Chobble Tickets vs Resova
Resova is an activity booking platform built for escape rooms, tours, and experiences. Here is how a general-purpose, open source ticketing platform compares.
Open source & cheaper Resova alternative
Chobble Tickets is a white label booking and 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. Resova does not publish its source code.
Resova's Pro plan is $72/month, about £685 a year, and caps you at 300 bookings a month, with 16p per booking above that. Chobble Tickets charges £50/year or £5/month with no booking cap and no per-booking fee.
Pricing comparison
Resova charges a flat monthly subscription rather than taking a cut of each ticket. The Pro plan is $72/month (approximately £685/year) when billed annually, covering up to 300 bookings per month. The Lite plan is $40/month (approximately £380/year) with a 100-bookings-per-month limit, and the Premium plan is $108/month (approximately £1025/year) with a 600-bookings limit. Bookings above your plan's limit cost $0.20 (about 16p) each. The custom-priced Enterprise plan lists unlimited bookings.
Payment processing is separate, through Stripe, PayPal, Square, or Resova's own SpeedPay product.
Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year or £5/month with no per-ticket fees and no monthly booking limits, plus Stripe processing at 1.5% + 20p. Registered charities, schools, and community groups pay £25/year.
Interactive cost calculator
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| Chobble Tickets | Resova (Pro) | |
|---|---|---|
| Annual fee | £50.00 | £685.00 |
| 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 |
| Your share | £0.00 | £0.00 |
"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.
Resova Pro plan: $72/month billed annually (approx. £685/year), covering up to 300 bookings per month. Lite ($40/month = approx. £380/year, up to 100 bookings/month) and Premium ($108/month = approx. £1025/year, up to 600 bookings/month) tiers also available, plus custom Enterprise pricing. Overage: $0.20 per booking (approx. 16p) above the monthly limit. Payment processing via Stripe, PayPal, Square, or Resova's own SpeedPay is charged separately (Stripe 1.5% + 20p in the UK). Chobble Tickets: £50/year or £5/month flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: get.resova.com/pricing (April 2026).
Feature comparison
Resova and Chobble Tickets are built for different things. Resova is designed for operators who sell the same experience again and again - an escape room with three rooms running hourly slots, a kayak rental with equipment to track, a museum with timed-entry tickets. Chobble Tickets is built for one-off and recurring events where the focus is the event itself, not the resource scheduling behind it.
Both platforms share some features
- Online booking with payment processing
- Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout (via Stripe)
- QR code scanning for check-in
- Email confirmations to attendees after booking
- Event capacity limits
- Refund processing from the admin panel
- Recurring events and timed slots
- Custom questions at checkout
- Deposits taken at booking, with the balance collected later
- Text messages to customers alongside email
- Reporting on bookings and revenue
Resova has features Chobble Tickets doesn't
- Resource scheduling - assign bookings to specific rooms, instructors, boats, or pieces of equipment, and prevent double-booking of shared resources across different experiences
- Digital waivers - collect signed liability waivers at booking time and store them against the customer record, which matters for escape rooms, climbing, axe-throwing, and similar activities
- Automatic SMS reminders - the platform sends text confirmations and reminders on a schedule. Chobble Tickets texts attendees from your own Android phone when you send the message, with no automatic reminders
- Built-in CRM - persistent customer profiles with notes, custom fields, and activity tracking across every booking
- Abandoned booking recovery - automated follow-up emails to people who started a booking but did not complete checkout
- Walk-in bookings - take bookings at the door through the admin interface alongside online bookings
- Gift voucher system - sell monetary or experience-specific vouchers online that customers redeem at checkout
- Multi-location management - run bookings across several venues from one account
- SpeedPay - Resova's own payment-processing product as an alternative to integrating Stripe, PayPal, or Square
- Mailchimp and Facebook integrations - connect bookings to existing marketing tools out of the box
- Google Analytics - built-in tracking for bookings and conversions
- Multi-currency subscriptions - pay for your Resova plan in US dollars, Canadian dollars, euros, pounds, or Australian dollars
Chobble Tickets has features Resova doesn't
- Encryption at rest - attendee data is stored with hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM encryption rather than plain database rows
- Open source - the complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only
- Self-hosting option - run the platform on selected infrastructure without a Chobble software licence fee or application booking cap
- Flat pricing - £50/year or £5/month with no per-booking caps and no overage fees
- Apple & Google Wallet tickets - attendees can add tickets to both Apple Wallet and Google Wallet
- ICS calendar feeds - subscribers get automatic calendar updates
- RSS feeds - syndicate your events to feed readers
- Tiered ticket types via groups - create VIP, early bird, and other tiers using event groups with a shared capacity cap
- Pay-what-you-want pricing - let attendees choose their own price
- Double-entry ledger - every income figure, refund and outstanding balance comes from one ledger you can filter by date and listing
- Daily/recurring events - per-date capacity with calendar picker and holiday blackouts
- Custom questions - add multiple-choice questions to events and collect structured answers at checkout, with answers visible across the admin interface, CSV exports, and webhooks
- 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
- Public & admin API - RESTful JSON API for building custom integrations, plus authenticated admin API with full event CRUD via API keys
- Webhooks - outbound POST on every registration for custom integrations
- Event groups - organise related events into collections for multi-event bookings with a single checkout
- Custom email providers - use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your domain
- Customisable email templates - full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax for a fully white-label experience
- Custom domain - get a yourname.tix.chobble.net subdomain instantly, or point your own domain
- 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
- Embeddable widget - drop an iframe into your website
- No booking limits - sell as many tickets as you like on one plan, with no overage charges
- Community Interest Company - run by a CIC, with profits reinvested rather than distributed to shareholders
Data ownership
With Resova, your customer data, waivers, and booking history live on Resova's servers. The platform keeps your data for 30 days after cancellation, after which it is deleted. Resova is a commercial SaaS product, so you depend on the company continuing to operate and on paying your subscription every month.
With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted at rest. Stored names, emails and free-text answers require credentials for an authorised keyed user, including an optional recovery owner if enabled. The complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only and can run on independently selected infrastructure.
When Resova might be the better choice
- You run an escape room, activity, tour, or timed-entry experience
- You need digital waiver collection at the point of booking
- You need resource scheduling across rooms, guides, or equipment
- You want a built-in CRM that tracks repeat customers
- You want SMS reminders sent automatically rather than by hand
- You want to take walk-in bookings alongside online bookings
- You are running multiple venues and want unified reporting
- You sell well over 600 bookings a month and still want a single flat plan
When Chobble Tickets is the better choice
- You run events, gigs, conferences, classes, or one-off bookings rather than a repeating activity business
- You want flat pricing with no monthly booking limits or overage fees
- You sell a modest number of tickets and don't want to pay £380+ a year for a booking platform
- Privacy and encryption matter to you
- You value open source and the ability to self-host
- You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
- You want Apple/Google Wallet, calendar feeds, or a public API
- You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees
Who owns Resova?
Resova is run by Resova Ltd, a UK-registered company (Company No. 09559910), incorporated in April 2015 and previously named Bookify Ltd until March 2017. It is a private company focused on the escape room, activity, and attractions market.
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 April 2026. Fees may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.
- Resova pricing - Lite, Pro, Premium, and Enterprise plans
- Resova features
- Resova Ltd on Companies House - corporate structure
- Chobble Tickets features