# What does a ticketing platform cost? — MijnEvent [Home](https://mijnevent.nl/en) / [Blog](https://mijnevent.nl/en/blog) / What does a ticketing platform cost? pricing organisers # What does a ticketing platform cost? Commissions, service fees, payment costs and subscriptions: how to work out what selling tickets really costs you — with worked examples for 100 and 500 tickets. MijnEvent · 24 August 2026 · 5 min read ![](https://regify-mijnevent.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/blog/covers/what-does-a-ticketing-platform-cost.webp) Photo: [Jakub Żerdzicki](https://unsplash.com/@jakubzerdzicki?utm_source=MijnEvent&utm_medium=referral) / [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=MijnEvent&utm_medium=referral) In short - Selling tickets through a ticketing platform typically costs between €0.50 and €3.50 per ticket sold, made up of the platform fee, the payment costs and sometimes a subscription or setup fee. - The platform fee is either a flat amount per ticket or a percentage of 5 to 12 per cent; with a percentage your costs rise with the ticket price, with a flat amount they do not. - At MijnEvent the fee is €0.50 including VAT per paid ticket on Pay as you go with no setup costs, or €0.25 per ticket with the Organiser plan at €14.95 per event; free tickets are always fee-free. - Payment costs are counted separately: around €0.32 per iDEAL | Wero transaction, charged by Mollie directly through your own account without a platform mark-up. **Short answer:** selling tickets through a ticketing platform typically costs between €0.50 and €3.50 per ticket sold, built from three parts: the platform fee (a flat amount or a percentage of 5 to 12 per cent), the payment costs charged by your payment provider (around €0.32 per iDEAL | Wero transaction) and sometimes a subscription or setup fee. The biggest difference sits in the platform fee: with a percentage model your costs rise with the ticket price, with a flat amount they do not. For an event with 500 tickets at €25, an 8 per cent commission means €1,000 in platform costs; a flat fee of €0.50 per ticket comes to €250. At MijnEvent that flat fee is €0.50 including VAT on Pay as you go with no setup costs — and free tickets are always fee-free. Below we work through all three cost components one by one. # What the costs are made of ## 1. The platform fee This is what the ticketing platform charges for its own service. It comes in two flavours: - **Percentage based**: 5 to 12 per cent of the ticket price, often with a flat amount per ticket on top. Most international platforms use this model. - **Flat amount per ticket**: a fee that stays the same whether your ticket costs €10 or €75. MijnEvent charges €0.50 per paid ticket, or €0.25 with the [Organiser plan](/en/pricing) at €14.95 once per published event. The distinction matters more than it looks. A percentage is a share of your revenue, so the platform earns more from the same amount of work as soon as you raise your prices. A flat fee is a price for a service: the checkout, the tickets and the scanning at the gate cost the platform the same whether the ticket is cheap or expensive. ## 2. The payment costs Your payment service provider — Mollie, in our case — charges a transaction fee per payment. Mollie's public pricing lists around €0.32 for an iDEAL | Wero transaction; card payments are charged as a percentage plus a flat amount. One detail is easy to miss: payment costs scale with the **number of orders**, not the number of tickets. Four friends buying together in one order cost you one transaction fee, not four. Watch how platforms present this. Some fold the payment costs into a higher commission so the bill looks like one number; others let you pay your own provider separately. At MijnEvent the payment runs through [your own Mollie account](/en/blog/connect-your-mollie-account), so you pay Mollie's rates directly and without a mark-up. We wrote a separate piece on [what payment processing really adds](/en/blog/payment-costs-ticket-sales-the-second-bill) if you want the full arithmetic. ## 3. Subscriptions and hidden costs Look past the fee per ticket. Setup costs, monthly minimums, payout fees, refund fees and charges for the scanning app all belong in the comparison. Ask who pays the service fee as well — you, or the visitor on top of the ticket price — and whether free tickets are charged at the full rate. # Worked example: 100 and 500 tickets 100 tickets at €15500 tickets at €25Percentage platform (8% + €0.50)€170€1,250Percentage platform (5%)€75€625MijnEvent Pay as you go (€0.50 flat)€50€250MijnEvent Organiser (€14.95 + €0.25)€39.95€139.95Mollie's payment costs come on top in every case and are comparable across platforms. The break-even point between Pay as you go and the Organiser plan sits at around 60 paid tickets per event: below that the flat €14.95 does not earn itself back, above it the lower per-ticket fee does the work. Note what happens between the two columns. Going from 100 to 500 tickets multiplies your revenue by roughly eight, and a percentage platform multiplies its share by the same factor. The flat fee grows fivefold — one step per extra ticket, not one step per extra euro of ticket price. # Free tickets, and why they are a fair test A registration for a free event costs the platform almost exactly what a paid ticket costs: a page, a checkout, an email, a QR code at the door. The question is whether the platform charges you for it. At MijnEvent [free events](/en/blog/free-events-with-ticketing) are genuinely free — tickets priced at €0 carry no fee at all, on every plan and without needing to ask. It is a small clause, but a revealing one when you compare providers. # Who pays: you or your visitor? Many organisers pass on some or all of the costs as a service fee. At MijnEvent you [set service fees per ticket type](/en/blog/service-fees-per-ticket-type) yourself, with your own label, and the checkout shows the visitor exactly what they are paying. There is a [service fee calculator](/en/tool/ticket-service-fee-calculator) if you want to see what a given fee does to your bottom line first. Transparency pays here. Visitors abandon a checkout over surprise costs in the final step, not over an honest cost line they saw coming. # How to compare platforms fairly 1. Work through your own scenario: number of tickets × ticket price, using each platform's real fee formula rather than its headline number. 2. Add the payment costs separately and check whether a mark-up has been applied to them. 3. Ask about refund fees, payout fees and the cost of the scanning app. 4. Check what free tickets cost — nothing at MijnEvent, the full fee at some others. 5. Check when you get the money. A platform that holds your revenue until after the event is charging you in cashflow rather than in fees. Want to put us next to a specific provider? Our [comparisons with 51 ticketing platforms](/en/alternatives) list verified rates per supplier. What it costs at MijnEvent — €0.50 per paid ticket, or €0.25 with the Organiser plan, and free tickets always fee-free — is set out on [selling tickets cheaply](/en/sell-tickets-cheaply), and the reasoning behind that model in [sell tickets without high fees](/en/blog/sell-tickets-without-high-fees). Ready to work it out with your own numbers? [Create your organiser account](/registreer) — there are no setup costs, no subscription and no contract, so you only pay once you actually sell a ticket. Frequently asked questions ## Frequently asked questions ## What is the difference between a flat fee and a percentage? With a percentage (5 to 12 per cent) your platform costs rise with the ticket price; with a flat amount per ticket the fee stays the same whether your ticket costs €10 or €75. For 500 tickets at €25, 8 per cent is €1,000 against €250 at a flat fee of €0.50. ## When is the Organiser plan worth it compared with Pay as you go? The break-even point sits at around 60 paid tickets per event. Pay as you go charges €0.50 per paid ticket; the Organiser plan costs €14.95 once per published event plus €0.25 per ticket. ## What do free tickets cost at MijnEvent? Nothing: tickets priced at €0 are always fee-free, on every plan and without having to ask. At some other platforms you pay the full fee even on tickets that cost your visitors nothing. ## Are payment costs included in the platform fee? Not at MijnEvent, and that is deliberate. Payments run through your own Mollie account, so you pay Mollie's rate directly with no mark-up in between. 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