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Chobble Tickets vs FooEvents

FooEvents is a set of WordPress plugins that adds ticket sales to a WooCommerce shop. Chobble Tickets is a dedicated ticketing platform. Here is how they compare.

Open source & standalone FooEvents alternative

Chobble Tickets is a white label ticketing platform made in the UK, with its source code published under the AGPL-3.0-only licence and no feature held back for a higher tier.

FooEvents is a set of plugins that add ticketing to WooCommerce, so it needs a WordPress site, WooCommerce, hosting, and updates for each plugin. Chobble Tickets is a standalone platform with a public website and CMS included, so on managed hosting there is nothing to install.

FooEvents bundles cost $139 to $349 a year for one domain, and features are split across licence tiers. Chobble Tickets costs £50/year or £5/month with every feature included.

Two different approaches

FooEvents is a paid plugin suite for WordPress. You install it into a WooCommerce shop and the shop products become tickets. FooEvents says it has been used on more than 10,000 sites.

Chobble Tickets is a standalone ticketing platform. You sign up at tix.chobble.com and run events from the admin area, or self-host the code on your own server. There is no WordPress site required.

Which one is right depends on whether you already run a WordPress shop and want ticketing to sit inside it, or whether you want ticketing as its own thing.

Pricing comparison

The core FooEvents for WooCommerce plugin starts at $69/year. Bundles add ticket PDFs, calendars, bookings, check-in and other plugins. Each purchase includes 12 months of support and updates. The bundle prices below are for one domain; licences for more domains cost extra.

Basic Bundle - $139/year (approx. £103)

  • FooEvents for WooCommerce (core)
  • FooEvents PDF Tickets
  • FooEvents Calendar
  • FooEvents Express Check-in
  • Check-ins App

Bookings Bundle - $169/year (approx. £125)

  • FooEvents for WooCommerce
  • FooEvents Bookings
  • FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields
  • FooEvents PDF Tickets
  • FooEvents Calendar
  • Check-ins App

Premium Bundle - $199/year (approx. £147)

  • FooEvents for WooCommerce
  • FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields
  • FooEvents PDF Tickets
  • FooEvents Calendar
  • FooEvents Express Check-in
  • FooEvents Multi-day
  • FooEvents Seating
  • Check-ins App

Point of Sale Bundle - $349/year (approx. £258)

  • FooEvents for WooCommerce
  • FooEvents POS
  • FooEvents Bookings
  • FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields
  • FooEvents PDF Tickets
  • FooEvents Multi-day
  • FooEvents Seating
  • Check-ins App

FooEvents takes no per-ticket fee and no commission. You also pay your own WooCommerce payment gateway fees (for example, Stripe at 1.5% + 20p in the UK), plus WordPress hosting for your site (typically £5 to £25 per month for shared or managed WordPress hosting).

Hosted Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year or £5/month, with no per-ticket platform fees. You pay Stripe, Square, or SumUp processing fees on top. Charities and community groups pay £25/year. Self-hosting has no Chobble licence fee.

Feature comparison

Not every FooEvents feature is in every bundle. Seating, Bookings, Multi-day, Custom Attendee Fields, and POS are separate plugins that only come with the higher-tier bundles, so the Basic Bundle covers a much smaller feature set than the POS Bundle.

Both platforms share some features

  • No commission or per-ticket platform fees
  • Unlimited ticket sending
  • QR code check-in at the door
  • Multiple ticket types per event with capacity limits
  • CSV export of attendee lists
  • Refund processing (via the payment gateway)
  • Support for free events
  • Custom domain support for event pages

FooEvents has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

  • WooCommerce integration - tickets sit alongside your other WooCommerce products, use the same cart and checkout, and inherit any WooCommerce extensions you already run (shipping, tax, accounting, CRM)
  • 100+ payment gateways - any WooCommerce-compatible gateway works, including PayPal, Square, Stripe, Authorize.net, regional gateways, and offline methods like bank transfer
  • Seating plans - the FooEvents Seating plugin provides a graphical seat picker for theatres and reserved seating events (included in the Premium and POS bundles)
  • Bookings with time slots - the FooEvents Bookings plugin lets attendees pick a specific date and time slot (included in the Bookings and POS bundles)
  • Point of sale - the FooEvents POS plugin is an in-person till app for selling and scanning tickets at the door (included in the POS bundle)
  • Custom PDF ticket designs - the FooEvents Stationery Builder lets you design your own printed tickets, badges, and name cards inside the WordPress admin
  • WooCommerce coupons - WooCommerce coupon codes work on ticket products (Chobble now has its own promo codes and discount codes, but WooCommerce coupons specifically integrate with the wider WooCommerce shop)
  • Custom attendee fields - the FooEvents Custom Attendee Fields plugin adds free-text, dropdown, and other field types to the registration form (included in the Bookings, Premium, and POS bundles; Chobble supports multiple-choice and free-text custom questions)
  • Dedicated Check-ins mobile app - the free FooEvents Check-ins app runs on iOS and Android with barcode and QR scanning (Chobble uses browser-based QR scanning)
  • Translation files for 9 languages - Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, and Portuguese ship with the plugins, plus support for custom language files
  • WordPress multisite support - run FooEvents across multiple WordPress sites under one network
  • Lifetime support option - FooEvents offers a lifetime licence on request (Chobble Tickets hosted is subscription-only)
  • 14-day money-back guarantee - FooEvents offers a full refund within 14 days of purchase
  • Any WooCommerce extension - because FooEvents is a WooCommerce plugin, you can add any of the thousands of WooCommerce extensions to extend checkout, marketing, shipping, or reporting

Chobble Tickets has features FooEvents doesn't

  • No WordPress required - Chobble Tickets runs on its own, so you do not need to install, update, or secure a WordPress site for ticket sales
  • Public-facing website and CMS a homepage, content pages, news posts, and a contact form with spam protection, edited from the admin panel in Markdown with custom CSS. FooEvents requires a WordPress site for its public pages
  • Encryption at rest - Chobble encrypts attendee personal data at rest with a hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM scheme, so stored attendee details require credentials for an authorised keyed user
  • Promo codes, discounts, and add-ons create promo codes, discount codes, surcharges, and opt-in add-ons with stock limits and a live running total
  • Open source under AGPL-3.0-only - the complete Chobble Tickets product source is public, with no proprietary editions or feature gates. FooEvents is commercial, closed-source software sold with 12 months of updates and support
  • No Chobble self-hosting licence fee - every product feature is included, while the operator pays for infrastructure and configured services. FooEvents requires a paid bundle even when it is self-installed
  • Apple & Google Wallet tickets - attendees can add tickets straight to their phone wallet
  • ICS calendar feeds - subscribers get automatic calendar updates when new events are added
  • RSS feeds - syndicate your events to feed readers
  • Pay-what-you-want pricing - let attendees choose their own ticket price within a range
  • Daily/recurring events - per-date capacity with a calendar picker (FooEvents needs the paid Multi-day plugin for anything similar)
  • Event groups with shared capacity - tie related events together with a shared attendee cap
  • Embeddable ticket widget - drop an iframe into any website to show your events inline
  • Admin API and public API - create and manage events from scripts or external tools using API keys
  • Webhooks - outbound POST on every registration, configured per event in the admin
  • Custom email providers - use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so confirmation emails come from your own domain
  • Customisable email templates - full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax
  • Activity logs - full audit trail of admin actions and booking activity
  • Serverless edge deployment - Chobble Tickets compiles to a single JavaScript file that runs on Bunny.net edge scripts with an edge database, so there is no server to patch. FooEvents runs on your WordPress site, which you are responsible for keeping patched and online

Setup and hosting

FooEvents is a plugin, not a hosted service. To use it, you need:

  • A WordPress site you host yourself
  • WooCommerce installed and configured
  • A payment gateway plugin for the gateway you want to use
  • The FooEvents plugins, installed via the WordPress admin
  • Ongoing WordPress, WooCommerce, and plugin updates

This works well if you already run a WordPress site, because everything sits inside the admin you already use. It also means attendee data stays on your own server, under your control, rather than on a third party's.

Chobble Tickets hosted is the opposite trade-off: you sign up, log in, and create an event. There is no WordPress, no WooCommerce, no plugin updates, and no server patching. Chobble Tickets encrypts attendee personal data at rest. Stored details require credentials for an authorised keyed user, including an optional recovery owner if enabled. For independently selected infrastructure, you can self-host Chobble Tickets. The complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only with no proprietary feature tier.

Licensing tiers

FooEvents sells each bundle in three tiers: Single Domain, Multiple Domain, and Unlimited Domain. The prices on this page are the Single Domain prices. If you run more than one WordPress site and want to use FooEvents on all of them, you will pay more. You can change tier at any time from your FooEvents account.

Chobble Tickets does not use per-domain licensing. The £50/year (or £5/month) hosted plan covers your account, and self-hosting the AGPLv3 code costs nothing regardless of how many sites you run.

Data and attendee privacy

Both platforms keep attendee data out of a third-party marketing database. FooEvents stores attendees in your own WordPress database. Chobble Tickets stores attendees encrypted on its own infrastructure, or on your own server if you self-host.

FooEvents relies on the security of your WordPress install. WordPress sites are a common target for attackers, and the WooCommerce database containing your attendee data sits on the same server as the plugins, themes, and any other WooCommerce products you sell. If a plugin on the site is compromised, the attendee database can be read. Chobble Tickets encrypts attendee personal data with RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM, so an attacker who reaches the database still cannot read it without the private key.

When FooEvents might be the better choice

  • You already run a WordPress and WooCommerce site and want ticketing inside it
  • You want to mix tickets with other WooCommerce products in the same cart
  • You need a payment gateway that Stripe, Square, and SumUp do not cover, and your gateway has a WooCommerce plugin
  • You need seating plans, in-person point of sale, or booking time slots
  • You need custom PDF ticket designs with printed badges and name cards
  • You are happy to manage WordPress, WooCommerce, and plugin updates yourself
  • You want the checkout to appear in Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, or Portuguese without custom translation work

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

  • You do not want to run a WordPress site for ticket sales
  • You want attendee personal data encrypted at rest
  • You want predictable flat-rate pricing (£50/year or £5/month, or £25/year for charities and community groups on the annual plan)
  • You value open source code with no paid tier or feature gates
  • You want Apple and Google Wallet, calendar feeds, or an embeddable widget
  • You would rather self-host without a Chobble licence fee than pay an annual plugin licence
  • You prefer to work with a Community Interest Company rather than a commercial plugin vendor

Who builds FooEvents?

FooEvents is a commercial WordPress plugin from FooEvents.com. The core plugin starts at $69 with 12 months of updates and support, while bundles range from $139 to $349 for one domain. Payments are processed in US dollars by Stripe, in South African rand by Paystack for South African customers, and PayPal is offered in most other countries.

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 with no paid tier, 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 checked again on 25 July 2026. Fees may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.