Ticketing without commission
Commission on ticket sales takes a share of the reason you held the event, and for a volunteer organisation that share is the whole margin.
Commission is a percentage of the ticket price taken by the platform. Ticketing without commission means the platform takes no share of what you sell and charges for the software itself instead, usually as a flat monthly fee. What the ticket earns then belongs to the event.
Why a percentage hurts a small organiser
A community event usually runs on a thin margin over the hall hire, the licence and the food. A percentage of the gross comes off the top of that, which means it takes a much larger share of the surplus than it does of the turnover.
Charity fundraiser tickets show it at its starkest. Money raised for a cause loses a slice before it ever reaches the cause, and explaining that to the people who bought the tickets is nobody's favourite part of the year.
What you are actually paying for
The work a platform does is roughly the same whether a ticket costs a little or a lot, and roughly the same for the hundredth ticket as for the first. A charge that follows the price rather than the work is a pricing choice, not a cost.
A flat monthly fee turns the question into a budget line. You know what the year costs before it starts, and the decision to add a second night is about the room and the volunteers rather than about the bill.
What Passavo takes
We take no commission and nothing per ticket sold. You pay a flat amount per month, and the ticket price goes into your own account through your own payment provider.
The free plan carries a ceiling of paid tickets per event, so a small organisation can sell tickets for free within it. Above the ceiling you unlock that one event or move to a paid plan, and still pay nothing per ticket.
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Common questions
Is there really no charge per ticket?
No charge per ticket and no percentage of the price. The monthly amount for your plan is what you pay us, and nothing else is added.
What does the payment provider cost then?
They charge you per transaction under your own agreement with them. That cost exists whichever ticketing software you use.