Events and tickets
Event tickets for tasting nights, supper clubs and guest chef evenings
Name the night, set a capacity and ticket types and publish. Guests buy in the app, you scan them in at the door, and a sold-out night keeps a waitlist. The tax is worked out when the ticket is bought.
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Why does a free event always get the headcount wrong?
You cater for forty and thirty arrive, or you cater for thirty and fifty come. A tasting night or a supper club only works if people commit before the food is bought.
Taking payment by message, ticking names off a paper list and arguing about a transfer at the door is a second job. A ticket tells you the number before the first order of fish goes in.
How do you build the night?
Open Events, name the night, set the date and a capacity, add ticket types and publish. Types can differ, for example with a wine pairing or without. A free event can allow a plus-one that you control, and every seat counts against capacity.
The ticket is in the guest's app at once. A guest who misses out joins a waitlist. If you change the date or the location, the form asks whether to tell the ticket holders and you decide.
How does the door work?
Scan a ticket from the Events page or at the counter. The scan checks the ticket's signature and marks the party in. A door sale or a comp is entered as a named ticket rather than a payment, so your headcount stays true. Giving away a comp needs the marketing permission, because it gives away a seat.
How is a ticket taxed in Canada?
A paid event ticket is taxed when it is bought, with GST/HST and any provincial tax for the province, worked out by Mosey's tax engine.
A ticket that vouchers cover in full is issued with no card charge. Every refund path recognizes it, so no card is asked to repay what it never paid.
What if you cancel, or a guest needs a refund?
If you cancel the night, every confirmed ticket is refunded and the holders are told. An event that has sold a ticket is never deleted, only cancelled or hidden. A refund can also be partial, so one seat on a ticket of four can come back without voiding the rest.
Mosey for Teams lets a company buy tickets for named staff, and they scan like any other.
Where the rules differ
A ticket follows the tax and commerce rules of its province.
- British Columbia
- A ticket can include soft drinks. The restaurant collects the 7% PST on them while Mosey is under British Columbia's threshold.
- Alcohol
- A bar-credit ticket, which would carry alcohol credit sold through Mosey, is refused in every province.
- Quebec, Saskatchewan and Manitoba
- Sales through Mosey are refused, so a paid ticket cannot be sold there.
Rules change. Check any rule that matters to you with your accountant or adviser.
What Mosey is about
Affordable tools for food businesses
Tools priced for independents and small chains, not for the big groups.
A full suite, in one login
The tools a restaurant, café or bar needs sit together, so you are not paying for a stack of separate subscriptions.
You keep more of your revenue
Mosey is built so that more of every sale stays with the business that made it.
Free to list and claim
Your menu, your replies to guests and your photos cost nothing to put on Mosey.
No hidden fees
What Mosey charges is published, in full, so nothing arrives as a surprise on a statement.
Made for local food businesses
Mosey helps diners find independent food businesses by dish and mood, and lets people rate what they actually ate.
Questions owners ask
Who can create events?
People with the marketing, promotions and events permission, which owners and managers have by default.
Can I sell at the door?
Yes, as a named door ticket, so the headcount stays true.
What if the night sells out?
Guests join a waitlist, and the next guest is offered a seat if one comes back.
How do I see who is coming?
The guest list shows each holder, with a short note on whether they are new to your business or a regular.
Can I run a free event?
Yes. A free ticket takes a seat from your capacity, and you set how large a party one ticket may bring.
Do buyers need the app?
Tickets are bought in the app. A company buys for its staff through Mosey for Teams.
Who files the tax?
You and your accountant do. Mosey works the tax out and records it for the period.
More for your business
Reservations, deposits and the waitlist
Bookings, deposits that hold the table, reminders and a walk-in line, with Quebec's ban on deposits respected.
Promotions and Boost
Deals with edges, Deal Hours for slow times and a paid send to guests who said yes.
Catering and Teams catering
Requests, quotes and deposits in one inbox, with company orders from Mosey for Teams.
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