TocynTicket
Built in Wales
Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and See Tickets pocket billions in fees, pay virtually zero tax, and funnel profits to shareholders. There is a better way.
Simple monthly subscription + 5p per ticket. Zero commission. You keep 100% of your revenue. 3p from every ticket goes to charity.
The biggest ticketing platforms have spent decades building monopolies — charging extortionate fees, locking venues into long-term contracts, and routing billions of pounds in profit through tax structures that would make your accountant weep.
"Service fees" that dwarf the actual cost of processing a payment. Exclusive venue contracts that lock you in for years with no alternative. Dynamic pricing that surges at the moment of peak demand.
On a £20 ticket, that's £1.19 per ticket — plus their platform percentage. Run 500 tickets and you've handed them £595 for nothing more than hosting a form. Their CEO earned $3.8M in 2022.
Commission-based models that punish you for success. 1–3 year exclusive contracts. Booking fees passed to your customers that erode trust in your brand, not theirs.
No technical skills required. No contract to sign. No card needed to start. From zero to selling in under two minutes.
Log in, click "New Event", add your name, date, venue, and description. Set your ticket types — general admission, VIP, early bird, group bookings. Choose your charity. Done. The whole thing takes about two minutes.
Every event gets a clean, branded ticket page you can share directly — on social media, in newsletters, wherever your audience is. Or use the embeddable widget to drop a full ticketing flow right onto your own website. Your brand, not ours.
Need a website? Our sister company SE Digital builds premium websites from just £395 — designed to work seamlessly with TocynTicket.
Buyers complete their purchase using card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay — powered by Stripe, the world's most trusted payment infrastructure. Funds are processed securely and payouts made on a regular schedule.
The moment a ticket is purchased, your customer receives a beautifully formatted e-ticket by email — featuring your event name, venue, date, and artwork alongside TocynTicket branding. Each ticket carries a unique QR code for door scanning. No manual work required on your part whatsoever.
No dedicated scanning hardware. No paid app to download. Any smartphone camera can scan QR codes at the door via your event dashboard. Invalid or duplicate tickets are flagged instantly. See real-time check-in analytics as your event fills up.
No hidden fees. No percentage cuts. A simple monthly subscription based on your volume plus 5p per ticket — 3p of which goes straight to local charities. You keep 100% of your revenue.
| Platform | Fee per ticket | Monthly cost | Commission | On a £20 ticket | Contract | Charity |
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TocynTicket
Us
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5p flat | Custom sub | ✓ 0% | 5p | ✓ None | ✓ 3p/ticket |
| Eventbrite | 3.5% + 49p | Free tier limited | 3.5% | £1.19 | None | ✕ None |
| Fatsoma | 10% of ticket price | ✓ None | 10% | £2.00 | None | ✕ None |
| Ticketmaster | £2–5+ per ticket | Varies | Variable | £2–5+ | ✕ Exclusive | ✕ None |
| See Tickets | £2–4 per ticket | N/A | Variable | £2–4 | ✕ 1–3 years | ✕ None |
| Gigantic | 10–15% commission | Varies | 10–15% | £2–3 | ✕ Contract | ✕ None |
All figures are estimates based on publicly available information. Competitor pricing may vary by event type, volume, and negotiated contract terms. TocynTicket's fee is fixed at 5p per ticket (3p to charity, 2p platform). Plus a custom monthly subscription based on your volume. Stripe payment processing fees (typically 1.5% + 20p for UK cards) are separate and charged by Stripe directly — we take nothing on top.
Set your ticket price, choose your booking fee, and see how your revenue compares to other platforms.
3p from every ticket goes directly to local charities. Fixed, transparent, no strings attached.
Every ticket sold through TocynTicket generates a donation. Published quarterly with full transparency.
Built by people who have actually run events — not a corporate product team optimising for shareholder returns.
Every purchase triggers an automatic, beautifully formatted e-ticket bearing your event details and a unique scannable QR code. Delivered instantly to your buyer's inbox.
Watch tickets sell as they happen. Revenue totals, ticket type breakdown, sales velocity, and remaining capacity — all updated live without refreshing.
Your full attendee list, always available. Filter by ticket type, search by name, and export as a CSV for your own records, GDPR compliance, or marketing purposes.
Any phone camera. No dedicated hardware. No paid app. Pull up your event on the door scanning screen and start checking people in instantly. Duplicate tickets are flagged automatically.
Early bird, general admission, VIP, group bookings, day passes, weekend passes — create as many ticket tiers as your event needs, each with its own price, capacity, and sale window.
If an event is cancelled or a customer needs a refund, process it in one click from your dashboard. Full refund or partial — your call. All handled through Stripe automatically.
Every promoter gets their own branded instance on their own domain. Your logo, your colours, your URL. Customers buy tickets at tickets.yourfestival.com — not on a third-party site. The traffic stays on your domain. The SEO value stays yours. We disappear completely.
With other platforms, they own the pixel data from your customers. With TocynTicket, your Meta Pixel fires on your domain. Build retargeting audiences, create lookalike campaigns, and track exact return on ad spend. PageView, ViewContent, InitiateCheckout, and Purchase events — all automatic.
Already have a website? Drop our ticketing widget directly onto it with a single line of code. Events auto-update. Zero maintenance. Your branding, not ours.
All payments processed securely through Stripe — the world's most trusted payment infrastructure. We never touch your ticket revenue. Payouts on a regular schedule.
Run a full calendar of events from one dashboard. Clone previous events to speed up setup. Archive past events. See your full portfolio of upcoming shows at a glance.
How many people have arrived? At what pace? Which ticket type? Check-in analytics give you a live picture of your door, accessible from any device in real time.
You set your own booking fee and keep 100% of it. We charge a simple monthly subscription plus 5p per ticket — 3p of which goes to charity. Zero commission. Your event, your pricing, your revenue — fully configurable per event.
Use us for one event. Use us for a hundred. There is no minimum term, no cancellation fee, no notice period. If you're not happy, walk away. We'd rather earn your loyalty than trap you contractually.
Every time a customer buys a ticket through Gigantic, Eventbrite, or Fatsoma, the platform collects the data — not you. Here's what they do with it.
The data your events generate gets more valuable with every event you run. On other platforms, that value compounds for them. On TocynTicket, it compounds for you.
Setup takes 30 seconds — just paste your Pixel ID in Settings.
Every platform is making money. The question is: where does it go? Ticketmaster sends it to Liberty Media executives. Eventbrite sends it to San Francisco venture capitalists. We send 3p from every ticket to charitable causes we believe in.
That's not a rounding error or a PR exercise. It's structural. Built into the pricing from day one. 3p from every ticket goes directly to a registered charity — your local foodbank, your community sports club, your music education charity.
3p from every ticket goes to charity — not ours. We choose causes that make a real difference locally.
We select charities that matter to our communities — local causes, grassroots organisations, and charities doing real work in Wales and beyond.
Transparent quarterly donation reports published publicly. Every penny accounted for. No vague "we donated to good causes" language.
Your event page displays the supported charity so buyers know their booking fee is doing something meaningful.
Eligible charities must be registered with the Charity Commission for England & Wales, or equivalent. We validate each charity before your event goes live. We donate quarterly and publish full breakdowns on our website.
These features are on our roadmap and will incur additional development costs. Contact us to discuss your festival requirements and pricing.
Single-venue ticketing is the easy part. TocynTicket is being designed from the ground up to handle the layered complexity of festivals — multiple stages, multiple days, add-ons, access tiers, and large volumes of simultaneous scanning at multiple gates.
No credit card. No contract. No technical setup. Just your event details and a Stripe account (free to create). That's all you need.
Or email us directly: [email protected] — we reply same day.