Which alternative fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| Free RSVPs for a friends-and-friends-of-friends calendar | Luma |
| A calendar people subscribe to across many hosts | Luma |
| Paid tickets to your own Stripe account, with a booking fee the buyer sees | One Ticket |
| A series with a season pass and a morning-after report | One Ticket |
| Finding new members who search by interest | Meetup |
One Ticket is our product. The rows that point elsewhere are why the table is worth reading.
Ready-made template
Monthly Tech Meetup
Tech meetup, already set up as an event you can open now. Pick a date and a venue, change what you like, and publish. Nothing is saved until you do, and you can start without an account.
- A free ticket capped at the room, one per person
- What they work on, and who wants to speak
- Monthly, with the waitlist on
An RSVP or a ticket
The difference that decides whether a calendar is enough.
| An RSVP | A ticket | |
|---|---|---|
| What the person holds | A yes | A QR that admits one person, once |
| At the door | A list to read | A scan and a green tick |
| When it is full | A count | A cap, a waitlist and a closed tier |
| When money is involved | Paid tickets as an option | Every paid ticket to your own Stripe account |
| The morning after | Who said yes | Who came, who was new, who stopped coming |
What is a paid upgrade, and what is not
Luma Plus is a monthly or annual subscription. On One Ticket there is no plan: every feature is on every account.
| Function | Luma | One Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Check-in access for door staff | PaidLuma Plus (a check-in manager role) | FreeA door link for your staff, with nothing to install and no account needed, on every account |
| Your own address for the event page | PaidLuma Plus (a custom URL) | FreeA short oneticket.com.au/e/your-event address, on every account |
| Tax on ticket sales | PaidLuma Plus (collect taxes) | FreeGST worked out and shown on the receipt, on every account |
| More people running the calendar | PaidThree admins free; five on Luma Plus, more as paid seats | FreeGive someone access to run an event or a series without your password, on every account |
Luma alternatives compared
Functions as each platform describes them on its own site, checked on the dates in the sources list.
| Platform | Relevant functions |
|---|---|
| One Ticket | A series as one object; who is new, returning and missing after each session; season and monthly subscriptions; ticket money charged to your own Stripe account; your theme, font and cover |
| Luma | Event calendars, invitations and RSVPs, with paid events as an option |
| Meetup | Groups people find by interest; an organiser subscription; RSVPs |
| Eventbrite | Marketplace listing with search and recommendations |
A dashed underline marks a description still to be checked against the platform's own page.
One Ticket for a recurring room
Everything below follows from one decision: a series is one object, not a list of dates.
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Who came back | After every session: how many came, how many had been before, who is new and who has stopped coming, by name, with an address to write to |
| Subscriptions | One subscription covers every session in a series. Each night's ticket is minted ahead of time |
| Paid out | Every ticket is charged to your own Stripe account. A new account is paid out to your bank two days after each event, once guests have said how it went; after a first clean event it is paid out as it sells |
| Fees | No platform fee on the ticket price. The buyer pays a booking fee: a platform tier of 35c to $1.45 a ticket, then 1.5% of the price above $100, plus card processing. On a $25 ticket that is $1.45 all in, so the buyer pays $26.45. Free tickets cost nothing |
| Refund if it changes | Move the date, start time or place after people have booked and every one of them can refund in full, booking fee included, until it starts, whatever your refund policy says. You are warned before you save, and everyone booked is emailed the new details |
| Refund requests | On a case-by-case event the buyer asks from their ticket. You have 3 days to refund or decline; a request nobody answers goes to One Ticket support, and your payouts are held until it is settled |
| Guest ratings | After each event, ticket holders rate it: stars and a few words. From 5 ratings the average shows under your name on every event page, good or bad. Notes are for you alone, and never say who wrote them |
| Scam protection | Every page is read before it can send an email, and our emails carry none of an organiser's own links or phone numbers. A new organiser's money is held until after the event, and anyone can report an event from its page |
| Verified tick | Earned by selling here: 3 past events, 25 tickets, no chargebacks, no ignored refund requests, and an average of 4 stars once there are 10 ratings. A chargeback or an ignored request takes it away at once |
| Block a person | Block an address from a ticket type, for this event or every one after it. No public list, no conversation at the door |
| Your page | Your colours, your title font, your cover. Nobody else's event on it |
| Import | Paste an Eventbrite link and the title, description, date, venue and ticket types come across |
| Not included | A marketplace. There is no search page and no audience to sell into; the people are the ones you bring |
Moving from Luma
| What moves | What happens |
|---|---|
| Existing orders | Stay where they were sold. Nothing is migrated for an event that has already sold |
| The next event | Build it here in a sentence, check times and ticket types, set your colours, publish, send the new link |
| Running both | Fine. Many organisers keep a one-off where it is and run the weekly room here |
| Your calendar | Keep it. A Luma calendar can link to a One Ticket page for the paid nights and carry on listing the free ones |
Sources and method
Every statement about another platform on this page is checked against a dated page from that platform, kept in this list. Where a claim could not be sourced it is not made. Comparative claims about a named competitor are advertising, and we treat them that way.
- Luma pricing and features: luma.com/pricing.
- Luma Plus, including the check-in manager role, custom URLs, taxes and admin seats: help.luma.com/p/luma-plus. Checked 4 October 2026.
- Meetup organiser pricing: meetup.com/lp/pricing.
- Eventbrite features: eventbrite.com.au/organizer/features.
- One Ticket fee schedule: 35c to $1.45 a ticket, then 1.5% of the price above $100, as on the pricing page and the fee calculator.
- One Ticket payouts: every ticket is charged to the organiser's connected Stripe account; a refund reverses that transfer and refunds the booking fee.
One Ticket
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