Free vs paid events

Gathin has two kinds of events: free ones, and ones where you buy a ticket. How you join depends on which it is.

Free events

A free event has no payment. You only save your spot, which is called registering or RSVP.

To join, you press the Join Event button on the event page. Being signed in is enough; your name and email come from your account. You are added to the list right away and you get your ticket with a QR code. No card or extra details are asked for.

Some free events have limited spots. When they are full and the organizer has turned on a waitlist, a Join waitlist button appears; without one, registration closes. On an event with no limit but a waitlist turned on, every registration goes through the organizer's approval. If you put yourself on the list, your ticket lands in My Tickets once a spot frees up or your request is approved.

Paid events

For a paid event, you buy a ticket first. Prices are shown in Turkish Lira (TL).

The steps are:

• Press Get Tickets on the event page. The ticket types are listed; pick how many of a type you want with the − and + buttons.
• Fill in the Attendee Information for each ticket: first name, last name, email and phone. Each ticket needs its own email address. A field you leave empty or wrong is marked in red as soon as you move on, and Complete Purchase marks every one still missing. If you have a discount code, you enter it on the ticket's card at this step.
• Press Complete Purchase. If the event has a registration form, you fill it in first; Continue to payment at the end of the form takes you to the payment steps in the same window.
• At the payment step, fill in Billing Information first and press Continue; then Card Information opens.
• Enter your card details, tick the box confirming you have read the agreements, and press Pay Now.

Once the payment goes through, the You're In! window opens and your ticket lands in your account. As with free events, you show the QR code on your ticket at the door.

If every ticket you picked is free, or the discount code you applied covers the whole price (a 100% code, for example), no payment page opens. You confirm with Get tickets in the window that appears.

A paid ticket costs the buyer at least 20 ₺, VAT included and after any discount; a ticket is either free or at least 20 ₺. A code that would take a ticket below that is not applied, and says "This code can't be used right now."

A discount code applies to one ticket type, for the number of tickets you picked. If you change that number or add another ticket type, the code is taken off and you need to apply it again. An applied discount holds for 30 minutes. If a code that covers the whole price has run out of time, or has closed in the meantime, by the time you confirm, no ticket is issued: a message says why, and the code field asks you to apply the code again.

The payment page

The payment page has the Order Summary on one side and the details you fill in on the other.

The Order Summary lists each ticket type at its price including VAT. If the event charges VAT, the VAT inside the price shows on a line of its own with its rate; if you used a discount code, the discount shows on its own line too, with your code. At the bottom is the Total Price you pay; VAT is already in it, not added on top.

The form opens with E-mail and Phone (mobile). The email comes from your account and cannot be changed here. The phone is not asked for again: the number you gave for the first attendee (or, failing that, the one on your profile) is shown as text, with its country code. To use a different number, press Edit beside it.

In the Billing Information step, Identity Number, Address, City, Country and Postal Code are required; Tax Code is optional. As you start typing in Address, real addresses are suggested. Pick one and the city, country and postcode fill in by themselves; a field you filled in by hand is left alone.

If you need the invoice in a company's name, switch Invoice type at the top of the step from Individual to Company. The identity number and tax code give way to the company's details: Company name (the legal name), Tax office, Tax number and Invoice email are required, Phone is optional. The invoice email starts as your account's address; change it if the invoice should go to your accounting team. For a company in Turkey the tax number is the 10-digit VKN (a sole trader's 11-digit TC identity number also works) and the tax office is required; for a company abroad, write its tax ID as it is and the tax office can be left empty. The address, city, country and postal code below are the company's address on the invoice. The payment is made under the company's tax number.

The Card Information step stays closed until your billing details are complete. For the expiry date, type the month and the two-digit year exactly as printed on the card (for example 08 and 29). A date that has already passed is marked red with a note under it. The security code has three digits (four on the front of an American Express card). Any box you leave empty or wrong is marked red with a note as soon as you move on from it; pressing Pay Now while something is still wrong marks every such box and takes you to the first, and nothing is charged. If a payment is refused for a box, the page takes you straight to it. To change your billing details afterwards, press Edit.

On a phone the two steps appear as a single row at the top, 1 and 2 from left to right, and only the step you are on is shown under it, so the screen keeps its shape. Tap the finished first step in that row to go back to it. If you change your mind, Back takes you back to picking tickets, with the tickets, the people and any discount code you had entered still there.

How to tell which one it is

The event page tells you which kind it is. A free event shows a Join Event button on its participation card. On a paid event the button reads Get Tickets; pressing it lists the ticket options with their prices.