Nonprofit event management, without the platform fee The ticket pays for the cause. Not for the platform.

The parts most nonprofits use every week are free forever: unlimited events, free registration with a capacity for volunteer days and info sessions, recurring shifts, sub-schedules for programs or chapters, an embeddable calendar, two-way calendar sync and a live calendar feed supporters subscribe to. Putting a price on a ticket, for a gala or a paid workshop, needs Pro at $5 a month. There is no separate nonprofit discount, but there is also no platform fee on ticket sales on any plan, so the price of the plan is the whole cost to you.

No, and it is better to know that now. Event Schedule sells tickets and takes registrations; it does not process standalone donations, issue tax receipts or keep a donor database. What it does well is the event side of fundraising: the gala with a supporter ticket and a table of eight, the sponsored walk with capped places, and the page people keep coming back to for the next date. If your donations run through another tool, link to it from the event description.

Straight to the organization. On Pro, a ticket is paid into your own Stripe or PayPal account, billed through your own Invoice Ninja company, taken by a payment link you control, or collected in cash at the door, chosen per event. Your payment provider charges its own processing fee, and Event Schedule adds nothing on top. If a guest cannot come, refund them from the Sales page: a Stripe or PayPal sale goes back through the provider in full or in part, and any other method is marked as refunded so your records stay straight.

Make the shift an event with free registration and give it a capacity. Volunteers register instead of paying, the count is kept for each date on its own, and registration stops when the places are gone. A shift that runs every Saturday is one recurring event, and a date exception takes out the Saturday you are closed. Free registration is unlimited on every plan, and the QR code on each registration scans at the door on every plan too.

Two different things reach supporters. Anyone who leaves an email address on your page and confirms it gets a short digest when you publish new events, at most one every 72 hours, and that does not touch your newsletter allowance. A newsletter you write yourself counts each recipient against a monthly allowance: 10 on the free plan, 100 on Pro and 1,000 on Enterprise. So one appeal to 300 supporters is more than a month of Pro. Connect the schedule's own email settings, or selfhost, and that allowance no longer applies.

The free and Pro plans have one team member per schedule. Adding colleagues is Enterprise, at $15 a month: an admin runs the schedule day to day and sees ticket sales, and a viewer is read-only but can scan tickets at the door, which suits volunteers working the entrance.

Yes, on Pro. Sponsor and partner logos sit on the schedule page with tiers, so the headline sponsor of the gala is not the same size as the local bakery that gave the raffle prize. Sponsors also get what every visitor gets: an event page they can share with their own staff.

You do. The people who register, subscribe or buy a ticket are listed on your schedule, and you can export a backup of the schedule at any time. Event Schedule is open source, so an organization that has to keep personal data on its own server can selfhost the whole platform, and a selfhosted install includes every feature with no plan limits.