Guestii vs Eventbrite

For a venue running recurring club nights, yes, because it covers the parts of the night Eventbrite does not. Guestii sells tickets from your own page, then runs the guestlist, the QR scanner, walk-in card payments at reception, tables and booths, promoter attribution and commission payouts on the same guest record. Eventbrite handles the ticket and the scan well, and has a Guest List tool for VIP names, but per-promoter lists, minimum spend on a table and commission settlement have no native equivalent, so they end up in promo codes and a spreadsheet beside the door. If what you actually need is a consumer marketplace to find you an audience for a one-off event, Eventbrite is the better fit.

Not in Australia. Eventbrite's own fee table lists its payment processing fee as not applicable for Australian payout accounts, so the 5.35% plus $1.19 already covers taking the card payment. It is billed separately in some other markets: a further 2.9% an order in the United States and Canada, and 2.4% in New Zealand. That is why $2.80 on a $30 ticket is a like-for-like number against Guestii's $1.10, which is 50c plus about 2.0% Square processing. The same applies at the door, where Eventbrite's A$1.00 plus 2% an order has no separate processing charge in Australia.

Guestii charges a flat 50c per paid entry plus Square processing of about 2.0% online, so a $30 ticket carries $1.10 in fees. Eventbrite's published Australian rate is 5.35% plus $1.19, which is $2.80 on the same ticket, and that rate already includes card processing, so the two figures are comparable. Both fees are added at checkout and paid by the buyer. Because Eventbrite's percentage and its fixed amount are both higher, there is no ticket price at which it becomes the cheaper option. Guestii has no subscription and no per-seat fee. Free and comp entries carry no Guestii fee, and Eventbrite charges nothing on free tickets either.

On Guestii, the next business day. Payments run through Square into your own Square account, registered in your venue's name, rather than being held by a platform until after the event. Guestii never holds the funds and cannot freeze a payout. Eventbrite sends its payout three business days after the event ends, and its help centre puts arrival at 8 to 10 business days after that for banks outside the United States, with earlier schedules available only to organisers who have already run a paid event.

Bending Spoons completed its purchase of Eventbrite on 10 March 2026, taking it private and off the New York Stock Exchange, and co-founder Julia Hartz left the board. Published ticket fees have not changed since. It is worth knowing rather than a reason to move on its own: a platform under new private ownership makes its pricing and roadmap decisions without public reporting, and the pay-per-event Flex plan was already retired before the deal closed.

You lose marketplace discovery, which is a genuine trade-off if you rely on strangers finding your event. What you gain is the guest record: every buyer becomes a profile you own, with visit history, promoter attribution and spend, which is what makes re-invitation work. On Eventbrite the attendee relationship is shared with the platform, which uses it to market other events, and your own event page carries recommendations for other listings. Most venues with an existing crowd find their own page and their promoters outperform a public feed anyway.