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An Evening Together in Support of Our Parish Centre
Join our parish community for an evening of fellowship, celebration and fundraising.
📍 View venue & directionsWhy this evening matters
Good to know
Everything you need for the evening.
How would you like to book?
Reserve a whole table with friends & family, or buy individual tickets. Table positions in the restaurant are arranged by the organizers — booking a full table is how you choose who you sit with.
Reserve a full table
All 10 seats together. One person pays — each guest can still get their own tax receipt.
Buy individual tickets
First come, first served — we seat your group together at a shared table.
🤝 Make Room at the Table
No group yet, or booked a table with seats to spare? Nobody should sit this evening out for want of a group.
How many?
Choose a quantity — the organizers arrange the table layout.
🧾 Your order
Who's coming?
Tell us about you, then add a name for each seat. Your seats are held for 20:00.
Guest for each seat
Every seat needs a guest name, and it must match that guest's government ID — both are checked together at the door. Don't know everyone yet? Leave a seat blank for now and add the name from your manage link — all names are locked 48 hours before the event. Add a preferred name if a guest goes by something different at the banquet. Mark a guest as the tax recipient for their seat (with their email & address) and they'll get their own receipt — otherwise it goes to the payer.
Review & pay
Confirm your order and complete payment securely.
Like a non-refundable airline fare, banquet seats can't be refunded. You can transfer your ticket to anyone at no cost until 48 hours before the event — after that, names are locked for ID check-in. Why?
I understand my information is collected for event administration, charitable tax receipting and event communication. Photo/media use at the event is optional — let us know at the door.
🧾 Summary
Booking ref BQT-2026-0042
🎫 Your tickets
One ticket per seat — show the QR at the door.
Manage your booking
Plans changed? Add guest names, transfer a ticket to anyone, or update who gets each tax receipt — the records update automatically. Seating arrangements are handled by the organizers.
Support the Parish Centre
Can't attend, or want to give a little more? Donations are 100% tax-receiptable — no dinner value is deducted, and no seats are reserved. Planners match table and family sponsorships privately.
Event dashboard · 2026 (current)
Everything reconciles itself, live — tickets, seating, transfers, and receipts.
Recent activity
Catering / dietary
Floor plan & seat manager
This is the same map your guests see. Drag any table onto a different section to move it, or tap it to manage seats, names, dietary needs, and availability. Works on touch and desktop.
✋ Drag a table onto another section to move it · 👆 tap a table to manage it. Changes sync to the guest map instantly.
Guest list
Searchable, always current. Jump to the seat manager, or re-issue a receipt if an email was wrong.
Transfer log
Every ticket hand-off, captured automatically with the receipt reissued.
Announcements
Send updates or reminders to guests by email — everyone, a section, or a single table. Or arm a template once and let it send itself relative to the event date, year after year.
Templates
“Use now” fills the form below · “Auto-send” schedules it relative to the event date.
Scheduled
Compose
Sent
Past events & audit
Every year is retained for tax audits — totals, receipts, and eligible amounts in one place. Download the full archive after each event as your manual backup.
Book or reserve seats
Taking a registration at the desk or over the phone? Use Guest booking — it's the same flow guests use online, so it captures the payer's details once and issues a single consolidated tax receipt for the whole family. Each additional guest can opt into their own receipt if they need one. It takes card, cash, e-transfer, or a hold — cash & e-transfer seats are held for 48 hours until payment arrives, then confirmed here.
Seats awaiting payment (cash / e-transfer)
Each hold auto-releases after 48 hours if not confirmed. Confirm once the money arrives to issue the ticket and receipt.
Make Room at the Table
Three doors, one list: people who need a seat, tables with room to spare, and a matcher that pairs them on stated preferences alone — so nobody on the team has to decide who sits with whom. Matching only proposes. Nothing reaches a guest until you approve it here.
Proposed matches
Every pairing shows its score and the reason behind it, so the review is about the fit — not about who knows whom.
Looking for a table
Tables with room
Tax receipts
Receipts stay as drafts while sales are open — they update themselves through every transfer and seat change. After the event, the finance team reviews, approves and locks the year; only then are official receipts generated and sent in one batch. No voids, no duplicates, audit-clean.
Check-in
Scan tickets at the door, run self-serve kiosks, or search the alphabetical list — built for 500+ guests, with offline backups for contingency. 🪪 Every guest shows photo ID with their ticket — the names must match (July 15 call).
Validation & review
Run this before the finance team locks receipts: every seat needs a name, every receipt needs a recipient. Possible duplicates are flagged, never blocked — two parishioners can share a name (different address usually means different people).
Analytics
Basic tracking for this event — and the baseline next year's planners will thank you for.
Event details
Everything here flows straight to the public site, tickets, and tax receipts. highlighted values are placeholders — please confirm them before going live.
Settings & integrations
Configurable so the parish is never locked into one vendor.
The parish already uses Square — it's the default. Switch any time; the guest checkout updates automatically.
Optional. Paste a Google Maps API key and every address field gains as-you-type suggestions (Canadian addresses), so tax-receipt addresses arrive clean and consistent. Free at parish volume — 10,000 lookups a month included. The key is safe to store here: restrict it to your website's domain in Google Cloud.
The signing priest's digitized signature + parish charity number are applied automatically to every receipt.
Enforced at checkout; free transfers allowed.
No-refund enforced Free transfers ONTest mode shows a site-wide banner and lets the team rehearse with practice bookings. Before real sales open: clear the practice bookings and turn test mode off. Each banquet year starts as a blank hall — past results and receipts stay in Years & history.
The Event-planning area requires a staff PIN, so guests can't reach it. The administrator sets a PIN for every role below.
As administrator you set a PIN per user group. Each role signs in with its own PIN and only sees its own tabs — a check-in volunteer never sees finances. Try it: sign out and sign back in with one of these PINs.