# Ticket Tailor

> Event ticketing for a flat fee per ticket, with prepaid credits

Ticket Tailor is an online box office for selling tickets to one-off, recurring and seated events, with a free check-in app for the door. It charges no subscription and no percentage of the ticket price: organizers pay a flat fee per paid ticket, either as they sell or through cheaper prepaid credits, and free events cost nothing up to 5,000 tickets a year. Payments go straight to the organizer's Stripe, PayPal or Square account.

- **Category:** Event Ticketing
- **Made by:** Zimma Ltd (since 2010)
- **Website:** https://www.tickettailor.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Ticket Tailor is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **Free plan:** No subscription. Free tickets cost nothing up to 5,000 a year; paid tickets cost $0.85 each as you sell, or from $0.30 each with prepaid credits, plus VAT and card processing.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free events | $0 | No fee for issuing up to 5,000 free tickets a year; larger free events get a quote. Seated free tickets still use one credit each. |
| Pay as you go | $0 | A flat $0.85 per paid ticket plus VAT, charged to the organizer, who can pass it to buyers as a booking fee. The first five tickets sold are free. |
| Pay upfront | $0 | Prepaid ticket credits from $0.30 per ticket plus VAT, in packs of at least 100, that never expire; the per-credit price falls as the pack grows. |

Read from https://www.tickettailor.com/en-us/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ticket Tailor before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **50% off fees for registered charities** (Nonprofit): Registered charities get half off Ticket Tailor's fees for good, applied from the billing page with proof of status; discounts are also offered to B Corps, PTAs and other nonprofits. Source: https://www.tickettailor.com/en-us/pricing
- **Half fee on tickets under $5** (Other savings): Tickets and products under $5, including booking fees and taxes, count as half a usage on application, so low-priced events pay half the normal fee. Source: https://help.tickettailor.com/en/articles/6731528-how-much-does-ticket-tailor-cost-and-how-will-i-be-charged

## Key features

- **Box office and event pages:** Branded event pages with themes, colors and layouts, checkout embedded on your own site, password-protected private events and a cart that covers several events.
- **Reserved seating:** Build seating charts for theaters, stadiums or dinner layouts so buyers choose their own seats; each seat reserved costs one extra credit.
- **Check-in app with Tap to Pay:** The free iOS and Android app scans ticket QR codes with the phone camera or an external scanner, works without signal, and takes card sales at the door.
- **Recurring events and memberships:** Repeating dates and time slots with a busy-times heat map, memberships and season passes, gift vouchers, waitlists and fee-free donations at checkout.
- **Attendee email and reminders:** Free scheduled or instant email broadcasts by ticket type, plus text and WhatsApp reminders; buyers can add text reminders at checkout for a small fee.
- **Integrations, API and MCP:** Direct links to Mailchimp, HubSpot, Constant Contact and ActiveCampaign, Zapier for other apps, a public API and an MCP connector for AI assistants.

## Good for

- Organizers who want a flat per-ticket fee instead of a percentage
- Venues and attractions selling timed or recurring entry
- Charities and free events, which pay little or nothing

## Worth knowing

- Paid tickets cost $0.85 each as you sell or from $0.30 with prepaid credits, plus VAT and processing (2.9% + $0.30 with Stripe in the US); organizers may pass fees to buyers.
- Reserved seats use an extra credit each, and tickets issued through the API or imported are charged even when free.
- Removing Ticket Tailor branding (white label) costs $49 a month and a custom domain alone $8; HubSpot, ActiveCampaign and Constant Contact links carry a monthly fee.
- You need your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account to take payments; Ticket Tailor never holds the ticket money.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Ticket Tailor charges a flat fee per ticket rather than a cut of the price, so a dear ticket costs you no more than a cheap one. There's no subscription, free events are free up to 5,000 tickets a year, and the money goes straight to your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account. You do need one of those accounts, and removing the branding costs $49 a month.

- **Value for money: B.** $0.85 a ticket as you sell, so 200 tickets at $20 is $170 a month plus VAT, and prepaid credits from $0.30 a ticket bring that down. You pay it unless you pass it on as a booking fee. Card processing through your own Stripe, PayPal or Square isn't counted. Among the cheaper ones here.
- **Free plan and trial: A.** No subscription and nothing to pay until you sell a paid ticket, and your first five are free. Free events cost nothing up to 5,000 tickets a year, a cap few people will reach, though seated free tickets still use a credit each.
- **Features: B.** Event pages, embedded checkout, reserved seating, timed and recurring slots, memberships, gift vouchers, waitlists and a check-in app that works offline and takes Tap to Pay. It covers selling, the door and getting paid, since the money lands in your own account.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. You connect your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account before you can take money, then build your event pages, so there's a bit to set up first.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Mailchimp, HubSpot, Zapier, WordPress, a public API and an MCP connector for AI assistants. No desktop app, which an A needs.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ticket Tailor's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms

- Ticket Tailor's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 6 of the 11 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 5 of 11) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Ticket Tailor has no paid plan.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/event-ticketing

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** Ticket Tailor is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Newsletters sent to thousands of people that still reach the inbox.
- 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, Stripe, PayPal and Square among them, and has an API.
- 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

Stripe, PayPal, Square, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Zapier, Google Analytics, WordPress

**Tags:** Ticketing, Email campaigns, Reports, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Eventbrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventbrite): Ticketing and event marketplace, with fees usually paid by buyers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-ticket-tailor)
- [TicketSpice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketspice): Ticketing for events and attractions at a flat 99¢ per ticket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticket-tailor-vs-ticketspice)
- [Humanitix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humanitix): Event ticketing run as a charity that gives its profits away. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humanitix-vs-ticket-tailor)
- [Tito](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tito): Ticketing for conferences and meetups, for 3% of each ticket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticket-tailor-vs-tito)
- [TicketLeap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketleap): Self-service ticketing with fees buyers can cover in full. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticket-tailor-vs-ticketleap)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.tickettailor.com
- https://www.tickettailor.com/en-us/pricing
- https://help.tickettailor.com/en/articles/6731528-how-much-does-ticket-tailor-cost-and-how-will-i-be-charged
- https://www.tickettailor.com/features
- https://www.tickettailor.com/app-and-integrations
- https://www.tickettailor.com/our-story

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticket-tailor
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