Pricing
1% of the ticket price. That is the whole price list.
No booking fee on your attendees, no monthly minimum, no tiers, no setup fee and no contract. Free until your first ticket sells.
A flat 1% of ticket sales, VAT included. Free events cost nothing. Stripe's card fee is separate, paid to Stripe.
| Attendee pays | £150.00 |
|---|---|
| Booking fee added to the attendee | £0.00 |
| Presso Events, 1% | £1.50 |
| Stripe card fee, paid to Stripe | £2.45 |
| You keep | £146.05 |
Eventbrite's UK fee (6.95% + 59p per ticket) includes payment processing, from its UK fees page, checked 21/10/2026. Stripe UK standard card: 1.5% + 20p.
01Worked example
One event, worked through.
Three hundred tickets at the same price, at the rates on this page. Each fee is worked out per ticket and then added up, which is how a per-ticket fixed fee is billed.
On £15,000 of ticket sales, Presso Events takes £150.00and Stripe's card fee is £285.00: £435.00 together. Eventbrite's standard UK fee on the same tickets, card processing included, is £1,221.00, which is £786.00 more than our fee plus Stripe's.
| Fee | Presso Events | Eventbrite UK |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | £150.00 | £1,221.00 |
| Card processing | £285.00 | included |
| Total | £435.00 | £1,221.00 |
1% on Presso Events, 6.95% + 59p per ticket on Eventbrite, per ticket and summed.Eventbrite's UK fee (6.95% + 59p per ticket) includes payment processing, from its UK fees page, checked 21/10/2026. Stripe UK standard card: 1.5% + 20p.
02Against Eventbrite
The fees on one ticket, at six prices.
Our 1% plus Stripe's card fee (1.5% + 20p), against Eventbrite's standard UK fee (6.95% + 59p), which already includes card processing. Both columns are everything you pay on one ticket, so the comparison is like for like.
Named, dated comparisons with other platforms live on the alternatives pages.
| Ticket price | Presso Events + Stripe (1% + 1.5% + 20p) | Eventbrite UK, all-in (6.95% + 59p per ticket) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| £10.00 | £0.45 | £1.29 | £0.84 |
| £25.00 | £0.83 | £2.33 | £1.50 |
| £50.00 | £1.45 | £4.07 | £2.62 |
| £100.00 | £2.70 | £7.54 | £4.84 |
| £150.00 | £3.95 | £11.02 | £7.07 |
| £250.00 | £6.45 | £17.97 | £11.52 |
Eventbrite's UK fee (6.95% + 59p per ticket) includes payment processing, from its UK fees page, checked 21/10/2026. Stripe UK standard card: 1.5% + 20p.
03Fee calculator
Move the sliders.
Set the third slider to whatever your current platform charges. It is on your last invoice, and it is the only number in this calculator we could get wrong.
Standard Stripe processing applies on top, paid to Stripe. No booking fee is added to your attendees.
Example: 300 tickets at £50, against a platform charging 5%.
- Ticket revenue
- £15,000
- Presso Events · 1%
- £150.00
- Another platform · 5%
- £750.00
- Difference on this one event
- £600.00
04Before you compare
Seven questions worth asking any platform.
Including this one. Our answers are in the second column; take the first column to anybody else's pricing page and see how far you get.
| Ask | Presso Events | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| What is the platform fee, as a number? | A flat 1%, published on this page | Much of this market will not give you a figure without a sales call. |
| Is a booking fee added to the attendee? | No. The attendee pays the ticket price you set | A low platform fee and a per-ticket attendee fee is a common pairing. Add both before comparing. |
| Is there a minimum, a floor or a monthly charge? | None of the three | A percentage with a per-ticket floor behaves like a flat fee on cheap tickets. |
| Whose account does the money land in? | Yours. We are not the merchant of record | If it lands in theirs, you are waiting on their payout schedule and carrying their counterparty risk. |
| Who owns the attendee list? | You. Export it to CSV whenever you like | Ask specifically whether they market to your buyers. |
| Is the attendee app included or an add-on? | Included, browser-based, no download | Event apps are frequently priced separately, per event. |
| Is there a contract or notice period? | Neither | Annual contracts are normal at the top of this market. |
05Questions
The short answers.
What does Presso Events cost?
A flat 1% of ticket sales, VAT inclusive. There is no minimum, no per-attendee charge, no tiers, no setup fee, no monthly fee and no contract. Stripe charges its own standard processing on top, paid directly to Stripe, exactly as it would anywhere else.
Is 1% really all you take?
Yes. One percent of the ticket price, taken as each payment passes into your Stripe account, and no booking fee added to your attendees. There is no second line on the bill.
What happens with free events?
Free tickets are free. The fee is a percentage of ticket revenue, so no revenue means no fee, and you still get the Event Portal, the checkout and the attendee app.
Who holds the money?
You do. Payments go into your own Stripe account and our fee is taken on the way past. Presso Network Ltd is not the merchant of record, never holds your funds, and there is no payout schedule to wait on: Stripe pays you out on your own Stripe timetable.
What do I need to run this?
A Stripe account, or five minutes to create one during setup. If you want to drive it by talking to an AI you also need a subscription to an assistant that supports MCP connectors, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. You run everything by talking to it.
Can I use a dashboard instead of talking to it?
Presso Events is built to be run from an AI assistant: you connect Claude, ChatGPT or another one, and it reads and changes your events, tickets, orders and payouts for you. The connect guide on this site takes about five minutes.
What happens to the fee if I refund a ticket?
Refund the ticket in the portal or through your AI and the platform fee on that ticket is refunded with it. We do not keep a fee on a sale that did not stand.
Free until your first ticket sells