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VenueOra and Ticket Tailor, compared for UK venues and events
Ticket Tailor is a strong, low-cost choice for simple event ticketing, and this page says so. VenueOra is a Ticket Tailor alternative for venues that also need memberships, ePOS, lockers and age checks on one guest record. Facts are from October 2026.
Ticket Tailor is a London-based ticketing platform founded in 2010 that describes itself as the world’s most loved event ticketing platform. It publishes its prices in full: no fees for up to 5,000 free tickets a year, prepaid credits from £0.22 a ticket plus VAT, pay-as-you-go at £0.60 a ticket plus VAT, UK Stripe card processing at 1.5% plus 20p, and 50% off for registered charities (published prices at October 2026). Features include an event page builder, reserved seating, a free check-in app that works offline, Tap to Pay on a phone, memberships and season passes, reporting, Zapier and an open API with webhooks. It has 24 industry pages, including festivals, venues, nightlife, tours and attractions and museums.
For a one-off event, a club night or a theatre run, Ticket Tailor is cheap, quick to set up and well documented, and many venues would be right to choose it. VenueOra is built for venues that take admissions and payments every day: tickets, membership plans with applications and lifecycle emails, kiosk and terminal payments, ePOS and kitchen display through Posso UK, LockVault lockers and VenueGo, a verification platform designed for venues, on one record per guest. We publish two platform plans, Free and Venue, and the VenueGo plans; bespoke pricing is on request.
Every Ticket Tailor statement below comes from tickettailor.com as it read in October 2026. Where their site does not describe something, we say so rather than assume it is missing.
Details about Ticket Tailor come from their public website as reviewed in October 2026. Where a feature is not listed there, we say so rather than assume.
Side by side
| Feature | VenueOra | Ticket Tailor |
|---|---|---|
| Ticketing | Events with multiple ticket types, each with its own price and capacity, and sessions for timed entry, from one branded checkout. Tickets by email with a unique QR code and Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes. Live capacity and sales on each event. | Unlimited events and ticket types, time slot and recurring events, reserved seating charts, waitlists, embeddable checkout, QR-code e-tickets and Apple Wallet tickets. |
| Timed entry and capacity | Sessions on a calendar with capacity by session and buffer time before and after; a booking or individual tickets can be moved between sessions. QR check-in at the door and on a kiosk rejects a used ticket; RFID scan where the venue uses that hardware. | Time slot and recurring events with a time slot heat map in reporting. The festival and nightlife pages describe time-slotted and early-access entry. |
| Memberships and passes | Annual and monthly plans priced by the venue, applications with staff review, invite codes, guest day passes for selected events, renewal reminders and lifecycle emails for due, lapsed and win-back members, and member-only ticket types with discount codes for member offers. | Memberships and season passes with member perks, visit limits per month and an expiry date, fulfilled by QR or membership codes. Recurring billing and automatic renewal are not shown on their public site. |
| Payments and payouts | Apple Pay, Google Pay and card online, on kiosks and on card terminals, with refunds, reissues and payment on a terminal from the order. Payouts after merchant verification; reports for sales, VAT, year-on-year and daily capacity. Card data goes to a PCI DSS Level 1 acquiring partner and never touches your tills, kiosks or lockers. Card processing is quoted with your plan. | Payments run through your own Stripe, Square or PayPal account, so Ticket Tailor never holds your money. Apple Pay, Google Pay and Klarna are listed. UK Stripe fee 1.5% plus 20p (published price at October 2026). |
| Door scanning and sales | QR check-in at the door that rejects a used ticket, reception mode with guestlist search by member, guest, order or ticket, and RFID scan on kiosks where the venue uses that hardware. Walk-in sales on a VenueOra kiosk or by taking payment on a card terminal from the order. | Free check-in app scans barcodes on phones or paper, works offline, syncs across devices and sells last-minute tickets with Tap to Pay on the phone and no extra hardware. |
| ePOS, kiosks and kitchen display | ePOS tills, self-ordering kiosks, kitchen display systems, digital menu boards and card machines supplied, installed and supported by Posso UK, with VenueOra payment processing on the Posso platform. Software licences from £25 a month plus VAT; hardware quoted by Posso with the licence. | Point of sale is listed for selling tickets in person with integrated payments, alongside a Stripe Terminal integration. Bar and food tills, kiosks and kitchen display are not shown on their public site. |
| Smart lockers | LockVault lockers at no upfront cost on revenue share: self-powered, Starlink-connected, in fitted banks of 24 to 240 or container hubs of up to 180. The venue receives a share of gross rental revenue agreed after a site survey, with a proposal within 48 hours of an enquiry. | Not shown on their public site. |
| Age verification | VenueGo checks the guest on their own phone when they sign up or buy a ticket: face, then document, then a photo holding it. Results are approved, declined or needs review. Plans from £0 for 25 checks. | Not shown on their public site. Their nightlife page covers guest lists, hidden tickets and door scanning; it does not mention ID or age checks. |
| API and integrations | LockerPay REST API with signed webhooks and SDKs in seven languages for locker and kiosk vendors. VenueGo API and webhooks for integrators. Ticketing integrations on request. | Open API with webhooks, Zapier, an MCP connector for AI tools and named integrations including Mailchimp, HubSpot, Meta, TikTok and GA4. Whether API access costs extra is not stated. |
| Industries covered | Theme parks, waterparks, zoos and aquariums, trampoline parks and FECs, soft play, leisure centres, gyms, festivals, nightclubs and bars, arenas, museums, ice rinks and members’ clubs. | 24 industry pages including festivals, venues, nightlife, tours and attractions, museums, sports, theatre, conferences, schools, churches, charities and seasonal events. Leisure centres, gyms, trampoline parks and zoos are not shown as industries. |
| Pricing transparency | Two platform plans are published: Free at £0 a month and £1.50 per ticket sold, and Venue at £150 a month and 80p per ticket sold, with bespoke pricing for groups and multi-venue operators on request. VenueGo plans from £0 for 25 checks and ePOS licences from £25 a month plus VAT are published too. Lockers start with a consultation; card processing is quoted with your plan. | Full public pricing in GBP with a fee calculator and a savings comparison against Eventbrite, TicketSpice and TicketLeap (published prices at October 2026). |
| UK base | UK company, VenueOra Ticketing Limited, with UK-based support. | London HQ with about 30 staff and a further 13 around the world for 24/7 support, according to their about page. Trades as Zimma Ltd. |
Competitor column as of October 2026.
When to choose Ticket Tailor
- You run one-off or occasional events and want the lowest fee you can find with no contract. Ticket Tailor’s published prices start at £0.22 a ticket on prepaid credits (published price at October 2026).
- You are a registered charity or a community group. Ticket Tailor gives charities 50% off its fees and discounts for not-for-profits and PTAs.
- You want ticket money in your own Stripe, Square or PayPal account straight away rather than through a platform payout.
- You need reserved seating charts, waitlists and a free offline check-in app, and nothing more around the door.
- You want to set up and sell today without a sales call. Ticket Tailor states no contracts, setup fees or monthly charges.
When to choose VenueOra
- Your venue trades every day and you want tickets, memberships, kiosk payments and locker hire on one guest record.
- You need membership plans that bill monthly or annually, with applications, staff review, renewal reminders and lifecycle emails.
- You want tills, kitchen display and self-ordering kiosks installed and supported by a UK partner, with payments on the same ledger as tickets.
- You sell alcohol or run over-18s nights and want age verification on the guest’s phone at ticket purchase.
- Lockers at no upfront cost with a share of gross rental revenue are part of the plan.
FAQ
Questions venues ask
Is VenueOra a Ticket Tailor alternative for simple event ticketing?
Not for simple events. If you sell tickets to occasional events and need nothing else, Ticket Tailor is cheaper to start with, quicker to set up and its prices are public, so it is the better choice. VenueOra is the better fit when the venue trades every day and needs membership plans with applications and lifecycle emails, ePOS and kitchen display, lockers or age checks on the same guest record as its tickets.
How much does Ticket Tailor cost compared with VenueOra?
Ticket Tailor publishes its prices: no fees for up to 5,000 free tickets a year, prepaid credits from £0.22 a ticket plus VAT, pay-as-you-go at £0.60 a ticket plus VAT, and UK Stripe card processing at 1.5% plus 20p (published prices at October 2026). VenueOra publishes a Free plan at £0 a month and £1.50 per ticket sold and a Venue plan at £150 a month and 80p per ticket sold, with bespoke pricing for groups on request; card processing is quoted with your plan.
Does Ticket Tailor offer memberships?
Yes, in a simple form. Its products and memberships page describes memberships and season passes with perks such as discounted or faster entry, a limit on visits per month and an expiry date, fulfilled by QR or membership codes. Recurring billing and automatic renewal are not shown on its site at October 2026. VenueOra membership plans bill monthly or annually at prices the venue sets, with applications and staff review, renewal reminders and lifecycle emails for due, lapsed and win-back members, on the same record as tickets.
Can Ticket Tailor run my bar tills or kiosks?
Its site lists point of sale for selling tickets in person with integrated payments, Tap to Pay in the check-in app and a Stripe Terminal integration. Bar and food tills, self-ordering kiosks and kitchen display are not shown as of October 2026. VenueOra covers these through Posso UK, which supplies, installs and supports ePOS, kiosks, kitchen display and card machines, with VenueOra processing the card payments on the Posso platform.
Does Ticket Tailor check age or ID at the door?
Not on its public site. Its nightlife page covers guest lists, hidden tickets and door scanning without mentioning age or ID checks. VenueOra includes VenueGo, which checks the guest on their phone. VenueGo reads the document in the camera. It does not look up DVLA, the passport office, or any other government database, and it does not read a passport chip. A clear result is not proof a document is genuine. It does not replace a premises licence, a challenge at the bar, or legal advice.
Where are VenueOra and Ticket Tailor based?
Both are UK companies. Ticket Tailor’s about page describes a London HQ with about 30 staff and a further 13 team members around the world providing 24/7 support; the site footer names Zimma Ltd trading as Ticket Tailor. VenueOra Ticketing Limited is a UK company with UK-based support. For a venue that wants UK support hours and UK contracting, either qualifies, so the choice rests on what you need beyond ticketing.
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