Humanitix vs pretix

Humanitix is an event ticketing platform that dedicates all profits from booking fees to charity. Hosts can set up unlimited ticket types, reserved seating, merchandise sales, gift cards, invoicing and waitlists. Event management tools include audience emails, guest and refund handling, later ticket assignment, and sales reports and analytics. Promotion features include website ticket widgets, promotional and affiliate codes, email tools and accessibility features. Integration guides cover Mailchimp, Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier, Meta Pixel, Google Tag Manager and analytics platforms. Its public read-only API retrieves event, order, ticket and tag information for events owned by or shared with an account. The free Humanitix for Hosts app on iOS and Android supports tracking, check-in and ticket sales. Check-in requires Android 7.0 or later or iOS 13.0 or later; Tap to Pay has additional device and operating-system requirements. Free events have no ticket fee. Standard charges $0.99 per paid ticket plus a 2.1% booking fee; Charities & Schools charges $0.99 per paid ticket plus a 1% booking fee. Payment processing is listed separately at 2.9% + $0.30.

pretix is an event registration and ticketing service for in-person events. Organizers can create registration forms, issue tickets, send attendee email, use exhibitor tools, and check attendees in onsite. It does not include an attendee app. The listed platforms are web, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. pretix offers a free plan. The pretix Community plan lists unlimited ticket volume and unlimited administrative users, though no price is listed. pretix Hosted also has no listed price and includes 500 free tickets per calendar year. A separate pretix Hosted free-ticket distribution plan costs €0.50 a month; the first 500 free tickets per year carry no fee, and the quota increases with each paid ticket. The maker is pretix, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. For organizers, the listed tools cover registration, ticketing, and onsite check-in, while attendee-facing access is limited by the absence of an attendee app.