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title: "Paid Live Events - Sell Seats to a Discord Voice Session"
description: "Create an Event product, sell one seat per payment through a permanent link or an in-server promo, and open a private voice channel to ticket holders when you go live."
canonical: https://paybotapp.com/docs/paid-live-events/
source: /docs/paid-live-events/
---

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# Paid Live Events

Charge for a live session in your own Discord voice channel. One permanent link sells one seat per payment, and when you go live PayBot opens the room to everyone holding a ticket.

## Table of Contents

-   [What is an Event?](#what-is-it)
-   [Creating an Event](#create)
-   [Selling Seats](#selling)
-   [Promoting It Inside Your Server](#promo)
-   [Going Live](#going-live)
-   [Ending the Show](#ending)
-   [Tickets, No-Shows & Refunds](#tickets)
-   [Limits](#limits)

## What is an Event?

An Event is a product whose price buys **one seat to your next live session**, not ongoing membership. The link never expires and never needs replacing. Each payment is a ticket to whichever occurrence comes next.

#### 🎟️ For your buyers

They pay once, and when you start the session PayBot sends them a direct link to the voice channel. Nothing to install, no account to connect.

#### 🎙️ For you

Your voice channel stays private. PayBot opens it to ticket holders at the start of the show and closes it again when you end it.

**How an Event flows:**

1.  You create the Event and point it at a private voice channel
2.  People buy seats through the link, or through a promo posted in your server
3.  You go live — ticket holders get access and a DM with the channel link
4.  You end the show — tickets are spent, the room closes, and the same link starts selling the next one

## Creating an Event

**Prerequisites:** Complete the [initial PayBot setup](https://paybotapp.com/docs/setup/) and connect Stripe first. You also need a voice channel that already **denies access to @everyone** — PayBot preserves whatever privacy you set, it does not lock the channel for you.

1

### Open the product builder

Run `/setup` in your server, then choose **Manage your products…** → **Create Event**. You can also create Events from the web dashboard.

`/setup`

2

### Name it and set the price

Give the Event the name your buyers will see — *Saturday Options Seminar*, *Market Open Session* — and set a fixed price. Events are one-time payments, not subscriptions.

3

### Pick the voice channel

Choose the private voice channel the session runs in. You can also attach optional private text channels that open alongside it.

4

### Choose the no-show policy

Decide what happens to someone who buys but never joins: their ticket is **consumed** like everyone else's, or it **carries forward** to the next session. This is set per Event.

**Already have Events?** `/setup` → **View & Edit Products** opens the live controls for any existing Event.

## Selling Seats

Every Event has one permanent [payment link](https://paybotapp.com/docs/payment-links/). Share it anywhere — your site, a newsletter, social, a DM — and it keeps working forever. You never issue a new link per session.

#### 🔗 One link, always current

A payment through the link buys a seat to the next occurrence. After you end a show, the link immediately starts selling the one after it.

#### 🛒 Buying while you're live

Someone who buys after the session has started gets the same access right away. Late arrivals are not shut out.

**No double-buying.** If someone already holds a ticket to the current or next session, checkout is refused before it reaches Stripe and the payment page shows **Your ticket is ready** instead.

## Promoting It Inside Your Server

The link is how people outside your server buy. Inside it, you can post the Event straight into your own channels as a promo card and let members buy without leaving Discord.

1

### Post the promo

Use **Go live + promo** from the Event's controls to start the session and announce it in the same action, or run `/promo` on its own to advertise ahead of time.

`/promo`

2

### Choose the channel and the intro

Pick where it posts. The card carries a short intro above the offer — written for you, written by you, or tightened from your own words — and posts as either you or the server.

3

### Members buy on the button

The card shows the offer, the price, and a **Get Access** button. Tapping it starts checkout bound to that member's Discord account — no account linking, no website, no app switch.

**Scheduling:** a promo can post once, right now, daily, or weekly. Recurring promos replace the previous one in that channel so you never stack duplicates.

## Going Live

`/live` is the fast way to run a session once the Event exists. One Event opens directly; several show a status picker.

`/live`

#### 🚪 Access opens

PayBot creates a temporary role for this session, grants it to every ticket holder, and applies it to the voice channel.

#### 📩 Everyone gets the link

Each buyer is DMed a direct link to the voice channel. DMs are best-effort — a blocked DM does not affect their access.

#### 🔀 Change Access

Before you go live you can switch the voice room and optional private chats for this session only, without changing the product.

#### 👥 Assign User

Admins can give other people permission to operate Events from `/live`. Assigned operators can run shows but cannot change the assignment list.

## Ending the Show

Press **End live** when the session is over. PayBot marks the tickets as used, removes the temporary role, and closes the room. The permanent link immediately begins selling the next occurrence.

**Only End live ends a session.** Attendance is tracked, but people leaving the voice channel never closes the show — the session stays open until you close it.

## Tickets, No-Shows & Refunds

#### 🎟️ One seat per payment

Each payment creates one ticket tied to one occurrence. Ending the session consumes it.

#### 🙈 No-shows

Depending on the Event's policy, someone who never joins either spends their ticket or carries it to the next session, keeping their original payment attached.

#### ↩️ Refunds

A refund removes the seat. See [Managing Subscriptions](https://paybotapp.com/docs/subscription-management/) for how refunds are handled across PayBot.

#### 🔁 Duplicate purchases

Blocked before payment. The buyer sees **Your ticket is ready** and is charged nothing.

## Limits

#### 👥 Room size

-   A Discord voice channel holds 99 people
-   A Stage channel holds 10 speakers and a much larger audience

#### 🗓️ Not available yet

-   Scheduled one-time Events
-   Recurring Event series

You start and end each session yourself.

**Channel privacy is yours to set.** The voice channel must already deny access to @everyone before you point an Event at it. PayBot grants access to ticket holders; it does not make a public channel private.

## Related Documentation

[

#### Payment Links

How the permanent link and its page work

](https://paybotapp.com/docs/payment-links/)[

#### Membership Tiers

Recurring access instead of one session

](https://paybotapp.com/docs/membership-tiers/)[

#### Setup Guide

Connect Stripe and get started

](https://paybotapp.com/docs/setup/)