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Chobble Tickets vs Event Schedule

Event Schedule is another open source ticketing platform with a flat subscription and no per-ticket fee, so this compares two projects with a similar model but different tiers, licences and data handling.

UK made & encrypted Event Schedule alternative

Chobble Tickets and Event Schedule share more than most pairs on this site. Both publish their source code, both can be self-hosted, both charge a flat subscription rather than a cut of each ticket, and both send ticket money to the organiser's own Stripe account.

The differences are in how the price is packaged and what happens to attendee data. Chobble Tickets sells one plan with every feature included, encrypts attendee data at rest, and is run by a UK community interest company. Event Schedule splits its features across a free plan, a Pro plan and an Enterprise plan, and lists events in a public discovery area.

Two open source options

Event Schedule is a source-published platform for event calendars, ticketing and appointment booking. It can be run as a hosted service on eventschedule.com or self-hosted on your own server, and both are the same product.

This page compares the two platforms to help you decide which fits your needs. Other open source comparisons cover Hi.Events, Pretix and Swicket with alf.io. The open source page describes Chobble Tickets without a competitor comparison.

Pricing comparison

Both platforms charge a flat fee and take no cut of ticket sales. They package that fee differently.

Event Schedule has three plans, priced in US dollars. The free plan sells up to 25 paid tickets a month and carries Event Schedule branding. Pro costs US$5/month or US$50/year (about £40/year) and adds unlimited ticket sales, branding removal, an API and webhooks, custom fields and custom CSS.

Enterprise costs US$15/month or US$150/year (about £120/year) and adds custom domains, extra team members, password-protected events and AI content tools. Ticket income goes to the organiser's own Stripe account, with Stripe processing charged separately (Event Schedule quotes US Stripe at 2.9% + US$0.30).

Chobble Tickets charges a flat £50/year or £5/month, with no per-ticket platform fees and every feature included in the one price. Charities, community groups, artists and musicians pay £25/year on the annual plan. Payment processing is charged by your own Stripe, Square or SumUp account (1.5% + 20p on a UK Stripe account).

For an organiser paying in pounds, the headline Pro price is close to Chobble's, and Event Schedule's free plan is cheaper for anyone selling fewer than 25 paid tickets a month. The difference is what each price buys: Chobble's single plan includes a custom domain, white labelling and the API, while Event Schedule spreads those across Pro and Enterprise.

Interactive cost calculator

Drag the sliders to see how costs compare at different volumes:

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"Your share" assumes the organiser pays the fees out of the ticket price. Where a platform lets the organiser add its fees on top, the buyer pays them and the organiser keeps more than the figure shown. These figures exclude VAT and cover paid tickets. Several platforms charge nothing for free tickets, and the notes below record that where it is published.

Event Schedule charges no platform fee on ticket sales. Its paid plans are a flat subscription in US dollars: Pro at US$5/month or US$50/year (about £40/year) unlocks unlimited ticket sales and removes Event Schedule branding, and Enterprise at US$15/month or US$150/year (about £120/year) adds custom domains and extra team members. A free plan sells up to 25 paid tickets a month and carries Event Schedule branding. This calculator uses the Pro annual rate, converted to about £40, with UK Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p) to match the Chobble figures; Event Schedule's own pages quote US Stripe at 2.9% + US$0.30. Ticket income goes to the organiser's own Stripe account, and the software is open source, so self-hosting carries no Event Schedule fee. Chobble Tickets: £50/year or £5/month flat (£25/year for charities, community groups, artists and musicians on the annual plan) + Stripe/Square/SumUp processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: eventschedule.com/pricing (August 2026).

One price or three tiers

The clearest split between the two is how features are sold.

Chobble Tickets has one plan. A custom domain, white labelling, the admin and public APIs, bulk email, deposits and every other feature come with it, and the price does not change with ticket volume, ticket value or how many features you use.

Event Schedule spreads its features across three tiers. Removing its branding needs the Pro plan, and a custom domain and extra team members need the Enterprise plan.

On Event Schedule's hosted service, an organiser who wants their own domain pays the US$150/year Enterprise rate, where the same domain is included in Chobble's £50/year plan. A self-hosted Event Schedule deployment can use its own domain without that fee.

Feature comparison

Both platforms cover the core of selling tickets and checking people in, and each has areas the other does not.

Both platforms share some features

  • Open source code that anyone can read, fork or self-host
  • Self-hosting the same product as the hosted service, with no software licence fee
  • A flat subscription with no per-ticket platform fee
  • Ticket income paid to the organiser's own Stripe account
  • QR-coded tickets and door check-in by scanning
  • Recurring events
  • Custom domains (included with Chobble; Enterprise plan on Event Schedule)
  • White labelling to remove platform branding (included with Chobble; Pro plan on Event Schedule)
  • An API and webhooks for custom integrations
  • Embedding events or a calendar on your own website
  • Email newsletters and campaigns to your own subscribers
  • Custom fields and custom CSS
  • A record of tickets sold for each event

Event Schedule has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

  • Free plan - sell up to 25 paid tickets a month at no cost, with Event Schedule branding
  • Appointment booking - guests pick an available time slot in their own timezone, in the style of a booking calendar (Chobble Tickets sells tickets to events rather than appointment slots)
  • AI content tools - parse event details from text or a flyer, generate graphics, create a brand style, and translate content into several languages
  • Page-view analytics - views, device breakdown and traffic sources for event pages
  • Two-way Google Calendar sync and CalDAV - events sync both ways with an external calendar (Chobble Tickets offers subscribe-only calendar and RSS feeds)
  • Public event-discovery area - events can appear in a browsable directory, which can bring an organiser new attendees
  • Newsletter A/B testing - test two versions of a campaign email
  • Invoice Ninja integration - collect payment through Invoice Ninja as well as Stripe
  • Passes and subscriptions - sell recurring passes on the Pro plan
  • Multi-language content - built-in translation of event content

Chobble Tickets features not documented on Event Schedule

Chobble Tickets provides the following. Event Schedule's reviewed pages document some of these differently and do not mention others, so a missing entry means an absence of documentation rather than a confirmed limitation.

Different open source licences

Both platforms publish their source code, but under different licences, and the difference matters to anyone who wants to build on the code.

Event Schedule uses the Attribution Assurance License, a permissive licence. Anyone can take the code, change it, and run or sell the result without publishing their changes, as long as they keep the required attribution to Event Schedule.

Chobble Tickets uses AGPL-3.0-only, a copyleft licence. Anyone who offers a modified version to users over a network must offer those users its source under the same licence. This keeps improvements to a hosted service available to the people who use it, where the permissive licence lets a company keep its changes private.

For an organiser who only wants to run the software, both licences allow self-hosting at no software cost. The difference shows up when someone modifies the code and offers it to others.

Data ownership

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted at rest. Only the keys held by your own administrator accounts, and the optional recovery account you can enable, unlock it. Ticket money goes straight to your own Stripe, Square or SumUp account, and you can download a complete database backup or export your event setup as versioned JSON and move it to another Chobble Tickets host. Chobble runs no public marketplace and does not market to your attendees.

Event Schedule sends ticket money to the organiser's own Stripe account and can be self-hosted, so an organiser who runs their own copy holds the data on their own server. On the hosted service, events can appear in Event Schedule's public discovery area, which lists events for community members to browse. The reviewed sources did not document encryption of attendee data at rest, and did not state whether the hosted service markets to ticket buyers.

When Event Schedule might be the better choice

  • You sell fewer than about 25 paid tickets a month and want a free plan
  • You need appointment booking with time slots, not just event tickets
  • You want built-in AI tools for parsing events, making graphics or translating content
  • You want two-way Google Calendar or CalDAV sync
  • You want your events listed in a public discovery area to reach new attendees
  • You want to keep changes to the source code private, which the permissive licence allows
  • You already use Invoice Ninja and want to collect payment through it

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

Who runs Event Schedule?

Event Schedule is an open source project made by the team behind Invoice Ninja, the billing software that is also one of its two payment options. Its privacy policy names the operator as Event Schedule LLC and states no country. Invoice Ninja is run as Invoice Ninja LLC, registered in Fort Myers, Florida in the United States, and was founded and is partly based in Haifa, Israel.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC) registered in England, a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPL-3.0-only, and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

The pricing and product information on this page was checked on 10 August 2026 against the live Event Schedule site and its GitHub repository. Fees and features may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.