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One table, the same rows for everyone, and a link to the page each figure came from. Products change — check their current terms before you decide.
Verimly charges the organizer 1.95% + €0.29 per paid ticket, with no subscription and nothing added to the buyer’s cart, and runs the shop on the organizer’s own domain. The platforms below publish their terms differently: some charge the buyer by default, some fold payment processing into one rate, and some publish only in US dollars. The table quotes each of them as published, on the date it was checked.
Every figure was read off the platform’s own published page on the date shown. Rows nobody has verified say so rather than guessing.
| The commercial terms, side by side | VerimlyTicketing software that runs under the organizer’s own brand, on the organizer’s own domain. | EventbriteA ticketing marketplace with its own audience and discovery surface. | TitoA ticketing tool aimed at conferences and community events. | FientaA European ticketing platform that folds payment processing into one rate. | UniverseA ticketing platform with tiered plans and its own payment processing option. |
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| Fee per paid ticket | 1.95% + €0.29 per ticket or add-on. | 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing per order. | 3% per ticket, capped at €25 per ticket on paid plans. A 2.5% rate is available to charity, non-profit and community organisations on application. | 3.5% of ticket sales, with a minimum of €0.40 per order. Reserved seating adds €0.20 per sold ticket. | 2% + $0.59 per ticket on the Starter and Standard plans. A Pro plan is priced on request. |
| Who pays it by default | The organizer. Nothing is added to the buyer’s cart — they pay exactly the ticket price shown. | Ticket buyers by default; organizers can choose to cover the fees instead. | Not stated on the pricing page. | The organizer. Buyers pay no additional fee beyond the ticket price. | Chosen by the organizer, using the fee structure setting. |
| Free events | Free. The fee applies to paid tickets only. | No fees for free events. | Free. | Free, with the full feature set. | No service fees. “Universe is 100% free for free events.” |
| Subscription | None. No monthly cost, no setup fee, no minimum. | Core ticketing is usage-based. An email marketing plan starts at $15 per month. | None. “No setup fee, no monthly subscription, and no extra fee to use premium features.” | None. “There are no sign-up, monthly, or payout fees.” | No monthly subscription on Starter and Standard; charges begin when a ticket sells. |
| Payment processing | Passed through at the payment provider’s published rate, with no Verimly markup. iDEAL is a flat €0.29. | Included in the figures above, at 2.9% per order. | Charged separately by Stripe or PayPal. European cards are quoted at 1.4% + €0.25. | Included in the rate above. PayPal adds 1% + €0.35 per transaction on euro events. | Included by default with their own payment processing; charged separately by Stripe when Stripe is used. |
| Region the rate is published for | Europe, in euro. | Published in US dollars for the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland. | Percentage rate published globally; the cap and processing examples are quoted in euro and US dollars. | Published in euro. VAT is added to the fee where it applies in the EU. | Published in US dollars; the supported currencies are listed separately. |
Stated about Verimly alone. Nobody here has verified how the other platforms implement these, and a blank column would read as an accusation rather than as missing research.
The storefront runs on your own domain with your logo, colours and fonts, across ten structural themes, and the confirmation emails and e-tickets match it.
Read moreA seat-map editor with zones and reusable venue templates, plus a price for every ticket type in every zone and a seat hold that survives a slow checkout.
Read moreThe POS app sells walk-ups and scans QR tickets from any phone or tablet, against the same availability as the website, with no hardware to rent.
Read moreiDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, Klarna, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and cards, depending on your market, paid out to your own connected account.
Read moreFive questions worth answering before you choose anything, including if the answer is not us.
A fee charged to the buyer raises the price on the page, which affects conversion and how your event is remembered. A fee taken from the payout is invisible to the buyer and visible to you. Neither is automatically better — but the two are hard to compare without deciding which you want.
A rate that includes card and bank costs and a rate that excludes them are not the same number, even when they look similar. Check what the total is for the payment method your audience actually uses — in the Netherlands that is usually iDEAL, not a card.
A marketplace can put your event in front of people who were not looking for you, and that is worth something real. It also means the buyer remembers the marketplace. Selling on your own domain means the traffic you earn builds your own name and the buyer records stay with you.
Selling the ticket is half the job. Ask what happens at the door: whether walk-up sales come out of the same availability, whether a duplicated ticket is caught while the person is still standing there, and whether any of it needs hardware you have to rent.
A subscription is a fixed cost against an unpredictable income. A per-ticket fee is not. If you run four events a year, a monthly platform cost is a very different proposition from one charged only when a ticket sells.
It depends on your ticket price, your market and the payment method your buyers use, because the structures are genuinely different. Verimly charges the organizer 1.95% + €0.29 per ticket and passes payment processing through at cost. Compare that against each platform’s current published rate for your own country before deciding — the figures in the table above are dated, and they change.
Because that is how those platforms publish them. Converting a published US rate into euro would produce a number nobody is actually charged, so the currency and the region each rate applies to are stated on the row instead.
Because nobody here has verified how the other platforms implement them, and an empty column reads as an accusation rather than as missing research. What Verimly does is described below, on its own terms, with links to the detail.
No. The buyer pays the ticket price you set and nothing more. The Verimly fee is deducted from your payout.
Possibly, and it is the real trade-off. A marketplace can put your event in front of people who were not looking for you. Selling on your own domain means the traffic you earn builds your own audience instead, and the buyer records stay yours.
Every quarter, and every figure carries the date it was last read off the platform’s own page along with a link to it. If a date looks old to you, trust the platform’s page over this one.
Free to set up, and nothing to pay until a ticket sells. You can build the whole thing before deciding.