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Can I sell recital or concert tickets in Opus1.io?

Opus1.io does not sell audience tickets. A guest cannot buy a seat without an account, and one booking cannot cover several people, so a family of four cannot check out once for four tickets. Events in Opus1.io are built for performers signing up for a recital or concert. Sell admission through a ticketing service or at the door, then share the event's public Program link, which your audience can open without a login.

Applies to: Owner, Manager
PLUS Feature: No
Plan: All
Last updated: October 27, 2026

Table of Contents

  1. Overview
  2. What events in Opus1.io are built for
  3. Why every booking needs an account
  4. Which path to use for audience admission
  5. How performers' families sign up
  6. Sharing the program with your audience
  7. When an event fills up
  8. FAQ
  9. Related Articles

Overview

Owners planning a spring recital, an open mic night or a faculty concert often want to do two jobs in one place: sign up the students who are performing, and charge everyone else for a seat. Opus1.io handles the first job well. It does not handle the second.

The sections below cover where that line sits and why, what to use for audience admission, and how to give your audience something useful from Opus1.io, the printed or on-screen program, without asking anyone to create an account.

Why it matters: If you build audience ticketing on top of an event, every grandparent who buys a seat ends up on your performer roster, needs their own Opus1.io account, and has to check out one person at a time. Knowing this before you open sign-ups saves a messy cleanup the week of the show.

What events in Opus1.io are built for

An events-based service in Opus1.io is designed for participants: the students and ensembles who perform. Each person who enrolls takes a performance slot on the event's roster. That roster is what you confirm, put in order, and turn into the event's program.

That design brings real benefits for performers:

  • Families choose a performance date, pick the student's teacher, and agree to your terms and conditions in one flow.
  • Teachers you invite can add piece titles, composers and other performance details for their own students.
  • The program builds itself from confirmed performers in the order you set.

It also means an event is the wrong container for audience members. Someone buying a seat is not performing, and you don't want them taking a slot, appearing on the roster, or showing up in your program.

Why every booking needs an account

Every paid booking in Opus1.io, whether a lesson, a class or an event, belongs to a client profile. That profile holds the payment method, the receipt, the terms and conditions the person accepted, and the confirmation and reminder emails.

So even when your event link is open to the public, a visitor can browse without signing in but must create an account or sign in before checkout. Turning on Make accessible by visitors for a link changes when someone registers, not whether they do.

Two consequences matter for ticket sales:

  • No guest checkout. There is no option to pay by card and leave without creating an account.
  • One person per booking. There is no quantity field. A parent buying for four people completes four separate bookings, and each attendee has to be a client or a dependent on the parent's account.

Which path to use for audience admission

Situation What to use Trade-off
You are charging the public for seats A dedicated ticketing service, linked from your website or event email Payments and attendee lists live outside Opus1.io
Admission is cash or card at the door Your front desk or a card terminal on the night No advance sales or head count
The audience is mostly current families, and you need a head count Ask families to reply to a batch email or SMS from Opus1.io Free only, and the counting is manual
A small number of guests who really are participants, such as a workshop where everyone plays An event or a class, with one booking per person Every guest needs an account
Staff need to add a few performers by hand Manual enrollment from inside the event No automatic charge; bill separately

The last row applies to participants, not ticket buyers. When staff add someone to an event manually, Opus1.io does not bill them automatically. Charges only happen when a client self-enrolls through a link with a payment plan.

How performers' families sign up

For the people who are performing, the event self-booking flow does the job you want. When a family opens your event link:

  1. They choose the event and, if it runs on more than one date, the date they want.
  2. They select Book.
  3. If they are not signed in, Opus1.io opens Create your account. Families who already have an account choose Login here on the same screen.
  4. They choose Myself or My Dependent(s) / Child(ren), and fill in any details your registration form asks for.
  5. They pick the student's teacher, enter or choose a payment method, and accept your terms and conditions.
  6. They confirm the booking. Self-enrolled performers are marked confirmed automatically.

To let families who don't yet have an account reach this flow, turn on Make accessible by visitors on the event's self-booking link and save with Update Business. Leave it off if only current students should be able to sign up. That is the usual choice for a studio recital.

You need a payment plan on the event for families to self-enroll, even if the event is free.

Sharing the program with your audience

Opus1.io can give your audience something without an account: the event's program. Once your performers are confirmed and placed in order, the Program button on the event shows the running order. The QR Code button produces a code and short link that anyone can open, signed in or not.

Print the QR code on the door, on a slide before the show, or in the email that goes out with your ticketing link. The audience sees who is performing and when, and you have not had to create a single account for them.

When an event fills up

When every performance slot is taken, Opus1.io shows families Event is full and no longer enrolling on the self-booking link. They cannot add themselves to an event waitlist. An Owner or Manager can move a participant to the waitlist from inside the event with Move to Waitlist, and add them back if a slot opens up.

FAQ

Does Opus1.io integrate with a ticketing service such as Eventbrite? There is no built-in integration. Run ticket sales in the ticketing service and link to it from your website or event emails, and keep Opus1.io for performer sign-ups and the program.

Can my audience still open the program after I turn off self-booking for the event? Yes. Turning off self-booking with Disable Event stops new sign-ups, but the program link and QR code keep working, so you can close enrollment a week out and still share the running order on the night.

My recital runs on two evenings. Does each evening get its own program? No. An event's program covers every date in that event. If each evening needs its own program, set each one up as a separate event in Opus1.io.

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