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Platforms for selling tickets to conferences, workshops, classes and fundraisers. Only Eventbrite acts as the merchant on your sales. The other three pay out to an account in your own name, so these comparisons are about pricing models, and about selling memberships and digital products next to your tickets rather than running a second tool for them.
Eventbrite is the merchant on your ticket sales. It holds the money until after your event, keeps a 20% reserve until the final payout, and charges 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket plus 2.9% processing. See what changes when tickets sell on your own Stripe account.
Ticket Tailor is a well-built box office at $0.85 per paid ticket, paid out to an account of your own. See what changes when tickets, memberships that bill automatically and digital products all run on one platform.
RSVPify charges 1.95% + $0.90 on every ticket, and its forms are always attached to an event. See what a plan costs instead, and what else you can sell alongside tickets.
Wild Apricot bills by how many contacts you store, from $66/mo, and adds a 20% servicing fee on top of your plan to use your own Stripe from the US or Canada. See what it looks like to be priced on what you sell.
Platforms for selling downloads, courses, subscriptions and funnels. Lemon Squeezy and Gumroad are merchants of record, so they take a cut and handle tax for you. SamCart and ThriveCart charge before your first sale. Stripe Checkout is free but bare.
Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record: it takes 5% per transaction plus fees, and remits sales tax and VAT for you. See what direct payouts to your own Stripe account look like, and how to handle tax without it.
Gumroad became a merchant of record in 2025. It takes 10% + $0.50 per sale, sells under its own name, and caps checkout customization at 3 fields. See what selling on your own Stripe account changes.
SamCart starts at $79/mo ($59/mo annually), due whether you sell anything or not, and its trial asks for a credit card. See how a free plan up to $3K in monthly sales and volume-based pricing compares.
ThriveCart is a $495 one-time license, due up front, with no free way to try it first. See where that pays off, where starting free wins, and what you get for event ticketing and lead capture.
Stripe Checkout caps product descriptions at 500 characters and has no custom fields, upsells or order bumps. See the no-code layer that adds them on the Stripe account you already have.
Working out the numbers instead? Use the free fee calculators or see Checkout Page pricing.
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