale as a repeat event with its own capacity for each session.

Can people book free events online too?

Yes. A free event takes bookings online the same way a paid one sells tickets: people choose their places, get a confirmation email and appear on the guest list you check in at the door. We don't charge the 40¢ on free tickets, though ticketing still needs a LemonBooking plan.

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