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Chobble Tickets vs Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor is the go-to ticketing platform for the electronic music scene. Here's how a small, open source alternative compares on pricing, features, and data ownership.

Pricing comparison

Resident Advisor (RA) adds a service fee on top of every ticket sold. The buyer pays this fee, not the promoter, so RA says it is free for promoters to sell tickets. But the fee still makes tickets more expensive for fans. RA doesn't publish exact fee rates and negotiates with promoters individually.

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. Once you're selling more than a handful of events a year, Chobble Tickets usually works out cheaper.

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Total takings £2,000.00
Chobble Tickets Resident Advisor
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

Resident Advisor fees: approximately 10% per ticket (includes payment processing). RA does not publicly list exact fees; they are negotiated with promoters. The 10% figure is widely cited by third-party comparison sites. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Sources: weticket.com, support.ra.co (March 2026).

Data ownership and privacy

When you sell tickets through RA, your attendees become part of RA's platform. RA markets its own content to your customers (other events, other promoters, and editorial picks). Your attendee data lives on their servers, and you're building RA's audience as much as your own.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted and stays under your control. Chobble does not market anything to your attendees.

Payouts

RA pays promoters after the event. Payments are processed on Tuesdays and typically take a few more business days to reach your bank account. That means your ticket money is locked up until after the event.

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 sites share some features:

  • Online ticket sales with payment processing
  • Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout
  • QR code or barcode scanning for entry
  • Email confirmations to ticket holders
  • Capacity management to prevent overselling
  • Embeddable ticket widgets for your own website
  • Refund processing

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

Resident Advisor has features Chobble Tickets doesn't:

  • Electronic music community - RA reaches millions of electronic music fans across dozens of countries, specifically looking for club nights, festivals, and electronic music events
  • Automated marketing to millions of subscribers - RA sends push notifications, emails, and web notifications to fans who've opted in, promoting your events alongside editorial picks
  • Curated editorial and RA Picks - a team of local ambassadors around the world curate weekly newsletters and homepage features that drive traffic to events
  • RA Bumps - paid priority placement in event listings to boost visibility above other events
  • Ticket resale with anti-tout technology - built-in face-value resale with barcode withholding until shortly before the event to prevent fraud (RA claim up to 2% additional revenue on sold-out events)
  • Abandoned basket recovery - automated emails to fans who started but didn't complete checkout (RA claim 5% conversion uplift)
  • 2-click checkout - streamlined payment with PayPal, iDEAL, and Bancontact alongside Apple Pay and Google Pay (RA claim 33% conversion uplift)
  • DJ charts, reviews, and mix hosting - artist profiles, DJ charts, album reviews, and music features that drive traffic to events and build artist credibility
  • Crowd flow and entry time analytics - post-event data showing when fans arrived, for operational planning and optimisation
  • RA Scan app - barcode scanner with guest list management, real-time attendance monitoring, and live multi-device syncing
  • Secret venue reveals - automated emails revealing the venue location to ticket holders, for invite-only or secret events
  • Multiple currency support - sell across many countries with local payment methods
  • RA Guide - city guides and venue reviews that drive footfall to events and build audience awareness
  • Guest list management - import guest lists, add guests at the door, and manage comps alongside standard ticket sales
  • Embeddable ticket widget - embed RA ticket sales on your own website
  • B-Corp certified - RA is a certified B-Corp, demonstrating commitment to social and environmental standards

Chobble Tickets has features Resident Advisor doesn't:

When Resident Advisor might be better

  • You're running electronic music events and want RA's big audience of clubbers and music fans to find you
  • Being discovered by new people matters more to you than saving on fees
  • You need built-in ticket resale for events that sell out
  • You want your events connected to the RA brand and its reputation in the electronic music world
  • You only sell a small number of tickets per year and prefer paying per ticket over an annual fee

When Chobble Tickets might be better

  • You want simple, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket fees
  • Privacy and encryption matter to you
  • You don't want a platform marketing its own stuff to your customers
  • You run events outside the electronic music scene (or a mix of event types)
  • 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 already have your own audience and don't need a platform to help people find you

Who owns Resident Advisor?

Resident Advisor started in Australia in the early 2000s as a small website about dance music. It grew into a big global platform and is now based in London, with offices in several cities around the world including Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. The company is independently owned by its founders, with no outside investors, and is a certified B Corporation, which means it meets certain social and environmental standards.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC), a type of UK company that has to use its money to help the community. All of Chobble's code is public, and anyone can run the platform on their own computers without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

Resident Advisor does not publicly list exact fee rates. They are negotiated with promoters. Fees may change, so check the links below for the latest information.