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Chobble Tickets vs Tito

Tito is a well-regarded, developer-friendly ticketing platform from Ireland, so here's how a small, open source alternative compares.

Pricing comparison

Tito charges 3% per paid ticket, capped at €25 per ticket. Reduced rates are available for non-commercial events: 2.5% for community and non-profit organisations, 1% for registered charities running events at cost, and no fee at all for pure fundraiser events where 100% of proceeds go to charity. There are no setup fees, no monthly subscriptions, and no extra charges for premium features. Free events are completely free. Payment processing via Stripe or PayPal is charged separately by those providers.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year regardless of how many tickets you sell, so the maths is simple: if you sell more than a few dozen tickets a year, Chobble Tickets is cheaper. With Tito, your costs scale linearly with revenue — a £15 ticket costs you 45p in Tito fees alone, and that adds up quickly at volume.

Interactive cost calculator

Drag the sliders to see how costs compare at different volumes:

Total takings £2,000.00
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Payment processing £0.00 £0.00
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Cost per ticket £0.00 £0.00

Tito fees: 3% per ticket (2.5% for charity/non-profit/community), capped at €25 per ticket. Payment processing (e.g. Stripe 1.5% + 20p) is separate. Free events have no fees. Chobble Tickets: £50/year flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p). Source: ti.to/pricing (March 2026).

Feature comparison

Tito is a polished, developer-friendly platform with a strong reputation in the tech conference world. Both platforms take different approaches, so here's an honest breakdown:

Both platforms share some features:

  • Online ticket sales with payment processing via Stripe
  • QR code scanning for check-in at the door
  • Email confirmations to attendees after booking
  • Capacity management to prevent overselling
  • Free event support with no payment setup required
  • Embeddable ticket widgets for your own website
  • Full REST API for custom integrations
  • Webhooks for real-time event notifications
  • Multiple ticket types per event
  • Discount codes and promotional pricing
  • Custom questions on the registration form
  • Team management with role-based access
  • CSV data export
  • Supports Stripe and PayPal payment gateways

Tito has features Chobble Tickets doesn't:

  • Established track record — Tito has processed over $1 billion in ticket sales since 2012, trusted by events like SmashingConf, DjangoCon, and Major League Hacking
  • Vito virtual event platform — a companion product for online and hybrid events, built by the same team
  • Badge printing workflows — CSV exports designed for badge printing, with check-in apps that sync attendee status
  • Mobile check-in apps — native iOS and Android apps that download attendee lists for fast on-site scanning
  • Multilingual event pages — automatic translations to share event pages in attendees' languages
  • Waitlists — built-in waitlist support for sold-out events
  • Access-controlled tickets — hidden ticket types revealed by discount codes for presales and invite-only access
  • Test mode — full test environment to trial integrations without affecting live data
  • Google Analytics integration — native GA4 plugin for tracking ticket sales and conversions
  • Ticket reassignment — attendees can reassign tickets to other people, with webhook notifications
  • Pay-by-invoice — support for invoice-based payments alongside card payments
  • Fully styleable widget — the embedded checkout widget's HTML is exposed for custom CSS styling
  • Per-ticket fee cap — Tito caps its fee at €25 per ticket, benefiting high-value tickets (above ~€833)

Chobble Tickets has features Tito doesn't:

  • End-to-end encryption — attendee data is encrypted at rest with hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM, not just stored in a database
  • Open source — every line of code is public under AGPLv3, no proprietary lock-in
  • Self-hosting option — run the platform on your own servers for free, with no licence fee
  • Flat annual pricing — £50/year with no per-ticket fees, no matter how many you sell
  • Apple & Google Wallet tickets — attendees can add tickets to their phone wallet
  • ICS calendar feeds — subscribers get automatic calendar updates
  • RSS feeds — syndicate your events to feed readers
  • Tiered ticket types via groups — create VIP, early bird, and other tiers using event groups with a shared capacity cap (max attendees per group)
  • Pay-what-you-want pricing — let attendees choose their own price
  • Daily/recurring events — per-date capacity with calendar picker and holiday blackouts
  • Custom email providers — use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your domain, not the platform's
  • Customisable email templates — full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax for a fully white-label experience
  • Admin API — authenticated API with API keys for reading and editing private event and attendee data
  • Custom domain — your ticketing lives at your own web address, not ti.to
  • No marketing to your attendees — your audience stays yours, with no cross-promotion of competing events
  • Community Interest Company — run by a CIC, not a for-profit company

Data ownership

Tito is a proprietary platform — your event data lives on their servers, and you depend on their continued operation. While Tito has a good reputation and offers comprehensive API access and CSV exports, your ticketing setup is tied to their platform.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted and stays under your control. The entire platform is open source, so you can self-host it and never depend on a third party.

When Tito might be the better choice

  • You're running tech conferences and want a platform with deep roots in that community
  • You want native iOS and Android check-in apps for on-site scanning
  • You want a polished, established platform that's processed $1B+ in ticket sales
  • You need multilingual event pages for international audiences
  • You sell very high-value tickets and benefit from the €25 fee cap
  • You want native Google Analytics integration
  • You prefer paying per ticket over an annual fee and sell fewer than ~30 tickets a year

When Chobble Tickets is the better choice

  • You already have your own audience and don't need a discovery platform
  • You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket fees
  • Privacy and encryption matter to you
  • You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees
  • You're a community group, charity, or school (£25/year)
  • You want Apple/Google Wallet, calendar feeds, or a public API
  • You value open source and the ability to self-host

Who owns Tito?

Tito was founded in 2012 by Paul Campbell and David "Doc" Parsons in Dublin, Ireland. It operates as Team Tito Limited (Company Number 566334), a privately held Irish company.

Tito was bootstrapped for its first eight years before receiving a €1.25 million investment in 2020 from Lachy Groom, an early Stripe employee. Their philosophy emphasises gentle, sustainable growth over rapid expansion. The team is small, with members based in Ireland and the UK.

The platform has processed over $1 billion in ticket sales for thousands of organisers worldwide, and is particularly popular with tech conferences and developer events. In 2020, the team also built Vito, a companion platform for virtual and hybrid events.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company (CIC) — a UK legal structure that locks the company's assets for community benefit. All of Chobble's code is public under AGPLv3, and the platform can be self-hosted by anyone without depending on Chobble as a company.

Pricing sources

The pricing information on this page was verified in March 2026. Fees may change — check the links below for the latest figures.