The Eventbrite alternative
- Eventbrite: 3.7% + $1.79 on every paid ticket
- Here: from US$29 per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go, or US$399 per seat a month on Growth with no sales fees
- Sells what Eventbrite cannot: booths, floor space, sponsorships
- Money settles in your own Stripe account, on your schedule
- Event payables and reconciliation automated behind the show
- A customer service agent that answers your buyers for you
Crowd is end-to-end commerce and finance technology for exhibitions, events and festivals: tickets, exhibitor booths and sponsorships through one checkout, with budgets, supplier payments, the door and reconciliation behind it.
Booth D22 soldModern Home Expo · $1,200Ticket soldGeneral admission · $45Sponsorship securedGold package · $8,000Supplier paidAcme AV · $4,200Crowd is end-to-end commerce and finance technology for exhibitions, events and festivals: tickets, booths and sponsorships through one checkout, with budgets, supplier payments, the door and reconciliation behind it.
Every payment settles directly to the organiser’s own Stripe account.
Tickets are not all you have for sale.
Somewhere between the checkout and the IPO, ticketing platforms forgot the booths and sponsorships that actually fund a show. Here is where that leaves you.
| What your show needs | Eventbrite | Crowd |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | 3.7% + $1.79 on every paid ticket (published US standard, Aug 2026) | from US$29 per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go, or US$399 per seat a month on Growth with no sales fees |
| Exhibitor booths & floor space | Not available | Booth types, applications, approvals, floor plan placement |
| Sponsorship packages | Not available | Sold through the same checkout, with instalments |
| Instalment plans | Not available | Automated instalments for booths and sponsorships |
| Cash flow | Ticket revenue sits with the platform until payout | Settles in your own Stripe account; standard, drip or manual payouts |
| Supplier payments | Not available | Budgets, invoice capture and scheduled supplier payments |
| On-site registration | Check-in app | QR scanning, walk-up sales, badge printing, kiosk self check-in |
| Attendee support | You answer attendee email yourself | A customer service agent on your own AI account drafts every reply from your event; you approve |
Eventbrite details reflect their public product and published standard US pricing as at August 2026. Always confirm current rates on eventbrite.com.
Slide your volume. Watch the fees move.
Ticketing platform fees only, over a year of sales; card processing applies on every platform and is excluded on all sides. Crowd covers every event on the one licence. Competitor figures are their published standard rates as at August 2026 (Eventeny prices in USD) and change at their discretion; check each platform for current pricing.
A commerce layer for exhibitions and events.
Money in
Your website
Event pages and checkout, embedded on your own site
Tickets
Sold on your event page
Booths and floor space
Deposit or pay in full
Sponsorships
Collected on schedule
Applications
Approve who can buy tickets, booths and sponsorships
Crowd workspace
Sell out on autopilot
Claude connector (MCP)
Live
Connect your own Claude to your workspace: revenue, orders, invoices and applications on tap.
Marketing suite
In beta
Meta Ads and Google Ads connected: spend, conversions and return on ad spend, in your workspace.
Customer Service Agent
Live
Answers your buyers around the clock; you approve every reply.
Your Stripe account
Sales settle directly in your own account. Crowd never holds the money. Payouts and supplier payments run on Stripe rails, with automatic instalment plans for booths and sponsorships.
Venue
Scheduled payments
Suppliers
Scheduled payments
Crew
Scheduled payments
Your Xero ledger
Daily sales post into your own Xero as draft invoices, tagged per event, ready to reconcile against payouts and supplier payments.
Money out
Event commerce suite
Attendee tickets and passes
Modern Home Expo
Friday 28 August, 10:00 am, Melbourne
Payment method
Card
Card information
Tickets arrive by email with wallet passes and a QR for the gate.
Embedded checkout, and every ticket lands in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet
Choose your payout schedule
Sales settle into your own Stripe account. Change the schedule whenever it suits the show.
Standard
Daily
Daily
Drip
25% of sales paid out daily
25% of sales
paid out daily
Manual
Pay out on your own schedule
Pay out on your
own schedule
Payout details
Your own payouts never carry an Crowd fee.
Your payout schedule: standard, drip or manual
Exhibitor space
Booth A12, Modern Home Expo
Corner space, 3m x 3m, power included
Payment method
Card
Card information
15% deposit locks the space. The plan collects the rest.
The exhibitor gets a tax invoice and a payment plan they can see.
Exhibitors pay in full or by instalments
Set the booth payment plan
A deposit locks the space; the rest collects itself in the weeks before doors.
Auto-collect via Stripe
Each instalment charges itself on the day. Reminders go out first.
Accept deposits
Buyers can start with the deposit plan or pay in full.
Automated exhibitor instalment payments
Event sponsorships
Gold Partner, Modern Home Expo
Naming rights, main stage and 6 passes
Payment method
Card
Card information
50% on agreement. The balance collects on schedule.
Sponsor receives the agreement, tax invoice and schedule in one email.
Secure sponsorships, inject cash flow
Set the sponsorship plan
Half on agreement, the balance on schedule, every payment against the one tax invoice.
Auto-collect via Stripe
Each instalment charges itself on the day. Reminders go out first.
Accept deposits
Buyers can start with the deposit plan or pay in full.
More sponsorships, more capital
Real events, sold end to end
View a live demo event now
Open the ticket, booth, sponsorship and application pages for each event below.
Modern Home Expo
A three-day home, design and renovation show.
- 25,000+ attendees
- 500+ exhibitors
- Live design & renovation demos
Comic Lords Expo
A pop-culture convention: cosplay, comics and gaming.
- 40,000+ fans
- Artist Alley & celebrity guests
- Cosplay championship & panels
Track, pay out and reconcile event revenue.
Events financial automation
Crowd
Modern Home Expo
LYNN Events LLC
Admin
Revenue dashboard
Real revenue from paid orders across your show, live as sales complete.
Total revenue
Live$900,000.00of $750,000.00 goal 120%
Paid orders
2,860
Units sold
6,120
Avg order
$314
$125,000.00
of $300,000.00 goal
2,598 orders, 5,839 units
$600,000.00
of $650,000.00 goal
238 orders, 252 units
$175,000.00
of $200,000.00 goal
24 orders, 29 units
Net revenue
Door traffic
Busiest: Sat 18 Jul, 10:00 to 10:30 (412 check-ins)13,590 check-ins across four show days, in 30-minute slots. Darker means busier.
| Show day | 9:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 · Thu 16 Jul | 2,340 | |||||||||||||||
| Day 2 · Fri 17 Jul | 3,180 | |||||||||||||||
| Day 3 · Sat 18 Jul | 4,650 | |||||||||||||||
| Day 4 · Sun 19 Jul | 3,420 |
Accounting automation
Budget planner
Plan income and costs, track budgeted against actual, and see the projected margin.
Received invoices: 3 awaiting review
Open invoicesAvailable balance
$412,300.00
Pending
$38,500.00
Planned income
$860,000.00
Actual income
$900,000.00
From real paid sales
Budgeted cost
$390,000.00
Actual cost
$262,600.00
From approved invoices
Projected margin
$470,000.00
Cost lines
Add lineMain hall hire
120,000
Rigging and power
24,600
Main stage AV
41,200
Security and cleaning
9,800
Launch campaign
36,500
Bump-in and show crew
0
Exhibitor lounge
6,200
Wayfinding and fit-out
9,300
Public liability and permits
15,000
Reserve
0
| Category | Description | Budgeted | Actual | Variance | Allocation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venue hire | Main hall hire | 120,000 | 120,000 | $0.00 | Allocate | |
| Venue hire | Rigging and power | 28,000 | 24,600 | $3,400.00 | Allocate | |
| AV & Production | Main stage AV | 45,000 | 41,200 | $3,800.00 | Allocate | |
| Operations and logistics | Security and cleaning | 22,000 | 9,800 | $12,200.00 | Allocate | |
| Marketing and advertising | Launch campaign | 38,000 | 36,500 | $1,500.00 | Allocate | |
| Staffing & Crew | Bump-in and show crew | 30,000 | 0 | $30,000.00 | Allocate | |
| Catering & Hospitality | Exhibitor lounge | 18,000 | 6,200 | $11,800.00 | Allocate | |
| Design & Signage | Wayfinding and fit-out | 24,000 | 9,300 | $14,700.00 | Allocate | |
| Insurance & Permits | Public liability and permits | 15,000 | 15,000 | $0.00 | Allocate | |
| Contingency | Reserve | 50,000 | 0 | $50,000.00 | Allocate |
Exhibition and events invoicing
Invoices awaiting review
3 to reviewMCEC Venue final instalment
Matched to budget: Venue hire, Main hall hire
Acme AV Main stage AV progress claim
Matched to budget: AV & Production, Main stage AV
Bloom Studio Floral styling
Not in the budget yet
Invoices arrive by email, read themselves and land here matched to the right line. One approval allocates the cost and queues the payment.
Automated payments and reconciliation
Upcoming payments
Six weeks to doorsStaging Co
Floor build progress claim
$46,000.00Paid$46,000.00
MCEC
Venue final instalment
$60,000.00Scheduled$60,000.00
Acme AV
Main stage AV progress claim
$18,400.00On auto$18,400.00
Fork and Flame
Catering balance
$11,800.00On auto$11,800.00
Crew payroll
Bump-in and show days
$30,000.00Scheduled$30,000.00
Every payment runs from your Stripe balance on its date. Approvals upstream, money out on time, nothing typed twice.
Integrates directly to Xero
Simplified booth, ticket and sponsorship sales.
Invite exhibitors, automate their applications and instalment plans, then register them at bump-in: booth assigned, lanyards counted, passes printed.
Invite exhibitors to attend
Invite exhibitors
Send the link; each invite tracks from sent to applied to sold.
Approve and reject applications
Exhibitor applications
With applications on, buyers must be approved before they can pay for a booth.
Harper Lane trading as Coastal Ceramics
Booth B04, corner 3m x 3m
Marcus Chen trading as Chen Robotics
Booth C12, island 6m x 6m
Aria Sound trading as Aria Sound Pty Ltd
Booth C02, 6m x 3m
Priya Patel trading as Verde Living
Booth D08, 3m x 6m
Quickfit Tools trading as Quickfit Tools
Booth B11, 3m x 3m
Approved exhibitors get their checkout link the moment you say yes. Rejected ones get a courteous no, written for you.
Approve applications, automate the rest.
Exhibitor applications
Modern Home Expo · 312 received
Leah
Northshore Blinds
Corner near the entrance, B02 or B03, power for a demo
Mia
Salt and Stone Studio
Inline 3m x 3m, Pavilion A, any spot
Raj
Haven Solar
Island 6m x 6m beside the main stage
Islands are sold out. First in line if one frees up.
Approve and their booth checkout link goes out. Waitlist and they stay in line for the next spot.
Register everyone on site.
Event registration and check-in
Registration
The check-in desk for Modern Home Expo. Search the roster or scan at the gate; exhibitors bump in with lanyards counted against their allotment.
Attendees
4,812 checked inTicket check-in. Search the roster or scan tickets at the gate.
Exhibitors
212 of 252 bumped inBump-in desk. Booths, payment state, lanyards and exhibitor check-in.
Exhibitor desk
Coastal Ceramics
Booth B04
2 of 2 lanyardsBumped inChen Robotics
Booth C12
4 of 6 lanyardsBumped inVerde Living Priya Patel
Booth D08, 3m x 6m · Paid in full · 3 of 4 lanyards collected
Aria Sound
Booth C02
0 of 3 lanyardsDue todayInstalink
Booth A03
1 of 2 lanyardsBumped inThe same desk runs on a phone at the gate. Scan the QR, the roster updates everywhere.
Event and exhibition badges
Badge printing
Per-ticket-type designs on the event’s own branding. What you see is what prints.
MODERN HOME EXPO
18–20 September 2026
Sarah Mitchell
Interior Designer · Studio South
Weekend Pass
EX-48211
Attendee
MODERN HOME EXPO
Harper Lane
Coastal Ceramics · Booth B04
Exhibitor
Exhibitor · 3-day bump-in pass
The same questions every night. Answered.
attendeehelp.com is the customer service agent for expos and trade shows, built and hosted by Crowd. Every event here gets its own address on it, included in your licence and run on your own AI account. See attendeehelp.com
Event customer service agent
Customer agent
Reads every question, drafts the reply, waits for your tick.
When it is not sure, it does not guess. The question lands with you instead.
A custom address for your show
Your agent address
Home Expo, Melbourne
Your event’s support address
Moving from Eventbrite
What does Crowd cost compared with Eventbrite?
Crowd starts at US$29 per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go. Growth is US$399 per seat a month with no ticket, booth or sponsorship fees. You pay for the technology, not for each ticket. Card processing is at Stripe standard rates, as on every platform.
Is Crowd a full Eventbrite alternative?
For exhibitions, expos, conventions, trade shows and most live events, yes: ticketing, embedded checkout, wallet passes, QR door scanning and payouts. Crowd also sells what Eventbrite does not: exhibitor booths with applications and instalment plans, and sponsorship packages.
Does Crowd have the features I use on Eventbrite?
Yes. Tickets land in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, QR code tickets are emailed on purchase, and customer management, refunds and analytics are built in. On show day there is on-site registration for both attendees and vendors, with walk-up sales, badge printing and kiosk self check-in.
Who answers my attendees’ questions after I switch?
Your event’s own customer service agent. It gets its own email address, drafts every reply from your programme and policies, and you approve each one before it sends. It is included in your licence and runs on your own AI account.
How do the fees compare with Eventbrite?
Eventbrite's published standard US rate is 3.7% + $1.79 on each paid ticket (August 2026). On 5,000 tickets at $45, that is roughly $17,275 a year, and it climbs with every ticket you sell. Crowd starts at US$9,900 for the year on Show (US$25,000 on Organiser, with unlimited events), however many tickets you sell.
Do I have to move my money through Crowd?
No. Sales settle to your own Stripe account and you control the payout schedule: standard, drip or manual. Crowd never holds your revenue.
Can I migrate an event that is already on sale?
Yes. Set up the event, mirror your remaining ticket types, and point your links at the new storefront; already-sold tickets can be imported and scanned at the door alongside the new ones.
What about booths and sponsors, which Eventbrite does not sell?
That is the reason Crowd exists. Exhibitors apply, you approve, they pay in full or by automated instalments; sponsors buy packages through the same checkout. Everything reconciles in one revenue dashboard.
What does the rest of it cost?
Booth sales and sponsorship sales are included in the same licence, from US$29 per seat a month on Starter, pay as you go, or US$399 per seat a month on Growth with no sales fees, with card processing at Stripe standard rates.
Pricing
We sell you the technology end-to-end, forever.
Starter
US$29
per seat a month
Pay as you go. Pay only for what you sell and use.
- Pay as you go
- From US$0.99 a ticket
- Booths: US$15 per booth sold
- Sponsorships: US$20 per sale
- Customer service agent: US$0.50 per resolution
- Outreach emails: US$1 per 50 sent
- Email checks: US$2 per 50
Growth
Most popularUS$399
per seat a month
No sales fees. Sell the floor and fill it.
- No ticket, booth or sponsorship fees
- Included per seat, pooled
- 250 customer service resolutions
- 500 email checks
- 2,000 outreach emails
- 500 contact finds
- 1 LinkedIn account
Enterprise
US$999
per seat a month
Big shows, many teams, full volume.
- No ticket, booth or sponsorship fees
- Included per seat, pooled
- 1,000 customer service resolutions
- 2,000 email checks
- 10,000 outreach emails
- 1,500 contact finds
- 2 LinkedIn accounts
Integrated into your business, end to end, in 6 weeks.
All prices are in US dollars (USD), per seat a month. Annual billing gets 2 months free. Stripe card processing applies on every plan, paid from your own Stripe account.
Everything included
- Ticket sales: paid and free tickets, promo codes, and passes that land in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.
- Booth sales: a floor plan exhibitors buy from, in full or by instalments.
- Sponsorship sales: sponsorship packages sold online, with payment plans.
- Finance automation: revenue tracking, invoice review and reconciliation.
- Customer service agent*: answers buyer questions at your event’s own address.
- Payables and budgets: budgets, supplier invoices and scheduled payments.
- CRM: exhibitor lists, contacts, imports and invitation sequences in one place.
- Exhibitor and partner portal: payments with pay early, to-dos, named passes, company profile and terms in one link.
- Payments and terms: deposits, instalment plans charged automatically, refunds that cancel the rest, and versioned terms accepted at checkout.
- Connections: Gmail, Google Calendar, Xero, Meta Ads and Google Ads from one page.
- Registration: a door desk with scan and search check-in, and one-tap undo.
- Scan-in: the door scanner checks attendees and exhibitors in.
- Badge design and printing: design your badges, then print them one at a time or in batches.
Outreach engine, on every plan (pay as you go on Starter)
- Prospect board by audience
- Follow-up cadence across email, LinkedIn, Instagram and phone
- Automatic email sequences from approved templates, with warm-up and daily caps
- Send guard: the right name for the address, verified addresses, no unfilled tags
- Reply detection that stops the sequence
- Apollo contact finding by role, and email verification
- Google Calendar booking link and meeting tracking
- KPIs, Today page and morning digest
- LinkedIn steps (optional add-on)
Integrated into your business, end to end, in 6 weeks.
* The customer service agent runs on Crowd's own Claude allowance, metered per resolution. Every conversation and all your data stay yours.
Event spotlight
Maine Home Show
Auburn, Portland and Augusta, United States
A three-city home show series presented by Hammond Lumber, a fourth-generation family lumber business. Around 80 vendors a show, run tight, booked out with local trades every autumn and spring.
