Luma is lovely for gatherings, and its pages look clean. But once you start selling paid tickets, the fees can add up, and a lot of Australian organisers want a platform built for how events run here.
I built One Ticket because I’m passionate about bringing people together, and I wanted organisers to have something beautiful, simple and fair. Here’s how it compares.
The short version
✓ You keep more of every ticket. Like for like, One Ticket takes less than Luma’s free-plan pricing on paid tickets.
✓ On a $25 ticket, Luma’s fee is about $2.28. One Ticket’s fee, absorbed, is $1.43.
✓ Free events stay free. No booking fee on free tickets.
✓ No monthly cost. The Free plan is free. No card, no subscription.
✓ Moving takes about a minute. Paste your Luma link and your event comes across, ready to check.
✓ Nothing changes on Luma. Keep using it until your One Ticket page is live.
What does it actually save?
Take 12 events a year, 100 tickets each, at $50 a ticket, with the fee absorbed on both: you receive about $2,580 more a year on One Ticket than on Luma.
Your numbers will be different, so work out your own on our Luma comparison. These figures use Luma’s published free-plan pricing (around 5% platform fee plus card processing, checked August 2026). Luma Plus can bring Luma’s platform fee to $0 for a monthly price, so check the plan you’re on.
Everything you’d expect, on the Free plan
✓ Free and paid tickets, with as many ticket types as you need
✓ Discount codes, waitlists, caps and sales windows
✓ Questions at checkout
✓ Extras sold with the ticket, and pay what you want
✓ QR tickets by email, and check-in from any phone
✓ A guest list, and a box office for cash and comps on the night
✓ Refunds, including part of an order
✓ A designed organiser page that shows all your events
✓ Your money paid straight into your own Stripe account
A page that looks like *you*
Every One Ticket event page has its own look: your colours, your fonts, and if you like, a gentle moving background, from music notes for a gig to fireflies for an evening meetup.
✓ Your cover photo comes across from Luma.
✓ It works beautifully on a phone, where most people buy.
✓ Your page is yours, with no other events pushed underneath it.
How to switch in four steps
- Copy your event’s link from Luma.
- Paste it into [Switch from Luma](/switch/luma). Its name, description, date, times, place and tickets come across.
- Check it and connect Stripe for paid tickets.
- Publish and share your new link.
Your existing registrations stay on Luma, so nobody who has already signed up is affected.
Give it a go
You can bring an event across without signing up, see exactly how it looks, and only create an account when you publish. If it’s not for you, nothing has changed on Luma.
Answers to your questions
Will my Luma event stop working when I switch?
No. Bringing an event over only reads its public page. Nothing changes on Luma, so keep using it until your One Ticket page is live.
Do my existing registrations move across?
No. They stay on Luma, so everyone who has signed up keeps their place. New bookings come through One Ticket.
Is One Ticket really cheaper than Luma?
Compared with Luma’s free-plan pricing on paid tickets, yes: on a $25 ticket Luma’s fee is about $2.28 and One Ticket’s, absorbed, is $1.43. On Luma Plus the platform fee can be $0 for a monthly price.
Do I have to pay a monthly fee?
No. The Free plan has no monthly cost. Your buyers pay the booking fee, or you can absorb it on any plan.