One flat yearly price instead of a service fee your buyers meet at checkout, plus the silent auctions, raffles, and parent SMS alerts Passage does not run.
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On Passage, each $10 ticket carries a $0.75 service fee, paid by you or passed on to your buyers. Here 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. Passage's card processing, about 2.9% + 30 cents, is on top. 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 Passage and on Ticket Committee.
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$6,250Ticket Committee is a flat $99 a year with no per-ticket fees. Up to $281.25 in platform fees on 250 tickets at $25.00 elsewhere. That is more than 2 years of Ticket Committee.
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.
Passage is a direct competitor in the community and attractions space, with strong phone support and a broad feature set. Its service fee is passed to ticket buyers by default, but on high-volume events those fees add real friction at checkout, and there is no silent auction or fundraising tooling.
We would sooner tell you now than have you find out after you have built your page.
You need something we do not do
Passage offers phone support.We do not, today. If your event depends on it, Passage 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 sell a few dozen tickets, once
Below about 115 tickets at $15, Passage's fees come to less than $99.The flat price pays for itself when you run more than one event or sell more than a handful of tickets.
The rows where the two are the same are here too, and so are the rows where Passage does more.
Fees shown are platform or service fees only and exclude standard card processing. Passage details are based on publicly available information and may change.
| Feature | Ticket Committee | Passage |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | $99/year flat | 2.5% + $0.50/ticket |
| Pricing & payouts | ||
| No platform fee per ticket | Yes | No |
| Public, transparent pricing | Yes | Yes |
| No long-term contract | Yes | Yes |
| Direct payouts to your own Stripe | Yes | No |
| 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 | Limited |
| Automated reminders & message sequences | Yes | Limited |
| Custom registration questions | Yes | Yes |
| Affiliate / referral tracking | Yes | No |
| Event tools | ||
| Mobile QR check-in | Yes | Yes |
| Time-gated check-in windows | Yes | Yes |
| Digital waivers | Yes | Yes |
| Waitlists | Yes | Yes |
| 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 | No |
| Nonprofit discount | Yes | No |
| Setup & support | ||
| Self-service signup | Yes | Yes |
| Phone support | Email & chat | Yes |
On a busy event, a flat yearly subscription beats a per-ticket fee, even one paid by the buyer.
Run silent auctions and raffles for fundraising, which Passage does not offer.
Automatic parent SMS check-in / out alerts for school dances and youth events.
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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