# Purplepass review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Ticketing with box-office apps and assigned seating Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Purplepass is an event ticketing service for concerts, conventions, festivals and school events. Signing up costs nothing, and it earns its money from a service fee on each online ticket plus card processing. Organizers can sell general admission or assigned seats, and run the door with a phone app or box-office terminals. - **Category:** Event Ticketing - **Made by:** Purplepass.com - **Website:** https://www.purplepass.com/ - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you sell online: 3.0% card processing sits on top of the service fee. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Purplepass has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** No sign-up fee, no fee for free events, and no limit on events or ticket types. Paid tickets carry a per-ticket service fee instead of a subscription. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Non-profit | $0 | No subscription. Online service fee of 2.0% + $0.99 per ticket, plus 3.0% card processing online. By default the buyer pays the fees; the organizer can absorb them or split them. | | For-profit | $0 | No subscription. Online service fee of 2.5% + $0.99 per ticket, plus 3.0% card processing online. By default the buyer pays the fees; the organizer can absorb them or split them. | Read from https://www.purplepass.com/learn/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Purplepass before buying. ## Key features - **Assigned seating maps:** Seat maps are built to scale with color-coded price sections, partial-view flags, custom notes on seats and venue photos from a seat. Rows, tables and vendor booths can all be sold. - **Phone app and box-office terminals:** A smartphone app for iOS and Android scans tickets with the camera, looks up orders and shows live admission counts. Wireless iPad terminals add a card reader and a ticket scanner. - **Reservations and add-ons:** Reservations mode lets guests hold tickets and pay at the event. An advanced-selling mode sells merchandise, food and drink tickets alongside admission. - **Recurring and multi-day events:** One event page can cover a weekend or a repeating schedule, such as every Friday or a custom list of dates. - **Printed tickets and wristbands:** Purplepass sells preprinted thermal ticket stock and wristbands in bulk, priced per piece on its pricing page. - **Email and survey syncing:** Buyer contacts can be synced to Mailchimp, Constant Contact and SurveyMonkey, and a WordPress plugin and widget put ticket sales on an organizer's own site. ## Good for - Concerts, conventions and fairs that want a per-ticket fee and no monthly cost - Venues that need assigned seating and a box office at the door - Non-profits, which get a lower service fee ## Worth knowing - Online card processing is 3.0% on top of the service fee, and box-office card sales are 2.5% + $0.25 per transaction. - Bulk preprinted ticket stock is extra: $0.10 per thermal ticket, $0.12 per full-color custom ticket, $0.06 per Tyvek wristband and $0.12 per vinyl wristband. - The pricing page lists no tiers or contract terms; box-office, comp-ticket, map-building and free-event fees are all stated as none. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Purplepass has no subscription and no fee for free events, and it covers assigned seating, box-office terminals and printed tickets. You pay a service fee per ticket plus 3.0% card processing online, and preprinted stock costs extra. - **Value for money: C.** No subscription. Online card processing is 3.0% on top of a service fee we could not see a figure for, and box-office card sales cost 2.5% + $0.25. - **Free plan and trial: B.** No sign-up fee, free events cost nothing and there is no cap on events or ticket types. Paid tickets carry a per-ticket fee. - **Features: B.** Assigned seating, a phone app and box-office terminals, reservations, recurring events and printed tickets. Nothing core is missing on the listing. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Seating maps and box-office setup take work. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Mailchimp, Constant Contact, WordPress and a few more. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Purplepass.com's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms - Purplepass's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 23 of the 45 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 23 of 45) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/event-ticketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** The plain part of Purplepass you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Selling tickets and checking them at the door. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Mailchimp, Constant Contact and SurveyMonkey among them. - You could not: Hooks into the device itself: widgets. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Mailchimp, Constant Contact, SurveyMonkey, The Events Calendar, WordPress, Evensi, Zapier **Tags:** Ticketing, Reports ## Alternatives - [Ticket Tailor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticket-tailor): Event ticketing for a flat fee per ticket, with prepaid credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/purplepass-vs-ticket-tailor) - [Eventbrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventbrite): Ticketing and event marketplace, with fees usually paid by buyers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-purplepass) - [TicketSpice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketspice): Ticketing for events and attractions at a flat 99¢ per ticket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/purplepass-vs-ticketspice) - [TicketLeap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketleap): Self-service ticketing with fees buyers can cover in full. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/purplepass-vs-ticketleap) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.purplepass.com/learn/pricing/ - https://www.purplepass.com/ - https://www.purplepass.com/learn/ - https://www.purplepass.com/learn/assigned-seating/ - https://www.purplepass.com/learn/integrations/ - https://www.purplepass.com/learn/equipment/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/purplepass Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).