Event Ticketing System for Schools
Trusted by thousands of educational institutions
See why schools choose TryBooking
Happy parents & students
- No Login/signup required
- Their data is not shared with third parties
- We don’t promote other events to your audience
Affordable pricing
TryBooking offers simple, low pricing with no hidden fees or tiered features. Enjoy unlimited tickets and focus on your community event.
All free events are free. Meaning you won’t have to pay a cent to use our platform for your free events. Just another way we support you and your community.
DID WE MENTION FREE FOR FREE EVENTS?
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A local support team you can reach
All our customers have access to ongoing support via email, phone, and live chat. TryBooking is designed for easy use, but our success specialists are always available to assist.
We’re here to help you sell more tickets and have a successful event.
Keep your school brand in focus
With TryBooking all your events can be placed onto your website using widgets.
Allowing you to white label your events to ensure parents feel comfortable booking their yearly school events.
Powerful features perfect for your school events
Build your event's seating maps
Setting up tables, auditoriums, and even exhibitor stall allocations is easy. Allowing you to give your guest a choice. Select table seating for your next school event, quickly and simply allocate the number of tables and seats for formal dinner, awards nights and more.
Multiple sessions times
Conduct parent-teacher interviews easily using multiple sessions times that allow you to indicate when your teacher interviews will be taking place, when it will end, what's the time interval in-between interviews, and control when it is open for bookings.
Take payment with your device
Take payments in person simply using your own phone. Whether you're selling last minute tickets, uniforms or sausages during a school fundraiser, use the TryBooking Box Office App to easily take payment anywhere without the excess hardware. Available now on Android and iOS.
Handle school events easier with password protect
Effectively handle student formals, drama shows and more with password protect. Create a custom password to ensure that only those parents or students with access can proceed with bookings. Also, use ticket limits per password to ensure no more over bookings.
Collect important information
You can ask your parents or students for additional information during the online booking process. Use pre-built commonly asked questions or create your own, then select which to make mandatory or to be kept optional. Ask for anything from dietary requirements to their student number. Even follow up with a sub-question to find out more about your attendee.
TryBooking has your school events covered
Our event ticket management system runs in sync with the events within your academic year.
Frequently Asked Questions
What ticketing service fees does TryBooking charge?
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) or a 15c ticket fee if the ticket price is $5.00 or less.
- 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:
- 2.5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)
Can I customise my own event page?
Yes, you can have full customisation of your own event page. We also provide a widget to allow you to place your event page onto your site.
Do you offer discounted pricing for Schools and University Events?
For donations made on fundraising pages:
- 2.5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)
For bookings or donations made on events:
- 50c ticket fee (charged to the ticket buyer) or 15c for tickets priced at $5.00 or less
- 2.5% processing fee (charged to the event organiser by default)
And you can consider passing the fees on to the ticket buyer so that you are taking the full ticket price.
Is TryBooking secure?
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.
Are there any costs associated with creating an event?
No, there are no cost associated with creating a event.
There are NO lock-in contracts, sign-up or account maintenance fees, nor any subscriptions.
Fees are only incurred when a paid transaction is processed through your event. Allowing you to run a free event without any cost.
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.
Can I use TryBooking to sell tickets to private events?
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.