[New] Engagement: No paid event ticketing or registration fees — RSVP is free-only

Area: Engagement (audit p9) · Surface: /events, EventRsvp, EventController@rsvp · Dimension: competitor-gap · Severity: minor

Paid events and ticketed workshops are a direct monetization surface that LearnWorlds, Mighty Networks, and Circle (via paid events) all offer, and they tie naturally to the existing mobieusGate/credits/Stripe machinery. Creators on Pro/Creator Plus running a paid AMA, workshop, or cohort kickoff currently have to leave the platform to collect money. Free-only RSVP leaves revenue and a sticky use-case on the table for exactly the creator persona the suite targets.

Evidence

grep for ticket.*price|event.*price|paid.*event|event.*payment|registration.*fee across EventController.php, Event.php, EventRsvp.php returns nothing. EventRsvp supports only yes/no/maybe/waitlist + free capacity/guests arithmetic (src/Models/EventRsvp.php:31-40, statusCounts/yesSeatCount). The rsvp handler (EventController.php:666-719) sets a status and queues a reminder — there is no checkout, no price, no Stripe hook, despite the platform having a credits/payments stack (UserCredit, mobieusGate, Stripe).

Suggested fix. Add an optional price (credits or Stripe) to events; gate the 'yes' RSVP behind purchase, issue a ticket/confirmation, and reuse capacity/waitlist logic. Tie to the existing payments stack rather than a third-party ticketing vendor.

Filed by the automated tenant-app audit and adversarially evidence-verified. Status: verified. Open — not yet actioned.