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PayPal for events, with a real seat map.

For venues and organizers: sell tickets online with PayPal, from your own website. Connect your own PayPal account, put a seat map on your page, and buyers pay with their PayPal balance or a card on PayPal's page. The money goes to your PayPal account.

$0.50 a ticket, first 25 free. No percentage.
PayPal charges its usual fee for your account, the same as on any other PayPal sale.

Also works with Stripe, Square and 11 more gateways.

CheckoutSeats held for 9:42
  • Stalls · Row F · Seat 5 · Adult$45.00
  • Stalls · Row F · Seat 6 · Adult$45.00
  • Total$90.00
Next: pay on PayPal's secure page · PayPal balance or cardContinue to payment

The money goes to your PayPal account. SeatLayer issues the tickets.

  • 15

    currencies PayPal accepts here

  • $0.50

    per ticket, first 25 free

  • Refunds

    made in PayPal sync back

  • 3D

    on every chart, with no extra charge

Setup

Connect PayPal in three steps.

To sell tickets online with PayPal you need two values from a PayPal app. SeatLayer sets up PayPal's payment notifications for you.

  1. 1In PayPal

    Use a Sandbox app for test events and a Live app for live events. Make sure your account accepts the currency your events are priced in.

  2. 2Settings → Payments

    Choose Connect PayPal. The secret is encrypted when you save it and can never be read back.

  3. 3Event setup

    Choose the PayPal connection for the event. Buyers pay on PayPal's page and get their tickets by email.

In PayPal · appsStep 1 of 3
  • Sandbox appTest events
  • Live appLive events
  • Event currencyAccepted on your account

Test and live connections sit side by side. Read the setup guide

Money and refunds

Where the money goes, and how refunds work.

Buyers pay on PayPal and the money goes to your PayPal account. SeatLayer never holds it. Refund a whole order or part of it from SeatLayer, or refund in PayPal: a full refund puts the seats back on sale and a partial refund leaves them sold.

  1. Buyer

    Picks seats on your site and pays on PayPal's page.

    Stalls F5–6$90.00
  2. Your PayPal account

    The ticket money lands here and pays out on PayPal's schedule.

    Payment received+$90.00
  3. SeatLayer

    Records the order and emails QR and PDF tickets. Charges $0.50 per ticket.

    2 tickets sent−$1.00
  4. Refunds

    Refund in SeatLayer or in PayPal. A full refund puts the seats back on sale.

    Refund syncedSeats on sale

The ticket money and SeatLayer's charge never mix: buyers pay your gateway, and SeatLayer bills its $0.50 a ticket to you separately, never on the buyer's payment.

Cost

What you pay on a $50 seated ticket.

SeatLayer charges $0.50 per confirmed ticket, seated or not, and nothing on the ticket price. PayPal charges its usual fee for your account, the same as on any other PayPal sale.

A $50 seated ticket, sold with PayPal
  • Ticket price$50.00
    Paid into your PayPal account
  • SeatLayer$0.50
    Flat per confirmed ticket, nothing on the ticket price
  • PayPalits usual fee
    For your account, the same as on any other PayPal sale
Platform fee, before card processing
  • SeatLayer$0.50
    flat, plus PayPal's own fee
  • TicketSpice$0.99
    plus 2.9% + 30¢ processing
  • Ticket Tailor$1.70
    a seated ticket uses 2 credits
  • Eventbrite$3.64
    3.7% + $1.79, plus 2.9% processing

Platform fee per ticket, before card processing, read from each product's pricing on 25 September 2026. SeatLayer pricing · vs TicketSpice · vs Ticket Tailor · vs Eventbrite

Beyond the payment

Every PayPal sale comes with the whole seated event.

The gateway takes the payment. Everything around it is SeatLayer, on the same seat map.

Pricing

Pay only when a ticket sells.

Your first 25 tickets are free. After that it is one flat price per ticket, and nothing to pay in a month you sell nothing.

See full pricing
Hosted ticketing · sell on your website

Pay per ticket.

25
first tickets free
$0.50
per ticket after that
$0
a month, no subscription
  • Buyers pay you directly, through your own payment account
  • Stripe, PayPal, Square and 11 more gateways
  • Sell online, at the box office and at the door
  • Embed on WordPress, Wix, Webflow, Squarespace, Shopify or any page

More ways to get paid

PayPal ticketing questions.

6 questions

Yes. Connect your PayPal account, assign it to an event, and put the seat map on your website. Buyers pick seats, pay with their PayPal balance or a card on PayPal's page, and get QR and PDF tickets by email.

AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, EUR, GBP, JPY, MXN, MYR, NZD, PHP, SEK, SGD, THB and USD. Your PayPal account must be set to accept payments in the currency your event is priced in.

SeatLayer charges $0.50 per confirmed ticket, with the first 25 free and no subscription. PayPal charges its usual fee for your account. There is no percentage of the ticket price.

Yes. Refunds you make in PayPal sync back to SeatLayer. A full refund puts the seats back on sale, and a partial refund leaves them sold. You can also refund from the order in SeatLayer.

Yes. Connect a PayPal Sandbox app for test events. Test tickets are marked as not valid for entry, and test and live connections sit side by side.

PayPal's page offers the PayPal balance and cards. Which card options a buyer sees is decided by PayPal for your account and the buyer's country.

Didn't find your answer?

Sell seated events on your own PayPal account.

Connect PayPal, assign it to an event, and sell from your website, the counter and the door. The first 25 tickets are free.

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