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Chobble Tickets vs QRTicket

QRTicket is a German ticketing system, free for organisers because the ticket buyer pays a fee of €0.90 per ticket by default. This page compares it to Chobble Tickets on pricing, who pays what, features and data handling.

Open source & flat fee QRTicket alternative

Chobble Tickets is a white label ticketing platform made in the UK by a community interest company. Its source code is published under the AGPL-3.0-only licence, so anyone can read it, fork it, or run their own copy. QRTicket does not publish its source code.

QRTicket is free for organisers to register and has no annual fee. Its income comes from a fee of €0.90 (incl. VAT) per ticket sold, which the ticket buyer pays by default. Chobble Tickets charges £50/year or £5/month whatever the volume, and adds no fee to any ticket, though the organiser pays Stripe, Square or SumUp processing separately.

Pricing comparison

QRTicket has no registration fee, no annual fee and no minimum turnover. It charges €0.90 (incl. VAT) for each ticket sold. By default the ticket buyer pays that fee on top of the ticket price, which makes QRTicket free for the organiser. The organiser can instead choose to absorb the fee itself.

Ticket money goes directly to the organiser's own bank or PayPal account, so QRTicket never holds it. Buyers can pay by bank transfer, which costs the organiser nothing but means tickets are sent only after the organiser confirms the money has arrived. Buyers can also pay by PayPal, which sends tickets immediately but charges the organiser €0.39 + 3.0% per payment (as of April 2022) unless that fee is passed to the buyer too.

Benefit events (Benefiz-Veranstaltungen) are free of charge, provided every ticket on them is free. Cancelled tickets and vouchers carry no fee. QRTicket sends the organiser an invoice monthly after the event.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year or £5/month, with no per-ticket platform fees. Community groups, charities, artists and musicians pay £25/year on the annual plan. Payment processing is charged by your own Stripe, Square or SumUp account.

If the organiser absorbs QRTicket's fees, each ticket costs about £1.40 at a £10 ticket price or £1.55 at £15 (QRTicket's €0.90 plus PayPal's €0.39 + 3.0%). Against £50 a year plus Stripe's 1.5% + 20p, the two cross over at around 45 to 50 paid tickets a year: below that, QRTicket costs less, and above that the flat Chobble price costs less. If the buyer pays QRTicket's fees instead, QRTicket is free to the organiser at any volume, but every ticket buyer pays roughly €1.30 or more on top of the ticket price.

Interactive cost calculator

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

Total takings £2,000.00
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Payment processing £0.00 £0.00
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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.

QRTicket charges €0.90 (incl. VAT, about £0.77) per ticket sold. By default the ticket buyer pays the fee, so the organiser pays nothing; the organiser can choose to absorb it instead. This calculator shows the absorbed case, with QRTicket's €0.90 plus PayPal processing (€0.39 + 3.0% per payment, about £0.33 + 3%, as of April 2022). Bank transfers carry no processing fee. Benefit (Benefiz) events with free tickets, cancelled tickets and vouchers carry no QRTicket fee. Ticket money goes directly to the organiser's own bank or PayPal account. 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: qrticket.de (August 2026).

Feature comparison

QRTicket has been built around the needs of small German event organisers, clubs and benefit events, and its feature set reflects that: seat plans, paper tickets, sales outlets and season passes sit beside a free check-in web app. Chobble Tickets covers a similar job with card checkout, a public website and data you control. Here is the breakdown:

Both platforms share some features

  • Online ticket sales with QR-coded tickets that buyers print or show on a phone
  • Door check-in by scanning QR codes with a phone, without a native app (QRTicket's web app and Chobble's browser-based scanner)
  • Multiple ticket types or variants with different prices
  • Discounted and free tickets (QRTicket through variants and vouchers; Chobble Tickets through promo codes, modifiers and free ticket types)
  • Refunds and cancellations from the admin panel (QRTicket charges no fee on cancelled tickets)
  • Sales statistics (QRTicket shows guests checked in and visitors still to arrive; Chobble Tickets reports on tickets sold, revenue, check-ins and refunds)
  • Email to attendees after booking (QRTicket has an automatic reminder before the event; Chobble Tickets has bulk email campaigns)
  • Embedding the booking page on the organiser's own website (QRTicket has a one-HTML-tag module; Chobble Tickets has an order widget)
  • Ticket income paid directly to the organiser's own account, not held by the platform
  • Free events for buyers and organiser alike

QRTicket has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

  • Allocated seating - a seat-plan editor with numbered rows and seats, and up to three price categories per ticket variant (Chobble Tickets has no seat plans)
  • Sales outlets - give third parties such as tourist offices or venues their own login to sell and print tickets, with commissions set in euros or percent
  • Paper tickets - print tickets on DIN A4 or a label printer, or ship printed tickets with configurable shipping costs
  • Bank transfer payments - buyers pay the organiser directly by transfer, with no card option (Chobble Tickets uses Stripe, Square or SumUp card checkout)
  • Season and multi-entry tickets - 10-entry cards and season tickets valid for a set period, each scanned per use
  • Voucher module - sell vouchers by link that buyers redeem at checkout, with no fee on vouchers
  • Advertising banners on tickets - attach a JPG banner (180mm x 90mm) to tickets to promote a future event
  • Info PDFs with ticket emails - attach up to two PDFs automatically to every ticket email
  • Event reminder email - buyers get a reminder with their ticket link a set number of days before the event
  • Online seminar mode - sell places on online seminars by sending a link and instructions instead of a QR ticket
  • Benefit events free - no fee on German charity events where all tickets are free
  • German-language service - the platform and support are in German, with phone support and tutorial videos

Chobble Tickets has features QRTicket doesn't

Data ownership

QRTicket's published privacy policy covers its marketing website: it describes cookies, server logfiles, a self-hosted Matomo visitor statistics tool, and the contact form. It does not describe how the ticket platform stores or uses attendee data, and the site gives no statement about whether QRTicket markets to ticket buyers.

Ticket money never passes through QRTicket; buyers pay the organiser's bank or PayPal account directly. The service is run by one person, Franz Schuster, who is named as responsible for data protection under the GDPR in the Impressum and privacy policy. The data is held in a proprietary system you cannot run yourself.

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. The platform is open source under AGPLv3, so you can self-host it and stop depending on Chobble as your host.

When QRTicket might be the better choice

  • You want a ticketing service with no cost to you, and you are happy for ticket buyers to pay the fees (QRTicket's default)
  • You run a German benefit or charity event with free tickets, which is free of charge
  • You sell fewer than about 45 to 50 paid tickets a year and would absorb QRTicket's fees yourself
  • You need allocated seating or seat plans
  • You sell tickets through physical outlets such as tourist offices, or need paper tickets printed on a label printer
  • You want buyers to pay you directly by bank transfer
  • You need season passes or multi-entry tickets such as 10-entry cards
  • You want a platform in German with German phone support
  • You want to attach advertising banners or info PDFs to tickets automatically

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

  • You do not want ticket buyers to pay a per-ticket fee on top of the ticket price
  • You want a fixed price that does not change with ticket volume or value
  • You sell more than about 45 to 50 paid tickets a year and would pay QRTicket's fees yourself
  • You want card payments through Stripe, Square or SumUp (QRTicket offers only PayPal or bank transfer)
  • You want buyers to get tickets instantly by card rather than after a manual bank-transfer confirmation
  • You want attendee data encrypted at rest, and open source code you can read, fork or self-host
  • You want a custom domain, a public website, SMS messages, deposits, pay-what-you-want pricing, Apple and Google Wallet passes, or an API
  • You want CSV exports and complete database backups so your data is not locked in
  • You are a charity, community group, artist or musician (£25/year on the annual plan)

Who runs QRTicket?

QRTicket is published by Franz Schuster, who is named in the Impressum as the responsible party and in the privacy policy as responsible for data protection. The Impressum lists no company name or registration number beyond the operator's name and a German phone number (+49 8592 1355). The service presents itself as a one-person operation.

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 AGPL-3.0-only, 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 on 8 August 2026 against the live QRTicket site. Fees may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.