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Event Espresso vs. Eventbrite. The Truth Will Set You Free from Eventbrite fees!

Eventbrite fees and charges are out of control, or they have too much control! Event Espresso beats Eventbrite by keeping you in full control of your money because you get paid directly and instantly, customer data stays with you, style and company branding is in your control.

No Post-event Payouts with Event Espresso

Are you selling tickets to your next event? Are you willing to give away 3.5% of your ticket value + $1.59 in Eventbrite fees for every ticket sold? Eventbrite pricing means that you have to fork over a percentage of every ticket you sell when you use their ticketing service. With Event Espresso you are in control of your money because your events are hosted on your website. That means no monthly fees, no registration fees, or ticketing commission fees. And because with Event Espresso you use your own merchant account (e.g. Stripe or PayPal) so you get paid instantly.

Why?

Because with Event Espresso and Event Smart, you can save 100% of the Eventbrite fees and charges.

Event Espresso is a WordPress plugin, is open source, and available to download for free from Github or you can purchase a support license to get access to add-on features, our support forums, and one-click updates.

Protecting Your Customers’ Privacy

Do you value your customers’ privacy? If so, then why would you use a third party to host your events and keep all of your customers’ data? You might as well let the guy down the street host your next event and collect the money and registration data.

Companies like Eventbrite collect and keep personal information provided by you and the people registering for your events, as stated in the Eventbrite Privacy Policy. Eventbrite also markets to your customers after purchasing tickets. So ultimately, your client data is out of your control. That works great for Eventbrite, because you are now working for Eventbrite to grow their customer base.

Event Espresso is as secure as you and your server. When you install Event Espresso on your website or blog, you are in total control of the registration data. Every registration performed on your site is stored safely in your database. Accessing and exporting the registration data is as easy as logging into the WordPress admin. With Event Espresso’s easy-to-use interface, you have immediate access to the information you need. There’s no way for our company (Event Espresso) to market to your customers.

Branding and Integration

Have you ever used Eventbrite’s iframe code to showcase your events on your website? Did you ever get the colors just right for each event? I am willing to bet that you may have come close, then gave up after wasting twenty minutes of your valuable time, only to have your customers leave your website to register on the Eventbrite site.

The style of your event page is no longer an issue when you have Event Espresso installed on your website. Event Espresso fully integrates with your WordPress website or blog. That means you spend less time matching colors, passing in arbitrary code, or just trying to look professional. You can even output your iframe ticket selectors to use in other websites you own or manage.

In Conclusion

If you manage a WordPress website or blog, stop wasting your time and money with third-party event registration systems. Event Espresso gives you all the tools you need to host, manage, and collect payments for events on your WordPress website or blog. However, if you don’t manage a WordPress website, you still don’t need to settle for Eventbrite, as you can run a professional, fully-featured, polished event website right from Event Smart.

For more content like this see this related post How Much Does Eventbrite Really Cost?

This post was originally published on Aug 21, 2010, updated May 10, 2019.