Event registration and ticketing you buy once — with zero per-ticket fees.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Eventbrite, at 2.7% + $0.79/ticket — roughly $665 a year, every year. Eventcraft does the job for a one-time $39 — running on infrastructure you control.
Title, rich description, date and time, venue or virtual link, cover image and a shareable clean URL.
For freelancers, event pages pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
Free or paid, quantity limits and early-bird pricing windows, with all money handled as integer cents to avoid rounding bugs.
For freelancers, ticket tiers pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
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.
For freelancers, BYO Stripe Payment Link pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $39, not metered per month.
One payment of $39 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/event-registration-mvp and run it yourself for free.
docker compose up onto a $5 VPS to go public, or npm run desktop for an Electron window auto-logged-in as admin.
Add a Payment Link per tier and attendees pay Stripe directly — Eventcraft never touches the money.
Eventcraft is $39, once. Eventbrite at 2.7% + $0.79/ticket — roughly $665 a year, every year. One 500-ticket event on Eventbrite costs around $665 in fees; Eventcraft is $39, and the next event is free.
One 500-ticket event on Eventbrite costs around $665 in fees; Eventcraft is $39, and the next event is free. Eventcraft costs $39 once; Eventbrite charges 2.7% + $0.79/ticket — about $665 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
In one SQLite file on your own server or machine. Zero telemetry, and Eventcraft makes zero API calls to any payment provider.