Which alternative fits your event?
Start from the one requirement that decides it.
| Your main requirement | Start with |
|---|---|
| A committee that already runs TryBooking and does not want to learn anything new | TryBooking |
| Session ticketing for a fete, a fair or a swim meet with a seat or lane plan | TryBooking |
| A weekly night with a season pass and a report the morning after | One Ticket |
| Your own page, in your colours, with nobody else on it | One Ticket |
| A public one-off that strangers have to discover | Eventbrite |
One Ticket is our product. The rows that point elsewhere are why the table is worth reading.
Ready-made template
Community Theatre Opening Night
Community theatre, 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.
- Adult, concession and child tickets
- A required access question
- A cap per order and the waitlist
TryBooking 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 |
| TryBooking | Event and session ticketing, seating plans, forms, fundraising pages; widely used by schools and community groups in Australia |
| Humanitix | Event tickets, reserved seating, waitlists, and a booking fee that funds charity |
| Ticketebo | Event tickets and seating plans for schools, clubs and theatre groups |
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 |
The page attendees see
What a first-time attendee opens on their phone.
| A booking form | Your own page | |
|---|---|---|
| What it looks like | The platform, with your event on it | Your colours, your cover, your name at the top |
| What else is on it | The platform's own header and links | Nothing but your event |
| Sharing it | A link | A link, a share card that renders in a chat, a QR poster |
| The next session | Another form, or a session list | The same link, every time |
Moving from TryBooking
| 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 attendee list | Export it from TryBooking as a spreadsheet and keep it. One Ticket writes to the people who buy a ticket here; it does not import a list to message |
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.
- TryBooking pricing and features: trybooking.com/au/pricing, trybooking.com/au/features.
- Humanitix features: humanitix.com/au/features.
- Ticketebo features: ticketebo.com.au.
- 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
Sell tickets. Keep every dollar.