Pricing

One simple fee. No surprises.

Creating an account, listing your event, and booking artists is free. We only take a small cut when a paid ticket actually sells — and it's shown up front, never buried at checkout.

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Free events

Nothing to pay, ever. Create an event, list free tickets, message artists and venues, and confirm bookings — all completely free.

£0
  • ✓ Unlimited free events
  • ✓ Artist & venue directory access
  • ✓ Booking & contract tools
  • ✓ No monthly or listing fees

Paid tickets

Only pay when you actually sell a ticket. One transparent percentage, deducted automatically — no invoices, no monthly bill to chase.

6% per ticket sold
  • ✓ Fee shown up front, to you and your buyers
  • ✓ You choose who pays it: you, or the buyer on top of the price
  • ✓ Card payments handled securely via your own Stripe account
  • ✓ Payouts go straight to your bank account
  • ✓ Optional instalments, so buyers can spread the cost
  • ✓ Discount codes for early birds and promos
  • ✓ No fee from us when you pay your acts through the site
  • ✓ No setup or cancellation fees

A £10 ticket, in full

Card processing is real — here's exactly what happens to it, using Stripe's rate for a standard UK card as an example.

Buyer pays at checkout £10.00
Our platform fee (6%) −£0.60
Stripe card processing (1.5% + 20p) −£0.35
You receive £9.05

Card payments are processed on your own connected Stripe account, so Stripe bills its standard card processing fee straight to you — the same way it would if you took payments through Stripe directly. It's never something we charge or mark up; you'll see it itemised on your own Stripe dashboard.

Stripe charges more for premium cards and cards from outside the UK — see Stripe's pricing.

Our 6% platform fee is separate, and goes toward running the platform and our mission, building Cares Village — none of it goes toward covering card processing costs.

Each event has the option to add our platform fee to the buyer's total instead of paying it out of your payout. Stripe's own card processing fee always comes out of your payout either way — it's charged directly to your connected account and isn't something either option passes on.

See how this compares to Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor, DICE, and Skiddle →

Where the fee goes

We're a not-for-profit ticketing platform — running costs come first, and what's left goes toward building Cares Village, our mental health recovery community.

Covers running the platform

Hosting, support, and the tools that keep bookings and box office running smoothly. (Card processing is billed separately, direct to your Stripe account.)

The rest goes back into the community

Ethical Tickets is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. Whatever's left after running costs goes toward building Cares Village, our mental health recovery community — so every ticket sold does a bit of good. Read why →

Common questions

Yes. Signing up, creating a workspace, listing events, browsing the artist and venue directory, and messaging to agree a booking are all free — you're only charged once a paid ticket is sold.

Free tickets stay completely free — our fee only applies to the value of paid ticket sales, so an event with £0 tickets never generates a charge.

Ticket payments are processed on your own connected Stripe account and paid straight into your bank account. Our platform fee, and Stripe's own card processing fee, are both deducted automatically at the point of sale — so there's nothing to invoice or reconcile yourself. You can choose, per event, whether our platform fee comes out of your payout or is added to the buyer's total instead — but Stripe's own processing fee always comes out of your payout regardless of that choice.

No monthly subscription, no listing fee, and no charge for negotiating or confirming a booking. The only thing we ever charge you is our percentage on completed paid ticket sales. Stripe separately charges its own card processing fee (currently 1.5% + 20p for a standard UK card, more for premium and non-UK cards) directly to your connected account — that's Stripe's charge, not ours, and it's itemised on your own Stripe dashboard.

If you turn it on for an event, yes — buyers can choose to split a ticket into weekly, fortnightly, or monthly payments instead of paying in full at checkout (whichever options actually fit before your event date). The first payment is taken straight away and the ticket is reserved immediately; the rest are collected automatically on the saved card. You're paid as each instalment comes in rather than all at once, and our platform fee is taken proportionally from each payment rather than up front. If a payment fails, the buyer is emailed and it's retried automatically over the following days, and their ticket stays valid in the meantime. Your event's Overview shows how each payment plan is going, and one that can't be collected shows in red.

Yes — create percentage or fixed-amount codes for an event, with an optional usage limit and start and end dates, and see how many times each code has been used. Our platform fee is calculated on the price the buyer actually pays after the code is applied, not the full ticket price — so a code that brings a ticket down to £0 doesn't generate a fee at all, the same as any other free ticket.

The buyer gets back everything they paid, in full. The fees on that sale aren't returned: our platform fee and Stripe's card fee stay paid, so they come out of your Stripe account. If an event is cancelled, UK law gives buyers the right to a full refund, booking fees included, which is why refunds are always for the full amount.

No. Once an act has connected Stripe, their fee goes straight from your Stripe account into theirs, and we don't take anything from it.

No. Joining, your profile in the directory, contracts, the gig board and your shifts are all free, and we take nothing from the fees organisers pay you through the site. If the platform helps you, you can make an optional donation from your dashboard to help keep it running.
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