We are using EventBrite for a science conference, and I agree it has nice features, but ... they take a fairly sizeable 6% service fee (with no educational discount), and you don’t get paid until _after_ the event is completed. So if you are running on a thin margin, and it is a challenge to pay in advance, it could make a difference.
For another function, I’ve linked a paypal account to a dedicated account at my bank, and they take a smaller service fee for non-profits and educational organizations. -Steve > On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:13 , David Nicholson via discuss > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone: sounds like just setting up the Eventbrite on someone's personal > card for a self-organized workshop is not unheard of. Long term I would like > to have an account with the university but I'm not sure how possible that > will be. Guess we'll find out :) Thank you for your advice and taking the > time to give me it > > David Nicholson, Ph.D. > nickledave.github.io > https://github.com/NickleDave > Prinz lab, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA > > On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:05 PM, Belinda Weaver <[email protected]> > wrote: > Hi David > I am speaking as a local organiser here and not with my Carpentries hat on. > What I did locally was create an eventbrite that was linked to my bank > account as I managed all the bills for workshops. We have never had funding > support for workshops here at The University of Queensland so we had to find > the money to pay for room hire and catering. Once we planned a workshop and > got quotes for room hire and food, we would price the tickets so that the > ticket money raised would just cover those payments (and the eventbrite fees) > with nothing left over. That worked pretty well as our workshops were always > oversubscribed so I was never out of pocket. You could charge a tiny bit more > if you wanted to create a float for next time. The benefit of eventbrite is > that you can link to ticket sales through the workshop website, manage a > waitlist, manage all the emails to learners etc - it really is useful. After > the workshop, I would pay the venue via my credit card as the eventbrite > money would always be paid out before the credit card was due. That might be > a problem for students though who might not want to do that. Our charges were > $55 to $60 for the workshop and people were generally happy to pay that. We > could have provided less lavish catering and charged a lot less for tickets > but people really appreciated getting hot snacks, cake, biscuits, and fruit, > as well as tea, coffee and juice twice a day so that was generally a good > selling point and it stopped people leaving to find food and being late back. > > Whatever works really ... > regards > Belinda > > The Carpentries / discuss / see discussions + participants + delivery options > Permalink ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf549d7b277e0fae5-Mbe7cc8047d167f379f4ef965 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups
