Promo Codes & Discounts
Promo codes let you offer discounts, reveal hidden tickets, or track which marketing channels drive sales.
How to Get There
- Open your event
- Click Promo Codes in the left sidebar (under Ticketing & Sales)
Creating a Promo Code
- Click + Create
- Enter a Code (what attendees will type), or click Generate code
- Choose a Discount Type — No Discount, Percentage, or Fixed amount
- Set the discount amount
- Click Show advanced options if you want to limit the code to specific products, cap its usage, or give it an expiry date
Promo Code Options
- Code — the text attendees enter (case-insensitive)
- Discount Type — No Discount, Percentage, or Fixed amount. Use No Discount to unlock hidden tickets without reducing the price (see Reveal hidden tickets)
- Discount amount — the value of the discount (disabled for No Discount)
- How is the discount applied? — fixed-amount codes only — apply the discount once to the Entire order, or to Each product in the order
- What products does this code apply to? — optional, under advanced options. Leave it empty and the code applies to all products
- How many times can this code be used? — under advanced options. Leave blank for unlimited
- Expiry Date — under advanced options. When the code stops working
Only one promo code can be applied per order. If an attendee enters a second code, it replaces the first.
Beyond Discounts
Promo codes can do more than reduce prices:
- Reveal hidden tickets — unlock a ticket that is hidden from the public event page (see below)
- Track marketing channels — create different codes for different campaigns to see which drives the most sales
- Early access — give newsletter subscribers or VIPs a code before public sale
Reveal hidden tickets
This takes two steps — both are required:
- On the ticket or product, turn on Hide product unless user has applicable promo code (Tickets & Products → edit the product → Access)
- On the promo code, list that product under What products does this code apply to? (under Show advanced options)
A No Discount code works well here if you only want to unlock the ticket without changing its price.
Note that Hide this product from customers is a separate setting. It hides the product from everyone, and no promo code will reveal it.
Share a pre-applied link
When a code is applied on the event page, ?promo_code=CODE is added to the URL. Share that link and the code is applied automatically when the page loads — handy for early access or newsletter campaigns.
Tips
- Make codes easy to type but not easy to guess
- Test your codes on the event page before sharing them
- Monitor usage from the promo codes list to see which codes are performing