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Chobble Tickets vs tickts

tickts is a UK ticketing platform with zero booking fees for buyers and a tiered subscription model for organisers. This page compares it to Chobble Tickets.

Open source & flat fee tickts alternative

Both platforms are made in the UK and neither takes a cut of ticket revenue. Chobble Tickets publishes its source code under the AGPL-3.0-only licence, so anyone can read it, fork it, or run their own copy. tickts does not publish its source code.

tickts charges no booking fee and no commission, and splits features across plans: free on Starter, £290/year on Growth, £690/year on Pro. Chobble Tickets costs £50/year or £5/month with every feature included, including the admin API and custom domains.

Pricing comparison

tickts charges no booking fees to buyers and takes 0% commission on every plan. The Starter plan is free and includes most core ticketing features. Growth costs £29/month or £290/year and adds payment plans, waitlists, advanced analytics, and custom branding. Pro costs £69/month or £690/year and adds season passes, white-label subdomains, queue systems, fan CRM, and full API access. Stripe's standard processing fee (1.5% + 20p per UK card transaction) applies on every plan.

Chobble Tickets charges a flat £50/year or £5/month (£25/year for charities, community groups, and schools) with no per-ticket platform fees and no tier upgrades. API access and custom domains are included without a higher Chobble plan. Chobble Tickets does not currently provide tickts features such as season passes or waitlists.

For an organiser needing only what tickts offers on Starter, tickts is free. For an organiser needing features behind paid tiers, the comparison is £50/year (Chobble) against £290/year (tickts Growth) or £690/year (tickts Pro).

Interactive cost calculator

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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.

tickts Starter fees: free plan with 0% commission and no booking fees for fans, plus Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Advanced features (payment plans, waitlists, season passes, white-label, full API) require Growth (£290/year) or Pro (£690/year). Chobble Tickets: £50/year or £5/month flat (£25/year for charities on the annual plan), all features included + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: tickts.co.uk/pricing (July 2026).

Feature comparison

Both platforms handle event ticketing with no booking fees for buyers, but they take different approaches to feature access, data, and code. Here is the breakdown:

Both platforms share some features

  • Online ticket sales with Stripe payment processing
  • Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout (via Stripe)
  • QR code scanning for check-in at the door
  • Email confirmations to attendees after booking
  • Event capacity limits
  • Free event support with no payment setup required
  • Refund processing from the admin panel
  • Custom questions at checkout
  • CSV data export
  • Apple Wallet passes for tickets
  • Google Wallet passes for tickets
  • Multi-date events with per-date capacity
  • Promo codes and discount codes
  • Box office / door sales
  • Add-ons and extras at checkout
  • Custom domain support
  • Embeddable booking widgets
  • Webhooks for real-time event notifications
  • Team management with permissions
  • Ticket transfers
  • White-label branding options (tickts gates this behind Pro; Chobble includes custom domain and email white-label in the base plan)
  • REST API access (tickts offers read-only API on Starter and full access on Pro; Chobble includes full public and admin API on every plan)

tickts has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

  • Native iOS and Android scanner apps - dedicated apps for door staff that download attendee lists for offline scanning. Chobble has a web-based scanner that works from any phone browser but no native app
  • Interactive seat-by-seat seating plans - build custom venue layouts where fans pick their exact seat at checkout. Chobble supports general admission only
  • On-site point-of-sale (POS) - sell tickets at the door with cash, card, or complimentary tracking through the built-in box office
  • Payment plans and instalments - let buyers split the cost across multiple payments over time (tickts Growth plan and above)
  • Waitlists for sold-out events - automatic notifications when places open up (tickts Growth plan and above)
  • Season passes with automatic fixture detection - a single pass that works across every fixture in a season, with per-match scanning and renewal management (tickts Pro plan and above)
  • Queue system for high-demand on-sales - manage traffic spikes when popular events go on sale (tickts Pro plan and above)
  • Fan CRM - track spend per buyer and identify repeat attendees (tickts Pro plan and above)
  • Live sales dashboard - real-time revenue tracking, ticket breakdowns, and attendance data. tickts has basic analytics on Starter, advanced on Growth and Pro. Chobble has CSV exports and a ledger view but no built-in analytics dashboard
  • Multi-currency - sell tickets in GBP or EUR on the same account, with tickts also operating an Ireland site at tickts.ie. Chobble uses one currency per instance
  • Multi-language interface - the buyer-facing checkout in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Chobble's checkout is English only
  • Consumer marketplace - events listed at tickts.co.uk/events for buyer discovery. Chobble does not run a marketplace
  • Automatic social media promotion - tickts posts every published event to its Facebook and Instagram at no extra cost
  • Buyer refund protection - fans can add TicketPlan refund protection at checkout for covered reasons
  • Affiliate and rep tracking - generate unique links for promoters and track which channel drove each sale (tickts Growth plan and above)
  • Group discounts - automatic price breaks based on quantity (tickts Growth plan and above)
  • Email campaign tool - send marketing emails to past buyers through tickts (100/month on Starter, 5,000 on Growth, 10,000 on Pro). Chobble sends bulk email through your own configured email provider rather than a shared platform one

Chobble Tickets has features tickts doesn't

  • Encryption at rest - attendee personal data uses hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM and requires an authorised keyed user, including an optional recovery owner if enabled. tickts handles attendee data under its own privacy policy
  • Open source - the complete product source is published under AGPL-3.0-only with no proprietary feature tier. tickts is closed source
  • Self-hosting option - run the platform on selected infrastructure without a Chobble software licence fee. tickts is hosted-only
  • Flat pricing with all Chobble features included - £50/year or £5/month covers every current Chobble feature, with no higher tier for API access, custom domains or white-label pages
  • Public JSON API on every plan - read listings and availability, no API key required. tickts gates API access behind Pro
  • Admin API on every plan - authenticated CRUD for listings, groups, and holidays via API keys. tickts only mentions "API access" on Pro
  • Subscribable ICS calendar feed - a single feed that updates subscribers automatically when you add new events. tickts offers per-event "add to calendar" links in confirmation emails only
  • RSS feeds - syndicate your events to feed readers
  • Custom email providers - use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun (US or EU) so confirmation emails come from your own domain. tickts sends from its own domain
  • Liquid email templates - full control over the confirmation email subject, HTML, and text body with Liquid template syntax
  • Pay-what-you-want pricing - let buyers enter their own price above a minimum
  • Parent/child listings - require buyers to choose a child listing when booking a parent
  • Listing groups with shared capacity caps - related events sharing a single attendee limit
  • Non-transferable tickets - a per-listing toggle that requires ID verification at check-in
  • Daily listings with holiday blackouts and a calendar picker
  • 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. tickts provides event pages but not a composable public website
  • Community Interest Company - run by a CIC, a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. tickts is a standard limited company
  • No future advertising or sponsorship revenue model - tickts has stated plans to add sponsorship and ad placement on category and venue pages once it reaches audience scale. Chobble's income comes entirely from the flat fee organisers pay

Data ownership

tickts is a proprietary platform. Attendee data lives on servers operated by tickts, where tickts staff can read it. The tickts privacy policy covers how buyer information is handled. tickts also runs a consumer marketplace at tickts.co.uk/events and posts published events to its own Facebook and Instagram, which puts your events in front of its audience but also feeds marketing channels operated by tickts.

tickts has stated on its how we make money page that it plans to add sponsorship and ad placement on category and venue pages once it reaches audience scale. The page states this will not cost organisers or buyers anything, but the model relies on aggregating audience attention to sell to brands.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted at rest with the site's public key. An authorised keyed user can decrypt it, including an optional recovery owner if enabled. The product is published under AGPL-3.0-only, so it can run on independently selected infrastructure. Chobble does not run an event marketplace or use attendee records for advertising.

When tickts might be the better choice

  • You want a free Starter plan with no booking fees for buyers
  • You need interactive seat-by-seat seating plans with a seat picker
  • You want an on-site POS system or native iOS and Android scanner apps
  • You need payment plans, waitlists, or season passes
  • You want a consumer marketplace listing your events at tickts.co.uk/events
  • You want automatic social media promotion of your events
  • You sell in multiple currencies (GBP and EUR)
  • You need a multi-language buyer-facing checkout
  • You want affiliate or rep tracking links
  • You want buyer refund protection via TicketPlan
  • You want a real-time sales analytics dashboard
  • You want a fan CRM tracking spend across repeat buyers
  • You need a queue system for high-demand on-sales
  • You prefer tiered plans and only pay for advanced features when you need them

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

Who owns tickts?

tickts is operated by TICKTS LTD, a private limited company registered in England (company number 17029682). Its registered office is at 124-128 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX. The ICO registration reference is ZC108275. tickts presents itself as UK-based and UK-focused, with an additional Ireland presence at tickts.ie for EUR payments.

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. The registered name is Chobble CIC, company number 17050113, registered in Prestwich, Manchester. 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 and feature information on this page was verified in July 2026. Fees and feature allocations may change. Check the links below for the latest figures.