OneTimeEvent registration and ticketing you buy once — with zero per-ticket fees.
Eventbrite charges 2.7% plus $0.79 per ticket, on every ticket, forever. Sell 500 tickets at $20 and that's roughly $665 in fees for one event. Eventcraft is $39 once — after your first event it's already the cheapest ticketing stack you'll ever run, and it never touches the funds or takes a cut.
Eventcraft in 60 seconds
Everything in the box
Self-hosted ticketing with tiers, QR tickets, webcam door check-in and auto-promoting waitlists; money runs through your own Stripe link.
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.
Eventcraft vs Eventbrite
Eventbrite charges 2.7% + $0.79/ticket. Here's what actually differs.
| Eventcraft | Eventbrite | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | 2.7% + $0.79/ticket |
| 500 x $20 tickets | $39 total, ever | ~$665 in fees |
| Payment processing | Your Stripe link | Their cut |
| Attendee data | Your SQLite file | Their platform |
| QR check-in | Yes, offline-capable | Yes, their app |
| Waitlist auto-promotion | Yes | Plan-gated |
| Custom questions | Yes, unlimited | Yes |
| Source code | MIT, yours | Proprietary |
One 500-ticket event on Eventbrite costs around $665 in fees; Eventcraft is $39, and the next event is free.
Pick how you pay
Subscriptions if you want them — but the whole point is the lifetime tier.
Up and running in three steps
Buy once on Whop
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.
Deploy or run desktop
docker compose up onto a $5 VPS to go public, or npm run desktop for an Electron window auto-logged-in as admin.
Paste your Stripe link and sell
Add a Payment Link per tier and attendees pay Stripe directly — Eventcraft never touches the money.
Fair questions
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.
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Self-hosted ticketing with tiers, QR tickets, webcam door check-in and auto-promoting waitlists; money runs through your own Stripe link.
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