Protect your dance and cheer studio's recital revenue.
Recital tickets, costume orders, and travel drives shouldn't lose 20% to a platform — run them on capped per-transaction fees, and $0 on cash and checks. Built for dance studios, cheer squads, and gymnastics booster clubs.
What UnitTally does for dance and cheer fundraising
Keep your ticket revenue
Selling tickets to family recitals should not mean giving up a high percentage of your door sales. Our capped, per-transaction pricing keeps your recital ticket revenue in your studio.
Product variants & sizes
Fulfillment list reporting should group costume sizes automatically. UnitTally handles product variants (sizes, colors, custom text options) and sorts output lists by member.
Flexible manual entries
Let parents pay online with a credit card, or record cash and checks manually. Manual entries carry a $0 platform fee, keeping your books fully reconciled in a single, shareable dashboard.
How a recital season runs on UnitTally
Open costume orders
Build costume packages with size and color variants and custom text. Parents order by card, or you record a cash or check payment at a $0 platform fee. Each size logs to the order sheet, grouped by dancer.
Presell recital tickets
Set up ticket campaigns with an inventory limit for each performance time, so you manage venue capacity automatically and never oversell a show.
Run sponsor and program-ad drives
Sell recital program ads and studio sponsorships to local businesses. The $20 per-transaction platform-fee cap keeps a large sponsor payment from being reduced by a percentage cut.
Fulfill and reconcile
Export the size-grouped costume list to send to your manufacturer. Card and cash entries sit in one shareable dashboard, exportable as a CSV whenever you need it.
Costumes, recital tickets, and sponsorships all reconcile in one studio ledger you can export as a CSV at any time.
The costume and ticket sale
Suppose your cheer squad sells costume packages and recital ticket bundles averaging $80.00. A take-rate platform charging 20% would take $16.00 from every family checkout.
With UnitTally's capped per-transaction fee (on our Free plan), your group keeps $75.08 after Stripe's standard card processing. That is an extra $11.08 saved on every order, which stays directly in your studio fund to lower costume costs for parents.
| Platform | Fee | Your Org Keeps |
|---|---|---|
| 20% platform | $16.00 | $64.00 |
| UnitTally Free plan (card + Stripe) | $4.92* | $75.08 |
| UnitTally Free plan (cash/check) | $0.00 | $80.00 |
Frequently asked questions
Can we sell tickets for specific recital time slots?
Yes. You can set up ticket campaigns with inventory limits for each performance time, preventing over-selling and letting you manage venue capacity automatically.
How do we track costume sizing and parent orders?
Create costume packages with size variants. When parents order, the size is logged on the order sheet and grouped by dancer, giving you a clean, copy-pasteable order list to send to your costume manufacturer.
Can we require parent volunteers to sign up during ticket checkout?
Checkout stays short so you don't lose ticket sales. You can use the checkout success page or email confirmation to link parents directly to your volunteer sign-up sheet.
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