Short answer: Eventbrite has no native Google Sheets integration. There’s no button in Eventbrite that keeps a live spreadsheet in sync with your registrations. You have exactly two honest routes — a manual export, or a third-party automation bridge — and they trade off in predictable ways. Below is each one, when to use it, and where a genuinely built-in sync exists if that’s what you’re actually after.
Disclosure: we build AgendaForge, an event platform that competes with parts of Eventbrite and has its own native Google Sheets sync. We’ll be clear about where that fits and — just as importantly — where it doesn’t. Every Eventbrite detail below comes from Eventbrite’s own public docs and behavior; features change, so verify before you build.
The two routes at a glance
| Manual export | Zapier-style bridge | |
|---|---|---|
| How | Orders report → download CSV / XLSX | Trigger on new registration → add row |
| Tools | Eventbrite only | Zapier, Make, or Pabbly (paid) |
| Freshness | Static snapshot — re-export to update | Live — new rows append automatically |
| Cost | Free | Per-task pricing on the automation tool |
| Direction | One-way, export | One-way, Eventbrite → Sheet |
| Best for | A quick, one-off pull | An always-current list |
Route 1 — the manual export (free, static)
Eventbrite has a solid native export. Open your event, go to Manage attendees → Orders, and download the report as CSV or XLSX. The XLSX opens straight into Google Sheets or Google Drive, carrying names, emails, ticket types, order details, and any custom questions you asked at checkout.
This is the right call when you need a snapshot — a check-in list the morning of the event, a quick headcount for a sponsor, a one-time import into another system. What it isn’t is live: the moment someone registers after you export, your sheet is stale. If you find yourself re-exporting the same report every few hours, that’s your signal to move to route two.
Route 2 — an automation bridge (live, paid)
To keep a sheet continuously current, you connect Eventbrite to Google Sheets through an automation platform. In Zapier, the pattern is a trigger — New Attendee Registered or New Order — wired to a Create Spreadsheet Row action. Every new registration appends a row on its own. Make and Pabbly Connect do the same thing with different pricing.
The tradeoffs are real and worth naming. You’re adding a paid tool with per-task pricing, a second place for things to break, and a setup that only captures registrations after you turn it on — historical orders don’t backfill. And it’s still one-way: Zapier can pull data out of Eventbrite, but it can’t push edits from your sheet back into it. For many teams that’s fine. For teams already juggling ten tools, it’s one more.
When a native sync is what you actually want
If the reason you’re wiring Eventbrite to a spreadsheet is that your whole event lives across disconnected tools, the honest fix isn’t a better bridge — it’s fewer bridges. This is where AgendaForge differs: its Google Sheets integration is built in. You connect Google once, pick a specific sheet through the Google Picker, map fields to columns, and event contacts and sponsors sync automatically — rows append when a record is added, rewrite in place when it changes, and delete when it’s removed. No Zapier, no per-task bill. Registrants become contacts, so registration data flows to the sheet the same way.
Two honest caveats, because they matter for this exact decision:
- It’s one-way and scoped to contacts and sponsors — not a two-way sync, and not sessions or raw form submissions.
- AgendaForge does free registration and RSVPs, not paid ticketing (that’s behind a flag, not generally available). So if you’re selling paid tickets, Eventbrite does a job AgendaForge doesn’t — and the two can sit side by side rather than one replacing the other.
If you sell paid tickets and just need them in a sheet, use Eventbrite’s export or a Zapier bridge — they’re the right tools. If you’re running the content and registration side of an event and want your directory to already be in Google Sheets without a middleman, that’s the gap AgendaForge was built to close. Our pricing is published — $2,000 per event (Core) or $4,000 (Pro), on the pricing page — and we’re invite-only while we onboard early partners. Tell us about your event and we’ll take it from there.