Compare TryBooking and Eventbrite fees

Based on "Professional" plan as published on 1 March 2019. Evenbrite fees are as follows:

- Ticket Fee: 99c per ticket
- Processing fee: of 5% plus GST

While TryBooking, as seen on our pricing calculator, is one of the lowest cost online event ticketing system that provides you the quickest and easiest way to start getting more online ticket sales with lowest fees in the industry to keep your event profitable.

We don't hide our fee's you can see our fees down below:

-Ticket Fee: 50c per ticket (charged to the ticket buyer)
-Processing Fee: 2.5% including GST (charged to the event organiser by default)

You can choose to pass all fees to your ticket buyer or choose to accept them all, up to you. We do provide free customer support to help with creating and running your events. 

No, but neither does TryBooking who allows you to promote and sell your free events online and offline. All while providing a fully featured system for you to accept donations from your event and collect data from your audience to better understand your audience all while keeping 100% of your rights to your data collected - none of it is taken, unlike the big ticketing companies. 

Should you be taking payment through your TryBooking event, the transaction will be subjected to a processing fee and a ticket fee. These fees vary per region associated with your TryBooking account. Below details these fees per region.

Australia:

For bookings or donations made on events:

• 50c ticket fee (charged to the ticket buyer)
• 2.5% processing fee (charged to the event organiser by default or passed on to the ticket buyer by selection)

For donations made on fundraising pages:

• 2.5% donation fee (charged to the fundraiser by default)

Lower Cost, Data Privacy, Free Customer Support To Help You With Your Event!

These are some of the reasons that make TryBooking a better alternative to Eventbrite. TryBooking's focus on events that enrich communities, means that we care about you. We provide free customer support to help you at any step when creating, promoting, selling and running your event. 

All while offering a low cost of only 50c per ticket and a 2.5% processing fee that includes GST. Allowing you to take home more of your hard earned profits from your event.

Why not try us today? Create a event with TryBooking, we promise you won't look back.

TryBooking is community orientated ticketing platform that does more than just ticketing. You can use our system to do multiple functions, from registrations, merchandise, taking donations to box office ticketing.

Whether you are looking to create a tabled seated dinners, open space festivals or normal seated venues we have you covered.

Additionally we offer great local customer support for free to take care of any issues you may have when creating and running your event.

TryBooking's focus on community and people is what makes us standout from other platforms. We care about you and your event, no matter how big or small. We are here for you!

It takes just a few minutes to create your account and begin creating your first event on TryBooking.

All that's required to get started it a valid email address, ensuring that you will receive the activation email to complete the registration. Once the account has been activated, you can log in and begin creating your event.

With our Create New Event wizard, you'll have your event set up and selling within minutes!

To begin creating your account click Create Seller Account

Yes, you can have full customisation of your own event page. We also provide a widget to allow you to place your event page onto your site. Allowing you to have a white label event tickets system simply by making an event.

Based on "Professional" plan as published on 1 March 2019. Evenbrite fees are as follows:

- Ticket Fee: 99c per ticket
- Processing fee: of 5% plus GST

Compared to TryBooking, who has a flat rate for all users:

- Ticket Fee: 50c per ticket
- Processing fee: of 2.5% (which includes GST)

TryBooking provides a full featured system for free events as well.

No, there are no cost associated with creating a event.

There are NO lock-in contracts, sign-up or account maintenance fees, nor any subscriptions.

Fees are only incurred when a paid transaction is processed through your event. Allowing you to run a free event without any cost.

We encourage you to create an account and see for yourself how easy the TryBooking site is to both create and manage your next event or to simply book an event.

TryBooking accepts payments via debit and credit card affiliated with Visa, Mastercard and American Express*, along with payments made through PayPal**, Google Pay*** and Apple Pay^#. 

Should the customer choose to pay with American Express* or PayPal**, they will incur an additional surcharge. 

You yourself can accept cash or cheque as payment, but you will need to complete a few extra steps to record these payments in TryBooking. This will ensure you gather data on all attendees, that you don't oversell your event, and allows you to present all payments in one report. 

To record these bookings within your event you will need to create a promotion code.  This will allow you to process the booking through the system at no cost.

To set up the promotion code

*American Express is only available for events and fundraising hosted on the AU + NZ sites. A 1.3% surcharge applies to American Express payments made to the AU site. A 1.1% surcharge applies to American Express payments made to the NZ site.
**PayPal is only available for events and fundraising hosted on the AU + UK site. A 0.5% surcharge applies to PayPal payments made to the AU site. A 3% surcharge applies to PayPal payments made to the UK site.
***Google Pay is only available for events and fundraising hosted on the AU and NZ sites.
^#Apple Pay is only available for events and fundraising hosted on the AU and NZ sites.

Absolutely! You can make your event private and turn off all social media sharing via the Event Publication. It is at your discretion to share your unique booking URL publicly or privately.

Ready to begin selling through TryBooking? The first step is to create an account via Create Seller Account. 

Follow the prompts and provide a valid email address as we will send an activation email. Once you have activated the account you will be able to log in and begin creating your event. It's that easy!

We also have a number of setup guides in our Learning Centre to help get you started with creating your event.