Quick answer
Yes — for the part of Ticket Tailor covered on this page, Eventcraft is a one-time-purchase alternative. It costs $39 once, while Ticket Tailor lists usage-based or quote-based pricing. Self-hosted ticketing with tiers, QR tickets, webcam door check-in and auto-promoting waitlists; money runs through your own Stripe link. It is not a 1:1 replacement for everything Ticket Tailor does — the honest limits are spelled out below.
The verdict
Switch to Eventcraft if the slice of Ticket Tailor you actually pay for is the slice Eventcraft covers — and a $39 one-time price beats usage-based or quote-based pricing for as long as you use it.
Stay with Ticket Tailor if this sounds like you — Ticket Tailor needs zero hosting, handles payment processing end-to-end, and scales to any box-office volume with per-ticket pricing that tracks your revenue. Eventcraft is self-hosted — you run the infrastructure and your own Stripe account.
Head to head
| Eventcraft | Ticket Tailor | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | usage-based or quote-based pricing |
| Where it runs | Your own server (self-hosted) | Vendor cloud (hosted service) |
| Renewal | None — the license never expires | Usage-based — cost scales with use |
About Ticket Tailor: Ticket Tailor is an event ticketing platform priced per ticket sold — from about $0.26/ticket with prepay credits or around $0.75 pay-as-you-go; free events are free.
Where Ticket Tailor still wins
Ticket Tailor needs zero hosting, handles payment processing end-to-end, and scales to any box-office volume with per-ticket pricing that tracks your revenue. Eventcraft is self-hosted — you run the infrastructure and your own Stripe account.
Where Eventcraft wins
Eventcraft flips ticketing to a flat cost: event pages, ticket tiers, QR-code tickets, webcam door check-in and auto-promoting waitlists, with money running through your own Stripe link. $39 once — at $0.75/ticket, a single 100-seat event would nearly cover it.
- Price, permanently. $39 once versus usage-based or quote-based pricing for as long as you use it. There is no renewal, no seat count and no tier gate.
- 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.
The math
Ticket Tailor does not publish a flat rate — its cost scales with your usage or sits behind a sales quote, so it never flattens. Eventcraft is $39, paid once: the whole price, known up front, whether you use it for a month or a decade.
Common 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.
Try Eventcraft — $39, one time
Or get Eventcraft plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.