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Eventbrite is a ticketing marketplace that charges a per-ticket fee on paid tickets, and what you buy is discovery, reaching people who are not on your list. Pick Givebutter for a nonprofit gala or auction; pick Eventbrite for public events. Member organizations that need dues, renewals, programs or facility booking need a third option, since neither tool does those.","2026-08-19",{"title":16,"text":17},"Events, memberships, donations and volunteers in one member database","Communal is $75/mo to 250 members with donations, numbered CRA and US tax receipts, volunteer shifts and POS software included; programs and events with waitlists, member pricing and attendance are +$50/mo. No per-ticket platform fee, no contract, free migration.",[19,22,25,28,31,34],{"question":20,"answer":21},"What does a $25 ticket cost on Eventbrite vs Givebutter?","Eventbrite: service fee of 3.7% ($0.93) + $1.79, plus 2.9% processing ($0.73), about $3.44 per ticket, or roughly 13.8%. Pass it to the buyer and they pay about $28.44; absorb it and you net about $21.56. Givebutter with donor tips on (the default): $0 to your organization, you keep the full $25 and the buyer sees an optional tip. With tips off: 3% platform ($0.75) plus 2.9% + $0.30 processing ($1.03), about $1.78, so you net about $23.22.",{"question":23,"answer":24},"Is Givebutter free for events?","Yes. The free plan includes event ticketing, fundraising pages, auctions, donation forms, a CRM with unlimited contacts, marketing tools and payment processing, funded by an optional tip that Givebutter says 92% of donors cover. Givebutter Plus, from $29/mo for up to 250 contacts, adds workflows, texting, an advanced email editor, custom reports and QuickBooks Online sync.",{"question":26,"answer":27},"Is Eventbrite free for nonprofits?","Free events are free with no attendee cap. Paid tickets carry 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket plus 2.9% processing per order. Eventbrite Pro, the email marketing and promotion add-on, starts at $15/mo and nonprofits can apply for up to 50% off Pro; the per-ticket fees themselves are not discounted on the pricing page.",{"question":29,"answer":30},"Which is better for a gala or auction?","Givebutter. It has auctions, peer-to-peer pages, text-to-donate, donation forms and tax receipts in the same product as ticketing. Eventbrite has a donation ticket type but no auctions and no year-end or consolidated tax receipts, so receipting has to happen somewhere else.",{"question":32,"answer":33},"Eventbrite vs Givebutter vs Classy or Bloomerang for fundraising events?","Both are paid fundraising CRMs rather than free ticketing tools. Bloomerang CRM starts at $125/mo billed annually with event registration, QR check-in and table management, and Bloomerang Volunteer from $119/mo. If you need donor retention tooling and can pay a subscription, that tier is worth a look; for a free event page, Givebutter; for public discovery, Eventbrite.",{"question":35,"answer":36},"What about Cvent?","Cvent is enterprise event management for multi-day conferences, sold on quote-only annual contracts with per-registrant fees and no free trial. It is the wrong size for most nonprofit fundraising events and does not handle memberships, dues or volunteers either.",{"type":38,"children":39,"toc":306},"root",[40,49,70,75,81,126,132,175,181,186,192,295,301],{"type":41,"tag":42,"props":43,"children":45},"element","h2",{"id":44},"the-short-version",[46],{"type":47,"value":48},"text","The short version",{"type":41,"tag":50,"props":51,"children":52},"p",{},[53,55,61,63,68],{"type":47,"value":54},"Pick ",{"type":41,"tag":56,"props":57,"children":58},"strong",{},[59],{"type":47,"value":60},"Givebutter",{"type":47,"value":62}," if you are a nonprofit running a gala, auction, run or ticketed fundraiser and you want ticketing, donations, receipts and a donor CRM in one free tool, and you are comfortable with a tip prompt at checkout. 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