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Eventbrite vs TryBooking for selling tickets on your website

Eventbrite and TryBooking both offer ways to sell tickets from your own website, with different widget types and requirements.

Before you choose

List how many events you run at once and whether one page should show them all.

Check your site builder can hold the vendor's embed code, and test it on mobile.

Decide whether buyers must stay on your site or can finish on the ticketing page.

Where the website stops

The website hands over when the ticketing system issues the ticket.

Side by side

Eventbrite or TryBooking?

Eventbrite compared with TryBooking
CriterionEventbriteTryBooking
Checkout on your page[1][2]Embedded option shows available tickets directly on the page.Embedded booking places the first booking step on your page.
Button option[1][2]Button opens a window over your site.Purchase button opens the event page in a new tab.
Event listing[1][2]Not covered in the cited guide.Event listing widget shows all events and updates automatically.
Site requirements[1][2]HTTPS certificate, access to your site HTML and a published event.Load widget.js from TryBooking rather than a local copy.

Choose Eventbrite when

  • Your events are on Eventbrite and you want tickets in an overlay or inline on the page.
  • Your site already runs on HTTPS and you can add code to its HTML.

Choose TryBooking when

  • You want an events page that updates itself from your TryBooking account.
  • You want a choice of listing, landing page and embedded booking widgets.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Which keeps buyers on our site?

Eventbrite's button and embedded options both run on your site. TryBooking's widgets do too, except the purchase button, which opens a new tab.[1][2]

Will Eventbrite or TryBooking add the code for us?

Eventbrite says it cannot add code to your website, so plan for a developer to do it. TryBooking provides the widget code to paste into your site.[1][2]

Do we need to update the website for each event?

TryBooking's event listing widget updates automatically; with Eventbrite, each event's embed code comes from that event.[1][2]

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