Chobble Tickets
Open-source event ticketing with a flat annual/monthly fee, no per-ticket commission.
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Description
Chobble Tickets sells event tickets the way a venue box office used to work before platforms took a cut of every sale: organizers pay one flat fee (£5/month or £50/year) instead of a percentage of every ticket, so a sold-out show doesn't quietly hand a chunk of the revenue to a ticketing platform.
Built by Chobble CIC, a UK community interest company, it's open source (AGPL-3.0) and supports fixed-date, recurring and multi-day events with QR code check-in, role-based team access, deposit/balance payment splitting, promo codes, and CSV reporting, integrating with Stripe, Square and SumUp for payments. Organizers can self-host it for free or use Chobble's managed hosting at the flat rate.
💬 Our review
The short version: for organizers running several events a year, Chobble Tickets' flat fee almost always beats Eventbrite's per-ticket cut, and that's really the whole pitch.
Eventbrite charges a percentage plus a fee on every ticket sold, which scales painfully well for the platform and painfully badly for a popular event — a sold-out £20-ticket show can lose real money to fees. Chobble Tickets' £50/year flat rate means the 51st ticket costs the organizer nothing extra, a straightforward win for anyone running more than a handful of paid events annually. The tradeoffs are scale and brand: Chobble is a small UK-based CIC (31 GitHub stars) without Eventbrite's massive built-in audience/discovery network, so an organizer relying on Eventbrite's marketplace traffic to sell tickets — rather than their own marketing — will lose that distribution advantage by switching.
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Free self-hosting; managed hosting £5/month or £50/year flat, no per-ticket fee
Pros
Flat fee, no per-ticket commission
Open source, self-hostable
QR check-in and payment splitting included
Multiple payment processor support
Cons
No built-in discovery marketplace
Small company/project
Less brand recognition than Eventbrite