MijnEvent vs ActiveTickets
ActiveTickets is an established Utrecht-based ticketing suite for theaters, cinemas, music venues, and festivals, embedded via iframe on the organizer's own site. Pricing is not public; a free trial is available.
Short answer
Active Tickets is a modular system for culture, theaters and cinemas (contact for pricing) with numbered seating plans; MijnEvent is a transparent platform from €0.25 per ticket (incl. VAT) focused on general admission.
Summary
Feature comparison
| Feature | ActiveTickets | MijnEvent |
|---|---|---|
| Costs & payouts | ||
| Transparent pricing | No | Yes |
| Flat fee — regardless of ticket price | Not published | Yes |
| Early bird without a separate ticket type | Not published | Yes |
| Mollie payments | No | Yes |
| Custom service fees | Yes | Yes |
| VAT invoices for visitors | Not published | Yes |
| Sales & extras | ||
| Ticket resale | No | Yes |
| Sell gift cards | Yes | Yes |
| Waitlist when sold out | Yes | Yes |
| Time slots (timed entry) | Yes | Yes |
| Ticket widget on your own site | Yes | Yes |
| Box office at the door (card & cash) | Yes | Yes |
| Apple & Google Wallet tickets | No | Yes |
| QR check-in | Yes | Yes |
| Offline scanning | Not published | Yes |
| Statistics dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in cookie- and tracking-free analytics | No | Yes |
| Newsletter integration at checkout | Yes | Yes |
| More than tickets | ||
| Rentals & reservations | No | Yes |
| Reserved seating & floor plans | Yes | Yes |
| Event feedback: anonymous post-event survey | Not published | Yes |
| Merchandise & webshop | Yes | Yes |
| Local vouchers & city cards valid at multiple businesses | Not published | Yes |
| Own gift card with printed cards and a till app | Not published | Yes |
| QR ordering for food & drinks | Not published | Yes |
| Safety & permit: gate monitoring with alerts | No | Yes |
| Parking & camping pitches | No | Yes |
| Memberships & season passes | Yes | Yes |
| Mail attendees from the platform | Yes | Yes |
| Courses & workshops | No | Yes |
| Attendee details per ticket, after checkout | Not published | Yes |
| Donations & fundraising (0% fee) | Yes | Yes |
| Your own website, custom-built | No | Yes |
| Run your dashboard from your own AI assistant (MCP) | Not published | Yes |
| Partners send their own guest tickets | Not published | Yes |
| Platform & convenience | ||
| Own subdomain | No | Yes |
| Instant self-service start | No | Yes |
| Management app (iOS, Android & iPad) | No | Yes |
| Magic link login | No | Yes |
| Visitors pick their own language | Not published | Yes |
| Your own texts translated automatically | Not published | Yes |
| AI event wizard | No | Yes |
| FAQ knowledge base with AI — powers Minty | No | Yes |
| API & integrations | Yes | Yes |
| Accessibility & support | ||
| WCAG AA accessible | Not published | Yes |
| Dutch support | Yes | Yes |
Facts about ActiveTickets
- Contact for pricing (demo on request); not something you start yourself directly.
- Deep modular features for culture, theaters and cinemas.
- Supports numbered seating plans; MijnEvent does general admission in the MVP.
Pricing
MijnEvent
ActiveTickets
ActiveTickets pricing last verified: July 2026. Subject to change.
ActiveTickets sells tickets. MijnEvent runs your entire organisation.
ActiveTickets sells tickets. MijnEvent sells tickets and rents out your boats, halls and equipment, seats your visitors on a floor plan, sells your merchandise, takes orders at the bar and the food trucks, manages your memberships and season passes, handles your parking and camping pitches, enrols your course participants, collects your donations, gathers anonymous feedback afterwards and builds your entire website if you want one — all on the same account, with the same Mollie connection, for a flat fee per transaction.
What ActiveTickets does
Modular ticketing for culture, theaters and cinemas; contact for pricing.
12 of these 18 capabilities are missing from ActiveTickets.
What MijnEvent also does
You switch every module on or off yourself. Click through for what it does and what it costs. Dimmed = ActiveTickets offers this as well.
- One account Everything under the same subdomain and the same back office. No second vendor, no second login, no export files dragged back and forth.
- One Mollie connection You connect Mollie once. Every module settles through it, straight into your own account — tickets, rentals, merchandise and the rest.
- A flat fee per transaction Flat amounts per paid transaction, never a percentage of your revenue. Free tickets, free bookings and donations are fee-free.
Strengths & Points of attention
ActiveTickets — Strengths
ActiveTickets — Points of attention
Privacy by design — only what is needed
MijnEvent only asks visitors for what a ticket really requires: name and email address — city is optional. No phone number, date of birth or full address: tickets do not need them, and elsewhere they are mostly collected for marketing. Less data means less risk for you and your visitors (GDPR).
- Name + email address
- City optional
- No phone number
- No date of birth
- No full address
Why switch to MijnEvent?
More modern UX, transparent pricing, self-service, WCAG AA, built-in resale
ActiveTickets is best for
Cultural institutions, theaters, and cinemas needing deep modular features
MijnEvent is best for
Dutch organizers who want transparent pricing, accessibility built to WCAG AA, their own subdomain, privacy by design (GDPR), built-in resale, gift cards, waitlists, and self-service VAT invoices for visitors.
When is ActiveTickets the better choice?
Choose Active Tickets if you are a cultural institution, theater or cinema that needs deep modular features and numbered seating plans — MijnEvent focuses on general admission.
What carries over from ActiveTickets?
An honest overview of what you take with you, what you set up again, and what stays behind at ActiveTickets.
This comes with you
- Your visitor list — the addresses are yours. With a valid opt-in you load them into your own newsletter service and connect that to the checkout.
- Your Mollie account. You connect it again and payouts keep landing straight in your own account.
- Your branding: logo, colours and your own subdomain, so visitors see your name and not the platform's.
- Your own website and existing links — point the "Tickets" button at your subdomain or place the ticket widget on your own page.
This you set up again
- Your events, ticket types and prices are created again in your dashboard.
- Your service fees are set again per ticket type.
- Your stewards receive an invitation and set their own PIN for the scanning app.
- Modules you use — rentals, parking, memberships — are switched on one by one.
What does not come with you: tickets already sold through ActiveTickets. Those stay valid there and their QR codes are not recognised by us — we do not import orders from another system. Most organisers therefore switch between two events, or let a running event finish at their current provider while the next one is already set up at MijnEvent.
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Disclaimer
This comparison is based on our own observation of public sources (such as the pricing and feature pages of ActiveTickets). We do our best to keep everything accurate and up to date, but we may have overlooked something or information may have changed since.
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Report an inaccuracyLast updated on October 23, 2026. The above is based on information gathered around that time.