For music venues and grassroots rooms

Ticketing for a room with a programme

Put every show on sale from one site, keep the door list and the advance sales together, and pay no Chobble fee on any ticket. Managed hosting costs £50/year or £5/month whatever the room sells.

Chobble fee on each ticket
£0
At 40 tickets or 4,000
Same price
Where ticket income lands
Your account
Managed hosting per year
£50

A whole programme on one site

Each show is its own listing with its own capacity, price and on-sale date. Groups put related shows on one page, which suits a season, a weekender or a residency, and a residency that runs every Thursday can instead be one daily listing with capacity for each date.

The same setup covers grassroots music venues, jazz and folk rooms, arts centres, club nights, all-dayers and promoter-run rooms inside larger buildings.

A single link can put more than one listing in the same checkout, so somebody buying Friday and Saturday pays once.

Advance sales and the door in one record

An advance ticket costs the price the venue set and nothing more, because Chobble Tickets adds no per-ticket platform fee. Stripe, Square or SumUp pays the money into the venue's own account, and Chobble never holds it.

Guest list, comps, industry and cash sales on the night go on as manual attendees, so the door list is the whole room rather than the part that bought online. Door income and the show's costs are recorded in the ledger against the same listing.

Door staff scan tickets with a phone camera. The scanner warns when a ticket has already been scanned or belongs to a different show, and a name search covers anyone whose ticket will not scan.

Tickets that stay with the person who bought them

A listing can be marked non-transferable. The check-in screen then prompts staff to check the attendee's ID against the name on the ticket, which is worth using on shows that sell out quickly.

Promo codes can carry a stock limit, so an early-bird price applies to a set number of orders and then stops. A concession or member price can also come from a question the buyer answers at checkout.

When a support act drops out or a stage time moves, the venue can email everyone booked on that show through its own email provider. News about a booking reaches everyone who booked, including anyone who has unsubscribed from promotions.

Features for venues

  • Team accounts

    Door staff need a manager account to check people in. A promoter who only writes listings can be an editor, which holds no data key.

  • Calendar and RSS feeds

    Publish upcoming shows as a calendar feed people can subscribe to, and a feed that listings sites can read.

  • Refunds

    Refund one booking, or everyone booked on a cancelled show, from the admin panel.

  • CSV reports

    Export the attendee list, revenue and check-in state for a show as CSV.

  • Encrypted attendee data

    Attendee names, contact details and answers are encrypted in the database, and Chobble does not market to them.

What it does not do

Chobble Tickets has no seat map, so every ticket is general admission. A venue with numbered seats or an allocated stalls plan is better served by a platform built for reserved seating.

It does not split takings between the venue and the act. Ticket income goes directly to the venue's own payment account, with the payment provider's charges deducted separately, and any settlement with a promoter or performer happens outside Chobble Tickets. The ledger records what a show earned and what it cost, which is the figure a settlement is usually written from.

Chobble Tickets does not run an event marketplace. It sells to the audience the venue brings, and no listing is promoted to other people's customers.

Related uses

Pubs and taprooms covers rooms whose events sit alongside the bar. Performers and artists covers the acts selling their own dates, and theatre and performing arts covers a run of performance dates.