Choosing a Ticket Platform
Compare providers by structure, fees, domains and hosting model
Choosing a ticket platform comes down to four separate questions: what it costs at your volume of sales, who owns the provider, what happens to attendee data and where the software runs. The guides below each take one of those questions and sort the reviewed providers by it.
Where to start
For most small organisers, cost is the deciding question. The cheapest ticket sales system guide prices a year of 1,000 tickets at £20 on every reviewed provider, and shows the sales volume at which a flat annual fee costs less than a per-ticket fee. The guide on disguised fees explains how to read a headline rate before trusting it.
If you already know the price you can afford, the structure and hosting guides narrow the list further. They cover charitable and co-operative providers, UK-registered companies, branding removal, custom domains and software you can run yourself.
How the guides are written
Chobble, the community interest company that runs Chobble Tickets, writes these guides and appears in them as one of the providers. Every guide names the rule it uses to include a provider, and notes where a service has voluntary charges, paid feature tiers, branding rules or separate payment-processing costs. Each provider entry links to a full comparison with its sources and the date it was checked.
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Ethical Ticket Sales Options
Ticketing providers with charitable, co-operative, certified or purpose-locked structures
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Ticket Sales With No Per-Attendee Fees
Hosted and self-installed ticketing options without a mandatory platform charge for each ticket sold
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Host Your Own Ticket Site
Providers that support an organiser domain, a standalone public site or self-hosting
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Open Source Ticketing Platforms
Ticketing software with published source code, compared by licence and how you can run it
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Flat-Rate Ticketing and Hosting
Ticketing prices that stay independent of ticket value, sales volume and feature use
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The Cheapest Ticket Sales System
What each reviewed provider charges on a year of 1,000 tickets at £20, and which options cost less below that volume
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Free Ticketing
What free ticketing platforms charge instead, and the ways to pay little or nothing for Chobble Tickets
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UK Made Ticket Platforms
British ticket sales systems compared by company registration, pricing currency and data location
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Where Ticketing Money Goes
What the reviewed providers charge, who pays it, and what their pledges and structures cover
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Ticketing Payments
What happens when a buyer pays for tickets, from the checkout to the organiser's account
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How Ticketing Platforms Disguise Their Fees
Where a low headline rate, a charity pledge, a buyer fee or a free-events floor can sit beside a larger charge
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Which Ticket Apps Let You Remove Branding
Which reviewed providers allow organiser-only branding, and what removing the provider's name costs
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Event Ticketing Systems a Coding Agent Can Deploy
Which event ticketing providers publish code an agent can read, and whether it is the code the provider runs
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Non Vibe Coded Ticket Sales Systems
How to tell engineered ticketing software from prompted software, when the code takes payments and counts places
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Box Office Software
What a UK event box office needs, from advance sales and same-day door sales to phone check-in, walk-ups, refunds and reconciliation
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Event Registration Software
What registration software needs to collect, confirm and protect, beside the ticket sale itself