# Zeffy > Free event ticketing and fundraising for nonprofits Zeffy is a fundraising platform for nonprofits that covers event ticketing alongside donations, raffles, auctions, memberships and an online store, with a donor database underneath. Nonprofits pay nothing, not even card processing: Zeffy is funded by optional tips that buyers and donors can add at checkout. Tickets come with custom questions, QR check-in and a Tap to Pay phone app for sales at the door. - **Category:** Event Ticketing - **Made by:** Zeffy, Inc. - **Website:** https://www.zeffy.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026 ## Pricing Zeffy is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Every feature is free for nonprofits, with no platform, ticket or card processing fees. Zeffy is paid by optional tips that buyers can add at checkout or decline. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | One plan with every feature. No fees for the nonprofit; buyers are asked for an optional tip to Zeffy, and a $40 ticket pays out $40 either way. | Read from https://www.zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zeffy before buying. ## Key features - **Event ticket forms:** Branded ticket forms with several ticket types and dates, group and members-only rates, capacity and per-buyer limits, pay-what-you-can and free registration. - **Check-in and Tap to Pay:** Scan e-tickets or check in whole orders in the Zeffy app, share a web check-in page with volunteers, and take card payments at the door on an iPhone or Android phone. - **Add-ons and receipts:** Sell apparel, meals or parking in the same form, redeem add-ons with a QR coupon, and send tax receipts that separate a ticket's deductible portion. - **Fundraising beyond tickets:** Donation forms, raffles, silent auctions, memberships, peer-to-peer campaigns and an online store, all reporting into one dashboard. - **Donor CRM and email:** Every ticket buyer becomes a donor record with full giving history; send reminders, thank-you emails and free newsletters to attendee lists. ## Good for - Nonprofits, schools and charities running galas, concerts or walks - Groups that want to keep the full ticket price - Fundraisers that combine tickets, auctions, raffles and donations ## Worth knowing - Zeffy is only for nonprofits, and serves organizations in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia. - Checkout asks every buyer for an optional contribution to Zeffy, which is how the service is paid for; buyers can set it to zero. - Sales tax on tickets can be charged only by organizations in the US or Canada. - Ticket money reaches the nonprofit in a weekly payout from Zeffy, with no card fees taken out. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Zeffy is ticketing for nonprofits that costs the nonprofit nothing at all, not even card fees. A $40 ticket pays out $40, because Zeffy lives on optional tips that buyers can add or decline at checkout. Galas get raffles, auctions and donations in the same place. The catch: it's only for nonprofits, and only in five countries. - **Value for money: A.** Nothing for the nonprofit: no platform, ticket or card fees, so 200 tickets at $20 pays out the full $4,000. Buyers are asked for an optional tip to Zeffy and can set it to zero. Free and substantial, which is an A, though only nonprofits can have it. - **Free plan and trial: A.** One free plan with every feature on it, and no cap a nonprofit would hit. The tip at checkout is the buyer's choice, not yours. - **Features: B.** Ticket forms with group and members-only rates, add-ons, tax receipts, QR check-in and Tap to Pay at the door, with donations, raffles, auctions and a donor database alongside. No reserved seating on record, but selling, the door and payouts are covered. - **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. You build ticket forms with types, dates and limits, and volunteers can check people in on the app or a shared web page. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Apple Pay, Google Pay and PayPal. No API or app integrations on record and no desktop app, and it serves nonprofits only in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland and Australia. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Zeffy'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 - Zeffy's GPA of 3.2 is higher than 10 of the 11 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 10 of 11) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Zeffy 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.** Zeffy is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.2 is higher than 10 of the 11 other event ticketing platforms we grade. - You could make: Forms: 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: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. - 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 Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal **Tags:** Ticketing, Forms, Email campaigns ## 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-zeffy) - [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-zeffy) - [Eventbrite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventbrite): Ticketing and event marketplace, with fees usually paid by buyers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventbrite-vs-zeffy) - [TicketSpice](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticketspice): Ticketing for events and attractions at a flat 99ยข per ticket. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticketspice-vs-zeffy) - [Eventzilla](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventzilla): Registration and ticketing for conferences, training and fundraisers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventzilla-vs-zeffy) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026: - https://www.zeffy.com/home/free-online-fundraising-platform - https://www.zeffy.com/home/ticketing-system-fundraising-events - https://www.zeffy.com/home/about-us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/zeffy Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).