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Stop Feeding the Ticketing Giants: Why Presso Ticket Links Are the Only Sane
This post is from the Presso Tickets era and is kept as an archive. Presso Tickets was not rebranded or discontinued - it was expanded into Presso Events, and ticketing is now simply part of that one product. There is no separate Tickets service, tier or price. The fee described below is still right: a flat 1% of ticket sales. Everything else should be read as history. Current pricing is at presso.events/pricing. Noted 21/08/2026.
Enough is enough.
If you sell tickets through a big marketplace, a real slice of every sale stays with the platform rather than reaching you. It is a service fee, and it is disclosed - the question is whether it is worth what you get back for it.
Eventbrite’s published UK fee is 6.95% + £0.59 per paid ticket, with no published UK cap (Eventbrite UK pricing, seen 07/08/2026). Presso Events charges a flat 1%.
The Maths Don’t Lie
Let’s say you sell 1,000 tickets at £50 each. That’s £50,000.
- Eventbrite: about £4,065 (6.95% + £0.59 a ticket, seen 07/08/2026)
- Presso Events: £500 (a flat 1%)
That is roughly £3,500 on one event. Figures for other platforms are deliberately not listed here: we only publish a competitor’s fee when we have checked it ourselves and can say when. The ones we have checked are on the comparisons pages, each with its date and with a section on when the other platform is the better choice.
They’re Not Just Taking Your Money
They keep the audience relationship too.
Every time someone buys through their platform, they’re building THEIR email list. You’re driving traffic to THEIR website. You’re making THEIR brand stronger.
You do the work. They get the customers. How is that fair?
Payment Links Change Everything
Forget their fancy platforms. You don’t need them.
Drop a Presso link anywhere. Email it. Post it. QR code it. Text it to your mates.
- No redirects to someone else’s site
- No ugly branding covering your event
- No waiting weeks for your own money
- Just clean, simple ticket sales
Multi-Currency Without the Drama
Selling in London? Use GBP. Copenhagen event? DKK works fine. Berlin gig? EUR sorted.
Try doing that smoothly on the big platforms. Good luck.
Your Audience, Your Rules
Here’s what really winds us up: These platforms sell you the myth of “audience reach.”
Rubbish.
YOU bring the audience. YOU do the marketing. YOU create the buzz.
They just sit there taking a cut whilst you do all the graft.
With Presso, every sale builds YOUR database. Every customer stays yours. Forever.
Getting Started Takes 5 Minutes
- Sign up at presso.events
- Make your ticket link
- Stick it everywhere
- Watch sales roll in
- Keep 97.5% of everything
No setup fees. No monthly costs. No lock-in contracts.
The Bottom Line
Traditional platforms are parasites. They feed off your hard work.
Presso gives you the tools. You keep the money. You own the audience.
For UK and EU organisers who actually care about profit margins, this isn’t even a choice.
Stop feeding the giants. Start feeding yourself.