A community dinner run by volunteers and a 500-guest gala with a live auction need the same few things before anyone arrives. People need a page to sign up on and a way to pay, and you need a list of who's coming and a way to check names off on the day.
Larger events usually need more than that. A charity running a big gala may also want sponsorship packages, table plans, auctions and a link to its donor database, so the tools below range from simple ticketing tools to full fundraising suites.
Nonprofits also need to know who pays for the software, because it isn't always the organization. Some platforms charge a monthly plan or a fee on each ticket, while the free fundraising platforms ask your attendees for an optional tip at checkout. Knowing how a platform charges helps you understand your organization's costs and what supporters will be asked to pay.
We compared 12 event registration platforms for nonprofits of different sizes, looking at what each one charges, who pays it, where the ticket money goes and which tools keep attendee and donor records together.
Quick answer: Event registration software for nonprofits takes signups and ticket payments online and keeps your attendee list in one place. Fundraising platforms such as Zeffy and Givebutter can cost the nonprofit nothing, because they ask attendees for an optional tip to the platform. Event tools such as Ticket Tailor, RSVPify and Eventbrite charge a fee per ticket instead. Larger charities running galas with auctions and sponsors usually need a fundraising suite or donor CRM, such as OneCause, Bloomerang Fundraising or Neon CRM. Checkout Page charges 0% per transaction fees, has a free plan for up to $3,000 in monthly sales and lets attendees choose to cover your processing costs.
What is event registration software for nonprofits?
Event registration software for nonprofits lets people sign up and pay for your events online, and gives you an up-to-date list of who's coming. It replaces paper forms and spreadsheets for every kind of event, from volunteer days and fun runs to conferences and galas.
Event management software for nonprofits is the broader category. Along with registration, it can cover auctions, sponsorships, seating and donor records. That's why half of the tools below are fundraising platforms rather than dedicated registration tools.
If you run events for a church, our guide to church event registration software covers tools built for churches. For tools that suit any kind of organizer, see our comparison of event registration platforms.
How to choose event registration software for your nonprofit
How big are your events, and how many do you run?
Nonprofits looking for event software tend to fall into three groups, and each is usually best served by a different kind of tool.
- Volunteer-run groups with a few events a year: a dinner, a quiz night or a fun run. A free or low-cost tool usually covers it, such as Zeffy or Givebutter if you're happy for supporters to be asked for a tip, or a ticketing tool such as Checkout Page or Ticket Tailor if you'd rather they weren't.
- Small charities with staff and a regular events calendar: several ticketed events a year, perhaps one with sponsors. Compare what each tool would charge on a year's ticket sales, and check whether attendee details need to reach your donor database.
- Larger organizations with a fundraising team: galas with hundreds of guests, sponsorship tiers, table plans and auctions, often several a year. These usually run on a donor CRM or fundraising suite, such as Neon CRM, Bloomerang Fundraising, GoFundMe Pro or OneCause, which keep events, donations and supporter records together.
If your gala includes a live auction or a paddle raise, you'll need a tool that handles bidding and pledges on the night. Ticketing tools such as Checkout Page, Ticket Tailor and Eventbrite don't.
Do you already use a donor CRM?
If your nonprofit already uses a donor CRM such as Neon CRM, check whether it handles event registration, because registrations then link to the supporter records you already have. A gala guest who also donates regularly can have their event registration and giving history in one record. Neon CRM's Events add-on costs 20% on top of a plan that starts at $99 a month.
A standalone event tool suits organizations without a donor CRM, or events where most guests aren't existing supporters. You can still move attendee details into your donor records afterward, for example through Zapier, which connects to both Checkout Page and RegFox.
How is the platform paid for, and who pays?
- A plan: a monthly or annual subscription, as with Neon CRM, Checkout Page's paid plans or Eventleaf's annual plans, which are priced per attendee. The cost doesn't change with each ticket you sell, up to the plan's limit.
- A fee per ticket: a flat amount or a percentage of each paid ticket, as with Ticket Tailor, RSVPify, RegFox, Eventbrite and Donorbox. Some tools let you add it to the ticket price as a booking fee.
- An optional tip to the platform: Zeffy, and Givebutter with tips switched on, charge the nonprofit nothing. Instead, they ask each buyer whether they'd like to add a contribution to the platform.
- An optional contribution to you: GoFundMe Pro and Checkout Page let attendees choose to cover your processing fees on tickets. Donorbox, Neon CRM, Jotform and Givebutter offer donors a similar option. Either way, the extra amount goes toward your costs.
The difference is where the extra money goes: a tip goes to the platform, while a fee contribution goes toward your organization's costs.
With Checkout Page, attendees can choose to add a contribution toward your processing costs on any plan, including Free. It's paid into your Stripe account with the ticket and shows on the order as a processing fee contribution.
What do your events need?
A community dinner might need only names, meal choices and payments. A gala may also need seating, sponsor packages and donations at checkout. These features vary more from one tool to another than basic registration does.
- Seating and tables: RSVPify, Neon CRM, Bloomerang Fundraising and Ticket Tailor list seating charts, OneCause lists table management, and Givebutter and Donorbox offer table or VIP bundles. Checkout Page doesn't offer seating charts.
- Sponsors: Eventleaf has sponsorship packages, Neon CRM has sponsorship registration forms, GoFundMe Pro has sponsor ticket types and OneCause sells and manages sponsorships online.
- Auctions and appeals on the night: OneCause includes silent and live auctions, paddles and fund-a-need appeals. Bloomerang sells auctions as a separate product, and Checkout Page doesn't offer auctions.
- Donations at checkout: Donorbox, Ticket Tailor, GoFundMe Pro and Eventbrite let buyers add a donation to their order.
- Waitlists: Neon CRM lists waitlists. Checkout Page doesn't offer them.
A free volunteer day still needs capacity limits and a way to check people in on the day. For a paid fundraiser, our guide to selling fundraiser tickets covers the setup.
Where does the money go, and when?
Some platforms collect ticket payments and pay you out later, while others connect to your organization's own payment account, such as Stripe or PayPal. This affects when you receive the money, which matters if you need to pay the venue or caterer before the event.
Platform | Where ticket money goes | When you can use it |
|---|---|---|
Zeffy | Collected by Zeffy | Paid out weekly |
RegFox | Collected by RegFox | Paid out weekly |
Givebutter | Collected by Givebutter | Two to three business days |
RSVPify | Collected by RSVPify | Usually every business day |
Eventbrite | Collected by Eventbrite | Instant payouts for a fee |
Ticket Tailor | Your Stripe, PayPal or Square | Your provider's schedule |
Donorbox | Your Stripe or PayPal | Your provider's schedule |
Checkout Page | Your Stripe account | Stripe's payout schedule |
If you don't have a payment account yet, our guide to Stripe for nonprofits covers setting one up.
Refunds. Check whether the platform's own fee comes back when you refund a ticket. Eventleaf says its fees are non-refundable, and on Checkout Page, Stripe doesn't return its processing fee on a refund.
Tax-deductible tickets. If part of a gala ticket counts as a donation, buyers will want to know how much. Donorbox sends automatic tax-deductible receipts, and GoFundMe Pro lets you set a tax-deductible amount for each ticket. Other tools' pages don't say whether they handle this, so ask before you open registrations.
The 12 best event registration platforms for nonprofits
We compared these 12 tools by reading each company's own pages and help articles in October 2026, rather than by running test events. For each one we looked at the features nonprofit events need, what it charges, who pays and where the money goes. We make Checkout Page, which is number seven on the list. Its entry follows the same format as the others.
The table compares each tool's type, free option, ticket fees and what attendees are asked to add.
Platform | Type | Free option | Fee on paid tickets | What attendees are asked to add |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Zeffy | Fundraising platform | Free, no paid plan | None | Optional tip to Zeffy |
Givebutter | Fundraising platform | Free plan includes ticketing | None with tips on, 3% with tips off | Optional tip to Givebutter |
Donorbox | Fundraising platform | Free Standard plan | 3.95% (2% on Pro) | Optional fee contribution to you |
Bloomerang Fundraising | Fundraising platform | Its pages disagree | Not stated | Not stated |
Neon CRM | Donor CRM | No | None stated | Optional fee contribution to you |
GoFundMe Pro | Fundraising platform | No subscription under $1M revenue | Not found | Optional fee contribution |
Checkout Page | Event registration tool | Up to $3,000 in sales a month | None | Optional fee contribution to you |
Ticket Tailor | Ticketing tool | 5,000 free tickets a year | $0.85 a ticket, half for charities | Fees, if you pass them on |
RSVPify | Event registration tool | Up to 100 registrations a month | 1.95% + $0.90 | Fees, if you pass them on |
RegFox | Event registration tool | No monthly fee | $0.99 + 1%, capped at $4.99 | Fees, if you pass them on |
Eventleaf | Event management platform | About 100 attendees a year | $1 an attendee, $500 a year minimum | Not stated |
Eventbrite | Public ticketing site | Free events cost nothing | 3.7% + $1.79, plus 2.9% processing | Fees, paid by the buyer by default |
Zeffy and Givebutter (with tips on) are the only tools here where the nonprofit pays nothing at all, card processing included, because attendees are asked to tip the platform instead. Among the event tools that charge per ticket, Ticket Tailor's charity rate is the lowest, at about 43 cents a ticket. Checkout Page doesn't add a fee to each ticket.
Fees from each company's own pages and help articles, checked October 27, 2026. Card processing is extra except on Zeffy and on Givebutter with tips on.
Nonprofit fundraising platforms (1 to 6). These combine event registration with donations, and some also keep supporter records, so check each entry for what's included.
1. Zeffy
Zeffy is a fundraising platform for nonprofits with event ticketing and a donor CRM, and it charges nonprofits nothing. At the payment step, it asks each buyer whether they'd like to add an optional contribution to Zeffy, and the nonprofit receives the full ticket price either way. Zeffy says the contribution is never preselected, and that on average two in three donors choose to add one. Payments are collected by Zeffy and paid out to you rather than going into your own Stripe account.
Key features:
- Multiple ticket types and group pricing
- Capacity limits and sales windows
- Custom registration questions
- QR code check-in, including a web check-in page
- On-site ticket sales with Tap to Pay
- Add-ons such as meals, parking and apparel
- A donor CRM record for every ticket buyer
Pricing: Zeffy costs $0, with no paid plan, platform fee or card processing fee. It's funded by the optional contribution buyers can add at checkout.
Best for: Nonprofits that want ticketing and donor records at no cost to the organization.
Checkout Page take: Zeffy's pages don't say whether you can switch off the contribution prompt. If you'd rather your attendees weren't asked to tip, check this before you choose Zeffy.
2. Givebutter
Givebutter is a fundraising platform for donations and events, with a donor CRM on its paid Plus plan, and its event ticketing is included in the free plan. Like Zeffy, it's funded by optional tips from supporters at checkout, so with tips on, the nonprofit pays no platform fee or processing fee. You can turn tips off, and Givebutter then charges a 3% platform fee plus card processing of 2.9% + 30¢. Givebutter pays the funds out to your bank account.
Key features:
- Unlimited ticket types per event
- VIP, table and bundle options
- Bulk ticket discounts and promo codes
- Custom fields for guest details
- QR code check-in
- Tap to Pay ticket sales
- Guest self-service ticket reassignment
Pricing: The free plan includes event ticketing, with no platform fee when tips are on, or a 3% fee plus processing when they're off. Givebutter Plus adds CRM features from $29 a month billed annually for under 250 contacts, or $33.80 billed monthly.
Best for: Nonprofits that want events and donations in one free tool.
Checkout Page take: Givebutter's pages don't say whether tips are on by default, so check the setting when you create your first event.
3. Donorbox
Donorbox is a donation platform for nonprofits that also sells event tickets, with unlimited ticketing on every plan. It connects to your own Stripe or PayPal account, and registered US nonprofits get a reduced Stripe card rate of 2.2% + 30¢ through Donorbox. Donorbox charges its own platform fee on each ticket, and supporters can choose to cover fees if you turn that option on.
Key features:
- Embedded or standalone ticket pages
- Unlimited ticket types
- Automatic tax-deductible receipts
- Donation add-ons during ticket checkout
- Group packages and VIP table bundles
- QR code check-in with real-time tracking
- Promo codes, sales deadlines and quantity caps
Pricing: The Standard plan is free, with a 3.95% platform fee on event tickets plus card processing. Pro costs $150 a month and lowers the ticket fee to 2%.
Best for: Nonprofits already collecting donations through Donorbox that want events in the same account.
Checkout Page take: Because the fee is a percentage, it rises with your ticket price, so a $150 gala ticket costs about $5.93 in Donorbox's fee on the free plan.
4. Bloomerang Fundraising
Bloomerang Fundraising is the fundraising side of Bloomerang's donor management software, and every Bloomerang Fundraising plan includes unlimited standard event registrations. Its pricing page says it's sold as part of a bundle with Bloomerang CRM. Payments run through Bloomerang's preferred processor at 3.95% + 30¢ per Visa, Mastercard or Discover payment, or 1.95% plus your own merchant fees if you use your own processor. Peer-to-peer fundraising and auctions are separate products.
Key features:
- Branded event pages
- Flexible registration options
- Drag-and-drop seating
- Fast check-in
- Event sponsor highlights
- Custom form fields
- Automatic event follow-up
Pricing: Bloomerang's pricing page lists Fundraising at $40 a month billed annually, sold as part of a bundle with Bloomerang CRM, while its help center lists Fundraising plans from $0 to $259 a month. Ask Bloomerang which price applies to your organization before you sign up.
Best for: Nonprofits that already use Bloomerang CRM, or plan to.
Checkout Page take: At 3.95% + 30¢, card processing comes to about $6.23 on a $150 gala ticket.
5. Neon CRM
Neon CRM is a donor database from Neon One, priced by your organization's revenue rather than by the number of records, with unlimited users and contacts. Events are an add-on that costs 20% of your CRM subscription, and event registrations link to supporter records, so a gala guest appears in the same database as your donors. Payments go through Neon Pay, which is only available to nonprofits already using a Neon One product. Its rates aren't published and are confirmed during setup.
Key features:
- Custom event and sponsorship registration forms
- Conditional logic for ticket options
- Tiered pricing and discount codes
- Mobile and QR code check-in
- Attendee caps, waitlists and seating charts
- Onsite card and terminal payments
- Event data linked to supporter records
Pricing: Neon CRM starts at $99 a month, and the Events add-on costs 20% of the CRM price on top. Neon Pay's card rates aren't published, and using an outside payment processor starts at $50 a month.
Best for: Nonprofits that want their donor database and event registration in one system.
Checkout Page take: Because the price depends on your revenue and the processing rates are quoted at setup, ask for a full quote, including Neon Pay, before comparing it with tools that publish their fees.
6. GoFundMe Pro
GoFundMe Pro, formerly Classy, is a fundraising platform for nonprofits, and its Live Events add-on handles registration and ticketing. Organizations with under $1 million in annual revenue can use its Essentials plan with no subscription or setup fees, though Live Events is an add-on with its own cost. You choose whether the organization or the attendee pays the transaction fees on tickets, and you can set an optional extra of up to 5% for supporters who choose to cover fees. Tickets can only be bought with a credit card.
Key features:
- Ticket types for VIPs, sponsors and virtual attendees
- Discount codes
- Scheduled ticket availability windows
- Attendee caps per ticket and per order
- A tax-deductible amount set for each ticket
- Hidden admin-only tickets and offline registrations
- Donations added to ticket purchases
Pricing: We couldn't find event or ticket fees on the GoFundMe Pro pages we could reach. Essentials has no subscription for organizations under $1 million in revenue, Live Events costs extra, and larger organizations get custom pricing.
Best for: Nonprofits under $1 million in revenue that want fundraising campaigns and events on one platform.
Checkout Page take: Without published ticket fees, you'll need a quote to compare GoFundMe Pro with the cost examples further down.
Event registration tools (7 to 12). These focus on registration and ticketing. Attendee details stay in the tool, so if you keep a donor CRM, you move them across yourself.
7. Checkout Page
Checkout Page is a standalone checkout and event registration software that connects to your organization's own Stripe account. It charges 0% per transaction fees, and its Free plan covers up to $3,000 in sales a month, so a small event costs nothing beyond Stripe's processing fee. You can run free and paid events with several ticket types, and attendees can choose to add a contribution toward your processing costs. It isn't a fundraising platform, so there's no donor CRM, auction or peer-to-peer fundraising page, and you move attendee details into your donor records yourself.
Key features:
- Event pages with free and paid tickets, ticket types and groups
- Capacity limits for the event, a ticket group or a single ticket type
- Scheduled ticket releases and hidden tickets shown through a link
- Custom registration questions with conditional logic
- Optional fee coverage on all plans, including Free
- A check-in app for scanning tickets, free for the organizer
- Cancel or refund bookings from the dashboard
Pricing: The Free plan covers up to $3,000 in sales a month and shows Checkout Page branding. Launch costs $24 a month billed annually ($29 monthly), Scale starts at $83 a month billed annually ($99 monthly), and nonprofits get 50% off paid plans.
Best for: Small and mid-sized nonprofits that want ticketed events paid straight into their own Stripe account, without a fee on each ticket.
Checkout Page take: There are no seating charts, waitlists or auctions, and team members who check guests in need a paid plan. A large seated gala with an auction is better served by a fundraising suite such as OneCause or Bloomerang Fundraising.
Start selling event tickets for free8. Ticket Tailor
Ticket Tailor is a ticketing tool that charges a flat fee per ticket instead of a subscription or a percentage. It connects to your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account, so ticket money goes into that account, and you can pass the fees on to buyers. Registered charities get 50% off Ticket Tailor's fees permanently after sending proof of charitable status, and discounts are also available for PTAs and other not-for-profits. Buyers can add a donation at checkout. Our roundup of Ticket Tailor alternatives compares it with similar tools.
Key features:
- Donation option at checkout
- Free check-in app
- Broadcast emails to attendees
- Reserved seating charts
- Recurring event scheduling
- Online event hosting
- Custom event page design
Pricing: Pay-as-you-go tickets cost $0.85 each, or from $0.30 each if you buy credits upfront, and up to 5,000 free tickets a year cost nothing. Registered charities pay half these fees.
Best for: Charities selling a lot of tickets, especially at lower prices.
Checkout Page take: Because the fee is flat, it's a small share of a $150 gala ticket and a larger share of a $5 ticket.
9. RSVPify
RSVPify is an event registration and RSVP tool for public and invitation-only events, with table captains, seating charts and gala guest management. Ticketed events don't need a paid plan, because RSVPify gives them its Professional features for free and charges a fee on each ticket instead. Approved nonprofits pay a lower ticket fee and get 20% off annual plans. Payments go through Stripe, and RSVPify transfers the funds to your bank account.
Key features:
- Branded event websites
- Online registration and RSVP collection
- Visual seating chart builder
- Table captains for gala guest management
- Menu preference capture
- Sub-events
- Check-in app
Pricing: Ticketed events cost 1.95% + $0.90 per ticket, or 1.7% + $0.78 for approved nonprofits, plus Stripe's processing fee. Paid plans, which you need if 20% or more of registrants pay offline or get complimentary tickets, run from $39 a month to $409 a month.
Best for: Galas and seated dinners with table hosts and meal choices.
Checkout Page take: A paid plan becomes necessary once a fifth of your guests pay offline or come free, which can happen at a gala with sponsor tables.
10. RegFox
RegFox is a registration tool from Webconnex that has no monthly fee on its Standard and Premium plans and charges per paid registrant instead. Payments run through Webconnex Payments at 2.9% + 30¢, or through your own gateway, such as Stripe, for an extra 1% + 25¢. Its rule-based forms suit events with a lot of options, such as conferences with breakout sessions. You can pass the registration fee on to attendees.
Key features:
- Drag-and-drop registration page designer
- Rule-based workflows and dynamic pricing
- Group sign-ups
- Unlimited coupon and promo codes
- Breakout sessions with reservations
- Optional convenience fees that you keep
- Built-in CRM, Zapier and webhooks
Pricing: Standard charges $0.99 + 1% per paid registrant, capped at $4.99, and Premium charges $1.99 + 1%, capped at $5.99, with no monthly fee on either. Card processing through Webconnex Payments is 2.9% + 30¢ on top.
Best for: Events with many registration options, such as conferences with breakout sessions.
Checkout Page take: Payment plans, badge printing and the attendee app aren't on the Standard plan, so check which plan your event needs before comparing costs.
11. Eventleaf
Eventleaf is an event management platform with features aimed at conferences, such as badge printing, multi-session agendas and lead retrieval, and it has a free plan for small events. For nonprofits, it offers separate registration paths for donors, sponsors, volunteers and attendees, along with sponsorship packages and preset donation levels. Paid plans are annual and priced per attendee. Eventleaf mentions discounts for nonprofit events but doesn't publish a figure.
Key features:
- Custom registration forms and a branded event website
- QR-coded digital tickets
- Automated confirmations and reminders
- Registration paths for donors, sponsors, volunteers and attendees
- Sponsorship packages and preset donation levels
- Multi-session and track support
- Badge printing templates
Pricing: The free Starter plan covers about 100 attendees a year, and Basic costs $1 per attendee with a $500 yearly minimum. Payments through your own Stripe, PayPal or Authorize.Net account have a 1% fee, or 4% through Eventleaf's own processor.
Best for: Nonprofits running conferences or multi-session events with sponsors.
Checkout Page take: The free plan's limit counts attendees across the whole year, so a single gala with more than 100 guests needs the Basic plan.
12. Eventbrite
Eventbrite is a public ticketing site, and listing an event there means people browsing the Eventbrite marketplace can find it. It charges no monthly fee, and free events cost nothing. Each paid ticket has a service fee and a payment processing fee, which the ticket buyer pays by default, though you can choose to absorb them. Eventbrite collects the payments and pays them out to you, and our breakdown of Eventbrite's fees shows how its charges are worked out.
Key features:
- Free, paid and donation-based tickets
- Unlimited ticket types
- Promo codes and VIP or sponsor tiers
- Custom registration forms
- Discovery on the Eventbrite marketplace
- QR code check-in through a mobile app
- On-site ticket sales and donations at the door
Pricing: In the US, Eventbrite charges a service fee of 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket and a processing fee of 2.9% of the order. The optional Premium plan costs $69 a month.
Best for: Public events where you'd like new people to find you.
Checkout Page take: When buyers pay the fees, a $25 dinner ticket costs them about $28.52 at checkout.
Other tools nonprofits look at
Three other tools come up often. Two are built around forms and memberships rather than ticketed events, and one is built for large galas and auctions.
- Jotform: a form builder that takes payments through your own Stripe, PayPal, Square or another gateway, and gives nonprofits 50% off its Bronze, Silver and Gold plans. It suits signups that are mostly a form, such as volunteer registrations.
- OneCause: gala and auction software for larger nonprofits, with ticketing, table management, sponsorship sales, silent and live auctions and express check-in. Prices aren't published; the Professional plan is pay as you go, and the Enterprise and Nationals plans are quoted.
- WildApricot: membership software with event registration, priced by contacts from $66 a month for 100 contacts, with no per-transaction fee from WildApricot. It suits membership organizations whose events are mainly for members.
What nonprofit event registration costs: two events compared
A community dinner for 80 guests at $25 brings in $2,000, and a gala for 400 guests at $150 brings in $60,000. The tables below show what nine of the tools would charge for each, with the nonprofit absorbing the platform's fees rather than passing them on and each guest buying one ticket.
Card processing is a separate fee on most tools. Where the processing column shows a dollar figure, the platform sets its own rate; where it says "Stripe's fee", add your Stripe account's rate to compare totals.
A community dinner: 80 guests at $25
Platform | Platform charges | Card processing |
|---|---|---|
Zeffy | $0 | $0, covered by Zeffy |
Givebutter (tips on) | $0 | $0 |
Checkout Page (Free plan) | $0 | Stripe's fee |
Eventleaf (Starter) | $0 | 1% ($20), plus Stripe's fee |
Ticket Tailor (pay as you go) | $34 for charities ($68 without) | Stripe's fee |
Givebutter (tips off) | $60 | $82 |
Donorbox (Standard) | $79 | Stripe's fee |
RSVPify | $96.40 for nonprofits ($111 without) | Stripe's fee |
RegFox (Standard) | $99.20 | $82 |
Eventbrite | $217.20 | $58 |
On the dinner, Zeffy and Givebutter with tips on cost the nonprofit nothing at all, though each guest is asked for an optional tip on top of their $25. Checkout Page's Free plan adds no platform fee, because $2,000 in sales is under its $3,000 monthly limit.
A gala: 400 guests at $150
Platform | Platform charges | Card processing |
|---|---|---|
Zeffy | $0 | $0, covered by Zeffy |
Givebutter (tips on) | $0 | $0 |
Ticket Tailor (pay as you go) | $170 for charities ($340 without) | Stripe's fee |
Checkout Page (Scale) | $199.50 a month for nonprofits ($399 without) | Stripe's fee |
Eventleaf (Basic) | $500 (yearly minimum) | 1% ($600), plus Stripe's fee |
RegFox (Standard) | $996 | $1,860 |
RSVPify | $1,332 for nonprofits ($1,530 without) | Stripe's fee |
Givebutter (tips off) | $1,800 | $1,860 |
Donorbox (Standard) | $2,370 | Stripe's fee |
Eventbrite | $2,936 | $1,740 |
Fees checked October 27, 2026. One ticket per order, fees absorbed by the nonprofit, all sales in one month. Eventbrite's processing is worked out on ticket sales. Eventleaf's pages don't say whether its 1% is charged on top of Stripe's fee.
Zeffy and Givebutter with tips on still cost the nonprofit $0, though each of the 400 guests is asked for an optional tip to the platform on top of their $150 ticket. Among the tools that charge, a flat fee per ticket stays low as the ticket price rises, so Ticket Tailor's charity rate comes to $170 while Donorbox's percentage fee comes to $2,370.
Checkout Page's Scale plan costs $399 a month at this level of sales, or $199.50 with the nonprofit discount. If ticket sales are spread over two or three months, each month's sales may fall into a lower price band. Billed annually, the same band costs $3,990 a year, or $1,995 with the nonprofit discount.
Eventleaf's free plan covers up to 100 attendees a year, so a 400-guest gala moves to the $500 Basic plan.
What the tables leave out. Both tables cover ticket sales only, so at a gala with an auction or sponsors, check what each platform charges on that income too. Tips and fee contributions aren't included either; where attendees choose to cover processing fees, as on Checkout Page and GoFundMe Pro, those contributions reduce what the nonprofit pays. Bloomerang Fundraising, Neon CRM and GoFundMe Pro are left out because their event costs depend on a bundle or a quote.
If you'd like to try Checkout Page, you can start selling event tickets on the free plan and upgrade once your sales pass $3,000 a month.
Event registration software for nonprofits FAQ
What is the best event registration software for nonprofits?
It depends on the size of your events. On an 80-guest dinner at $25, Zeffy and Givebutter with tips on cost the nonprofit $0, Checkout Page's Free plan adds only Stripe's fee and Eventbrite's fees come to $217.20 before processing. Larger charities with auctions and sponsors usually need a fundraising suite or donor CRM, such as OneCause or Neon CRM.
Is there free event registration software for nonprofits?
Yes. Zeffy and Givebutter charge the nonprofit nothing for ticketed events and ask buyers for an optional tip. Checkout Page's Free plan covers up to $3,000 in monthly sales with only Stripe's fee, and Ticket Tailor and Eventbrite don't charge for free events. Our guide to free event registration software compares more options.
Do nonprofits get discounts on event registration software?
Yes, on several platforms, once you show proof of your nonprofit status. Ticket Tailor takes 50% off its fees for registered charities, and RSVPify gives approved nonprofits 20% off annual plans and a lower ticket fee. Checkout Page gives nonprofits, charities and schools 50% off paid plans; you apply through support with your EIN or 501(c)(3) letter.
Can attendees cover the processing fees?
Yes, on some platforms. Checkout Page and GoFundMe Pro let attendees choose to add a contribution toward your processing costs when they buy a ticket, and Donorbox, Neon CRM, Jotform and Givebutter offer donors a similar option. This differs from the optional tips on Zeffy and Givebutter, which go to the platform rather than to your organization.
Can event registration software connect to our donor CRM?
Yes, in two ways. Some event management software for nonprofits is part of a donor CRM: Neon CRM links event registrations to supporter records, and Zeffy includes its own donor CRM. Standalone tools connect through integrations instead, so Checkout Page works with Zapier, Google Sheets and webhooks, and RegFox with Zapier and webhooks.
