The ticketing platform shouldn't be the headliner.
Music festival organizers spend months on lineups, logistics, and permits. Then Eventbrite takes 8 to 12% of your ticket revenue before you've paid for a single generator. Equaticket is a flat subscription. Pay a predictable quarterly fee and keep every dollar your artists and vendors earned.
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The problem
What per-ticket fees actually cost a music festival
A mid-size independent music festival selling 2,500 tickets at $65 average doesn't feel like a $15,504 Eventbrite budget line, until the invoice arrives. That's before you've booked the second stage, paid the production crew, or covered the permit fees.
Per-ticket fees compound with scale. The more successful your festival, the more you pay. Equaticket is on a mission to end that model. One flat subscription. No platform cut. Your revenue is yours.
How it works
How Equaticket works for music festivals
One price for the whole run.
Growth tier covers up to 3,000 tickets per quarter across unlimited events for $79/mo. Pro covers up to 10,500 tickets/quarter for $189/mo. Plan your vendor budget in January knowing your ticketing cost down to the dollar.
Multiple ticket tiers, zero per-type fees.
General admission, VIP, early bird, single-day, weekend pass, artist guest: set up every tier your festival needs. No Equaticket fees attached to any of them.
Your brand on the ticket page.
Festival pages are fully branded. Embed the checkout widget directly on your festival website so attendees never leave your site to buy a ticket.
Multi-gate check-in.
Run simultaneous QR scanning across multiple entry gates with real-time sync. Staff at the GA entrance and VIP entrance see the same live count. No paper wristband lists.
Attendee data for next year.
Every ticket buyer's name and email lives in your audience dashboard. Export anytime. Your past attendee list is your most valuable marketing asset for next year's festival. Equaticket doesn't hold it hostage.
Platform comparison
The math
A music festival selling 2,500 tickets at $65 average:
| Platform | Platform fees on this event |
|---|---|
| Eventbrite (~10%) | ~$15,504 |
| TicketSpice ($0.99/ticket) | ~$2,475 |
| Equaticket Growth | $79 |
$15,000+ is two more headliners. Or the production upgrade your stage needed.
Savings calculator
See how much your festival would save
Set your ticket volume and average price. The savings are often enough to fund another headliner.
- Biggest savingsEventbrite$62,017/year
in total ticketing fees
Save $39,219/yearwith Equaticket vs. Eventbrite
- TicketSpice$31,750/year
in total ticketing fees
Save $8,952/yearwith Equaticket vs. TicketSpice
- Ticket Tailor$30,350/year
in total ticketing fees
Save $7,552/yearwith Equaticket vs. Ticket Tailor
Total Savings
$7,552 – $39,219/year
or $37,760 – $196,093 over 5 years
Calculations based on total fees. All platforms include payment processing via Stripe (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) unless otherwise noted. Eventbrite bundles processing into their fee. Equaticket subscription billed quarterly. Competitor pricing verified March 2026.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Gate and zone management is included on all paid plans. Assign different staff to different entrances, each scanning on their own device, all synced in real time.
No. Equaticket charges a flat monthly subscription, billed quarterly. We take nothing from each ticket sold. Your attendees pay exactly the price you set, with no added booking fees from us. Stripe payment processing applies at their standard rate (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction).
The Free tier is completely free with no time limit. It includes 50 tickets per 30 days, unlimited events, QR check-in, and the embeddable checkout widget. Paid plans start at $29/mo (Starter, billed quarterly at $87) for up to 750 tickets per quarter. No credit card required to sign up.
Yes. Every Equaticket plan includes an embeddable checkout widget. Paste a single script tag into your site — WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, or any HTML page — and the ticket purchase flow runs directly on your site. Buyers never leave your domain.
Every ticket includes a unique QR code. Your staff scan it using any smartphone camera through our check-in app — no hardware required, no app store download needed. Paid plans include real-time multi-device sync, so multiple scanners at multiple gates stay in sync instantly with no double-entries.
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