Skiddle

You can list an event and sell tickets on Skiddle without paying a setup fee or a subscription, because the booking fee is added to the buyer’s price unless you choose to cover it. Your event also appears on skiddle.com, the What’s On guide Skiddle says logged 54 million searches in 2025, so a club night, gig, festival or fan convention gets in front of people already browsing for something to do. Skiddle runs this from Preston and says it has worked with promoters since 2001.

What it is for

You get one place to build the event, sell it, push it to an audience and scan people in at the door. Skiddle’s promoter site has pages for gigs, clubs, festivals, theatre, comedy, food and drink, sport, bonfire displays, outdoor cinema, workshops, family days out and conventions such as comic cons and tattoo shows. Organisers run everything from the Promotion Centre, a self-service dashboard, and Skiddle says more than 260,000 organisers use it. It reports 9.87 million tickets sold and 180,000 events listed in 2025.

Features

• Ticket set-up: tiered or staggered prices, passworded tickets, ticket categories, ticket dependencies, group offers, add-ons, guestlist tickets issued from a Guestlist Manager, and table sales.
• Seating: a self-serve seat chart designer for rows, sections, tables and standing areas, reusable per venue, with seat categories such as VIP or Accessible. Skiddle notes it works on single events only for now and is being switched on account by account.
• Timed entry: session-based ticketing in 15, 30, 45 or 60 minute slots, a sessions calendar with bulk edit, pricing bands, and Event Series for repeating dates.
• Spreading the cost: Payment Plans with a non-refundable deposit and monthly instalments over up to 12 months (tickets are issued once the plan is paid), plus PayPal Pay in 3 and Pay in 30 days.
• Selling more: discount codes, Remind Me on-sale alerts by email or text (WhatsApp as a paid option), an automatic Waiting List that gives each buyer 20 minutes to claim released tickets, Brand, Artist and Festival Alerts, and a Reps scheme where fans earn cash or rewards for sales through their links.
• Refund and resale: Cool:Off, an opt-in refund window of 72 hours by default that you can extend to 28 days, which closes 7 days before the event. Skiddle says its trial raised sales by up to 22% with under 0.5% of buyers claiming. Re:Sell lets buyers resell at face value only, with a new barcode issued.
• Entry: the free RapidScan app on iOS and Android, live entry counts across several entrances, name search for buyers without a ticket, guest scanner logins and redemption stats after the event. Skiddle says it keeps scanning through power or internet loss and suits events of 1 to 80,000 tickets.
• Door sales: RapidScan Box Office takes cash and card (through Zettle) at the event and prints barcoded tickets on the spot, with daily reconciliation reports per user.
• Data: analytics for buyer location, city, age and gender, ticket stats, VAT breakdowns, and team logins with set permissions.

Plans and pricing

You pay nothing up front. Skiddle’s help centre gives the default booking fee as 10% of face value plus 27p, with a £1 minimum on tickets under £10, and on a £20 ticket the buyer pays £22.27. Pick “I pay fees” and the same amount is taken from face value as commission instead. A separate RapidScan fee is charged on every order by basket total, and it applies even if you never scan tickets.

Plan	Price	Billing	Includes
Online ticketing	10% of face value + 27p (minimum £1)	Per ticket, added to the buyer’s price by default	Listing, Promotion Centre tools and card processing through Skiddle’s merchant account. Free to list.
RapidScan fee, events other than festivals	£0 up to £10, £0.80 to £45, £1.05 to £75, £1.60 to £100, £2.10 above £100.01	Per order, by basket total	Barcode delivery, fraud checks and the scanning app. Same figures in euros.
RapidScan fee, festivals	£0 up to £10, £1.05 to £75, £1.60 to £100, £2.10 to £150, £2.65 to £200, £3.15 above £200.01	Per order, by basket total	As above. Same figures in euros.
RapidScan Box Office	50p per successful transaction	Pay as you go, no setup or monthly fee	Door sales app and reconciliation. Zettle adds its card fee, typically 1.5% to 2.75%.
Same Day Payments	£12.50 + VAT (or €12.50 + VAT)	Per remittance	Funds clear the same day on a Tuesday or Thursday run.
E-flyers	From £150 + VAT	Per send, quoted	Email to Skiddle’s database targeted by location, genre or past buyers.
Remind Me Premium	£0.05 per message	Per WhatsApp message	On-sale reminders by WhatsApp.
Scanner hire	£30 + VAT per device above 5 devices; 4G router £30 + VAT	Per hire	Devices, chargers, cables and online support. Damage is charged.

Prices as shown on its booking fee page and linked help articles on 5 November 2026. Skiddle does not publish the base price for hiring up to five scanners, and it says it may raise the RapidScan fee. Paid advertising through Skiddle 360 (Meta ads) is quoted.

Free plan and payouts

Free and guestlist tickets need no payment processing, and there is no subscription, so there is nothing to trial. Ticket money is held until after the event, then paid in Tuesday or Thursday runs that take 2 to 3 working days to clear. Balances under £50 wait until you request a minimum payout, which is free.

Integrations and API

You can keep your own ad tracking and cash flow. Skiddle supports Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok pixels on event pages, and sends purchases to Facebook through its Conversions API as well. DirectPay connects your own Stripe account so ticket money arrives as you sell, but you become merchant of record, carry chargebacks and pay Stripe’s fees. Buyers can pay with PayPal, and door card payments run through Zettle. Embeddable ticket boxes, buttons and listings widgets put sales on your own site. A public Skiddle API, still in beta, with a PHP SDK on GitHub, is for non-commercial use unless Skiddle approves it in writing.

Deployment and platforms

The Promotion Centre is a cloud web app. RapidScan runs on iOS and Android, and buyers use the Skiddle app, which Skiddle says had 3.6 million users in 2025. Tickets sell in pounds sterling or euros, and the currency is fixed when you register, so euro events need a second account. Skiddle does not publish a data hosting region or security certifications on the pages checked.

Company

Skiddle Limited (company 05688116) was incorporated on 26 January 2006 and is registered at Ashley Hall Farm, Goosnargh, Preston, according to Companies House. Skiddle dates the business to 2001. It says UK-based promoter support works six days a week, by live chat and email.

What to check before buying

• Work out the full buyer price, booking fee plus the RapidScan band for that basket, before you set face value, and decide whether you absorb the fee as commission.
• Plan cash flow around payment after the event, or weigh DirectPay against taking on chargebacks and Stripe fees.
• Pick the account currency carefully, because it cannot be changed later.
• If you need seated tickets on an event series or timed sessions, confirm with your account manager, since self-serve seating covers single events only.
• Ask for the scanner hire quote for up to five devices and the cost of any Cool:Off refunds charged back to your account.
• Check API terms first if you want to pull listings into your own commercial product.

Skiddle pricing

What Skiddle publishes about its pricing, checked on its own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm the current terms with Skiddle before you buy.

Pricing model	Fee per ticket sold
Published starting price	Free to list; booking fee 10% of face value + 27p per ticket (minimum £1), paid by the buyer by default, plus a RapidScan fee per order from £0 to £3.15 by basket total
Free plan	Yes
Free trial	No

No setup or subscription fee. Organisers can absorb the booking fee as commission. The RapidScan fee applies to every order even if tickets are not scanned, and Skiddle says it may raise it. Ticket money is paid after the event (Tuesday and Thursday runs, 2 to 3 working days, £50 minimum threshold) unless you use DirectPay with your own Stripe account. GBP or EUR, fixed per account.

Source: help.promotioncentre.co.uk, checked 5 November 2026.

Alternatives to Skiddle

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• Humanitix
• Splash
• Ticket Tailor
• zkipster, also listed for lead retrieval apps and badging tools and event floor plan software
• idloom, also listed for lead retrieval apps and badging tools
• Weezevent

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Sources: promotioncentre.co.uk, Skiddle booking fees, RapidScan fees, RapidScan Box Office, payouts, tracking pixels, DirectPay, Skiddle API, Companies House, checked 5 November 2026.