Chobble Tickets

Why Chobble Tickets?

Most ticketing platforms make their money by taking a cut of every ticket you sell by inserting themselves in the sale.

Eventbrite's fees are currently around 6.95% + £0.49 per paid ticket. So if you sell:

• 50 tickets at £5 each that's roughly £59 in Eventbrite fees
• 200 tickets at £10 each that's roughly £237 in Eventbrite fees
• 500 tickets at £15 each that's roughly £765 in Eventbrite fees

With Chobble Tickets, you pay £50/year regardless of how many tickets you sell or how many events you run. I'm not involved in your sales at all - the money goes straight to your account.

The only other fees are Stripe or Square's standard payment processing charges (for Stripe that's 1.5% + 20p per transaction in the UK).

If you're a community group, charity, artist or musician, that drops to just £25/year.

How it works

The £50/year gets you everything you need to start selling tickets:

1. I set you up with your own Chobble Tickets instance
2. You create your admin password which encrypts your attendee records
3. You create events through a straightforward interface, setting the name, capacity, dates, ticket price, and what info you need from attendees
4. You embed it into your own website (as an iframe) or share a direct booking link
5. Attendees book tickets and pay online. They get a confirmation email with their unique QR code ticket
6. You manage everything from checking people in by scanning QR codes, to tracking capacity, exporting attendee lists, and more

It's fully self-service. You don't need to tell me anything about your events or ask permission to create new ones. The admin panel is yours to use however you like.

I keep the platform running and maintained as part of the £50/year, but at that price I can't offer hands-on support. If you need help embedding it into your site or want me to tweak something, that's a quick job at my standard rates - £200/hr, or £100/hr for community groups, charities, artists and musicians.

Features

I'm always adding and tweaking things but this list is accurate in February 2026.

QR code check-in

Every ticket gets a unique URL and QR code. At the door, your staff or volunteers just log into the site and scan the code with their phone. The system confirms the ticket is valid and marks it as checked in. It's really easy.

No overbooking

The system uses "atomic" capacity checks, which means two people can't grab the last ticket at the same time. Tickets are reserved for five minutes for the visitor to complete their sale.

Multi-event bookings

You can set up a single booking URL that lets attendees browse and book multiple events in one checkout.

Registration deadlines

You can set a registration deadline so bookings close when you want them to.

CSVs & Webhooks

You can download your full attendee list as a CSV file whenever you like, or set up a webhook to trigger any type of web event when people register.

Configurable contact fields

You can collect the attendee's name, email, phone, address, special requests, or any combination of those - and that data is all exported to the CSVs and webhooks too.

Payment processing

Stripe is the default payment processor and works great for most events. Square is also supported if you prefer it. For free events, you don't need to set up any payment integration at all, and attendees just register and get their tickets.

Email confirmations

Attendees get a simple confirmation email when they book with a link to their ticket. The emails come from an address I manage, with the reply-to set to your address so any replies go straight to you. This is handled through webhooks using Automatisch and Notifuse, and you could set up your own email pipeline if you wanted to. If you'd like custom email templates, I can do that as part of a paid customisation job.

Activity logs

The admin panel keeps a log of actions taken, so if you're running events with a committee or team, you've got a clear record of what happened and when.

Duplicate events

Running a similar event next month? Copy an existing event's configuration in one click rather than setting everything up from scratch.

Invite managers

If you've got a team helping to run events, the owner can invite additional managers to the admin panel via time-limited invitation links.

Daily Events & Holidays

If you've got events which repeat each week you can set a schedule up and set holidays to let visitors book for upcoming events.

Refunds & Transparency

You can refund payments or view payment IDs to view the payments in your payment system's dashboard.

Editing Attendees

You can manually add attendees to events or edit their data if something needs correcting.

See it in action

View a live demo ticket →

The platform runs on Bunny Edge Scripting, which means it loads fast for your attendees no matter where they are. It's built to handle events of any size, from a 20-person workshop to a 2,000-person festival.

Pricing

£50/year. That's it. No setup fees, no per-ticket charges, no hidden costs. This covers your own Chobble Tickets instance, ongoing maintenance, and as many events and tickets as you need. When you renew for another year, I'll upgrade you to the latest version.

50% off for community groups, charities, artists and musicians, at just £25/year.

The only additional cost is Stripe's standard processing fee of 1.5% + 20p per transaction (UK rates) for paid events. This goes directly to Stripe, and Chobble doesn't add anything on top. Free events have no fees at all.

Need hands-on help?

If you want me to embed the ticket system into your website, customise the styling, or make other tweaks, I will bill you at my hourly rate (by the half hour):

• £200 at my standard rate
• £100 for community groups, charities, artists and musicians

If you need a website to embed your tickets into, check out my static website or charity web development services.

The code is open source and released under the AGPLv3 license, so any other nerd can modify it too - as long as their code is also open source.

Customisation

The base £50/year gets you the standard Chobble Tickets platform, which handles most use cases out of the box. But if you need something more, I'm happy to customise:

• Custom branding and styling to match your organisation's look
• Custom form fields for dietary requirements, accessibility needs, t-shirt sizes, or whatever your event requires
• Custom domains so you can use tickets.yourorg.com instead of a strange-looking Bunny CDN domain
• Website integration with embedded widgets and custom styling to blend seamlessly with your existing site
• Anything else you can think of, just ask

Customisation work is charged at my standard rates. And here's a bonus: if you suggest a feature that's good enough to build into the base platform for everyone, I'll halve the development cost for you.

Open source

Chobble Tickets is fully open source under the AGPL licence. You can read every line of code that handles your attendees' data. If you're technically inclined, you can even host it yourself for free.

Attendee data (names, emails, phone numbers, etc) is encrypted at rest using strong encryption. Only authenticated administrators with the private key can decrypt it, so it can't be read from the database directly. This isn't just good practice, it means that even in the unlikely event of a data breach, personal information stays protected.

The entire platform builds into a single JavaScript file and runs on Bunny.net, using their edge scripting for the application and their hosted databases for storage. The whole infrastructure runs through Bunny, which keeps it fast and very cheap to operate. If you want to dig into the technical details, the GitHub repository has everything.