They buy the night, not the names.

Running the room is free forever: the weekly nights as recurring events, date exceptions for the weeks you are dark, free registration with a capacity for open mics, booking requests from comics with an approved list for your regulars, sub-schedules, two-way calendar sync, an embeddable calendar and up to 10 newsletter emails a month, counted per recipient rather than per send. Selling is free too, up to 25 paid tickets a month, with the QR on each one scanned at the door for nothing. Pro at $5 a month removes that ceiling and adds the live check-in dashboard, and Event Schedule charges zero platform fees on sales at any tier.

Yes, and that is the normal way round for a comedy room. The night is one recurring event with its own ticket types, so Friday at eight can be on sale in January. Add the participants when you book them and the show updates in place, so nobody has to be sent a new link.

Adding someone as a participant attaches them to the show, and the night's page lists the whole bill, whether or not they have an account. If they already run their own schedule on Event Schedule, the date turns up there for them to accept, or straight away if they have added your club to their approved list. If they do not, adding them creates a public page that says your club made it and that they have not claimed it yet, and you can tick a box to email them a link to it. They claim it by signing in with the email address on it. Until then it stays out of search engines, and once they do, your dates stay on it and your future ones post without waiting for approval.

Turn on booking requests and comics can submit to your schedule instead of messaging you. Every request waits for you to accept it, and you are emailed when new ones are pending. Comics you book regularly can go on an approved list so their submissions post without waiting, as long as they are sending them from their own schedule.

Yes. Set up two ticket types at different prices and sell both from the same night. Each type carries its own count, and the count is kept per occurrence, so a sold-out Friday does not stop next Friday selling. A type can also be given a single date to go on sale or come off it, which applies once to the whole run rather than repeating each week. Check people in by scanning the QR code on each ticket, and take payment through your own Stripe or PayPal account, a payment link or cash, with no platform fee on top.

Yes, with nothing but an email address. Announce the show, give its tickets a date to go on sale, and anyone who wants in can leave their address on the event page without an account. They get one email when tickets go on sale, one if the show is cancelled, a reminder shortly before it starts, and any change notice you send, and nothing else. It is kept per date, so asking about one Friday is not a sign-up for every Friday. You can see how many people are waiting on the event's Tickets panel, and it is free on every plan.

Yes, from the Sales page, on every plan. A ticket paid through Stripe or PayPal can be refunded in full or in part, and the money goes back through the provider before the sale is marked refunded. A full refund puts that ticket back on sale for its night, and on Pro the waitlist for that night is told. A partial refund leaves the ticket valid. A sale taken in cash or through a payment link is recorded with Mark as Refunded, which moves no money. The buyer is not emailed about a refund, so let them know yourself.