Event ticket and break-even calculator
Put in what the event costs and the tickets you plan to sell. It tells you how many you need to sell to break even, what each ticket keeps after the card fee, and, in plain words, whether the event loses money at the numbers you expect. Table tickets are counted properly: one price in, catering for everyone at the table.
How it comes out
At the sales you expect, this event raises $253.
You break even at 86 tickets sold in this mix, about 102 people, against the 113 you expect to sell.
To raise $1,500 at the sales you expect, every paid ticket needs to cost about 22% more:
- Member: $45 becomes $54.71
- Non-member: $60 becomes $72.95
- Firm table (seats 8): $250 becomes $303.93
- Early bird member: $35 becomes $42.56
Each Firm table (seats 8) ticket keeps $242.45 but costs $280 to cater for 8 people, so every one you sell loses $37.55.
Each Early bird member ticket keeps $33.68 but costs $35 to cater for 1 person, so every one you sell loses $1.32.
- Tickets you expect to sell
- 113
- People through the door
- 134 people
- Ticket income you keep
- $5,743
- Card fees you absorb
- $207
- Sponsorship
- $1,000
- Fixed costs
- $1,800
- Catering
- $4,690
- Surplus
- $253
What each ticket keeps, both ways
Member
$45, admits 1 person
- Fee absorbed
- Buyer pays $45You keep $43.39
- Fee on top
- Buyer pays $46.65You keep $45
- Catering for 1 person
- $35
Non-member
$60, admits 1 person
- Fee absorbed
- Buyer pays $60You keep $57.96
- Fee on top
- Buyer pays $62.10You keep $60
- Catering for 1 person
- $35
Firm table (seats 8)
$250, admits 8 people
- Fee absorbed
- Buyer pays $250You keep $242.45
- Fee on top
- Buyer pays $257.78You keep $250
- Catering for 8 people
- $280
Early bird member
$35, admits 1 person
- Fee absorbed
- Buyer pays $35You keep $33.68
- Fee on top
- Buyer pays $36.35You keep $35
- Catering for 1 person
- $35
The card fee is Stripe's standard US rate of 2.9% + 30¢ for each successful card payment, read from Stripe's pricing page on October 15, 2026. International and manually entered cards cost more.
Every ticket is counted as its own card payment. Someone who buys several in one order pays the 30¢ part once, so your real fees can only come out a little lower than these. Free tickets are never charged, so nothing is taken from them.
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Selling the tickets on Veldun
On Veldun an event can have several named ticket types, each with its own member and non-member price, and one buyer can pick several types in one order. The money is paid into the organization's own Stripe account.
What Veldun does not do today: an early-bird ticket is a ticket type you take down by hand, not a price that ends on a date by itself, and the card fee is always paid out of the ticket rather than added to what the buyer pays. A firm table on Veldun is sold as separate tickets in one order rather than one ticket that seats several people.
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