Ticketing that any organizer can afford

Selling tickets online usually means handing a big platform a slice of every sale. For a small gig, a community fundraiser or a first-time festival, that slice can decide whether the night breaks even.

Hi.Events is a small, bootstrapped company in Ireland, founded by Dave Earley. We keep our fee low, free events cost nothing, and the core platform is open source so anyone can run it themselves. Thousands of organizers use it to sell tickets, from club nights and church events to international conferences.

At a glanceHi.Events Ltd.
Founded by
Dave Earley
Based in
Dublin, Ireland
First release
2024
Funding
Bootstrapped
Organizers
5,000+
Data sold
None, ever
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§ 01 · The story so far

It started as open source

Hi.Events began as an open-source project. The first release went up on GitHub in May 2024, and the core of it has been public ever since. Hi.Events Cloud came after, for organizers who would rather we ran it for them.

There have been more than 80 releases since, and thousands of organizers now sell tickets with it, from a co-op bookshop and a church Easter event to JuliaCon. Most of what we build comes straight from those organizers telling us what they can't do yet.

We're a small team with no investors. The only people we answer to are the organizers who use Hi.Events, because they're the ones who pay our way. That keeps things simple. If Hi.Events isn't worth the fee, you can leave, and because the core is open source you can run it yourself.

What we want hasn't changed since that first release: good ticketing that any organizer can afford, wherever they are.

Dave Earley with a guitar and a very patient dogDave EarleyFounder · GitHub · Writing
We’ve used Hi.Events now for a few events and really love it. It’s also been fun to see improvements roll out as we go. We’re definitely never going back to Eventbrite.
Firestorm BooksCo-op bookstore & event space
Your open-source platform enables our local community organization to connect with our members in ways we couldn’t afford otherwise.
CCAKDCommunity organization
§ 02 · What we are for

Good ticketing at a price any organizer can afford

Ticketing fees land hardest on small events, where a few percent can decide whether a night breaks even. So we keep ours low and give organizers ways to pay less still.

01

Low fees, and free events stay free

Free tickets cost nothing to sell. Paid tickets are 1.25% + $0.60 each, with no monthly fee and no contract. Ticket money goes straight to your own Stripe account as tickets sell.

See pricing →
02

Discounts for non-profits and lower-income countries

A fee priced in euro or dollars weighs more where tickets sell for less, and every cent matters to a charity. We offer discounts to non-profits and to organizers in lower-income countries, so tell us who you are and where you run your events and we will work something out.

[email protected] →
03

Self-host it and pay no fees at all

The core platform is open source under AGPL-3.0. Run it on your own server and Hi.Events takes nothing from your sales. You cover your hosting and your card processor, and that is it.

Open-source ticketing →
04

Your attendees stay yours

Your attendee list belongs to you, and you can export it whenever you like. We never sell it, and if you ever leave, your data leaves with you.

Privacy policy →
§ 03 · How we make money

A small fee on paid tickets, and that's the business

On Hi.Events Cloud we charge 1.25% + $0.60 on each paid ticket. Free events pay nothing. Businesses that run Hi.Events themselves can buy a licence for extra features and support.

Being small keeps our costs down, and being bootstrapped means there is nobody pushing us to squeeze more out of every ticket.

  • We don't sell attendee data
  • We don't show ads
  • We don't have investors to pay back
  • We don't charge a monthly fee
5,000+Organizers
4kGitHub stars
15+Checkout languages
0Investors
Organizers using Hi.Events
MastodonMensaJuliaCon GlobalPenpotTEDxBUVChicago State UniversitySommerland FestivalFanCon DenmarkPHP Morocco ConferenceToastmasters PolandHackGDLand many more
§ 04 · The company

Get in touch

Questions about Hi.Events, a discount, a partnership or the press all go to the same inbox.

Company
Hi.Events Ltd., Ireland
Press
Writing about Hi.Events? Email [email protected]

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