Your concert, grading or throwdown is sold to people who already know you. So why is a ticketing platform charging you an introduction fee — and putting its brand on your event page?
Eventbrite's Australian rate is 5.35% + A$1.19 per paid ticket. WeeksPro's is a flat 2.75% + 30¢ per transaction, all-in. Here's what that difference looks like on a single seat.
| Ticket price | Eventbrite fee | WeeksPro fee | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| A$20 | A$2.26 | A$0.85 | A$1.41 |
| A$35 | A$3.06 | A$1.27 | A$1.79 |
| A$50 | A$3.87 | A$1.68 | A$2.19 |
| A$75 | A$5.20 | A$2.37 | A$2.83 |
| A$120 | A$7.61 | A$3.60 | A$4.01 |
On Eventbrite the fee is added to the ticket price at checkout by default, so a A$35 ticket rings up at about A$38.06 for the parent buying it. You can absorb it instead — in which case it comes out of your takings. Either way somebody in your community pays it. With WeeksPro the flat 2.75% + 30¢ is deducted from your payout, and the attendee pays the price you printed on the poster.
Per-ticket differences look small. Multiply them by a full house and they stop looking small.
| Event | Tickets | Eventbrite fees | WeeksPro fees | You keep |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-of-year dance concert | 400 × A$35 | A$1,225 | A$508 | A$717 |
| Comp or throwdown | 150 × A$50 | A$580 | A$252 | A$328 |
| Belt grading day | 120 × A$25 | A$303 | A$119 | A$184 |
| Weekend workshop | 60 × A$75 | A$312 | A$142 | A$170 |
| All four, in one year | A$2,420 | A$1,021 | A$1,399 | |
A$1,399 is more than a year of WeeksPro Launchpad at A$89/month — and that plan also runs your memberships, classes, billing, waivers, website and payroll.
Eventbrite fees calculated at its published Australian rate of 5.35% + A$1.19 per paid ticket (August 2026). WeeksPro at 2.75% + 30¢ per transaction. Rounded to the nearest dollar on the per-event rows. Always confirm current pricing with each vendor.
If ticketing is the only thing you need software for, Eventbrite has no monthly fee and that is hard to beat — a single fundraiser a year does not justify a subscription. The maths on this page works when you already need member management, class bookings and billing anyway. At that point the ticketing costs you nothing extra, and the fee you stop paying is money that was leaving your business every December.
A ticketing platform sells tickets and hands you a CSV. Running an event takes rather more than that.
Build the page in the drag-and-drop CMS — hero, gallery, video, FAQ, map, contact form, an events grid — and publish it on your own domain. Not a listing on someone else's site with their logo in the corner.
GA, VIP, family, early bird — each with its own price, quantity and description. Set a sales window so early bird closes itself, and a per-person cap so one keen family doesn't buy out the front row.
Every ticket carries a QR code in the buyer's portal. On the night, open the scanner in your dashboard, point a phone at it, and they're checked in — with manual code entry for the phone that's flat.
Attach a waiver to any event and nobody buys or registers without ticking it. The signature is recorded with a timestamp and IP address. Try attaching a liability waiver to a general ticketing platform.
Buyers get a confirmation email with Add to Calendar links for Google and Outlook, then an automatic reminder the day before. Free registrations get the same treatment.
Your attendee list is your member list. You can see who bought, how many of each tier sold, and which of your members haven't grabbed a ticket yet — because it's all one database.
Weekly, fortnightly, monthly or annual recurrence for a seminar series. Online events carry a channel link instead of an address. Throwdowns can publish the WOD right on the event page.
WeeksPro connects to a Stripe account you own. Ticket revenue settles there on Stripe's schedule — it never sits in a platform's holding account waiting for an event-day payout.
A ticketing platform's event page is a template with your photo in it. Every share, every backlink and every bit of search traffic your concert earns goes to their domain, not yours — and next year you start from zero again.
A page on your own site keeps that value. It can look like the rest of your brand, it can sit one click from your timetable and membership pages, and the parent who came for concert tickets is already standing in your shop.
| Feature | WeeksPro | Eventbrite |
|---|---|---|
| Platform commission per paid ticket | $0 | 5.35% + A$1.19 |
| All-in transaction fee | 2.75% + 30¢ | Included in the above |
| Free events | ||
| Multiple ticket tiers (GA / VIP / family) | ||
| Ticket sales windows (early bird) | ||
| Quantity limits & sell-out enforcement | ||
| Per-person purchase caps | Per-order limits | |
| QR-code tickets | ||
| Door check-in scanner | ||
| Event page on your own domain | ||
| Drag-and-drop website builder (19 blocks) | ||
| Digital waiver signed at checkout | ||
| Attendees linked to member records | ||
| Same system as memberships, classes & billing | ||
| Recurring event series | ||
| Confirmation + day-before reminder emails | ||
| Revenue settles in your own Stripe account | ||
| Guest checkout (no account needed) | ||
| Public discovery marketplace | ||
| Reserved seating / seat maps |
Based on publicly advertised features and pricing at the time of writing (August 2026). Features and pricing change — always confirm current details with each vendor.
A dance school sells 400 tickets to its end-of-year concert at A$35. On a general ticketing platform the fees run to roughly A$1,225 — and because the fees are passed on by default, the parents are actually paying about A$38 a seat. Every family in the school is quietly covering an introduction fee to an audience that needed no introduction.
Moved into WeeksPro, the same 400 tickets cost about A$508 in transaction fees, all-in. The concert page is built in the CMS and lives on the school's own domain, with the costume gallery and the running order on it. GA and family tiers are capped at six per family so the front rows spread fairly, the media-release waiver is ticked at checkout, and on the night the door team scans QR codes from a phone instead of highlighting a printed list.
The tickets are the same price. The parents pay less. The school keeps about A$717 more.
Illustrative example based on the published fee rates above, not a real customer.
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