Not for commercial events! Beware, do not use their Email Invite program! I was so excited, so very excited, to find an affordable option for selling tickets online. In the past, my company has used Eventbrite, with wonderful results but a large price to pay. We decided to try another option - therefore Ticketbud! I published our month long Harvest Festival on Ticketbud and pasted my 1,000 email subscribers to their online Email "Invite". Sending a large number of emails manually, is of course time consuming! Ticketbud's online feature looked so professional, I put up my 100% faith. Low and behold, after the mass email went out, I received many, many, many angry replies. Ticketbud failed to send the mass email as a "Blind carbon copy", instead each recipient could see the email addresses of all the other recipients!!! I can understand the concern of these folks, whose email addresses were exposed to 1,000 other people. Needless to say, Alderbrook Park received many bad reviews from this incident. I immediately contacted Ticketbud, explained my frustration and requested a refund of $138. They explained that their program is not designed for large events. It is mostly designed for small personal events and they were sorry for my misunderstanding! Furthermore, they refused to issue a refund. Can you believe it ? They don't mention these details at all on their website. Beware, event coordinators! Their website may look great, but behind the scenes, there is little, professional customer service. Today's online standards, require that emails be kept private, unless permission is given. Ticketbud basically violated trust of 1,000 people : (

Changed Pricing After Sign Up & Entering Info. I was attracted to their business model and pricing system. I believed it would be a great fit for me and my event. I went through the process of setting up my event, entering in tickets, entering different variations, adding descriptions and custom questions for some of the tickets. When I had everything ready I went through the payment process and they had changed it. I requested to use the payment method I had signed up under, but they replied no after waiting for a day, even though someone emailed me during my first day of setup to see if I needed help. They pulled the rug from under me. I will never use them again. Ticketbud use to be against fees and began to put an end to greed and fees from the ticket taking industry. Now it seems as though they've become what they hated. Article from WIRED: wired.com/2012/10/ticketbud/ Why the change? ..."the primary reason behind this change is that it allows us to align our resources to better serve you, the customer." Really? So, if I sold $200 tickets the extra $101 + 2% is for my better serve me, the customer?

Unlimited tickets for a flat rate We have used Ticketbud for all of our 2012 events and it has made a tremendous impact on our ability to sell tickets and forecast our profitability. The program is straightforward and has all the bells and whistles we need for throwing events for 350-500 people. And the app makes check-in not only much easier, but also paperless! We are now customers for life as all of our events this whole year still haven't cost us what one single event did with another ticketing group... It just makes sense.

I would strongly recommend everyone to… I would strongly recommend everyone to not purchase any tickets distributed by ticketbud. They are nothing but only support scammers who would not take any form of responsibilities for our securities. Just last week for NYE ticketbud has distributed tickets for a 2 day event in Australia called 'Psynapse' under 3P productions. All the attendees, a good 500-600+ were present at the right time only to find out that the event was called off at the last minute. Now we understand that due to a lot of unfortunate events, things may not go according to plan which is understandable. Nonetheless all the festival goers need was a refund for the money we all spent. The event planners were not responsive to anyones requests, rather they just ran off deleting their fb page and ticketbud has denied any form of assistance to help us get our money back. We emailed, called and tried reaching out to ticketbud to cooperate with us all in helping us getting a refund or to get any form of update about a potential future event, only to get no response at all. Once again, along with the 500-600+ who has been subjected to a scam from ticketbud, I would strongly recommend no one to purchase any tickets through this agency. Cause once you make that purchase they will not take any form of responsibilities

Ticketbud is useless for virtual events Just a heads up if you are using Ticketbud to ticket your virtual event, they take up to three business days to approve all emails you send via the website. So promotional emails or personalized emails that you would like to send to your attendees would take up to three business days to be approved and they do not work on weekends. I wish I had known that before I decided to send the link to my weekend-long virtual event to all attendees by simply using their "email attendees" tool. Instead, I ended up having to copy and paste everyone’s info into my personal email, editing out any non-email information, right before the event went live. Adding to this, the website, over the weekend, also didn’t approve my redesign of the confirmation email so that late buyers would simply get the link automatically in there. Instead, I spent the entire weekend continually checking to see if there were new purchasers so that I can send them the link, and receiving angry emails and phone calls from people who didn’t receive their’s when I happened to be busy doing something else, or if my personal email wound up in their spam. Even as my event extended until Monday, I pleaded with ticketbud to please resolve this issue so I may be relieved of my duties and they did not. Ticketbud is ill-prepared for the world of virtual events which happens to be one of the few types of events possible right now. Again, had I at least been warned about the long approval process clearly on the website I would have prepared the emails days before, pre-loaded with a link that would work when the event went live on the weekend. The whole thing was so ghetto, I may as well have used Venmo. At least that way I would’ve been able to keep all my money. I’m not exactly sure what their website did and why they are deserving of a percentage of my ticket sales. So you can try your luck with ticketbud but I hope you at least have this warning about the approvals or that your event takes place on a weekday during work hours when they are sometimes working. I did not receive any of the great customer service I heard so much about. Ahead of the event, they often took days to respond to my questions and not even responding appropriately to them.