Sell tickets at the office or the gate, however your school takes money. The gate keeper tears off the Admit One stub, and because both halves carry the same number, reconciling sales against the cash tin takes minutes, not a lunchtime.
Wristbands and hand stamps are fine until someone asks “how many did we actually sell?” Numbered tickets answer that by themselves: if the night started at ticket 3301 and finished at 3496, you sold 195 — and the stubs in the tin should agree. That is the treasurer’s reconciliation done before the sausage sizzle is packed away.
It also makes pre-sales simple. Send books home or sell at the office all week, jot down which numbers each class or seller took, and the door list takes care of itself.
Event tickets are a $49/year add-on to School Raffle Studio ($149/year for founding schools) — or take the founding bundle at $179/year for both and save $19. Every account can generate 10 event tickets free to see them working — switch the studio to “Event tickets” and have a play.