Free tickets
A free ticket is still a place in a room, which is why an event that charges nothing needs a list just as badly as one that charges.
A free ticket is a place given away at no cost, issued and checked in the same way as a paid one. Free registrations are common for open days, annual meetings, talks and anything where the point is attendance rather than income. No money moves, so no payment provider is involved at all.
Why a free event still needs tickets
Without a list you cannot tell a full room from a half-empty one until the day. A summer fete that expects two hundred and gets six hundred is a safety problem, not a happy surprise, and a jumble sale that books a hall for thirty and fills it with three has paid for nothing.
Free event registration also gives you a way to reach the people who said they were coming. A change of venue, a cancellation for weather, a reminder the night before: all of them need an address to send to.
The no-show problem
Anything free is easy to forget. Attendance at free registrations typically runs well below the number who signed up, which means the count you plan against is not the count you will get. Most organisers learn their own ratio after two or three events and plan around it.
A reminder the day before recovers a good part of it, and so does asking for something small: a name, a choice of session, an answer to one question. The tiny bit of effort makes the commitment feel real.
Free places with Passavo
Free registrations are unlimited on every plan, including the free plan, because a place that brought in no money should not cost you anything either. You can start for free without card details and without a trial that expires while you are still deciding.
A free place behaves like any other. It produces a ticket with its own code and is scanned at the entrance the same way, and with time slots it counts against the same places, so the attendance figure at the end is a real one.
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Common questions
Is there a limit on free registrations?
No. Free sign-ups are unlimited on every plan. The ceiling on the free plan applies to paid tickets, not to registrations where no money changes hands.
Can one event have both free and paid places?
Yes. A talk can be free for members and paid for everyone else, with both ticket types in the same sale and both scanned the same way at the door.