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Published pricing and same-day signup instead of a contract and a sales call, plus the silent auctions, digital waivers, and parent SMS alerts Hometown does not include.
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Hometown Ticketing sets its fees by contract, so there is no published rate to put on this receipt. Here the price is the same for everyone, and the ticket carries no fee from us. This event is over 250 attendees, so we have included the attendee block it needs.
Run your own numbersPublished pricing, before card processing. On Ticket Committee, Stripe charges 2.9% + 30 cents per card charge. Our subscription is charged once a year, not per event.
Enter your ticket count and price to see what the event comes to on Hometown Ticketing and on Ticket Committee.
Ticket sales
$6,250Ticket Committee is a flat $99 a year with no per-ticket fees.
Published pricing. Card processing is estimated from each platform's published rates and charged on top of the service fee, including on Ticket Committee, where it runs through your own Stripe account. Actual processing may vary. Our subscription is charged once a year, not per event, and is counted in full against the one event shown here. Each event includes 250 attendees; a bigger event adds 250 more for $39.99. Silent auctions carry a separate fee of 1.2% of each winning bid, capped at $15 per item.
Schools, nonprofits, and community groups, where the person running the event is a parent or a volunteer. Flat pricing, a text to the parent when their child checks in or out, waivers, and a silent auction on the same subscription.
Hometown Ticketing serves school districts across the whole activities calendar, from athletics to theatre and fine arts, with phone support and district-level administration. Pricing is contract-based and quoted through a sales call rather than published, and fundraising tools such as silent auctions and raffles are not part of the platform.
We would sooner tell you now than have you find out after you have built your page.
You need something we do not do
Hometown Ticketing offers phone support.We do not, today. If your event depends on it, Hometown Ticketing is the better fit.
You run very large events
Our plan is sized for committees.Each event includes 250 attendees and grows in blocks of 250 for $39.99. A festival or a conference with thousands of guests is a different job.
You already have a quote
Hometown Ticketing prices by contract, so we cannot work out the difference for you.Put the quote next to $99 a year and $0 per ticket, and count the fee on every ticket you expect to sell.
The rows where the two are the same are here too, and so are the rows where Hometown Ticketing does more.
Fees shown are platform or service fees only and exclude standard card processing. Hometown Ticketing details are based on publicly available information and may change.
| Feature | Ticket Committee | Hometown Ticketing |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | $99/year flat | Varies by contract |
| Pricing & payouts | ||
| No platform fee per ticket | Yes | No |
| Public, transparent pricing | Yes | No |
| No long-term contract | Yes | No |
| Direct payouts to your own Stripe | Yes | Yes |
| Selling tickets | ||
| Online ticket sales | Yes | Yes |
| Selling at the door | Yes | Yes |
| Cash / pay-in-person option | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple ticket types & pricing | Yes | Yes |
| Promo & discount codes | Yes | Yes |
| Embeddable ticket widget | Yes | Yes |
| Engagement & marketing | ||
| Email messaging to attendees | Yes | Yes |
| SMS messaging to attendees | Yes | No |
| Automated reminders & message sequences | Yes | No |
| Custom registration questions | Yes | Yes |
| Affiliate / referral tracking | Yes | No |
| Event tools | ||
| Mobile QR check-in | Yes | Yes |
| Time-gated check-in windows | Yes | No |
| Digital waivers | Yes | No |
| Waitlists | Yes | No |
| Silent auctions | Yes | No |
| Fundraising & auctions | ||
| Outbid text alerts | Yes | No |
| Live bid display board | Yes | No |
| Winning cards charged automatically | Yes | No |
| Live auction & paddle raise | No | No |
| Table seating management | No | Not listed |
| Built for schools & nonprofits | ||
| Parent SMS check-in / out alerts | Yes | No |
| Student data privacy agreement | Yes | Yes |
| Nonprofit discount | Yes | No |
| Setup & support | ||
| Self-service signup | Yes | No |
| Phone support | Email & chat | Yes |
Public, predictable pricing instead of a contract and a sales call.
Run the fundraiser on the same platform: silent auctions, raffles, and digital waivers alongside ticketed events.
Sign up and start selling today with no long-term commitment.
Sign up, connect your own Stripe account, set up your first event, and share the link. There is no long-term contract, and nobody has to approve you on a sales call.
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