Event Ticketing for WordPress Fundraising

Sell Event Tickets That Count Toward Your Fundraising Goal

Sell event tickets right on your WordPress site for fundraisers, galas, dinners, and more! Set up tiered pricing, get QR codes, and deliver tickets physically or virtually.

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Everything You Need to Run a Fundraising Event

Sell tickets, collect attendee details and check people in at the door, all from the Charitable dashboard you already use.

Ticket sales go to a campaign, count toward its goal and show up in your donation reports.

General admission, VIP, early bird and free RSVPs can sit on one event, each with its own price and capacity.

Set the fair market value of each ticket, and Charitable puts the tax-deductible amount on the donor’s receipt.

Ask each guest for a meal choice, a t-shirt size or access needs, with dropdown or text fields.

Each attendee gets their own ticket card and QR code on the donation receipt, so their phone is their ticket.

Share a Check-In Link with your door volunteers, so they can scan tickets without a WordPress account.

Choose Classic, Hero or Split, and add a countdown, a map, calendar buttons and share buttons.

Add an Events List, a Single Event or a Get Tickets form to any page or post.

Show events in Sugar Calendar or The Events Calendar, while the tickets and attendees stay in Charitable.

Why You’ll Love Charitable Events

Your tickets, attendees and donations live in one place, so you never have to match up 2 sets of reports after the event.

Events Inside Your Campaigns

One Place for Event and Donation Income

Every event in Charitable belongs to a campaign. When someone buys a ticket, that purchase is a Charitable donation like any other, and it counts toward the campaign goal.

For a standalone event, leave the Campaign setting on Auto-create a campaign and Charitable makes one for you. If the event is part of a bigger appeal, pick that campaign and the ticket money goes toward its goal.

The Overview tab under Charitable » Events shows your ticket revenue, tickets sold and upcoming events at a glance.

Tickets Count Toward Goals

Auto-Created Campaigns

Ticket Revenue at a Glance

Charitable dashboard showing revenue, tickets sold, orders, and average order value with a fundraising card overlapping the bottom left edge
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Ticket Types and Receipts

Tickets That Are Ready for Tax Time

On the Tickets tab, you can create as many ticket types as an event needs. Each type has its own price and capacity, and it stops selling when it sells out.

When a supporter pays for a gala seat, part of that money pays for the dinner. Each ticket type has a fair market value field, and Charitable puts the tax-deductible amount on the donor’s receipt.

UK charities also get a Gift Aid column on every ticket type.

Price and Capacity per Ticket

Fair Market Value Built In

Free RSVPs Supported

Attendee Details

Know Who Is Coming Before the Day

Every ticket creates its own attendee record. On the Custom Fields tab, you decide what to ask each guest, such as a meal choice, a t-shirt size or access needs.

When someone buys more than 1 ticket, the form asks for each guest’s name and details separately. Supporters can also add an extra donation on the same form.

The Attendees tab lists everyone who holds a ticket, and you can search, filter and export it.

Custom Questions per Event

Separate Details for Each Guest

Optional Extra Donation

Ticket-type management UI with VIP Admission row, price fields, delivery option, capacity, and an Add Ticket Type button; two rounded panels below show delivery and donor receipt details.
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Event Page Templates

Event Pages That Match Your Brand

Charitable builds an event page for you as soon as you save an event. The Templates tab gives you 3 layouts, called Classic, Hero and Split.

You can set an accent color for the buttons so the page matches your brand. From the Misc tab, you can switch on a live countdown, calendar buttons, a location map and a Share row.

Want your events somewhere else on the site? Add the Events List, Single Event or Get Tickets block to any page.

Classic, Hero and Split Layouts

Countdown and Calendar Buttons

3 Editor Blocks

Digital Tickets and Check-In

Check People In at the Door

Once a payment is confirmed, the donation receipt gets a My Tickets section. Each attendee has their own card with a QR code to show at the door.

On the night, your team can scan each QR code from a phone. Every event has its own Check-In Link, so your volunteers don’t need a WordPress account.

You can also check someone in by hand from their attendee record, and Charitable records who checked them in and when.

QR Code on Every Receipt

No WordPress Login for Volunteers

Manual Check-In Too

Ticket management page showing two guest entries and a separate QR-based check-in panel on the right side of the screen.

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Feature New

🎟️ Introducing Charitable Events: Sell Tickets Inside Your Campaigns!

Most nonprofits sell event tickets in one tool and collect donations in another, which leaves two sets of reports and a manual match at the end of the year. Charitable Events brings both together, selling tickets through the same donation forms and payment gateways you already run in Charitable. Why this is important:

  • 🎟️ Every ticket is a donation: Ticket sales run through the gateway you already use and count toward the campaign goal, with everything managed under Charitable » Events.
  • 📱 QR check-in from any phone: Each attendee gets their own QR code on the receipt, and volunteers scan at the door through a check-in link that needs no WordPress account.
  • 🧾 Receipts ready for tax time: Give each ticket type a fair market value, and Charitable puts the correct tax-deductible amount on every donor receipt.
  • 📋 Attendee details at checkout: Ask every guest for a meal choice, shirt size, or access needs, with a separate attendee record created for each ticket.
  • 🗓️ Blocks and calendars included: Three editor blocks plus Sugar Calendar and The Events Calendar support put your events where supporters already look.

Check out our announcement here.

ai New

🚀 Unleash AI Power in Charitable!

Your AI assistant can now build, edit, and manage your Charitable fundraising campaigns directly — just by asking. With Charitable Pro adding write support for the WordPress Abilities API, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor can handle full administrative actions safely through MCP. Why this is important:

  • 🤖 Campaign creation in plain language: Prompt your assistant with a goal like “Set up a fundraiser for the shelter with a $5,000 goal”, and it builds a real draft campaign complete with suggested donation tiers.
  • 🎨 Instant donation form tweaks: Add custom fields, change button colors, or reorder elements without diving into form settings.
  • 📝 Offline gift logging: Tell your assistant about cash or check gifts, and it will match donor emails and record transactions into your history.
  • 🛡️ Safety and control by default: Write access stays strictly off until turned on in Charitable » Tools » AI MCP, keeping read-only reporting safe by default.
  • 📜 Full audit logging: Every change made by an AI assistant is tracked under Charitable » Tools » Logs, so you always know who (or what) updated your site.

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🌏 Groups with donors in several currencies: Windcave handles more than 20, so a supporter can give in the currency they actually hold.
📅 Operating funds rather than one-time campaigns: switch on Recurring Only mode and the one-off option disappears, so every gift to that campaign is a subscription.
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Charitable Automation Connect 2.3.0 introduces the Visual Automation Builder, a full-screen canvas that lays each automation out as a flow of connected cards: a trigger, optional conditions, and a list of actions that run in order.

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Simply collect donor consent right on your donation form and start your welcome series immediately.

What’s New:

🔄 Automated Subscriber Sync: New donors who opt in are added straight to your Brevo contact list as soon as their payment clears—no manual exports or CSV imports required.

🎯 Granular Consent & Opt-In Control: Customize your checkbox label, choose whether it defaults to checked or unchecked, or turn on Brevo double opt-in to keep your list clean and compliant.

📋 Per-Campaign List Mapping: Route supporters to your global email list or map specific campaigns to targeted Brevo lists to tailor your follow-up messaging.

⚡ 5-Minute Setup: Connect instantly by pasting your Brevo API key into the Newsletter settings, map your contact fields, and start building your email list on autopilot.

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