🎟️ Eventcraft
Event registration and ticketing you buy once — with zero per-ticket fees.
Eventcraft at a glance
| Price | $39, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Eventbrite at 2.7% + $0.79/ticket — roughly $665 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Utilities |
Eventcraft features
📄 Event pages
Title, rich description, date and time, venue or virtual link, cover image and a shareable clean URL.
🎫 Ticket tiers
Free or paid, quantity limits and early-bird pricing windows, with all money handled as integer cents to avoid rounding bugs.
💳 BYO Stripe Payment Link
Paste your own Payment Link per tier; attendees pay Stripe's standard rate and only Stripe's rate, with zero API calls to any payment provider.
📱 QR-code tickets
Generated server-side, emailed on confirmation via optional SMTP, and always viewable at a private ticket URL.
📷 Door check-in mode
An in-browser webcam scanner with duplicate-scan detection, a live checked-in counter and a manual code fallback.
⏳ Capacity and waitlist
Sold-out tiers auto-waitlist, and cancelling a confirmed seat auto-promotes the earliest waitlister and emails their ticket.
📅 Add to calendar
Spec-correct RFC 5545 .ics files with proper escaping and line folding.
📤 CSV attendee export
Names, emails, tiers, payment, check-in times and custom answers.
$39 once — that's the whole pricing page
Eventbrite charges 2.7% + $0.79/ticket — roughly $665 a year, every year. Eventcraft is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Eventcraft inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Eventcraft guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Eventcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/event-registration-mvp. The $39 buys the packaged installer and 1-click setup; building from source is free.
Where does my attendee data live?
In one SQLite file on your own server or machine. Zero telemetry, and Eventcraft makes zero API calls to any payment provider.
Do you take a per-ticket cut?
No. Attendees pay your own Stripe Payment Link at Stripe's standard rate; Eventcraft takes nothing. It's $39 once, no renewal.