For high-demand or invite-only events, Multipass offers three alternatives to plain public sales. Find them under Tickets → Ticketing Variations in your event admin.
Important: you can choose a variation only once per event, so pick deliberately. Promo codes keep working regardless — anyone with a code can still redeem it for tickets, which is how invitations flow out of these tools.
Interest List
Replace public ticket sales with an opt-in form. Interested people leave their contact info; you review the list and send unique, time-limited promo code invitations to the ones you choose. Use the per-ticket-type option Show on Interest List Form to control which types appear. Pair it with the reminder-email setting (Settings → Email Settings) to automatically nudge invitees who haven't redeemed their codes.
Best for: capped events where you want control over the audience without full curation.
Lottery
For on-sales where demand will crush supply, a lottery is fairer than a speed contest — and kinder than a waiting room.
Setting it up
- Go to Tickets → Ticketing Variations and select Lottery.
- Name it (e.g., "Festival Ticket Lottery"), add an optional description, and optionally set a lottery-specific password to hide signup by default.
- Choose the lottery dates.
You'll get a lottery overview page summarizing signups and each entrant's status. You can remove entrants who aren't welcome at your event.
How it plays out
Customers complete the entire purchase flow up to six days before the drop — their card is pre-authorized but not charged, and they don't need to be online when tickets drop. At lottery time:
- All entrants are sorted into random order.
- Multipass walks the list, approving orders while inventory lasts (entrants can see their status almost immediately).
- Approved orders are charged and tickets issued, with email notifications.
- Everyone not selected is emailed and never charged.
Late arrivals who try to buy mid-lottery join the end of the line in order of attempt. Once the lottery concludes, any remaining inventory moves to general sale.
Curated (invite-only)
Collect interest via the opt-in form, then hand-pick attendees and send them unique, time-limited invitations to purchase. The velvet rope, digitized.
Best for: exclusive dinners, private showcases, membership-adjacent events where who attends matters more than how fast they clicked.
Which one should I use?
- Demand > supply, want fairness → Lottery
- Want a vetted audience with light control → Interest List
- Hand-picking every attendee → Curated
- Just want privacy, not selection → skip variations; use an Event Password or unlisted event instead (see Customizing Your Event Page)