# Resident Advisor review (2026): is it worth it? > Electronic music events guide with ticketing for promoters Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Resident Advisor (RA) is an electronic music guide whose RA Tickets service lets clubs, promoters and festivals sell tickets, and whose RA Pro tools cover planning, ticketing, door logistics and reporting. Promoters set up events themselves; the vendor does not publish its booking fee on the pages we read. - **Category:** Event Ticketing - **Made by:** Resident Advisor Ltd. - **Website:** https://ra.co - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if your event isn't electronic music, as the service is aimed at that. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing Resident Advisor's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Self-serve ticket selling:** Promoters create and launch ticketed events in RA Pro, with a customizable launch and purchase flow, and listings reach RA's audience. - **Face-value resale:** Fans can add tickets to a resale queue that opens when an event sells out. Resold tickets go at the final tier price, and the promoter keeps any extra. - **RA Scan door app:** The RA Scan app checks tickets and guestlists at the door in one place. - **Sales reporting:** Reports show sales and revenue, trend charts with gender and regional splits, and new versus repeat buyers for each event. - **Charity booking-fee donation:** For charity fundraisers, RA says it donates 50% of the booking fee on each ticket, if agreed before the event. ## Good for - Electronic music clubs, promoters and festivals - Promoters who want events listed in a music guide as well as sold - Organizers who want resale kept at face value ## Worth knowing - The booking fee and any plan costs are not published on the pages we read. - The resale queue is switched on at the promoter's discretion, so it may not run for every event. - The service is aimed at electronic music events, not general-purpose ticketing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Resident Advisor lets promoters sell tickets themselves, with a scanner app, face-value resale and sales reporting. It is for electronic music only, and neither the booking fee nor any plan cost is published. - **Value for money: C.** No booking fee or plan cost is published on the pages we read, so there is nothing to grade it against. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial are on record for this listing. - **Features: C.** Ticket selling, face-value resale, the RA Scan door app and reporting. Resale only runs if the promoter turns it on, and it is for electronic music events only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Promoters set up events and the door app before the first sale. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with no integrations named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Resident Advisor Ltd.'s own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. Its site refused our reader (HTTP 403), so the listing's facts were not re-checked this time. ## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms - Resident Advisor's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 3 of the 45 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 5 of 45) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). 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 Resident Advisor you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 2 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 34 of the 45 other event ticketing platforms grade higher. - 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. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Ticketing, Reports ## Alternatives - [Dice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dice): Ticketing app for gigs, club nights and festivals. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dice-vs-resident-advisor) - [Skiddle](https://toolgpa.com/tools/skiddle): UK events guide with free ticketing for promoters. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/resident-advisor-vs-skiddle) - [Ticket Fairy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketfairy): Ticketing and event operations for festivals, clubs and venues. 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