Registration forms for events split into two kinds the moment a ticket price appears. A free event's form is a list builder: it needs a name, an email and a count of places, and its only failure is asking too much. A paid event's form is a payment form: it needs the same fields plus a quantity that multiplies a price, a sales tax rate, and a processor that will keep a share of every ticket sold. Most organisers build the second kind as if it were the first and find out on the payout what the difference cost. This page sets the two side by side and works the paid one through the free payment form calculator on this site so the charge and the net are known before the first ticket sells.
The free event's registration form
Name, email, places, and one optional field for anything the organiser genuinely needs before the day. The confirmation carries the date, the address and the ask for anything else. The entries are the guest list, and the count of places against the room's capacity is the only arithmetic. Keep the form to one screen and the required marks to the three fields that make a registration, and measure the page's registrations a month with the contact form design sheet so a change to the form is judged by its entries.
The paid event's registration form, worked
Two tickets at $45 and one premium place at $120 with a $15 parking option is a $225 subtotal. At an 8.25% sales tax rate the form charges $243.56; at a processor rate of 2.9% plus $0.30 the processor keeps $7.36 and $236.20 reaches the account, of which $217.64 is left once the $18.56 of tax is remitted. Those are the worked example's rates, not a rate this site publishes; put your own in and the calculator prints your figures.
Refunds, transfers and the register
A paid registration form needs a refund line the registrant sees before paying, because the processor's fixed fee is usually not returned on a refund and the form's terms should say who bears it. Transfers between named guests are an edit to an entry, not a new charge. In Shortcodo Pro each registration is an entry with its payment, its status and the sender, so a refund, a transfer and a no-show are three statuses on one list rather than three emails.
Questions people ask about registration forms for events
Can one form handle both free and paid places?
Yes, with conditional logic: the payment line appears only when a paid ticket type is chosen. Run the paid branch through the payment form calculator so its charge is known.
Who pays the processor's fee on a ticket?
Either. The calculator's last input switches between absorbing it and adding it to the charge, and prints what reaches you both ways; whether you may add it is your processor's terms and your state's rule.
Is sales tax due on event tickets?
That depends on your state and the event; the calculator takes whatever rate you enter and publishes none. Your registration and your accountant answer the question the sheet works.