--- title: "Sell tickets only to your NFT holders | Ticket Fairy Guides" description: "Require ticket buyers to connect a wallet that holds one of your NFTs before they can buy tickets to your event, for every ticket or for one ticket type, and have the door check the NFT again at entry." canonical: "https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/sell-tickets-only-to-your-nft-holders" --- 1. [Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/) 2. [Guides](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides) 3. Sell tickets only to your NFT holders Private sales, invitations and guest lists # Sell tickets only to your NFT holders NFT projects, web3 communities and token-gated clubs run events that only their holders can attend. When you list your collection on the event, a buyer has to connect a wallet holding one of your NFTs before they can see the tickets. When your door team scans the ticket, Ticket Fairy checks the same wallet again, so a ticket bought with an NFT that has since left the wallet does not get in. Takes: 6 minutes [Watch the video: Sell tickets only to your NFT holders](https://d3lcdr963b5ubl.cloudfront.net/uploads/guides/video/sell-tickets-only-to-your-nft-holders/36000fef832b562b25dd3871eef8217d99c1c28ec1ed3b9907354b2357a8270b/d857b47f33d7262c/guide.mp4) · [English](https://www.ticketfairy.com/resources/captions/guides/guide-sell-tickets-only-to-your-nft-holders-d857b47f33d7.vtt) ***Watch how it's done** 3 min 15 s, with captions.* - [Open Settings](#step-1) - [Turn on Require ownership of NFTs to attend](#step-2) - [Choose the blockchain your NFTs are on](#step-3) - [Enter each address](#step-4) - [Save the event settings](#step-5) - [Check the event page asks for a wallet](#step-6) ## Before you start - You're an owner or an admin for the event. If you can't see **Settings** in the event menu, ask an owner or an admin to do this part. - You have the contract address of each Ethereum or Polygon collection whose holders can buy, or the address of each Solana NFT that lets its holder buy. 1. ## Open Settings [Play from here](#guide-video) Open your event and select **Settings** in the event menu. **Require ownership of NFTs to attend** is below the event settings and the password card. ![The Event Settings card Require ownership of NFTs to attend, turned on with two Ethereum contract addresses and Save Event Settings below](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-nft-gating--event-settings.png) *Event, Edit, Settings.* 2. ## Turn on Require ownership of NFTs to attend [Play from here](#guide-video) Turn on **Require ownership of NFTs to attend**. The card then shows the address fields for Ethereum, Polygon and Solana Mainnet. 3. ## Choose the blockchain your NFTs are on [Play from here](#guide-video) Choose the field that matches where your collection was minted. - **Ethereum**: Takes the contract address of each collection. A buyer holding any NFT from a listed collection can buy. - **Polygon**: Takes collection contract addresses in the same way, and can be used together with Ethereum. - **Solana Mainnet**: Takes the address of each NFT on its own. A buyer holding any one of the listed NFTs can buy. **Note:** Solana Mainnet can't be combined with Ethereum or Polygon. Once you enter an address on one side, the other side's fields don't accept addresses. 4. ## Enter each address [Play from here](#guide-video) Enter each address in the field you chose, pressing space or Enter after each one so it becomes a tag. **Note:** An Ethereum or Polygon address starts with 0x and has 40 more characters, each a digit or a letter from a to f. A tag shown in red isn't in that form, and you can't save until you fix it. 5. ## Save the event settings [Play from here](#guide-video) Select **Save Event Settings**. The dashboard confirms with "Successfully updated event settings". **Note:** If the card shows "Please check this", an address is not valid for its field. If it shows "At least 1 NFT address is required", the switch is on with no address entered. 6. ## Check the event page asks for a wallet [Play from here](#guide-video) Open your event page in a browser where MetaMask or Phantom is installed. In place of the ticket list, the page asks the buyer to connect a wallet, and the tickets appear once a wallet holding one of your NFTs is connected. **Note:** A browser with no crypto wallet shows "Crypto-enabled browser required" where the connect button would be. If the wallet holds none of your NFTs, the buyer is turned away before seeing any ticket. ## Or have it done for you Fai, your AI teammate, can check sales, update your event or change a ticket when you ask. Fai can take you to the event's Settings page, where you turn on the NFT requirement. The command line can set the requirement for the whole event through an event update. ### In your dashboard, with Fai ``` Open the settings page for so I can require NFT ownership to buy tickets ``` ## From your terminal Install the CLI from [our CLI page](https://www.ticketfairy.com/cli), sign in with `ticketfairy auth login`, and choose the brand you are working on with `ticketfairy brand use `. `ticketfairy brand list` and `ticketfairy event list` show the IDs the other commands use. Use the same login with the command line that you use in the dashboard, as an owner or an admin for the event. Send the requirement and every address in one update, and list each collection under its own blockchain. ### Requires buyers of any ticket to the event to hold an NFT from one Ethereum collection ``` ticketfairy event update --body '{"flagNftOwnershipRequired":true,"nftContracts":{"ethereum":[""],"polygon":[]},"nftLists":{"solana-mainnet":[]}}' ``` ## Require an NFT for one ticket type only [Play from here](#guide-video) 1. ### Open the ticket type Open your event, select **Tickets**, then select **Edit** on the ticket type that is for holders only. ![Ticket Types inventory with General Admission and the Create action](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-tickets--inventory.png) *Event, Tickets, Inventory, Ticket Types.* 2. ### Turn on the NFT requirement for this ticket type Turn on **NFT ownership required for this ticket type** in the ticket type's options, then enter each address in **Ethereum**, **Polygon** or **Solana Mainnet**. **Note:** This ticket type then uses only its own addresses, instead of any addresses on Settings. The other ticket types keep selling to everyone unless the event itself requires an NFT. ![Ticket type options with NFT ownership required for this ticket type turned on and one Polygon contract address](https://www.ticketfairy.com/embeds/posters/marketing-nft-gating--ticket-type.png) *Event, Tickets, Edit, ticket type options.* 3. ### Save the ticket type Select **Save**. On your event page, this ticket type shows a button to connect a wallet in place of its buy button. Fai can take you to the event's Tickets page, and you set the requirement on the ticket type on that page. The command line sets it through a ticket type update. ### In your dashboard, with Fai ``` Open the tickets page for so I can make available to NFT holders only ``` ### From your terminal Use an owner or admin role for the event. List the ticket types to find the ID, then send the requirement and the addresses in one update. #### Find every ticket type and its ID ``` ticketfairy ticket list --all ``` #### Requires buyers of one ticket type to hold an NFT from one Polygon collection ``` ticketfairy ticket update --body '{"flagNftOwnershipRequired":true,"nftContracts":{"ethereum":[],"polygon":[""]},"nftLists":{"solana-mainnet":[]}}' ``` ## Stop requiring an NFT [Play from here](#guide-video) On **Settings**, turn off **Require ownership of NFTs to attend** and select **Save Event Settings**. For one ticket type, turn off **NFT ownership required for this ticket type** and select **Save**. **Note:** A ticket type whose own requirement you turn off follows the event again, so it still needs an NFT while the event requires one. Fai can take you to the Settings page to turn the requirement off. The command line turns off the event's requirement through an event update. ### In your dashboard, with Fai ``` Open the settings page for so I can stop requiring NFT ownership ``` ### From your terminal Use an owner or admin role for the event. #### Stops requiring an NFT for the whole event ``` ticketfairy event update --body '{"flagNftOwnershipRequired":false}' ``` ## Questions you might have **Should I require the NFT for the whole event or for one ticket type?** Require it on Settings when every ticket is for holders only. Require it on one ticket type when holders get their own tier, such as an early entry or discounted ticket, and everyone else can buy the rest. **What does a buyer need to buy a ticket?** A browser with MetaMask, for Ethereum and Polygon, or Phantom, for Solana, and a wallet in it that holds one of the NFTs you listed. The buyer connects the wallet on your event page, and the tickets appear once Ticket Fairy finds one of your NFTs in it. **What happens at the door if the buyer sold their NFT?** The scanning app checks again that the wallet the buyer connected when they bought still holds one of your NFTs, and refuses the ticket if it does not. Tell holders to keep the NFT in that wallet until they are in. **Do guest tickets need an NFT?** No. Guest tickets you send are not bought through the event page, and the scanning app does not check an NFT for them at the door. **Does the checkout on my own website work with an NFT requirement?** When the whole event requires an NFT, the checkout embedded on your website sends buyers to your Ticket Fairy event page, where they connect their wallet and buy. **Can I list collections from Ethereum and Solana together?** No. One requirement takes Ethereum and Polygon collections together, or Solana NFTs on their own. To offer both, use Solana NFTs on one ticket type and Ethereum or Polygon collections on another, each with its own requirement. ## Still have a question? Book a demo and we will answer it on a call, on your kind of event. Or create your account and see it for yourself. [Book a demo](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/book-a-demo) [Create a free account](https://manage.ticketfairy.com/welcome) No setup fees. No monthly fee. No credit card required. ## Related guides - [More ways to use Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/features/private-sales-and-presales) - [Limit who can buy a ticket type](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/limit-who-can-buy-tickets) - [Set up ticket types](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/set-up-ticket-types) - [Make your event invitation-only](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/make-an-event-invitation-only) - [Scan tickets at the door](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/scan-tickets-at-the-door) - [Password-protect your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/password-protect-your-event) - [Sell tickets by personal invitation](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/sell-tickets-by-personal-invitation) - [Every Ticket Fairy guide](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides) ## Do this on your own event Create your account, build your event and follow the steps in your own dashboard. You do not need to book a sales call. 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