The fee math, side by side.
Eventbrite charges a share of every ticket. Reunionly charges one flat fee when you publish. Here is what that difference costs a reunion committee at three realistic sizes, with the rates both companies publish.
What each one costs at three reunion sizes.
Total cost to the committee — the platform's fee plus card processing — assuming one card transaction per ticket.
Eventbrite's published rates (3.7% + $1.79 per ticket, plus 2.9% payment processing), last verified September 2026. Stripe card processing (2.9% + 30¢) applies wherever you bring your own Stripe account and isn't marked up by anyone.
When Eventbrite is the better choice
- Your event is free. Eventbrite charges nothing for free tickets; our flat publish fee applies whether tickets cost $65 or $0.
- You want the marketplace. Eventbrite has discovery traffic and an app people already have. We have one link you share yourself — fine for a class list, useless for strangers.
- You already run events there. Retraining a committee is a real cost, and the fee math has to be worth the switch.
A percentage grows with the reunion. A flat fee doesn't.
That is the whole structural difference, and it only matters as the event gets bigger. At 150 tickets the two models are already far apart — $912 against $452.75 in total cost — and at 400 tickets the gap is $2,960 against $1,356, because one of those numbers is tied to how much money the reunion moves and the other isn't.
For a committee that matters mostly because of when you find out. A percentage is a line you can only estimate while you're building the budget, and it lands after the fact, quietly, on every order. A flat fee is a number you write down before you sell the first ticket — the treasurer can price the dinner around it, and nothing about a good turnout changes it.
The trade is real, though: Eventbrite is an events marketplace, and we aren't. There's no discovery, no browse page, no app anyone already has. Reunionly is a payment rail and a page for a committee that already knows who it's inviting — the class list, the family group text, the association roster. You share the link; the page sells tickets, collects the details you need at the door, and the money moves through your own Stripe account into your own bank account.
What you get for the flat fee is the event page itself — hero, details, venue, schedule, tickets, FAQs, gallery, contact — plus the orders, refunds, attendee list with CSV export, and the reminder email that goes out to paid buyers before the date. Stripe's standard card processing (2.9% + 30¢) applies on top, charged by Stripe, and we don't mark it up or take a share of it.
What committees ask before switching.
Still unsure? Email hello@reunionly.app and a person will write back.
Can we move a reunion off Eventbrite mid-sale?+
You can, but the cleanest break is between reunions rather than mid-sale. There's no import: you'd rebuild the page here (most committees do it in an evening), publish, and share the new link. Orders already placed on Eventbrite stay on Eventbrite for refunds and check-in, so you'd work from two attendee lists until the event. If you're most of the way through selling, finishing there and switching next time usually costs less hassle than it saves.
Do buyers need an account to get a ticket?+
No. A classmate opens the link, picks a ticket, and pays by card — name and email, no account and no app. They get an emailed confirmation, and you get the order in your dashboard.
Who issues refunds, and does the fee come back?+
You do, from the dashboard, and the refund goes back on the buyer's card from your own Stripe account. We never take a cut of a ticket, so there's nothing of ours to claw back out of an order. If the reunion is cancelled outright, refund the orders and email hello@reunionly.app — we refund the flat publish fee too.
Where does the ticket money actually sit until the event?+
In your bank account. Checkout runs as a direct charge on the committee's own Stripe Connect account, so payouts follow Stripe's normal schedule into the account you connected. Reunionly is never holding the money and never releasing it to you — there's nothing to wait for after the event.
What happens if we sell more tickets than our tier allows?+
You upgrade and pay only the difference. Tiers cap how many tickets an event can sell: $50 up to 100, $125 up to 300, $250 up to 750, $500 with no limit. Sell ticket 301 on the Medium tier and you move to Large for the $125 difference, not another $250. The upgrade is the only time the fee ever changes, and it's still a number you choose rather than a slice of each sale.
Build the page tonight. Send it out tomorrow.
Free to start. Nothing to pay until you publish, and nothing taken from your ticket sales after that.