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Booking fee calculator

What does your audience pay in booking fees?

Most ticketing sites add a fee to every ticket and every booking, paid by your audience on top of the ticket price. Move the slider to the tickets your group sells in a year.

600
£

Your audience pays about

£1,050

a year in booking fees, on top of the ticket price

A typical ticketing site

  • Booking fees, paid by your audience£1,050
  • £1.50 a ticket, plus 75p a booking

TheatreHQ

  • Booking fees for your audience£0
  • Your plan, for every feature£360
  • Card processing (Stripe)£175

Typical fees of £1.50 a ticket and 75p a booking, with 3 tickets a booking. Real fees vary by site: see how we compare with other ticketing platforms. TheatreHQ's plan covers the tickets you sell in a year, and card processing is Stripe's standard 1.5% + 20p a transaction, paid to Stripe. There's also a one-off £395 setup fee, which can be spread across your first year. Estimates are illustrative.