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Chobble Tickets vs FIXR

FIXR dominates UK student nightlife and event discovery. Here's how a small, open source alternative compares on pricing, features, and data ownership.

Pricing comparison

FIXR is free for organisers - ticket buyers pay a booking fee of 4.99% + £0.49 per ticket (£1 minimum) + VAT on the Pro tier, or 3.99% + £0.49 on the Student & Charity tier. These fees include payment processing, and organisers can optionally absorb them. Enterprise pricing is negotiated separately.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year (£25 for charities and community groups) with no per-ticket fees at all. You only pay Stripe or Square processing fees on top. If you sell more than about 77 tickets at £10 each in a year, Chobble Tickets is already cheaper.

On higher-priced tickets the gap grows quickly. A £30 ticket costs £1.99 in FIXR fees - that's about 38 tickets to break even against a full year of Chobble Tickets.

Interactive cost calculator

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

Total takings £2,000.00
Chobble Tickets FIXR (Pro)
Annual fee £50.00 £0.00
Platform fees £0.00 £0.00
Payment processing £0.00 £0.00
Total cost per year £0.00 £0.00
Cost per ticket £0.00 £0.00

FIXR Pro fees: 4.99% + £0.49 per ticket (£1 minimum) + VAT (includes payment processing). Student & Charity tier: 3.99% + £0.49. Fees are typically paid by the ticket buyer but can be absorbed by the organiser. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: fixr.co/pricing (March 2026).

Data ownership and privacy

FIXR operates an event discovery marketplace - their website and app let attendees browse and discover events. This means your attendees become part of FIXR's audience, and your events sit alongside competitors' listings.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted with hybrid RSA/AES encryption and stays under your control. There's no marketplace showing competing events next to yours, and no marketing emails sent to your attendees by the platform.

Payouts

FIXR handles payment processing as part of their booking fee and manages payouts to organisers.

Chobble Tickets uses Stripe or Square directly, so payments go straight to your account with standard processing times. You're always in control of your own payment processor account.

Feature comparison

Both platforms share some features:

  • Online ticket sales
  • QR code scanning for check-in at the door
  • Email confirmations to attendees after booking
  • Capacity management to prevent overselling
  • Free event support with no fees
  • Multiple ticket types
  • Embeddable ticket widgets for your own website

FIXR has some features Chobble Tickets doesn't, and vice versa:

FIXR has features Chobble Tickets doesn't:

  • Event discovery app - FIXR's consumer-facing app and website let attendees browse and discover events, with strong reach in the UK student nightlife market
  • Rep/affiliate network - a built-in system where promoters sell tickets on your behalf and earn commission, with tracking dashboards
  • Student verification - built-in student status verification for age-restricted or student-only events
  • Ad pixel tracking - retargeting and lookalike audience support for Facebook and other ad platforms
  • Promo codes - discount codes, presale codes, and hidden ticket access codes
  • Fast checkout - streamlined checkout with saved card details via the FIXR app
  • Push notifications - event announcements via push notification to followers
  • Custom branded apps - on the Enterprise tier, FIXR builds custom branded apps and websites for your events
  • Business insights - analytics on customer origination, journey, and lifecycle

Chobble Tickets has features FIXR doesn't:

When FIXR might be better

  • You're running student events or university nightlife and want access to FIXR's audience and discovery platform
  • You need a rep/affiliate system to incentivise ticket sellers
  • You want your events listed on a marketplace where attendees browse and discover events
  • You need student verification for age-restricted events
  • You have very low volume and prefer buyer-pays fees over an annual subscription

When Chobble Tickets might be better

  • You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket fees
  • Privacy and encryption matter to you
  • You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees or showing competing events alongside yours
  • You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
  • You want Apple/Google Wallet integration, calendar feeds, or RSS
  • You value open source and the ability to self-host
  • You're selling enough tickets that percentage fees add up quickly

Who owns FIXR?

FIXR operates as VIPR Digital Limited (Companies House #08184813), incorporated in August 2012 and headquartered at 25-26 Poland Street, London W1F 8QN. The company was co-founded by Edmund Glover, Nick Stone, Dom Marmont, and Hugh Hudleston (who resigned as director in 2020). FIXR raised £6.5 million in a Series A round in May 2021, and launched in UK universities in 2015 before expanding into nightlife, festivals, venues, and attractions.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC) - a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPLv3, and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

The pricing information on this page was verified in March 2026. Fees may change - check the links below for the latest figures.