Comedy & live shows
Sell tickets for comedy nights, open mics and touring headliners
Run two sets a night with separate inventory, sell reserved tables or general admission, and get the door line moving with QR scanning.
How this type of ticketing works
Comedy rooms sell by the set, not the night. A 7 pm and a 9:30 pm show have different capacities, different headliners, and often different prices — and the door has ten minutes to seat everyone.
TixSimple lets you sell each set as its own ticket type or its own date, with reserved tables sold from an interactive map or straight general admission. Guests show a QR code and your door staff scan from a phone, with clear red warnings for duplicates.
What to set up in TixSimple
- 1Create a show event for each night, with a ticket type per set time.
- 2Sell reserved tables from a map, or GA with a headcount cap.
- 3Add tiers: GA, Front Row, Table for Four, Student, Industry.
- 4Note the two-drink minimum or age policy in the ticket description so it is on the emailed ticket.
- 5Create a scanner key for the door and one for VIP entry.
- 6Add merch pre-orders picked up at the merch table with the same QR code.
Fee example: General admission to one set
A $20 ticket carries a TixSimple platform fee of $0.59 (1.3% + $0.33). If you sell 120 tickets, the total platform fee is $70.8. Stripe processing is separate and you choose whether to pass fees to the buyer or absorb them.
Ticket price
$20
Platform fee
$0.59
Net revenue
$2,329.2
Recurring nights, comps and touring acts
Weekly rooms benefit from a repeatable setup: duplicate last week's event, change the headliner and date, and publish. Comps for performers and industry cost nothing because free tickets carry no platform fee.
For touring headliners, coupon codes let you run presales for your email list before the public on-sale, and each code can have its own limit.
- Separate inventory for early and late sets
- Reserved tables sold from an interactive seating map
- Free comps for performers, press, and industry
- Presale coupon codes for your mailing list
Frequently asked questions
Can I sell reserved tables instead of general admission?
Yes. Upload your room layout as an interactive ticket map and sell each table as its own space. Guests pick the table they want and it locks immediately.
How do I handle two shows in one night?
Give each set its own ticket type with its own capacity, or create two events. Either way, the door scanner shows which set a ticket is valid for.
Can I comp performers and press?
Yes. Issue tickets directly to their email addresses at no charge — free tickets cost nothing on TixSimple.
Do guests need to print anything?
No. Tickets arrive by email and can be saved to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet, and the QR code scans straight off a phone screen.
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