St. Anthony of PaduaAnnual Banquet · 2026
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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.

When
Time
Where
Per seat
Tables remaining
📍 View venue & directions

Why 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.

Sit with your group
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Reserve a full table

All 10 seats together. One person pays — each guest can still get their own tax receipt.

$1,250 / table of 10
Separate tax receipts The receipt goes to the purchaser by default. To name a guest as the tax recipient for their seat, add their details on the next screen — you can update this until 48 hours before the event.
Individual tickets
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Buy individual tickets

First come, first served — we seat your group together at a shared table.

$125 / seat
What one seat includes Entry, eligibility for the door prize, access to the silent auction, and a buffet dinner. All sales are final. Questions or issues — contact the Seminary office.

How many?

Choose a quantity — the organizers arrange the table layout.

1
table of 10

🧾 Your order

Nothing selected yet.

Who's coming?

Tell us about you, then add a name for each seat. Your seats are held for 20:00.

BuyerYour details — use your legal name; it's what appears on your tax receipt
🧾 Yes, please send it
No, not needed

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.

◆ UX
Pre-fill, dietary & accessibility. Autocomplete turns re-typing into a tap. Dietary needs roll up to the caterer; accessibility needs (wheelchair space, washroom/exit proximity) roll up to the seating planners so those tables are placed first.

Review & pay

Confirm your order and complete payment securely.

All sales are final — no refunds.
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?
Privacy & data.
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.
💳 Card
Apple Pay
G Pay
💵 Cash
📲 E-transfer

🧾 Summary

You're all set! Your seats are confirmed.
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.

◆ UX
This solves the biggest headache. A transfer is a name change on the same seat; a seat change moves you to another open seat. Either way, the guest list and receipts never drift — no late-night reconciliation.

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.

DonorYour details — legal name, exactly as it should appear on your tax receipt

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.

Open Filling up Sold out Blocked / held
Match your venue's layout.
— Stage / Head Table —

✋ Drag a table onto another section to move it · 👆 tap a table to manage it. Changes sync to the guest map instantly.

◆ UX
One source of truth. The floor plan and the guest map share the same data — block or rename here and guests see it immediately.

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.

◆ UX
No more discrepancies. When a guest gives their ticket to someone else, it's logged here and the receipt is reissued to the right person.

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.

◆ UX
Audit-ready. Because receipts are issued by the system, each year's donation totals and receipt records are preserved automatically — no shoebox of paper at tax time.

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.

Captures the payer once → links the family's receipts → takes payment. You stay signed in.
Just need to change something? Use the floor plan to move tables, change or transfer seats, block/hold, confirm a payment, or fix a name, grade or dietary note. The per-seat Assign there is best for a single walk-up or a quick name fix — for a family, or anyone who needs a tax receipt, use Guest booking so the receipt links to the payer.

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.

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).

◆ UX
Contingency built in. If the internet or QR scanning fails on the night, the offline CSV and printed chart keep the door moving — manual check-in works from the same list.

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.

💳 Payment provider

The parish already uses Square — it's the default. Switch any time; the guest checkout updates automatically.

📍 Google address check

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.

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🧾 Tax receipt template

The signing priest's digitized signature + parish charity number are applied automatically to every receipt.

No image yet — receipts show a placeholder script signature.
🚫 Refund policy

Enforced at checkout; free transfers allowed.

No-refund enforced   Free transfers ON
🧪 Testing & new year

Test 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.

Test mode ON
🔐 Staff access

The Event-planning area requires a staff PIN, so guests can't reach it. The administrator sets a PIN for every role below.

👥 Roles & PINs

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.