One platform for every line on your event budget.

Define your ticket types — General Admission, Patron Couple, Table of Eight — with their prices, included seats, and sales windows. The public page at your-event.app.auctioncake.com/tickets shows whatever's open right now. Buyers fill out a form, pick a quantity, and get a hosted invoice from your Stripe or Square account. No bidder account. No password.

After the buyer pays, every seat on the order becomes an attendee placeholder. The receipt email links to a private form where the buyer fills in each attendee's name, email, dietary notes, and a seating preference if they have one. They can come back to that form anytime in the next 60 days — guest lists never quite settle until event week.

From the admin side, you build your venue layout once — table numbers, capacities, whatever names you call them (Head, Sponsor A, 12). Then you drag attendees onto tables on the seating board. Families stay together. Capacity is enforced. Sponsor reservations are marked. If you reseat someone on the night of, the old assignment clears in one drop.

Build your sponsorship menu — Presenting, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Supporter — and price each tier. Each level can include tickets and reserved tables automatically. A Gold package that comes with "two tables and eight tickets" doesn't require a separate transaction; the sponsor pays once and the rest materializes.

Sponsors visit your-event.app.auctioncake.com/sponsors/become, pick a level, upload their logo, and get an invoice. When the invoice is paid, the sponsorship lands in your approvals queue. You vet the logo and the company name — a check that exists because a "@gmail.com" address typed in by a stranger can claim a sponsorship slot on the public wall.

Once approved, the sponsor appears on the public wall at /sponsors. Presenting sits at the top, full-width. Gold, Silver, Bronze step down in size. Supporters get a compact bottom band. Logos link out to the sponsor's site. If a sponsor's level included tickets and tables, those are already in your seating board with the sponsor's name on them.