Chobble charges for hosting, not for each sale. Managed hosting costs £50 a year or £5 a month for every feature and any number of events or tickets. The same open source software can run on Chobble's hosting or infrastructure you choose, with data exports and ticket income paid directly to your Stripe, Square or SumUp account.
One system from sale to check-in
Create fixed-date, repeating or multi-day listings. Each listing can have its own price, capacity, booking window, questions and terms.
After sales open, staff can check bookings in, reverse a check-in, issue full refunds, email attendee groups and export operational or financial data. The activity log records changes made by each administrator.
The same platform covers one-off events, timed entry, regular sessions and bookings that need deposits, delivery or collection.
Sell fixed-price, free or pay-what-you-want tickets. Group ticket types, sell packages, or require buyers to choose linked extras.
Apply promo codes, automatic price rules, returning-customer discounts, stock-limited offers and optional add-ons.
Take a deposit at booking, record cash or bank transfers, and give the customer a link to pay the remaining balance.
Set capacity for each date, block holidays, price each offered hire duration, and assign delivery and collection work to staff.
Paid checkout does not reserve capacity. Prices, capacity and booking rules are checked when payment confirmation arrives, and an order that cannot be honoured is refunded.
Set defaults for new listings, duplicate whole groups with shifted dates, and move a catalogue between Chobble Tickets sites.
Give owners, managers, editors and logistics staff separate accounts. Editors can change content without seeing attendee details.
Export listings, attendee records and staff calendars. Reports include revenue, capacity, check-in state, answers and payment references.
Personal data is encrypted in the database. Retention controls remove old orphaned records, and Chobble does not use attendee data for advertising.
Managed hosting
Payment creates a separate Chobble Tickets site and sends its setup link by email. The site includes every feature, a hosted web address and support for your own domain.
Chobble maintains the software and hosting. There are no feature tiers and the price does not change with ticket volume.
Bookings on your own website
Each account includes a public website for listings, news and content pages. You can add your own domain and change the colours, images, wording and email templates.
An iframe places the booking pages inside an existing site. The order widget can instead turn links into add-to-cart buttons and send the finished order to checkout.
Chobble Tickets has no discovery marketplace, reserved seating plan or organiser mobile app. The comparison pages explain when another platform may suit an event better.
Enter ticket volume and price to compare estimated annual costs across more than 20 platforms.
Compare organiser fees, attendee marketing, event discovery and features with Eventbrite.
Compare the features, licence, setup work and hosted costs of two open source ticketing systems.
Elliott's Bouncy Castle Hire moved from Eventbrite after using it for 12 years. Its first setup, including Stripe, took 20 minutes. The organiser reported that three more tickets for the same event each took under a minute to create.
"Eventbrite takes £275 per event, but Chobble is £87.50. Sure, I have to pay £50 a year for Chobble, but that cost is absorbed in less than the first event."
Read the full independent review or see more organiser reviews.
Free and open source
The complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only. Technical users can run it on their own infrastructure without paying a licence fee to Chobble.
Managed hosting and self-hosting use the same code. The hosted fee pays for setup, infrastructure, updates and support rather than access to extra product features.