Somewhere along the way, ticketing platforms noticed they were sitting on everyone else’s revenue and started acting like it: holding funds, blending fees into opaque totals, paying out on their schedule while organizers fronted every cost of the show. The software became a place your money visits on the way to you.
attendee is built on the opposite premise: the money was never ours. We sell software — good software, for the whole job of running a ticketed event — and the revenue it collects belongs, from the first second, to the person whose event it is.
Payments settle to your Stripe account at purchase. There is no attendee balance, no payout schedule of ours, no week where your revenue is our working capital. This is architecture, not policy — we could not hold your money without rebuilding the product.
One fee, printed on the pricing page, worked to the cent. Whoever pays it — you or your buyer — sees it as its own line. Card processing is billed by Stripe and itemized separately, never blended into ours.
No fees invented at the last step, no countdown timers manufacturing panic, no pre-ticked upsells. A checkout is a purchase, not a pressure campaign — your buyers are your audience, and they should leave liking you more, not less.
Buyers are your customers, in your Stripe account and your export. Marketing email goes only to people who consented, and unsubscribing is one click. We will never market someone else’s event to your audience.
Your charges, customers, and payout history live in your own Stripe account, and your data exports as CSV. If attendee stops deserving your events, leaving should be an afternoon, not a negotiation.
Everything else. The event page that looks like you. The checkout that doesn’t lose the sale. The scanner that keeps the line moving at midnight, the box office that balances the cash drawer, the ledger that answers your accountant in one query. A platform that wins by being the best software for events — because it gave up the other way of making money.
We’re a small team, early, and building in the open with the organizers using it. If any clause above ever stops being true, write to hello@attendee.events and hold us to it.
Request access, run one event, and read every line of where the money went.