POSH is an events and ticketing platform with a strong social and discovery angle, popular with independent party promoters. Guestii is the software a venue runs its whole night on, with ticketing included. If you are choosing between them, you are usually deciding whether you need an audience or an operating system.
POSH's all-in fee works out at roughly 9% plus $0.93 a ticket, which is about $3.63 on a $30 ticket. Guestii's flat 50c plus about 2.0% Square processing is $1.10 on the same ticket. As with any percentage model, the gap widens as your prices rise.
The bigger difference is scope, and not where you would expect. POSH does run a door: QR scanning from any phone on a shared PIN, a private guestlist with plus-ones, and card payments at the entrance. What it has no equivalent for is a minimum spend tracked per table through the night, or bar spend tied back to the guest who drank it.
Money also moves differently. Guestii payments settle into your own Square account the next business day, so the platform never holds your takings. POSH holds the balance and clears a standard payout in two to three business days, or instantly for a 5% fee.
Guestii's full feature list, not a curated one. POSH is marked as shipping a feature wherever it genuinely does, because the rows where it does not are only worth reading if the rest are fair.
| Feature | Guestii | POSH |
|---|---|---|
| Ticketing and pricing | ||
| Multiple ticket types per event, with hard caps | Yes |
Yes |
| Timed releases, announced then opened on schedule | Yes |
Yes |
| Waitlist once a ticket type caps out | Yes |
Yes |
| Entry pricing that steps up by arrival window | Yes |
Not checked |
| Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout | Yes |
Yes |
| Wallet pass issued the moment someone buys | Yes |
Yes |
| Recurring weekly nights configured once | Yes |
PartlyA series generates every date, but ticket tiers, comps, promo codes and guestlists have to be set up again in each one |
| Your brand and your channel | ||
| Your own public venue page, with live calendar | Yes |
PartlyA customisable event page, hosted on posh.vip |
| Checkout embedded white-labelled on your own site | Yes |
PartlyAn iframe embed of your POSH page, rather than a checkout under your own brand |
| Sell without being listed in a public marketplace | Yes |
PartlyTiers can be hidden or password-gated, but the platform is a consumer marketplace by design |
| No competing events shown to your buyers | Yes |
NoThe marketplace feed recommends events by category and algorithm |
| Guestlists, comps and requests | ||
| Guestlist management at club volume | Yes |
YesA private guestlist with plus-one allowances, checked in from web or app |
| Comp entries that do not consume paid inventory | Yes |
Yes |
| Public guestlist requests, with triage and approval | Yes |
YesRequire Approval holds paid requests and free RSVPs until you review them |
| Per-promoter lists synced live to reception | Yes |
PartlyEach affiliate has a referred-attendee ledger, though it is not a list the door works from |
| Trackable, expirable, single-use links for VIPs | Yes |
PartlyPromo codes with use limits, uploaded by CSV |
| Tables, booths and bottle service | ||
| Floor plan with real table inventory | Yes |
PartlyAn aerial table map, but their support team has to build it from a floor plan you email in |
| Minimum spend tracked per table through the night | Yes |
NoTables are sold as a ticket type, with no minimum spend behind them |
| Bottle service and VIP requests with deposits | Yes |
PartlySold upfront as a table purchase rather than requested against a deposit |
| The door | ||
| QR admission scanning | Yes |
Yes |
| Several doors scanning at once, synced live | Yes |
YesOne shared scanner PIN across as many phones as you like |
| Keeps scanning when the connection drops | Yes |
Not checked |
| Live capacity and door dashboard | Yes |
Yes |
| Walk-in card payments at reception | Yes |
YesIn-person payments at the door |
| Reception can override the door price live | Yes |
Not checked |
| Money and settlement | ||
| Takings land in your own merchant account | Yes |
NoPOSH processes the payment and holds the balance until you request a payout |
| Settled the next business day | Yes |
PartlyStandard payouts clear in 2 to 3 business days, or instantly for a 5% fee. Daily payouts need US$1,000 of sales and approval |
| Platform never holds or reserves your funds | Yes |
NoFunds pend in a POSH balance, and their terms promise proceeds no later than five business days after the event |
| Nothing charged on free or comp entries | Yes |
YesNo platform fee on free events or RSVPs |
| Promoters | ||
| Every sale attributed to the promoter who drove it | Yes |
YesKickback gives each promoter their own tracking link, with live clicks and revenue |
| Commission calculated per promoter, per night | Yes |
PartlySet as a percentage or a flat amount, per ticket or per order, but built again for every event rather than once per venue |
| Bulk promoter payouts as bank files | Yes |
PartlyPaid automatically through Stripe, but POSH keeps 20% of every commission and each promoter sets up their own card |
| Promoters get their own dashboard and public profile | Yes |
PartlyPromoters get a POSH profile and their own link, while the performance detail stays organiser-side |
| The guest record | ||
| One permanent guest profile, carried across nights | Yes |
PartlyBrand-level analytics across a series, rather than a profile per guest |
| Bar spend tied back to the guest who drank it | Yes |
NoNo point-of-sale link |
| Works with the Square till your bar already runs | Yes |
NoNo Square integration |
| The guest record belongs to the venue alone | Yes |
PartlyYou receive attendee data, and buyers remain POSH account holders inside its marketplace |
| Message your own list without a daily cap | Yes |
YesUnlimited SMS blasts included |
| Takings and promoter payments synced to Xero | Yes |
Not checked |
Both platforms add the fee at checkout, so this is money out of your guest's pocket rather than yours. A cheaper checkout sells through faster.
| Online ticket fees | Guestii | POSH |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee per paid ticketWhat the platform takes on every sale | 50c + 2.0% Square | ~9% + $0.93 |
| Fee on a $30 ticketAdded at checkout, paid by the buyer | $1.10 | $3.63 |
| What the buyer pays at checkoutOn the same $30 ticket | $31.10 | $33.63 |
| Fees your guests pay across 50,000 paid entriesOne year at club volume, about 960 a week | $55,000 | $181,500 |
POSH does not publish a rate card, so this is reverse-engineered from their ticket builder (a $30 display price grosses $26.37, implying a $3.63 fee), which fits a ~9% + $0.93 all-in model. Rates checked August 2026. Guestii figures use 50c flat plus Square processing at our negotiated rate of 2.0% online; Square's published Australian rate is 2.2%, so your own rate may differ. Run your own ticket price and volume through the pricing calculator.
Export your guest database and promoter roster to CSV and import both. Your history comes with you rather than starting from zero.
Link your own Square account in a few clicks, or we set one up. Payments settle into your account, in your venue's name, the next business day.
Put a single event through Guestii before you move the whole calendar. Scanner, walk-ins, promoter attribution and settlement, all on one night.
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. POSH does not publish a rate card, but their ticket builder implies an all-in fee of roughly 9% plus $0.93, which is about $3.63 on the same ticket. Both fees are added at checkout and paid by the buyer, and Guestii has no subscription, no per-seat fee and no charge on free or comp guestlist entries.
For a venue, yes. Guestii includes full online ticketing: multiple ticket types per event, hard caps, timed releases, waitlists, access codes, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and an Apple or Google Wallet pass issued on purchase. What it does not include is a consumer marketplace, because tickets sell from your own page rather than a public discovery feed.
Yes. Each promoter gets their own login and a public profile at gst.li/name, with a live guest count and an earnings tracker that moves with the door. Hosts run teams of promoters, invite and remove members, and earn their own commissions. Settled commissions pay out as a bulk-pay bank file from your own account, with a Xero sync for the books.
The next business day. Payments run through Square into your own Square account, registered in your venue's name, rather than sitting with the platform. Guestii never holds the funds and cannot freeze a payout.
Book a 30-min demo. Bring last Saturday's numbers and we'll show you what the same night looks like on Guestii.