Short answer: open the ticket in the issuer's app or site, choose transfer, enter the recipient's email, and wait for them to accept it. The tickets are only truly sent once the recipient accepts, not when you hit send.
Ticket transfer moves an eligible ticket to another person through the issuing platform. The controls and restrictions depend on that issuer and the event. Check availability before relying on separate entry.
Transfer and resale are different actions. Sending a ticket does not itself arrange payment or establish that resale is permitted.
Check that transfer is available
Open the order in the issuing account and look for the transfer option. It may be disabled or released later for a particular event. Do not treat an absent button as proof that the ticket is fake or that transfer will become available.
For Ticketmaster, use its current transfer instructions. A different issuer can have different steps and requirements.
Send and confirm
Select the exact tickets you intend to send, enter the recipient’s correct email or other identifier requested by the issuer, and review before confirming. Ask the recipient to accept the invitation and check that the tickets appear in the receiving account.
For Ticketmaster, acceptance produces a new barcode for the recipient and invalidates the sender’s ticket. Once transferred, use only the tickets still assigned to you.
If the invitation is missing
Check the recipient address and spam folder, then inspect the transfer status in the issuing account. Follow that platform’s instructions if a pending transfer needs to be canceled and resent. A completed transfer may have different options.
Avoid repeated sends without checking status. If the order was placed here and the transfer is not progressing, Contact support@thekingoftickets.com or 844-712-1272 with your order number.
Before the group separates
Confirm each recipient can open their tickets in the required app or supported wallet. Check the event’s ID and entry requirements. If transfer is unavailable, agree on an entry plan using the issuer’s instructions.
Do not send passwords, verification codes or screenshots as a substitute for a supported transfer. See mobile-ticket preparation.
One reassurance: most tickets don't require the recipient's ID to match a printed name, so a transferred ticket generally works the same as one you bought yourself. A few ID-locked events are the exception, and the listing or issuer will say so before you send it.
A real example
On September 17, 2026, the cheapest listed ticket to Black Label Society with Zakk Sabbath and Dark Chapel at The Ledge Amphitheater in Waite Park, Minnesota, for the show on Friday, September 25, 2026 at 7:00 p.m., was $69.98 all-in (priced on September 17, 2026). If a buyer had bought four of those tickets for a group and two people could only join later, transferring their two tickets separately (once the issuer allows it) is what would let them enter on their own instead of everyone needing to arrive together.
The steps are the same regardless of price: open the order, select only the two tickets going to the later arrivals, send to their correct email, and confirm they've accepted before the day of the show.
What if the recipient already has an account?
Most issuers still route the transfer to whatever email or identifier you enter, then let the recipient accept it into whichever account they're signed into. An existing account with that issuer usually simplifies acceptance rather than complicating it.
If the recipient normally uses a different email for that issuer than the one you have for them, ask which address to use before sending. A transfer sent to the wrong address can sit unaccepted with no obvious error.
A short checklist for sending a transfer
- Open the order in the issuing account.
- Select only the tickets you mean to send.
- Enter the recipient's correct email.
- Ask them to confirm acceptance, not just receipt.
- Check the app shows the ticket is gone from your account.
Where a transfer usually gets stuck
Most transfer problems happen after you hit send, not before: an invitation sits unopened, an email goes to the wrong address, or the recipient forgets to check. None of that means the transfer failed. It usually just means it hasn't been accepted yet.
The fix is simple: ask your recipient to check now, not later. A quick text works fine.
When transfer isn't the right tool
Transfer moves a ticket you already hold to someone else you choose. It is not how you sell a ticket to a stranger for payment, and it is not how you buy one from someone else either. For that, use a resale marketplace with its own checkout and protections.
Keep the two separate in your mind. Transfer is a gift to someone specific. Resale is a sale to whoever buys first.
Mixing the two up, trying to "transfer" a ticket to a stranger for cash outside a marketplace, is exactly the kind of shortcut that leads to disputes with no protection behind them.
Official resources and next steps
Ticketmaster transfer instructions: Check transfer availability in the issuing account and confirm the recipient has accepted the tickets.
Provider policies apply to that provider. For an order placed here, use our Terms and support.