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No, to make a purchase or booking through the TryBooking site you do not need to pre-register or create an account. Accounts are only used by event organisers to manage their online sales. A confirmation email will be sent to you on completion of booking so that you have a record. Should you require any changes to be made to your booking, these will be managed directly by the event organiser in accordance with their terms and conditions.

Any potential refunds relating to bookings are handled solely by the Event Organiser in accordance with their terms and conditions. This includes refunds for payments made via your PayPal account. To make contact with the event organiser to inquire about obtaining a refund, you will find a Contact Event Organiser button on the event and within your confirmation email. The additional ticket fee, which may apply to a booking for paid events via the TryBooking website, is not refundable as outlined within our T&Cs.

TryBooking handles online payments for event organisers only. It will be at the event organisers discretion should they choose to take phone bookings. For clarification, you can make contact with them directly using the Contact Event Organiser button on the front of the TryBooking event.

On completion of booking, you are sent a confirmation email that has your tickets and receipt attached as a PDF. If you're not able to locate your confirmation email, you can have it resent to you using our Resend Tickets feature. On this page simply enter the email address you entered at the time of booking, complete the reCaptcha, and click Submit. Don't forget to check your junk/spam folders. Still haven't seen the confirmation email come through? You may need to mark TryBooking as a safe sender in your email account. The following guide will walk you through how to do so: Not receiving emails from TryBooking.

Any changes to your booking are handled solely by the event organiser and are actioned at their discretion. TryBooking can not make these changes on their behalf. It is recommended that you made contact with the event organiser as soon as possible to increase the likelihood of these changes being made. You will find a Contact Event Organiser button within your confirmation email that will allow you to make contact with them directly.

TryBooking is a booking service used by many organisations such as schools, community groups, theatres, professional organisations and charities. If TryBooking appears on your credit card statement it will be because you, or sometimes a family member, have booked or registered to an event through our system. To see what the transaction was for or to validate your transaction please search on the secure find transaction page. Alternatively, we would be happy to look up the transaction for you. Simply contact us on 03 9012 3460 or via info@trybooking.com.

Your tickets should arrive to your email inbox within minutes of booking. If you don't receive the email, please check your junk / spam folders and double check that you are logged into the correct email account.

Our tickets are mobile responsive, allowing you to present them on any smartphone or tablet device. Most event organisers are happy to accept tickets shown in this format unless otherwise specified. If presenting them on a phone or tablet is not an option, get in contact with the event organiser so that they can make alternative arrangements for you. There is a Contact Event Organiser button in your confirmation email that will allow you to make contact with them directly.

If the event organiser has chosen to enable a tax invoice, the receipt provided will be converted to a Tax Invoice stipulating GST. The invoice is accessible via the confirmation email provided on booking. If you have not received a tax invoice after completing a booking and you require one, please contact the event organiser and request a detailed tax invoice. You will find a Contact Event Organiser button in your booking confirmation email allowing you to make contact with them directly. A tax invoice for the fees charged by TryBooking is automatically provided on all transactions. It is attached to the receipt issued.

For queries relating to the event or the venue where the event is being held, you will need to contact the event organiser. There is a Contact Event Organiser button on the event page and within the confirmation email that will allow you to make contact with the event organiser directly. TryBooking is not involved with running or management of the event, we're simply the platform the event organiser has chosen to sell their tickets through. With this in mind, we aren't able to make comment on the particulars relating to an event or venue outside of what is stated on the TryBooking event itself.

TryBooking is very respectful of the privacy of all users on its site and PCI compliant. View our certificate of compliance. All pages are HTTPS secure, ensuring an encrypted website connection when navigating across the site. Any personal information that may be used by the TryBooking Site in order to carry out its necessary functions is stored on a secured server protected by firewalls and is hosted in Australia. The data itself is also encrypted to further reduce any risk that your information will be obtained and used by unauthorised access. We do not store your full credit card number, only the last four digits are kept and this is to show you which card you have used to make the booking. Given the increasing sophistication of computer hackers, there are no absolute guarantees that our systems will never be accessed without our consent, or that our systems are impenetrable. However, you can rest assured that we take all reasonable measures to ensure the security of your personal information and the bookings you have made.

Read more about our Privacy Policy 

Read more about General Data Protection Regulations

No. The TryBooking team strive to make your experience an enjoyable one. There are no pop-up advertising messages on the site.

TryBooking regards personal privacy and compliance with our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles, as an important part of our relationship with event organisers and users of our services. We also endeavour to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation for Customers who access our site from within the EU. TryBooking treats your data seriously. We do not on-sell or provide your data to any 3rd parties or send you emails apart from those relating to your current purchase. Please consult our Privacy Policy for further details on how we handle your data. Our Privacy Policy can also be accessed by clicking on Privacy in the footer of the TryBooking website.

COVID has seen the need for event organisers to collect attendee contact details for contact tracing purposes. 

With TryBooking you will be able to collect this data from your customer at the time of booking using our Data Collection feature. At the event, you will then be able to use the TryBooking Scanning App to achieve an accurate record who attended and when they were on site. This method ensures quick and easy entry to your event.

Should you wish to keep the booking process as simple as possible for your customers or perhaps you are selling tickets on-site, Check-In QR codes are a popular method for collecting this data from your attendees at entry. Whilst TryBooking doesn't currently offer this functionality, each State's government (Australia) has provided a solution that is free to all users.

Below you will links to this service for each state:

• ACT - Check-In CBR app
• NSW - NSW Government QR code for your business
• NT - The Territory Check In
• QLD - Check in QLD App
• SA - COVID Safe Check-In
• TAS - Check In TAS
• VIC - Victorian Government QR Code Service
• WA - SafeWA app

Fundraising can take on many shapes and forms, from accepting donations to hosting an event, or selling raffle tickets. Whilst it may be tempting to jump straight into setting up a Fundraising page, it's important that you choose the right option to maximise your fundraising efforts and make the best use of the TryBooking platform.

To assist we have put together the below guide to help you make the right choice as to whether should be using a Fundraising page or an Event page for your fundraising cause.

Summary 

Fundraising pages are to be used to take donations towards a particular fundraising campaign or general donations towards your organisation. Donations are classified as voluntary gift or contribution that isn't in exchange for goods or services.

There are strict laws around accepting donations, so it is important that you check and adhere to legislation.

Whilst you don't need to be registered as a charity or not for profit, you do need to have an ABN to utilise this feature. The ABN must match the organisation on the TryBooking account, and the funds being raised must go directly to that organisation.

Don't have an ABN? Not to worry, you will still be able to utilise our Event pages for your fundraising efforts. 

The minimum donation made by a donor is $1.

As the fundraiser, you are able to set preset donation values, these are suggested values that you can set as an alternative to donors entering their chosen donation amount. To setup preset donation values, create or edit a Fundraising page. 

The Fundraising page can not be used for the sale of good or services. This is true even if the funds raised from sales are going towards a particular fundraising effort.

The Fundraising page should only be used for accepting donations that aren't in exchange for goods or services.

You will be able to use our Event pages for selling merchandise. To get started, see: Setting up to sell merchandise 

No. Whilst raffles can be a great way for an organisation to raise funds towards are particular project or cause, the customer isn't technically making a donation through this sale. Rather they are gambling on the chance that they have the winning ticket. The cause the funds are going towards is simply providing the customer with some additional incentive to make their purchase. 

TryBooking can still assist you with your raffle tickets/prize draw entry sales through the use of our Event pages. 

No. For the Charity's ABN to be used the TryBooking account must be one that is managed by the charity directly.

All donations taken through the Fundraising page must go to the organisation on the TryBooking account, that also matches the ABN entered. It is up to that organisation as to how those donations are then distributed, allowing you to disburse them onto either an individual or charity of your choice. 

To accept donations on behalf of a 3rd party, you must have authority from that organisation. To ensure that you comply, it is recommended that you avoid using the phrases such as "on behalf of 3rd Party Name" or include the name of the 3rd Party in the name the Fundraising page. Instead, you will need to be general as to the cause you are raising funds for, and in the page description simply express that the funds will be directed to the 3rd Party.

Use of the 3rd party's Intellectual property on your Fundraising page without permission is also not allowed. This includes uploading images with their logo and linking to their social pages.

TryBooking can still provide you with a platform for your fundraising efforts, it's simply the Fundraising pages that you will not be able to utilise.  Charities rely on 3rd party fundraising to help raise awareness and funds for their cause. TryBooking has been assisting individuals and organisations with their fundraising efforts for more than 12 years through our Event pages.

Once your Bank account has been verified in your TryBooking account, those with Account Owner access will have the ability to put through a transfer request.

We recommend that you hold off on transferring funds until the event has taken place. Not only will this make balancing your account simple, but it also allows for ease of refunding should your event cancel or be postponed unexpectedly. All refunds should be completed using TryBooking so that there is a clear audit trail of the purchases and refunds in your account. This is required if the transaction is queried for chargebacks.

TryBooking is not under obligation to provide access to event funds prior to the event taking place.

Requesting funds prior to your event taking place may result in additional checks on your event by TryBooking. During these checks, a TryBooking team member may contact you requesting to sight documentation relating to your event. These checks can take up to 7 days, please keep this in mind should you be needing the funds to pay suppliers by a particular date.

TryBooking may also request documentation to substantiate your identity prior to processing your transfer request.

For events hosted on the Australian and UK TryBooking site, PayPal is offered as payment method.

Should the customer choose to complete their purchase via PayPal, they will incur an additional surcharge*.

Funds from payments made via PayPal will go straight into your TryBooking account, along with the funds taken via card payments through the TryBooking payment gateway. With no need to attach your own PayPal account, you are able to manage all bookings from the TryBooking portal seamlessly.

*A 0.5% surcharge applies to PayPal payments made to the AU site. A 3% surcharge applies to PayPal payments made to the UK site.

Foreign cards are accepted through the TryBooking payment gateway and via PayPal*.  

Payments made with a foreign card will incur a 1% surcharge to the customer. 

*PayPal is only available for events hosted on the AU site.

TryBooking has a number of options for integrating your events into your website.

For more control of the formatting of your event, choose to from one of our many Widget options when integrating to your website. They allow you to customise the format colours so that it fits in more seamlessly to your website.

Learn more about applying custom branding to a widget.

Yes, you can sell merchandise with TryBooking! Whether it be additional items alongside your event tickets or stand-alone items. 

We have a number of clients that use us successfully for taking orders for performance recordings, pre-purchase food and beverage orders, uniform orders, fundraising items, and raffle tickets just to name a few.

Our Learning Centre contains guides that will walk you through a couple of methods for setting up to sell merchandise:

• Setting up a merchandise-only event
• Selling merchandise alongside a seated event

Our standard fees apply on merchandise items, that is the ticket and processing fees. The merchandise item will be set up as a ticket type within the system, thus it is subject to the ticket fee. View the complete break down of the TryBooking fees per region.

Absolutely! Our Data Collection feature will allow you to create custom fields that gather whatever information you need from your customers at the time of booking.

We understand that events can sometimes undergo last-minute changes that are outside of the event organiser's control. We allow you to make edits to your event at any point in time, even once it has gone live for sale and bookings have been taken.

To make changes to your existing TryBooking event:

1. From the left menu, click Dashboard
2. Under Manage events overview, click your event name
3. Use the side menu to navigate to the area that you are needing to edit
4. Once the changes have been saved, they will be applied to the event immediately

If your event has already taken bookings and the changes made affect theses existing bookings, it is recommended that you make contact with these customers to inform them of these changes.

You can access their contact details via the Export Data report.

If it is all bookings that need to be contacted, you can use the Email Buyers feature to do so.

TryBooking has three scanning options:

• Mobile scanning app: scan and check people in and out of your event with ease. Can be downloaded onto your own iPhone or Android device and uses your device's camera to scan QR codes from tickets. You can also manually tick guests off an in-app door list. Requires a stable internet connection

• Gatekeeper: TryBooking's custom-built application for scanning QR codes on tickets upon entry using a laptop and scanner. Does not require an internet connection 

• RFID: guests are issued with an RFID enabled wristband that can be read by TryBooking's scanning pods. Ideal for managing large crowds to ensure that patrons are correctly validated prior to the entry to the event. The RFID technology records entry and exit time data for better crowd management. 

The Learning Centre and our in portal help (accessed via the  icon in the bottom right) has a number of helpful articles including training videos and step-by-step guides.

Our client success team are also always on hand to help you get started online, answer technical questions and provide valuable advice, tips and ideas. You can reach the client success team via email or over the telephone. For details, visit our contact us page. 

Yes. Our Enews will keep you up to date with new features as well as provide tips and guides for better managing your event.

When you create an account you will automatically be signed up to receive our Enews. You will have the option to unsubscribe at any point in time.

Our in portal News will also alert you with new features and system updates whilst you actively work on your events.

TryBooking offers the lowest fees in the industry! There are no set-up costs, no subscriptions and no ongoing commitments. We keep it simple by offering the one low pricing tier for each region and keeping it free for free events.

Should you be taking payment through your TryBooking event, the transaction will be subjected to a processing fee and a ticket fee. These fees vary per region associated with your TryBooking account. Below details these fees per region.

Australia:

For bookings or donations made on events:

• 50c ticket fee (charged to the ticket buyer)
• 2.5% processing fee (charged to the event organiser by default or passed on to the ticket buyer by selection)

For donations made on fundraising pages:

• Until 1 January 2022 1% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)
• From 1 January 2022 2.5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)

Further details on our pricing for Australian account holders can be found via https://www.trybooking.com/pricing

Australian Account holders: info@trybooking.com

There are no sign-up or account maintenance fees, nor any lock-in contracts. Fees are only incurred when a paid transaction is processed through your event. 

We encourage you to create an account and see for yourself how easy the TryBooking site is to both create and manage your next event or to simply book an event.

Learn more about our low pricing.

TryBooking is very respectful of the privacy of all users on its site and PCI compliant. View our certificate of compliance. All pages are HTTPS secure, ensuring an encrypted website connection when navigating across the site. Any personal information that may be used by the TryBooking Site in order to carry out its necessary functions is stored on a secured server protected by firewalls and is hosted in Australia. The data itself is also encrypted to further reduce any risk that your information will be obtained and used by unauthorised access. We do not store your full credit card number, only the last four digits are kept and this is to show you which card you have used to make the booking. Given the increasing sophistication of computer hackers, there are no absolute guarantees that our systems will never be accessed without our consent, or that our systems are impenetrable. However, you can rest assured that we take all reasonable measures to ensure the security of your personal information and the bookings you have made.

Read more about our Privacy Policy 

Read more about General Data Protection Regulations

Ready to begin selling through TryBooking? The first step is to create an account via Create Seller Account. 

Follow the prompts and provide a valid email address as we will send an activation email. Once you have activated the account you will be able to log in and begin creating your event. It's that easy!

We also have a number of setup guides in our Learning Centre to help get you started with creating your event. 

You don't need an ABN to sell tickets through TryBooking. 

All you need is a computer, tablet or mobile phone with internet access to get going.

A smartphone (Andriod or iPhone) is required should you wish to scan tickets at the door. 

It takes just a few minutes to create your account and begin creating your first event on TryBooking.

All that's required to get started it a valid email address, ensuring that you will receive the activation email to complete the registration. Once the account has been activated, you can log in and begin creating your event.

With our Create New Event wizard, you'll have your event set up and selling within minutes!

To begin creating your account click Create Seller Account

The Learning Centre and our in portal help (accessed via the  icon in the bottom right) has a number of helpful articles including training videos and step-by-step guides.

Our client success team are also always on hand to help you get started online, answer technical questions and provide valuable advice, tips and ideas. You can reach the client success team via email or over the telephone.

Absolutely! You can make your event private and turn off all social media sharing via the Event Publication. It is at your discretion to share your unique booking URL publicly or privately.

Publication settings

To edit your event's publication settings:

1. From the left menu, click Dashboard
2. Under Manage events overview, click the name of your event
3. From the left menu, click Event publication, under Event promotion
4. In the Publication tab, update the settings to suit your privacy preferences
5. Click Save

Private events will not be displayed in the TryBooking tickets search. They can still be booked as normal if a guest uses the booking link. 

Passwords

You can also add a password to your event for an extra layer of security:

1. From the left menu, click Dashboard
2. Under Manage events overview, click the name of your event
3. From the left menu, click Event publication, under Event promotion
4. In the Passwords tab, tick the box Password protect this event
5. Set up your passwords as needed. You can have up to 10 passwords
6. Click Save

Members link

If you have a members-only website and want to share your event there, you can use the special booking link found on the passwords page to direct users to a password-free version of your event. Your members can quickly book while non-members will require a password.

We provide a number of methods to integrate your TryBooking event into your website for a seamless booking experience. 

Choose from our numerous Widget options to have the event embedded into your website, or one of our Event Listings to have new events auto-populate to on your site as they are created, or simply embed the unique direct URL for your event.

The direct URL is ideal for linking to social media pages.

TryBooking provides a number of methods for you to share your event with your community and the general public.

Whenever you create a new event it is given its own unique TryBooking URL (web address). To let people know about your event all you need to do is provide them with this link. Whether you choose to provide it in an email, link it to your website or social media platforms, or have it stated on printed material (posters or invitations). By simply clicking on the link or typing it into their address bar they'll go directly to your event and proceed with their booking. 

If you are wanting to embed your TryBooking event on your website we provide a number of options for a seamless integration via the use of Widgets.

Don't have a website? Not a problem, you can use the unique event URL as a standalone or if you run multiple events our Event Listing Page would be an ideal solution.

If your event is set to public, you don't even need the link! Potential customers can find your event on TryBooking by using our Buy tickets search.

Yes. On TryBooking, we use a program called CAPTURE that provides an audio message of the security code you need to enter if registering as an Event Organiser. Other features include alternate text tags for all graphics that appear on the TryBooking website, in addition to keyboard shortcuts like the Alt and N keys used to select the Next option on a Wizard.

Yes. Our Enews will keep you up to date with new features as well as provide tips and guides for better managing your event.

When you create an account you will automatically be signed up to receive our Enews. You will have the option to unsubscribe at any point in time.

Our in portal News will also alert you with new features and system updates whilst you actively work on your events.