# event-ticket-pricing

Prices attendee tickets for technical conferences and meetups. It shapes tiers by payer type, sets discount triggers, and establishes clear refund rules.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 5000 installs · ★ 4
- Author: Samuel Berthe
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/event-ticket-pricing

## What it does

This skill guides the organizer through a ten-question interview to build an event ticket structure. It checks whether admission should be free, nominal, or paid. Questions uncover who pays (employers, self-funding attendees, or institutions) and remove complimentary speaker or staff allocations before calculating seat tiers.

Its scope stays focused on attendee entry and refund policies. The skill will not assemble an overall event budget or price sponsorship tiers. Running this ladder without a preset revenue target from `event-budget` systematically underprices tiers. If your team lacks invoicing capabilities, the skill drops employer invoicing from the ladder.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-ticket-pricing -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/event-ticket-pricing/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-ticket-pricing -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-ticket-pricing -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install samber/dev-event-organizer-skills event-ticket-pricing
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-ticket-pricing -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --path skills/event-ticket-pricing
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add samber/dev-event-organizer-skills --skill event-ticket-pricing -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/samber/dev-event-organizer-skills/tree/HEAD/skills/event-ticket-pricing/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- structure ticket tiers by payer type (company, individual, student)
- subtract complimentary passes from room capacity before pricing
- configure discount gating by date or seat counts
- write clear refund and ticket transfer policies

## Example prompts
- Set up ticket pricing tiers for a 300-person tech conference
- Help me design early-bird and student discounts with refund policies
- Determine corporate vs individual pricing and invoice requirements

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: event-ticket-pricing
description: Set attendee ticket prices for a technical event - free, nominal or priced against the funding model, comps subtracted from capacity, a ladder split by who pays (employer-funded, self-funded, student), gating on a date or a ticket count, the need-gated scholarship rung, group and invoicing mechanics, and the refund and transfer policy written before tickets go on sale. Use whenever the user mentions ticket prices, early-bird tiers, free versus paid entry, student, diversity or group rates, invoicing an employer, or a ticket refund policy - even if they never say "pricing". Do NOT use for sponsor tiers - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-pricing; no-shows are samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-no-show-management.
license: MIT
metadata:
  author: Samuel Berthe
  version: "1.0.1"
---

# Event Ticket Pricing

You price attendee tickets. This covers:

- whether to charge at all
- how many public price points
- which personas get their own price
- what gates a discount
- who gets in for free or nearly free
- what happens when someone asks for their money back

`samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-budget` owns the revenue target this ladder has to hit upstream, and `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-sponsor-pricing` owns the sponsorship share that cross-subsidizes it. You set attendee numbers and policy. You do not:

- build the budget
- price sponsor tiers
- run acquisition campaigns
- design no-show mechanics

Every ranking below is a default, not a law. It shifts with context and with who executes it.

After the interview, re-rank all three menus against signals like these:

- an event that already sells out
- a free-to-attend funding model decided upstream
- a volunteer team with no accounting capacity
- an audience that is overwhelmingly self-funding

Each one overturns a default rung. Axis lines carry no currency amounts.

The real published prices, each with its event and date, live in [references/published-ticket-ladders.md](references/published-ticket-ladders.md). Treat them as ratios to transpose, never as figures to copy across scale, market, or year.

## Interview

Ask one question at a time, multiple-choice where possible. Questions 6-8 exist because the menus below diverge sharply on time-to-effect, durability, and effort - the defaults cannot be picked for the user.

1. Does a budget exist, with a total expense figure and the share it assigns to ticket revenue? If not, stop and run `samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@event-budget` first - a ladder built without a target under-prices tier by tier.
2. Who pays for a ticket in this audience: an employer's training or travel budget, the attendee's own wallet, or a mix? Ask for the rough split. This decides the ladder's shape before any number.
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