Ticket Tailor vs Checkout Page for conferences (2026 fees)
Ticket Tailor charges $0.85 per paid ticket pay-as-you-sell, with lower rates available through prepaid credit packs and processor fees on top. Checkout Page charges no per-ticket fee and bills by monthly sales volume. On 300 tickets at $299 over three months, the modeled platform cost is $255 for Ticket Tailor, $402 with its optional white-label add-on, or $717 for Checkout Page.
By Checkout Page · Updated September 5, 2026 · 9 min read
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The short version
Ticket Tailor's standard US pay-as-you-sell rate is $0.85 per paid ticket, with prepaid packs available at lower unit prices. Checkout Page charges nothing per ticket and bills by sales volume. On 300 tickets at $299, the standard Ticket Tailor rate totals $255, or $402 with three months of white-label service, versus an illustrative $717 for Checkout Page across three billing periods.
Most comparisons on this site come down to a percentage against a subscription. This one does not. Ticket Tailor's flat cent fee is genuinely low, and in the worked scenario it comes out cheaper than Checkout Page. Prepaid credits can lower it further only when the pack price and number of credits actually used support that result.
So the decision moves to the complete setup and workflow. Both products support registration questions, website checkout, products or add-ons, and merchandise. Checkout Page's relevant differences include conditional multi-step forms, native order bumps and one-click post-payment upsells; Ticket Tailor offers reserved seating, with an additional usage credit charged for each seat reservation.
The fee table and platform-only examples below exclude payment processing; the later own-brand totals add one clearly labeled processing assumption. Both products can use Stripe, but the actual Stripe rate varies by merchant, card and payment method. Ticket Tailor can also use Square or PayPal. Any fixed processing charge applies per payment, not necessarily per ticket.
Fees compared
Ticket Tailor charges $0.85 per paid ticket regardless of price, so 300 tickets at $299 costs $255 in platform fees at its standard pay-as-you-sell rate. Checkout Page charges no per-ticket fee and costs $239 a month on Scale at that evenly distributed sales volume, $717 across a three-month campaign. Prepaid Ticket Tailor rates are not applied here because the pack commitment and unused credits have to be priced for the organizer's actual purchase.
| Platform | Fee per ticket | Total for 300 tickets | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Checkout Page | $0.00 | $717 | No per-ticket fee. Scale plan at $239/month × 3 months. Even monthly sales; plan selected by included volume, without paid overages or feature upgrades. Pricing source · Checked 2026-09-04. |
| Ticket Tailor | $0.85 | $255 | $0.85 per paid ticket pay-as-you-sell, plus processor fees; prepaid rates depend on the credit pack purchased. 50% discount for registered charities. White label is $49/month including a custom domain; domain-only is $8/month instead. Reserved seating adds one usage credit per reservation. Some CRM integrations cost extra. Payments go to the organizer's processor. Pricing source · Checked 2026-09-05. |
Checkout Page's Scale price steps up with billing-period sales volume. The $717 total assumes those $89,700 of sales land evenly across three billing periods, about $29,900 in each. Ticket Tailor is $255 at the published US pay-as-you-sell rate. Its optional white-label service is $49 a month and includes a custom domain, taking three months to $402. The separate $8-a-month custom-domain option is an alternative, not another fee to stack on the white-label plan.
The standard example treats this as an existing Ticket Tailor account and charges all 300 paid tickets. It does not subtract the first-five-ticket promotion offered to a new account.
Using the same illustrative US Stripe rate for both products, $89,700 across 300 one-ticket payments adds $2,691.30 in processing. That makes the comparable own-brand totals $3,093.30 for Ticket Tailor with three months of white label and $3,408.30 for Checkout Page. Actual processor rates, order counts and optional services differ.
The smaller scenario tilts the same way at the standard rates modeled. A 120-person workshop at $75 is $9,000 in sales. Ticket Tailor charges 120 times $0.85, which is $102 before optional branding. Checkout Page's Free plan covers up to $3,000 a month, so an even two-month split puts the event on Scale at $99 a month, or $198. A prepaid comparison requires selecting and paying for a real credit pack, then accounting for any credits left unused.
Compare that with percentage pricing. On the same 300 tickets at $299, Eventbrite's modeled service fee is $3,855.90 and Luma's 5% plan costs $4,485. Luma Plus is also available month to month at $69, or $207 across three months, so the selected plan matters more than the headline model. Ticket Tailor and Checkout Page are both in a different range from those percentage-plan examples.
Where the money goes and when
Both platforms route payments to a connected processor: Stripe, Square or PayPal for Ticket Tailor, and Stripe for Checkout Page. Neither platform holds the event balance for a post-event payout, but settlement and bank payout timing still depend on the processor, account verification and any reserve.
For a conference this matters because your costs come first. Venue deposits, catering minimums, AV and speaker travel are paid months before the doors open, and both of these platforms let you fund them from ticket revenue rather than from your own reserves.
The pricing models react to different things. Ticket Tailor deducts a fee per ticket or draws down prepaid credits. Checkout Page bills a subscription whose tier can rise when sales spike within a billing period. Model both the number of paid tickets and the monthly sales distribution rather than treating either cost as fixed in every scenario.
Conference features side by side
Ticket Tailor covers ticketing, checkout questions, products and merchandise. Checkout Page also supports those workflows, with conditional multi-step fields, native order bumps and post-payment one-click upsells among its differences. Checkout Page has no attendee networking app; confirm Ticket Tailor's attendee and community requirements with the vendor. Cells we cannot verify say check with vendor, because both products change regularly.
| Feature | Ticket Tailor | Checkout Page |
|---|---|---|
| Ticket tiers with sales windows | Yes | Yes, start and end dates per ticket type |
| Group tickets | Multiple tickets per order; group pricing check with vendor | Ticket groups, per-order minimums and maximums, bulk discounts on paid plans |
| Registration questions with conditional logic | Yes, checkout questions; conditional logic check with vendor | Yes, custom fields with conditional logic and multi-step forms |
| Check-in app and multiple staff | Yes, check-in app; confirm offline requirements | Yes, any phone or laptop; invited check-in staff require Launch or above; internet required |
| Embed on your website | Yes, widget and hosted box office | Yes, popup or inline on WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Squarespace and Wix |
| Marketplace and discovery | No public marketplace | No |
| Seat maps | Yes, reserved seating; each reservation uses an additional usage credit | No |
| Badge printing | Check with vendor | No, export CSV or connect a badge tool via Zapier |
| Attendee app | Check with vendor | No |
| Add-ons and upsells at checkout | Yes, products and add-ons alongside tickets | Yes, order bumps on every plan, one-click upsells on Scale |
| Merch alongside tickets | Yes, products can be sold with tickets | Yes, with sizes and colors |
Optional costs require a separate check. Ticket Tailor's white-label plan is $49 a month and includes the custom domain; custom domain alone is $8 a month. Reserved seating consumes an additional usage credit per reservation. Some integrations or connected services may charge their own fees, which this comparison does not assume are zero.
The Checkout Page limitations are real and short: no seat maps, no marketplace, no native badge printing, no attendee app, and a check-in scanner that needs an internet connection. Check those operational requirements even when the registration form itself is simple.
Who should choose Ticket Tailor
Choose Ticket Tailor when its standard or fully costed prepaid rate produces the better total for your ticket count and required setup. At $0.85 a paid ticket it beats Checkout Page in this worked scenario, especially across a long selling window, but branding, reserved seating, integrations and unused prepaid credits belong in the comparison.
It is a particularly good answer for a registered charity, which gets 50% off, and for an organizer who dislikes subscriptions on principle. Paying only when you sell is a clean model, and there is nothing to cancel between annual editions of a conference.
If Checkout Page's conditional multi-step forms or post-payment upsells are not on your requirements list, Ticket Tailor's lower cost in this example is the stronger fee result. That conclusion is specific to the stated volume, sales timing and options.
Who should choose Checkout Page
Choose Checkout Page if its conditional multi-step questions, native order bumps, post-payment one-click upsells or memberships better fit the sales flow. Ticket Tailor already supports checkout questions, products and merchandise. On the own-brand scenario above, Ticket Tailor is cheaper by $315 before any provider-specific extras, so requirements and total setup cost should decide it.
A concrete case: a 400-person two-day conference at $499 with three workshop tracks, dietary questions that only appear for the dinner add-on, invoice details for employer-paid tickets, and a t-shirt sold in the same checkout. That is a registration flow, not a ticket sale, and it is the shape of event Checkout Page is built for.
The other reason organizers move is consolidation. If you already sell courses, memberships or products through Checkout Page, running the conference in the same account means one dashboard, one Stripe connection and one set of customer records.
Switching from Ticket Tailor
Switching avoids a held event balance, but it still creates two ticket sets to reconcile. Export attendees and answers to CSV, rebuild ticket types, recreate checkout questions, update the embed, and preserve access to the Ticket Tailor event for existing buyers. Test the combined check-in process before changing live sales.
- Export attendees and question answers from Ticket Tailor as CSV. Keep it for badges and as your offline check-in fallback.
- Rebuild each ticket type in Checkout Page with its price, capacity and the dates the tier opens and closes.
- Recreate checkout questions as custom fields, adding conditional logic where the old form told people to skip a question.
- Connect Stripe, buy a real test ticket and refund it, so you see the confirmation email and QR code an attendee receives.
- Replace the embed on your website and update links in your newsletter, sponsor pack and speaker instructions.
- Stop sales on the Ticket Tailor page but keep it published with a pointer to the new page until the conference is over.
Use up any prepaid credits before you move, since they are worth more spent than stranded. Attendees who already bought keep their existing tickets, so run both check-in lists on the day. Free migration is included on the Unlimited plan if the event is large enough to want help.
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Bottom line
Ticket Tailor at $0.85 a ticket costs $255 on a 300-ticket, $299 conference, or $402 with three months of optional white-label service. Checkout Page costs $717 across the modeled three-month campaign. With identical illustrative processing added, the own-brand totals are $3,093.30 and $3,408.30 respectively. Compare verified workflow differences and optional costs before choosing.
Run your own numbers in the ticketing fee calculator using your real selling window, since that is what decides this comparison. The guide to conference ticketing fees covers how flat fees, percentages and processing interact. If you are also looking at percentage platforms, see Tito and Eventbrite.
Fees on this page were verified on 2026-09-05 against Ticket Tailor's pricing page, its billing and paid-features guide, and Checkout Page pricing.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ticket Tailor or Checkout Page cheaper for a conference?
- Ticket Tailor is cheaper in this scenario. Its $0.85 pay-as-you-sell fee on 300 tickets is $255, or $402 after adding three months of its optional $49 white-label plan. Checkout Page's Scale plan is $717 across the same three months. With the same illustrative US Stripe processing added, the own-brand totals are $3,093.30 for Ticket Tailor and $3,408.30 for Checkout Page. Prepaid credits may reduce Ticket Tailor's cost, but the result depends on the pack commitment and credits used.
- Can I switch from Ticket Tailor to Checkout Page before my event?
- Yes, and it is straightforward because both platforms pay into your own processor account. Export your attendee list to CSV, rebuild your ticket types and checkout questions, swap the embed on your website, and keep the Ticket Tailor page live until the conference so old links still work.
- Why would I pay more per month than Ticket Tailor charges per ticket?
- Compare the complete setup and the features you will actually use. Ticket Tailor supports checkout questions, products and merchandise; Checkout Page offers conditional multi-step forms, native order bumps and post-payment one-click upsells. Branding, domains, reserved seating, integrations and processor costs can also change the result.
- Does Ticket Tailor hold my ticket money?
- No event balance is held by Ticket Tailor. Payments go through the organizer's Stripe, Square or PayPal account; Checkout Page uses the organizer's Stripe account. The processor controls settlement, verification, reserves and the available payout schedule, so ticket sales do not guarantee immediate bank payouts.
- Which is better for a cheap, high-volume event?
- Neither pricing model wins that category automatically. For example, 1,500 tickets at $25 sold evenly over three months cost $1,275 at Ticket Tailor's standard pay-as-you-sell rate, versus $507 for Checkout Page's modeled subscription. A fully used prepaid pack can change that result. Compare ticket count, price, selling months, branding, features and the actual prepaid commitment.
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