Ticketing, discovery, and attendee management at enormous scale.
Eventbrite combines online ticket sales with event discovery, promotion, mobile check-in, on-site sales, marketing tools, and a large consumer marketplace.
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EventEase vs Eventbrite
Eventbrite is one of the world's largest event ticketing and discovery platforms. EventEase takes a different approach — it's built specifically around fundraising and community events, where sponsors, participants, donors, guests, payments, and relationships matter just as much as tickets.
At a glance
A quick answer before the details
Eventbrite may be the better fit if your event is primarily about selling tickets, reaching a large public audience, managing admission, and taking advantage of a massive event-discovery marketplace.
EventEase may be the better fit if you're running a fundraising or community event where sponsorships, participants, donations, invoices, flexible payments, supporter history, and year-over-year relationships are central to the event.
Fundraising event management built around the whole relationship.
EventEase keeps registrations, sponsorships, participants, guests, donations, payments, invoices, fundraising, and supporter history connected to the organization.
Eventbrite is built around tickets and attendees. EventEase is built around fundraising events and supporters.
Tickets vs relationships
Not everyone supporting your event is just an attendee.
Fundraising events create different kinds of relationships. Traditional ticketing works beautifully when the primary question is who bought a ticket. Fundraising events often need to answer more.
$50 dinner ticket
Attendee
$5,000 presenting sponsor
Sponsor + guests + recognition + invoice/payment
Golf foursome
Purchaser + four named golfers
Walk registration
Participant + fundraising page
Donation
Donor
Volunteer signup
Volunteer
School fundraiser purchase
Parent / supporter / participant relationship
Traditional ticketing works beautifully when the primary question is: Who bought a ticket?
Fundraising events often need to answer more:Who sponsored? Who is attending under that sponsorship? Who donated? Who is fundraising? Who still owes money? Who supported us last year?
Fundraising events are about more than admission.
Pricing
Ticket fees and fundraising-event fees work differently.
Eventbrite
- Free events
- $0 ticketing fees
- Paid events — service fee
- 3.7% + $1.79
- Per paid ticket
- Payment processing
- 2.9%
- Per order
Eventbrite passes ticketing fees to buyers by default, although organizers can choose to absorb them.
Sources:Pricing·Ticketing fees· Verified September 3, 2026
EventEase
No monthly subscription
EventEase pricing is designed around fundraising transactions rather than charging a service fee for every individual paid ticket.
Typical EventEase fee
Cards: 2.5% EventEase + Stripe processing
ACH: 1% EventEase + Stripe processing
Some event types
Lower EventEase fee — Color Runs are 1%, capped at $250
Checks / cash
$0 EventEase service fee
What can ticket-based pricing look like?
A fundraising dinner sells 100 individual $100 tickets. Assume 100 separate orders with 1 ticket per order. Gross ticket revenue: $10,000.
Eventbrite
- Service fee: $5.49 × 100 = $549
- Payment processing: 2.9% of $10,000 = $290
$839
Effective cost: 8.39%
EventEase
- EventEase fee: 2.5% of $10,000 = $250
- Stripe processing: billed by Stripe, not EventEase
$250 EventEase fee
Plus Stripe processing
EventEase’s platform fee in this example is $250. Stripe’s processing is additional and set by Stripe — so this is not a total-cost comparison.
This is an illustrative example, not a universal result. Eventbrite's service fee is assessed per paid ticket while payment processing is assessed per order, so the comparison changes when multiple tickets are purchased in one order. EventEase fees also vary with event type, transaction count, and payment method.
Eventbrite passes its ticketing fees to buyers by default, while organizers can choose to absorb them.
Compare what your supporters pay too — not just what your organization receives.
The supporter side
Your fundraising event isn't just a ticket purchase.
Eventbrite passes ticketing fees to buyers by default, although organizers may absorb them. EventEase does not ask supporters to tip EventEase. EventEase allows the organization to decide how transaction costs are handled — and if supporters help cover those costs, that contribution benefits the organization, not EventEase.
Your supporters came to support your organization.
The organizer uses EventEase. The supporter experiences the event.
Sponsorships
A sponsor isn't just someone buying an expensive ticket.
Eventbrite can configure ticket types, packages, and add-ons for fundraising events. EventEase treats sponsorship as a first-class fundraising-event relationship — connecting the company, package, people, payment, and recognition behind it.
Example
$5,000 Presenting Sponsor
SponsorCompanyContactLogoInvoicePaymentGuests / golfersRecognition
EventEase keeps the sponsorship connected to the people, payment, benefits, and event operations behind it.
Not every sponsor pays at checkout
Fundraising events still run on invoices and checks.
Eventbrite
Eventbrite supports offline payment methods including check, invoice, and pay at event.
When those offline options are used, Eventbrite does not collect the offline payment or generate/send the attendee invoice on the organizer's behalf. The organizer is responsible for generating the invoice and collecting payment, and an online payment option is still required for the event.
Source:Offline payments help
EventEase
- Create an order/invoice connected to the sponsor, customer, and event
- Email invoice / payment instructions
- Track balance and payment status
- Record check, cash, and paid-outside payments
- No EventEase service fee on check/cash
An invoice shouldn't live outside the event just because the payment did.
Fundraising
Registration can be the beginning — not the whole fundraiser.
Eventbrite supports donation ticketing and fundraising-event ticket sales. EventEase connects donations, participant fundraising, sponsor revenue, registrations, products, and multiple payment methods as part of the fundraising-event workflow.
Example — Color Run
Parent registers childChild becomes participantParticipant gets fundraising pageFriends / family donateProgress contributes to event fundraising
Behind the event
Attendees are only one kind of person you may need to manage.
Eventbrite has strong attendee management, registration reporting, QR-code check-in, and real-time attendance tracking. EventEase is designed for events where the organizer may need to manage several different kinds of relationships at the same event.
RegistrantsParticipantsGolfersFoursomesSponsorsSponsor guestsDinner guestsVolunteersDonorsCustomersTeam members
Event day
Eventbrite is excellent at ticketed admission.
Eventbrite Organizer
- QR-code scanning
- Mobile check-in
- Synchronized attendance
- Real-time ticket sales
- On-site ticket sales
- Tap to Pay
- Attendee lookup
If the event is a concert, festival, conference, public ticketed experience, or other large admission-driven event, Eventbrite may be the stronger fit.
Source:Organizer check-in app
EventEase
EventEase check-in is connected to the fundraising event's people and registration records rather than being primarily centered on admission tickets.
That matters when day-of operations need to recognize sponsors, guests, golfers, participants, or unpaid balances — not only whether someone holds a ticket.
Audience reach
Eventbrite can help people discover your event.
Eventbrite has a massive consumer event marketplace and discovery ecosystem. As of Eventbrite's current public organizer materials, that includes figures such as 89 million monthly users, 270 million tickets transacted, and more than 4.7 million events.
89M
Monthly users
270M
Tickets transacted
4.7M+
Events
EventEase is not trying to be a consumer event marketplace. For organizations that rely heavily on strangers discovering and purchasing tickets to a public event, Eventbrite's marketplace can be a significant advantage.
For many nonprofit and community fundraising events, organizers already have their audience — supporters, families, alumni, sponsors, golfers, school communities, members, and donors. EventEase focuses on helping the organization manage those relationships and the event itself.
Source:Eventbrite organizer pricing· Marketplace figures as published there · Verified September 3, 2026
After the event
Next year's fundraiser shouldn't start with a blank list.
Eventbrite provides attendee data, reporting, marketing lists, recurring event capabilities, and email marketing. EventEase focuses on organization-level fundraising relationships — customer and supporter records, historical orders, previous sponsors and golfers, reusable audiences, notes, import, deduplication, event cloning, and cross-event continuity.
Gala sponsor
Golf sponsor
Golf participant
Donor
Parent
Next fundraiser supporter
Past attendee
Future event participant
Your supporters belong to your organization — not to one event.
Side by side
How they compare
Eventbrite is exceptionally strong at public ticketing, discovery, and admission. EventEase is purpose-built around the additional relationships and operational complexity found in fundraising events.
| Topic | Eventbrite | EventEase |
|---|---|---|
| What it is built for | Ticketing, registration, event discovery, promotion, attendee management, and admission. | Fundraising and community event management connecting registrations, sponsorships, participants, payments, fundraising, and supporter relationships. |
| Free events | No Eventbrite ticketing fees for free events. | Designed primarily around fundraising and paid event activity; standard EventEase payment fees apply when payments are collected. |
| Paid card transactions | 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order in the U.S. | Typical EventEase fee is 2.5% on cards plus Stripe processing. Some event types qualify for a lower EventEase fee. |
| ACH | Eventbrite’s U.S. public pricing materials emphasize card payment processing. ACH bank transfers are not highlighted in the materials we verified. | 1% EventEase fee on ACH plus Stripe processing. |
| Ticketing | Deep ticketing capabilities including multiple ticket types, QR codes, timed entry, reserved seating, waitlists, promo codes, and mobile admission. | Registration is designed around fundraising-event products, people, sponsorships, guests, participants, and event operations. |
| Sponsorships | Can configure ticket/package options and add-ons for fundraising events. | Dedicated sponsorship workflows connect sponsor records, packages, logos, participants/guests, invoices, payments, and recognition. |
| Donations | Supports donations and fundraising-event ticketing. | Donations are connected with fundraising events, customer/supporter records, payments, and broader fundraising activity. |
| Participant fundraising | Eventbrite supports donation ticketing and fundraising-event ticket sales. Dedicated peer-to-peer participant fundraising pages are not highlighted in the materials we verified. | Participant fundraising pages can be enabled as part of the event. |
| Invoices / offline payments | Supports check, invoice, and pay-at-event options, but the organizer is responsible for generating invoices and collecting offline payments. | Create and track invoices, email payment instructions, record check/cash/paid-outside transactions, and keep payment status tied to the event record. |
| Check-in | Strong Organizer app with QR scanning, real-time attendance, on-site ticket sales, and Tap to Pay. | Event check-in tied to registration, participant, guest, and fundraising-event records. |
| Event discovery | Large public marketplace and event-discovery ecosystem. | Not a public consumer event marketplace; focuses on the organization’s own event website, supporters, and relationships. |
| Email marketing | Built-in email campaigns and attendee marketing; expanded Eventbrite Pro email capacity starts at $15/month. | Account-level campaigns and reusable audiences including previous customers, golfers, sponsors, and event-specific groups. |
| Customer / supporter history | Attendee data, reporting, recurring events, and marketing audiences. | Account-level customer/supporter records, order history, notes, previous event activity, reusable audiences, and relationships across event types. |
| Event types | Extremely broad — concerts, conferences, classes, festivals, fundraisers, community events, and many others. | Focused on fundraising and community events including golf tournaments, galas, walks/runs, school fundraisers, dinners, and other nonprofit/community events. |
| Support | Help center, email support, and 24/7 chat support for paid events; additional support options available with certain plans. | Personal support from people close to the product, with customer feedback regularly influencing product development. |
What it is built for
- Eventbrite
- Ticketing, registration, event discovery, promotion, attendee management, and admission.
- EventEase
- Fundraising and community event management connecting registrations, sponsorships, participants, payments, fundraising, and supporter relationships.
Free events
- Eventbrite
- No Eventbrite ticketing fees for free events.
- EventEase
- Designed primarily around fundraising and paid event activity; standard EventEase payment fees apply when payments are collected.
Paid card transactions
- Eventbrite
- 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order in the U.S.
- EventEase
- Typical EventEase fee is 2.5% on cards plus Stripe processing. Some event types qualify for a lower EventEase fee.
ACH
- Eventbrite
- Eventbrite’s U.S. public pricing materials emphasize card payment processing. ACH bank transfers are not highlighted in the materials we verified.
- EventEase
- 1% EventEase fee on ACH plus Stripe processing.
Ticketing
- Eventbrite
- Deep ticketing capabilities including multiple ticket types, QR codes, timed entry, reserved seating, waitlists, promo codes, and mobile admission.
- EventEase
- Registration is designed around fundraising-event products, people, sponsorships, guests, participants, and event operations.
Sponsorships
- Eventbrite
- Can configure ticket/package options and add-ons for fundraising events.
- EventEase
- Dedicated sponsorship workflows connect sponsor records, packages, logos, participants/guests, invoices, payments, and recognition.
Donations
- Eventbrite
- Supports donations and fundraising-event ticketing.
- EventEase
- Donations are connected with fundraising events, customer/supporter records, payments, and broader fundraising activity.
Participant fundraising
- Eventbrite
- Eventbrite supports donation ticketing and fundraising-event ticket sales. Dedicated peer-to-peer participant fundraising pages are not highlighted in the materials we verified.
- EventEase
- Participant fundraising pages can be enabled as part of the event.
Invoices / offline payments
- Eventbrite
- Supports check, invoice, and pay-at-event options, but the organizer is responsible for generating invoices and collecting offline payments.
- EventEase
- Create and track invoices, email payment instructions, record check/cash/paid-outside transactions, and keep payment status tied to the event record.
Check-in
- Eventbrite
- Strong Organizer app with QR scanning, real-time attendance, on-site ticket sales, and Tap to Pay.
- EventEase
- Event check-in tied to registration, participant, guest, and fundraising-event records.
Event discovery
- Eventbrite
- Large public marketplace and event-discovery ecosystem.
- EventEase
- Not a public consumer event marketplace; focuses on the organization’s own event website, supporters, and relationships.
Email marketing
- Eventbrite
- Built-in email campaigns and attendee marketing; expanded Eventbrite Pro email capacity starts at $15/month.
- EventEase
- Account-level campaigns and reusable audiences including previous customers, golfers, sponsors, and event-specific groups.
Customer / supporter history
- Eventbrite
- Attendee data, reporting, recurring events, and marketing audiences.
- EventEase
- Account-level customer/supporter records, order history, notes, previous event activity, reusable audiences, and relationships across event types.
Event types
- Eventbrite
- Extremely broad — concerts, conferences, classes, festivals, fundraisers, community events, and many others.
- EventEase
- Focused on fundraising and community events including golf tournaments, galas, walks/runs, school fundraisers, dinners, and other nonprofit/community events.
Support
- Eventbrite
- Help center, email support, and 24/7 chat support for paid events; additional support options available with certain plans.
- EventEase
- Personal support from people close to the product, with customer feedback regularly influencing product development.
Best fit
Where Eventbrite may be the better fit
Eventbrite is excellent software for many events. Depending on what you need, these are areas where it may be the better fit.
Public event discovery
Eventbrite's enormous consumer marketplace can help public events reach people who don't already know the organizer.
Advanced ticketing
Reserved seating, timed entry, waitlists, QR-code tickets, and other ticketing capabilities make Eventbrite particularly strong for admission-driven events.
Mobile admission
The Eventbrite Organizer app provides mature QR scanning, attendee lookup, live attendance, and on-site sales.
On-site sales
Eventbrite supports ticket and merchandise sales at the door, including Tap to Pay.
Large public events
Concerts, festivals, conferences, classes, and other events centered on ticket sales and admission are core Eventbrite use cases.
Integration ecosystem
Eventbrite offers a large app marketplace and broad third-party integration ecosystem.
Why EventEase
Where EventEase may be the better fit
If your event is built around fundraising relationships — not only ticket sales — these strengths are worth weighing.
Sponsorships are more than tickets
Keep sponsor records, packages, logos, included participants or guests, invoices, payments, and recognition connected.
Participant fundraising
Turn participants into fundraisers with individual fundraising pages tied directly to the event.
Flexible payment workflows
Cards, ACH, invoices, checks, cash, and paid-outside transactions can all be managed alongside the event.
More than attendees
Manage participants, golfers, teams, sponsors, guests, volunteers, donors, and customers according to their role in the event.
Organization-level relationships
Keep customer/supporter history useful across multiple events and multiple types of engagement.
No software tipping
EventEase never asks your supporters to tip EventEase.
Fundraising-specific operations
EventEase is designed around the operational details of fundraising and community events rather than adapting ticketing workflows to them.
Real people close to the product
EventEase support stays close to the people building the software, and organizer feedback regularly influences what gets improved next.
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FAQ
Questions about EventEase vs Eventbrite
Straight answers about how ticketing platforms and fundraising event software compare.
Yes for many fundraising and community organizers. Eventbrite is exceptionally strong for ticketing, discovery, and admission. EventEase is built specifically around fundraising-event relationships — sponsorships, participants, donations, invoices, flexible payments, and organization-level supporter history.
Eventbrite is built around tickets and attendees. EventEase is built around fundraising events and supporters. Both can sell registrations for fundraisers, but EventEase treats sponsors, participants, invoices, fundraising, and cross-event relationships as first-class parts of the event.
In the U.S., Eventbrite currently charges a 3.7% + $1.79 service fee per paid ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order. Free events have no Eventbrite ticketing fees.
No. Eventbrite says there are no Eventbrite ticketing fees for free events.
Buyers pay Eventbrite’s ticketing fees by default. Organizers can choose to absorb the fees instead when setting up ticket types.
Yes. Eventbrite specifically markets fundraising-event ticketing, including tiered tickets, sponsor/VIP packages, donations, check-in, and promotion tools.
Yes. Eventbrite supports donations and fundraising-event ticket sales.
Yes. Eventbrite supports offline options including check, invoice, and pay-at-event. Eventbrite does not collect those offline payments or generate/send the attendee invoice on the organizer’s behalf — the organizer is responsible for invoicing and collection.
EventEase supports registrations and product purchases for fundraising and community events. It is not designed as a mass public ticketing and discovery marketplace like Eventbrite.
Yes. Participant fundraising pages can be enabled as part of an EventEase event so registrants can raise additional support beyond registration.
EventEase may be the stronger fit when sponsorships involve company records, logos, included guests or golfers, invoices, payment tracking, and recognition connected to the rest of the event.
Eventbrite. Public discovery, advanced ticketing, QR admission, on-site sales, and Tap to Pay are core Eventbrite strengths for concerts, festivals, conferences, and other admission-driven events.
It depends. Eventbrite can work well when the event is primarily ticket sales plus public discovery. EventEase is often the better fit when sponsorships, participant fundraising, invoices, flexible payments, and year-over-year supporter relationships are central.
Talk to us
Not sure whether you need tickets — or a fundraising event platform?
Tell us what you're planning. If your event is mainly about public ticket sales and admission, Eventbrite may be the right fit. If sponsorships, participants, invoices, and supporter relationships are central, we'll show you how EventEase handles it.
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- No credit card to create an account
- We don’t ask supporters to tip EventEase
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