The free alternative to Stage Stubs
Stage Stubs is built for dance studios and school shows and is free to the organiser, but buyers pay a percentage booking fee on every ticket and payouts run weekly. Ticketable charges no booking fee at all and pays into your own account daily.
Start selling free →An 8% booking fee on a £15 recital ticket is about £1.20 your families pay on top — roughly £360 across 300 seats. With Ticketable there is no booking fee, so a multi-night run does not quietly cost your parents hundreds extra.
Try the live savings calculator →How can it be free?
Running a ticketing platform isn’t as expensive as the big players make out. Ticketable covers its costs through small, tasteful, non-intrusive advertising — for example a discreet sponsor logo on the printable ticket. Nothing on your event page, and nothing that interrupts your buyer. That’s the only thing subsidising the platform — so you keep every penny of your ticket revenue.
Ticketable vs Stage Stubs — your questions
Is Ticketable suitable for a dance recital or school show?
Yes. Reserved-capacity shows, multiple performances of the same production, and free or donation-based events all work. Each performance is its own event with its own capacity and QR check-in, and there is no platform fee on any of them.
Is Ticketable cheaper than Stage Stubs?
For your audience, yes. Stage Stubs charges roughly 8% per ticket in the UK and Europe. Ticketable charges 0% and passes Stripe's processing through at cost, so the saving goes to the families buying the tickets — or to you, if you price it in.
How quickly do we get the money?
Daily. Payments go into your own Stripe account and Stripe pays out on a daily rolling basis, rather than a weekly platform settlement — useful when you are paying for costumes, venue hire or lighting before the show.
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Start selling tickets free →Fee comparison based on published pricing as of May 2026, shown in your local currency; figures are illustrative — please check each provider’s current pricing. Stripe processing shown at the headline rate (1.5% + 20p per transaction). Stage Stubs is a trademark of its respective owner; Ticketable is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by Stage Stubs.