pto-events.com

What It Is

PTA Events is an events and fundraising SaaS product from PTA Events Limited, designed for school PTAs, parent committees, and community organizations. It brings event creation, ticketing, donations, Prize Draws, raffles, auctions, volunteer recruitment, and basic website content management into one platform, with an emphasis on creating events in minutes and collecting payments via Stripe.

Core Features and Collaboration

The core of the platform is ticketing and event management, with support for unlimited events, tickets, and products, plus QR-code ticket scanning on the day of the event. On the fundraising side, it covers one-off and recurring donations, subscriptions, prize draws, random winner selection, standard auctions, and blind auctions. Management features include attendee data collection, discounts, event registers, comprehensive reporting, document storage, meeting minutes, FAQs, voting, news, and custom pages. For team collaboration, the site explicitly mentions committee members, classes and class reps, volunteer recruitment, and role-based access control, along with two-factor authentication.

Pricing and Payments

Starter is free and ad-free, with a platform fee of 3.95%, 5.00% for auctions and offline raffles/competitions, and 7.50% for Prize Draws. Premium costs £299.99/year + VAT and adds sponsors, advertising, ticket advertising, a business directory, and ticket scanning, while reducing the standard platform fee to 1.5%. Payment processing is handled through Stripe, with separate Stripe processing fees; Google Pay and Apple Pay are supported. Fees can be paid by parents, absorbed by the PTA, or set as optional contributions, which provides a good level of transparency.

Pros and Cons

The main strengths are that it is highly tailored to PTA fundraising scenarios, offers a complete end-to-end feature set, has a low barrier to entry with its free plan, and does not impose default tips or hidden donations. The downsides are that costs need to be calculated carefully once platform fees and Stripe fees are combined; advanced features are concentrated in Premium; support appears to be primarily email-based, with no phone or live chat evident; and information on API access, self-hosting, and detailed compliance certifications is not disclosed.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is best suited to schools, communities, and small nonprofit teams in the UK or in markets with a similar PTA model, especially organizations that need integrated ticketing, raffles, auctions, and volunteer management. The source material does not provide information on access from China, so this remains unknown; its payments, tax handling, and PTA context are also UK-oriented. Chinese users primarily running local events may want to consider tool combinations such as 活动行, 秀动, 有赞, 问卷星, and 腾讯会议 instead.