Where a flat fee loses.
TixFox charges 39¢ per ticket and nothing else. For most reunions that is less money than our flat fee, and we'd rather you learned it here than after you'd paid us. What follows is the arithmetic and the case for paying more anyway.
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.
TixFox's published rates (39¢ per ticket), 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 TixFox is the better choice
- Almost any reunion under about 640 tickets. At 39¢ a ticket TixFox is cheaper than our Small and Medium tiers outright, and cheaper than Large until roughly 640 tickets. That's arithmetic, not opinion.
- You only need a checkout. If you already have a page — a school site, a Facebook event, a printed invitation — you'd be paying us for a page builder you won't use.
- Every dollar matters more than every hour. If you don't need the schedule, venue, gallery, FAQ, attendee list and refunds in one place, 39¢ a ticket is the better deal and we'd rather you knew that here.
What the flat fee actually buys.
A checkout link is the cheap part of a reunion. The expensive part is everything around it: somewhere to put the date and the venue and the parking, the schedule for the weekend, the photos from last time, the six questions that would otherwise arrive as six separate texts to whoever volunteered. Reunionly's fee covers that page and the money handling together — build the page free, pay once when you publish.
The money handling is the other half. Checkout is a direct charge on the committee's own Stripe Connect account, so ticket revenue settles into your bank rather than ours. Refunds go out from the dashboard. The attendee list exports as a CSV for the check-in table and the caterer's guarantee. Paid buyers get an automatic reminder a few days before the date. None of that is exotic; it is just work somebody on the committee would otherwise be doing by hand at 11pm.
The arithmetic only turns in our favour on a genuinely large reunion. Per-ticket pricing rises with headcount and a flat fee doesn't, so our Large tier passes 39¢-a-ticket somewhere around 640 tickets (642 exactly, on fees alone). Below that you are paying us a premium for the page and the dashboard, deliberately. Above it you're paying less and getting more, which is a nicer sentence but a much rarer reunion.
Tiers cap how many tickets an event can sell, and you pay the difference to move up rather than a second full fee: Small at $50 covers 100 tickets, and selling past that moves you to Medium for the $75 difference. Start where you honestly expect to land — the page costs nothing until you publish it, so the number isn't a guess you're locked into. Stripe's standard card processing (2.9% + 30¢) applies on both platforms and neither of us marks it up, which is why the table above breaks it out instead of burying it.
The questions this comparison raises.
Still unsure? Email hello@reunionly.app and a person will write back.
So TixFox is cheaper for our reunion. Why would we pay you?+
For most reunions it is, and if the checkout is all you need, take it. The flat fee is worth paying when you'd otherwise be assembling the page somewhere else — the date, venue, schedule, gallery, FAQ — and tracking orders, refunds and the attendee list by hand. That's the trade, and under about 640 tickets you're paying a premium for it on purpose.
How exactly did you work out the crossover?+
Platform fees only, holding our tier fixed: Large is a flat $250, TixFox is 39¢ per ticket, so we come out cheaper from ticket 642 onward. Card processing is left out of that number because it's identical on both sides — both platforms run on your own Stripe account — so including it would move both totals by the same amount.
Does the comparison change if our tickets are expensive?+
Barely. Neither platform charges a percentage of the ticket price, so a $150 dinner ticket and a $40 mixer ticket cost the same to sell on both. Ticket price only matters against platforms that take a cut — which is the comparison on our Eventbrite page, not this one.
What if we outgrow the tier we paid for?+
You upgrade and pay only the difference, at whatever point you're approaching the cap. It's the one time the fee changes, and it is still a number you choose rather than something deducted from each sale. Nothing is retroactively recalculated on the tickets you already sold.
What do we give up by paying per ticket instead?+
Nothing about the payment itself — a per-ticket checkout collects money perfectly well. What you give up is the single place everything lives: the page classmates land on, the orders, the refunds, the attendee export, the reminder email. If you've already got those covered, that's a real saving and not a trap.
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.