# Trybooking review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Pay-per-ticket event ticketing for Australian organisers Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Trybooking is an online ticketing and registration platform run from Melbourne for schools, clubs, charities, venues and festivals. It has no subscription: organisers pay a per-ticket fee on paid events and every feature is open to every account. It also covers seating plans, box-office sales, check-in scanning and online donations. - **Category:** Event Ticketing - **Made by:** TryBooking Pty Ltd - **Website:** https://www.trybooking.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want dollars: prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Trybooking has a free plan, and paid plans start at A$0 to start; A$0.50 + 2.5% per paid ticket. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free events carry no platform fees, and every feature is included on every account. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free events | A$0 | No platform fees on free tickets, with all features included. | | Paid tickets | A$0 to sign up; A$0.50 + 2.5% per ticket sold | Fee includes GST and payment processing; tickets of A$5 or less pay A$0.15 + 2.5%. Fees can be passed to buyers. | Read from https://www.trybooking.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Trybooking before buying. ## Key features - **Seating plans:** Interactive seat selection, with more than 10,000 pre-built Australian venue plans or your own layout. - **Box office app:** Sell in person by card, cash or mobile payment from a phone on the day; the page says it works offline. - **Scanning and check-in:** A scanning app handles entry with multiple doors for the same event. - **Event setup:** One-off events, class series, sessions or seasons, with unlimited ticket types, custom booking forms, waitlists and promo codes. - **Online giving:** Donation pages and fundraising campaigns can run with or without an event. - **Reporting and integrations:** Real-time sales reports, plus Xero, Stripe and Salesforce connections and a developer API. ## Good for - Schools, clubs and charities running ticketed events in Australia - Organisers who want one flat per-ticket rate with no plan tiers - Venues needing seating plans and box-office sales ## Worth knowing - Prices on the pricing page are in Australian dollars and include GST. - Using your own Stripe account is listed at 1% + A$0.50 per ticket instead of the standard rate. - Support is staffed from Melbourne, Monday to Friday during Melbourne business hours. - The pages describe a web platform and mobile apps for box office and scanning; no native app list was published. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. TryBooking charges nothing on free events and A$0.50 plus 2.5% on each paid ticket, with no subscription and every feature on every account. It is built for Australian organisers, so the prices are in Australian dollars and support keeps Melbourne business hours. - **Value for money: B.** No subscription: A$0.50 + 2.5% a paid ticket, A$0.15 + 2.5% for tickets of A$5 or under. Per-ticket fees can't be set against the monthly figures the category uses, so we put it with the cheaper end rather than at A. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free events carry no platform fees and every feature is on every account. Paid tickets cost per sale, so it is free to start but not free to run. - **Features: B.** Seating plans, box office, scanning, waitlists, promo codes, donation pages, reports and an API. Nothing in the listing is missing from the job. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You build the event, ticket types and forms yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, plus box office and scanning apps, with Xero, Stripe and Salesforce links and an API. No desktop app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from TryBooking's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms - Trybooking's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 61 of the 79 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 56 of 79) and worst on ease of use (C, above 4). 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 Trybooking you could make: forms and reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 61 of the 79 other event ticketing platforms we grade. - You could make: Forms and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Selling tickets and checking them at the door. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, Stripe and Salesforce 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 Xero, Stripe, Salesforce **Tags:** Ticketing, Forms, Reports, Public API ## Alternatives - [Humanitix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humanitix): Event ticketing run as a charity that gives its profits away. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humanitix-vs-trybooking) - [Ticket Tailor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticket-tailor): Event ticketing for a flat fee per ticket, with prepaid credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticket-tailor-vs-trybooking) - [Eventbrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventbrite): Ticketing and event marketplace, with fees usually paid by buyers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-trybooking) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.trybooking.com/pricing - https://www.trybooking.com/features - https://www.trybooking.com/about-us - https://www.trybooking.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/trybooking Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).