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Only allow one ticket per email in your event

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Written by Bill Horsman
Updated over a week ago

You might want to limit tickets to one per email. You'll see the option under Settings > Restrictions:

It doesn't stop someone placing multiple orders or buying multiple tickets in one order, but it does stop people assigning multiple tickets to the same email address.

Assigning tickets

If someone tries to assign a ticket to an email address already linked to another ticket they will see this:

Placing orders

We don't stop someone placing a second order but we do stop them assigning it to themselves. This is to allow someone to buy a ticket for someone else.

Bear in mind that if someone really wanted to get multiple tickets they could still use a different email address to get round this restriction.

Privacy

This feature can be used to discover if someone is attending an event, if you already know their email address, which is something we take very seriously.

For example, if you buy a ticket you can then experimentally try and assign it to someone else's email. If you're not allowed to do so then you know they already have a ticket.

To mitigate the impact of this, we will send an email to the attendee warning them that someone has attempted to use their email address to assign a ticket. It will look like this:


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