Eventbrite
Eventbrite
All you need to host an event & grow your community
What is Eventbrite? ✨
Eventbrite is a powerful event management and ticketing platform that simplifies the process of creating, promoting, and selling tickets for events. It offers organizers a suite of tools to reach a wider audience, gain insights through analytics, and manage attendees with ease, making it an invaluable resource for anyone looking to build and engage a community through events.
What Eventbrite can be used for? ✨
Eventbrite is a platform that streamlines the process of creating, managing, and promoting events. For community managers, it offers several key benefits that can enhance the way they connect with their audience and foster community growth:
- It provides a centralized place where you can organize all facets of your events. From personalized event pages to ticket sales, it reduces the complexity of event planning and coordination.
- By listing an event on Eventbrite, it becomes discoverable to a wider audience. The platform's built-in marketing tools also allow promoters to target potential attendees through emails, social media, and - Eventbrite's own event listings.
- It offers an easy way for attendees to register and purchase tickets online, which can include free events or paid ticketed events with multiple price tiers.
- For ticketed events, Eventbrite takes care of processing payments, which means that organizers need not worry about setting up and securing their own payment gateways. The platform accepts various forms of payment, and you receive payouts after the event.
- By using Eventbrite's analytics tools, you can gain insights into your attendees' behavior, such as ticket sales trends, promotional campaign effectiveness, and demographic data. This information can be invaluable for tailoring future events to the community's preferences.
- It integrates with numerous other tools and platforms, such as social media networks, CRM systems, and email marketing services, which helps in automating tasks and making the promotion of events much more efficient.
- It offers a mobile app that allows attendees to store their tickets digitally and lets organizers easily check in attendees, using their smartphones as ticket scanners.
- It can help you to grow your following by keeping attendees engaged through regular updates, follow-up emails, and notifications about upcoming events, thereby fostering a sense of belonging and anticipation.
Features ✨
Multiple ticket types
Customizable event pages
Ticket transfers
Custom order forms
Custom URLs
Email marketing
Social sharing
Paid social ads
Eventbrite Ads
Promo codes
Sales dashboard
Reporting & Analytics
Smart audiences
Organizer app
Attendee check-in
Waitlists
Team permissions
Payment processing
Embedded checkout on your website
Payouts before your event
What are the limitations? ✨
Users have reported several issues with Eventbrite:
- It's not flexible enough for credit-based memberships.
- There are problems with ticket scanning, causing some guests to be turned away, and getting refunds or help from customer service can be hard.
- Eventbrite has increased prices and added fees, which event organizers and charities don't like, as they feel the service isn't worth the extra money.
- The website is hard to use and navigate, and the event pages can't be customized much.
- The email tool doesn't work well, sometimes cutting off messages or failing to send invitations.
- The customer support is often unhelpful, and people are frustrated that they can only talk to AI chatbots instead of real people when they have urgent problems.
Languages ✨
- English
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Swedish