Chobble Tickets is a self-hosted, open-source event ticketing system for organisers who want to sell paid and free tickets online without paying a per-ticket platform fee. Card payments go directly to the organiser's own Stripe, Square, or SumUp account, and attendees check in with QR scanning plus Apple and Google wallet passes. It suits independent venues, community organisers, and small teams running live events on a tight budget.[1][2]
Quick verdict
Independent venues and community organisers selling paid tickets online benefit most from Chobble Tickets. The decisive capability is the money flow: buyers pay the organiser's own payment account, so Chobble takes no per-ticket cut on top of standard processing. Organisers who need an established marketplace audience, a mature native scanner app today, or fully managed hand-holding should choose something else. If keeping every pound of the ticket price matters more than marketplace discovery, choose Chobble Tickets; if built-in demand and a polished native app matter more, choose Eventbrite or Ticket Tailor instead.[1][2][3][4]
Key features
No per-ticket platform fee Unlimited paid, free, and custom-amount donation listings, with card takings settling into the organiser's own Stripe, Square, or SumUp account instead of passing through a platform cut.[1][2]
Checkout anywhere Sell through hosted pages on tickets.chobble.com or drop an embeddable widget into an existing site, where it inherits the site's own styles.[1]
Discounts and access control Discount and access codes, capacity limits per listing, and Event Series pages that group related events together.[1]
Seating and venues Seat selection for seated venues plus a Venue Manager for organisers running events across multiple rooms or sites.[1]
Door check-in An easy scanner app handles QR check-in including plus-ones, backed by Apple and Google wallet passes for attendees.[1][2]
Orders administration Refunds, ticket transfers, and admin-side attendee name edits, with CSV attendee export and portable JSON catalogue import and export.[1][2]
APIs and webhooks A public JSON API, an authenticated admin API, and outbound webhooks on every registration for connecting other tools.[1][2]
Team roles and languages Collaborator roles for owners, managers, editors, agents, and door scanners, with multilingual checkout in English, Spanish, French, and German set per event.[1]
Who will love it
Independent venues keeping revenue Organisers selling paid tickets online keep the full face value minus only standard payment processing, which is the product's central tradeoff.[1][2][3]
Community and charity organisers Free events cost nothing beyond hosting, and donation-style custom-amount listings fit fundraising without a platform share.[1][2]
Privacy-conscious self-hosters Attendee personal data is encrypted at rest, the full software is AGPL-3.0-only with no open core, and the organiser controls the deployment.[1][2]
Who should avoid it
Marketplace discovery Chobble provides the shop, not Eventbrite's browsing audience, so teams needing built-in demand should look elsewhere.[1][2]
Native app maturity The Android scanner app is still in development and Apple Wallet passes require the organiser's own Apple Developer account at 99 USD per year.[1][2]
Operational involvement Self-hosting needs a Deno or Docker-capable environment, and paid listings still require the organiser's own payment-provider account.[1][2]
What the reports suggest
One inspected independent organiser review from an active Eventbrite user that migrated an event series to Chobble Tickets.
1 cited community source. A single independent organiser report from February 2026, not a Reddit or G2 sample. No Reddit or G2 original reports were found. One report is an anecdote and cannot establish prevalence; details may predate later 2026 development.
Elliott's Bouncy Castle Hire, an active Eventbrite user, reported moving an inflatable-day series to Chobble after Eventbrite fees cost roughly 500 GBP over two events, and described setup including template cloning as really smooth.[1]
The same February 2026 review reports multi-session handling works well for 400-capacity sessions, with three minor niggles at the time: card logos missing at checkout, no sale-end time setting, and American-style date display.[1]
Compatibility
Runtimes and data Runs on Bunny Edge Scripting or any Deno environment with data in libsql; attendee personal data is encrypted at rest.[1]
Payments and checkout Payments via Stripe, Square, or SumUp into the organiser's own account, with hosted checkout or an embedded widget plus Eventbrite and Ticket Tailor migrators.[1][2][3]
Questions worth asking
What is the best Chobble Tickets alternative for non-technical users?
Is Chobble Tickets really no-code?
How much does Chobble Tickets cost per month?
Sources and editorial review
Source research. Reviewed on October 9, 2026. Written by Sanjib Sah. AI assisted; reviewed by a human editor.
We have not run or tested this product.
One inspected independent organiser review from an active Eventbrite user that migrated an event series to Chobble Tickets. A single independent organiser report from February 2026, not a Reddit or G2 sample. No Reddit or G2 original reports were found. One report is an anecdote and cannot establish prevalence; details may predate later 2026 development.
- Sell tickets online with no per-ticket fees | Chobble Tickets
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official homepage: positioning against Eventbrite, Ticket Tailor and Tito, fee model, managed hosting price, AGPL licence, organiser reviews index.
- Every feature you need to sell tickets online | Chobble Tickets
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official feature reference: listings, codes, series, venues, seating, scanner, refunds, wallet, roles, languages, APIs.
- What is Chobble Tickets perfect for?
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official fit reference: audience, free-event terms, migrator, test mode, support channel.
- Send Apple and Google Wallet passes to your audience
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official wallet reference: Apple Developer account requirement and cost, Google Wallet needing no extra setup.
- New Ticket Platform; Initial Review - Elliott's Bouncy Castle Hire
community · Observed October 9, 2026 · Published February 13, 2026
Independent organiser review on the organiser's own site: Eventbrite fee comparison, setup experience, session handling, minor issues. Dated 13 February 2026; not a Reddit or G2 report.
- chobbledotcom/tickets: a self-hostable open-source ticket shop
official · Observed October 9, 2026
Official repository: AGPL-3.0-only licence, no open core, Deno and Docker deployment, libsql storage, encrypted PII, payment providers, hosted pricing.
Compared with these products
No explicit proprietary baseline is recorded.