Ticketing & attendees without the chaos

Fundraising events mix donors, sponsors, parents, and community members—and each registration might mean something different for your team. Someone might buy a table; someone else a single seat; someone else a comp ticket that still needs to appear on the night-of roster. Paddle-Up keeps ticket sales, attendee records, and campaign context in one place so front-of-house and finance are never working from mismatched lists.

Ticket types & inventory

Configure tiers that match how you actually sell: general admission, VIP, early bird, student pricing, sponsor bundles, or family packs for jog-a-thons. Set capacity limits where you need hard stops, and attach the right questions (dietary needs, t-shirt size, team assignment) per ticket type so you collect structured data—not free-text blobs in a generic form.

• Multiple price points and sale windows aligned to your promotion plan
• Inventory that reflects real seats or headcount—not optimistic guesses
• Optional add-ons when your format includes meals, parking, or merchandise

Guests, tables, and seating

Galas and seated dinners need more than "ticket sold." Your team tracks who sits where, which firms bought tables, and which guests belong to which host. Attendee-level records stay linked to the purchaser so development can see households and companies clearly when it is time for thank-yous and next-year outreach.

When your flow is general admission or field-day style, the emphasis shifts to fast entry and accurate counts—same system, different operational emphasis.

Check-in & night-of operations

The door is where goodwill is won or lost. Check-in should confirm identity, resolve edge cases (name changes, last-minute plus-ones), and keep lines moving. Because ticketing connects to the same campaign and payment records as the rest of Paddle-Up, volunteers are not cross-referencing a PDF against a Square report against a Google Sheet.

• Rosters that reflect real-time sales and adjustments
• Workflows that work on common phones and tablets your team already carries
• Alignment with volunteer and operations tools for shift-based coverage

Cleaner books

When ticketing shares a payment and campaign backbone with auctions, stores, and donations, finance spends less time reconciling exports that never quite match. One attendee record, one transaction history, one place to answer "who paid for what?"