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Communal suits member organizations selling registrations to their own people all year: classes, camps, leagues and member-priced events, with dues, renewals, donations, volunteer shifts and attendance in the same record, and no per-ticket platform fee. If most of your buyers are already your members, both the fee math and the shared record favor Communal. Communal is the author's product.","2026-08-19",[16,19,22,25,28,31],{"question":17,"answer":18},"Is Eventbrite free for nonprofits?","Free events are free, with no per-attendee cap. Paid tickets carry a service fee of 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket plus 2.9% payment processing per order in the US, which you can pass to the buyer or absorb. Eventbrite Pro, the email and promotion add-on, starts at $15/mo and nonprofits can apply for up to 50% off Pro. The per-ticket rate itself is not discounted on the vendor's pricing page.",{"question":20,"answer":21},"How do Eventbrite fees compare to Communal?","A $40 paid ticket on Eventbrite costs roughly $1.48 service fee plus $1.79 plus $1.16 processing, about $4.43, or around 11%. Communal has no per-ticket platform fee: you pay $75/mo for membership plus $50/mo for programs and events, and a card-processing application fee set in your agreement, often about 2%, so about $0.80 on the same ticket. Below a few hundred paid tickets a year Eventbrite is cheaper; above that the flat fee wins.",{"question":23,"answer":24},"Can Eventbrite manage memberships?","No. Eventbrite has no membership records, dues, renewals, volunteer scheduling or facility booking. Some organizations pair it with a membership tool. Communal includes memberships with renewal reminders, household plans, wallet cards, donations with tax receipts, volunteers and POS, and its programs add-on sells member-priced and public-priced registrations from the same database.",{"question":26,"answer":27},"Does Communal have ticket scanning and check-in?","Yes. Attendance sheets with bulk marking and CSV export for programs and events, and scan-in check-in for memberships using wallet passes or PDF cards. Eventbrite's mobile check-in and scanning app is mature and built for high-volume doors; if you run a 2,000-person gala, that is a point for Eventbrite.",{"question":29,"answer":30},"Can I collect donations on either?","Eventbrite offers a donation ticket type but no year-end or consolidated tax receipts. Communal includes donation forms, campaign pages with goals, recurring giving, donor-covers-fees and automatic numbered tax receipts with separate Canadian and US templates, at no extra cost.",{"question":32,"answer":33},"Can I use both?","Many organizations do: Eventbrite for a public fundraiser that needs discovery, Communal for everything sold to members. If you only keep Eventbrite for the public event, its free-event tier costs nothing, and its public API and Zapier can push attendee lists toward Communal's member records.",{"type":35,"children":36,"toc":342},"root",[37,46,52,58,114,120,163,169,174,180,297,303,308],{"type":38,"tag":39,"props":40,"children":42},"element","h2",{"id":41},"the-short-version",[43],{"type":44,"value":45},"text","The short version",{"type":38,"tag":47,"props":48,"children":49},"p",{},[50],{"type":44,"value":51},"Eventbrite sells tickets to the public and takes a cut of each one. 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