Tiqqo vs Eventbrite
Tiqqo is a European alternative to Eventbrite: same use case, headquartered in Netherlands and governed by EU GDPR, while Eventbrite is based in the United States.
By the EU Alternatives team Last updated
Sell event tickets from a branded shop, scan QR codes at the door, and grow your audience with built-in CRM and email campaigns.
- Jurisdiction
- EU / EEA
- Primary privacy law
- EU GDPR
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- No
- Open source
- No
- Free tier
- Yes
Its pull is discovery: people browse it looking for something to do, so a listing brings an audience that a self-hosted ticket page never will. Free events publish at no cost, while paid tickets carry a 3.7% plus 1.79 dollars service fee and 2.9% payment processing, usually passed to attendees. Eventbrite, Inc. is a Delaware corporation in San Francisco, with disputes settled under California law.
- Jurisdiction
- United States
- GDPR by default
- Requires DPA + TIA
- US CLOUD Act exposure
- Yes
Tiqqo vs Eventbrite at a glance
| Tiqqo | Eventbrite | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Netherlands | United States |
| Data jurisdiction | EU / EEA | United States |
| Primary privacy law | EU GDPR | Requires DPA + transfer assessment |
| US CLOUD Act exposure | No | Yes |
| Best for | Teams that need this built for European data-protection requirements | Teams already invested in the Eventbrite ecosystem |
Choose Tiqqo if…
- You want a provider governed by a European privacy regime
- GDPR or public-sector data-protection requirements apply to you
- You want to start free and scale up later
- You'd rather back the European tech ecosystem
Stick with Eventbrite if…
- You depend on integrations only available in the Eventbrite ecosystem
- Your organisation has no EU data-residency constraints
- Migration costs outweigh the jurisdiction benefits for now
About Tiqqo
Tiqqo is a ticketing system for every kind of event, from parties and concerts to festivals, trade shows and sports matches. It brings ticket sales, entry management and audience building into one platform, with no monthly platform fee: paid tickets carry a flat EUR 0.79 each and free events cost nothing.
Organisers build a branded ticket shop per event with tiers, capacity limits, timed releases and promo codes, and can run it on their own domain on the paid plan. Tickets arrive as QR codes, door staff scan them from a phone, and offline scanning keeps festival gates moving. Every buyer lands in a built-in CRM that feeds segmented email campaigns.
Key benefits:
- Flat per-ticket fee of EUR 0.79 with no percentage surcharge
- Free events stay free, with unlimited free events at no cost
- Branded ticket shops with tiers, capacity, timed releases and promo codes
- QR scanning from a phone, including offline scanning for festivals
- Event CRM with buyer profiles, segments and custom checkout questions
- Email marketing with behaviour-based segments and A/B testing
- Flexible payouts through Pay.nl whenever you request them
Tiqqo is a trade name of E-asy Concepts B.V., a Dutch private limited company whose terms are governed by Dutch law. The platform advertises EU hosting and GDPR-clean data handling, and payouts run through Pay.nl, a Dutch payment provider. Organisers can export their buyer data as CSV or through the API, so the audience stays theirs.
Ideal for promoters, venues and event organisers who want to keep their buyer list and their margins instead of paying percentage fees to a marketplace.
Why choose Tiqqo over Eventbrite?
The decisive argument is data jurisdiction. Eventbrite is headquartered in the United States, which means personal data processed through it can be subject to non-EU legal regimes: the US CLOUD Act, FISA 702, or similar laws depending on the provider. After the 2020 Schrems II ruling, EU organisations must carry out a transfer impact assessment for every such data flow.
Tiqqo removes that overhead. As a Netherlands-based provider, it operates under EU GDPR, and data stays inside the EU/EEA by default. For regulated sectors such as health, public administration, and finance, that's not a nice-to-have but a requirement. For everyone else, it's concentration-risk insurance: you avoid depending on a single jurisdiction that can change the rules without warning.