Brushfire

You can sell tickets, take registrations and check people in at the door from one account, and on the default pay-as-you-go billing you pay nothing in months when you sell nothing. Brushfire suits churches and ministries, schools, attractions, haunts, festivals, performing arts venues and conferences, and it publishes separate per-ticket rates for several of those groups. It runs on Square and Stripe for payments, so ticket money lands in your own payment account soon after each sale rather than after the event.

What it is for

The main job is getting paying people through the door with less manual work. Brushfire documents general admission and assigned seating (which can be mixed in one event), timed entry slots for crowd control, group and family tickets, VIP packages and a Flex Pass that covers several events or attractions with one purchase. For camps, classes and conferences it offers registration forms with conditional questions, required fields and waivers. Churches get extras such as donations during registration and online services with Bible App access, chat and tithing, according to its churches page. Brushfire says it handles more than 30,000 events a year.

Features

• Ticketing General admission, reserved seating, timed entry, unlimited ticket types, group tickets, season passes and the multi-event Flex Pass. Ticket designs can carry your logo and colours, and sponsor logos can appear on event pages, tickets and emails.
• Registration Custom forms with conditional logic, group and family sign-ups, automated confirmation emails and digital waivers.
• Checkout Embeddable event pages for your own website, upsells and donations at checkout, cart abandonment emails through CartStack, and optional refund protection for buyers through Spot.
• Check-in The Brushfire organiser app scans order or ticket QR codes in three modes (check in, check out, information only). Check-in gates, upgraded in September 2026, can stop an attendee with incomplete registration details, an unsigned waiver or an unpaid balance, including unconfirmed cheques or invoices. All three gates are off until you switch them on per event.
• On-site sales Square tap to pay and point-of-sale hardware, with a mobile box office app included on the attractions, education and other events rates.
• Reporting A live dashboard for sales, revenue and attendance, live check-in data, and exports to CSV or Excel.
• Add-on products A branded attendee event app with schedules, speaker bios, polling, push notifications and chat; mobile lead capture for exhibitors that scans badges or QR codes and lets staff add notes and qualify leads; live and pre-recorded streaming behind ticketed access; attendee phone and email support; and on-site staff.
• Language and currency Brushfire says it supports more than 40 languages and 100 currencies, with automatic tax calculation.

Plans and pricing

You pay per ticket, at a rate set by the kind of organisation you are, plus card processing. Its pricing page says there are no setup fees and no contracts, and that you can pass fees to buyers, absorb them or set a custom split.

Plan	Price	Billing	Includes
Attractions	$0.75 per ticket	Per ticket sold, plus card fees	Season pass, group ticketing, mobile box office app, no charge for free tickets, hardware credit when switching from another provider
Education	$0.75 per ticket	Per ticket sold, plus card fees	Dedicated customer success manager, season pass, group ticketing, mobile box office app, no charge for free tickets, hardware credit when switching
Churches and ministries (under 1,500 weekly attendance)	$299	Per month, plus card processing fees	Ticketing for concerts, performances and services, registration for conferences, camps and classes, church management system integrations
Churches and ministries (over 1,500 weekly attendance)	$1 + 1% per ticket	Per ticket sold, plus card processing fees	Not itemised separately on the page
Other events	$1.50 + 1% per ticket	Per ticket sold, plus card fees	Dedicated customer success manager, season pass, group ticketing, mobile box office app, hardware credit when switching

Card processing is charged by Square or Stripe. The page lists Square at 2.6% + $0.15 in person, 2.9% + $0.30 online and 3.5% + $0.15 keyed in, and Stripe at 2.7% + $0.05 in person, 2.9% + $0.30 online and 3.4% + $0.30 keyed in. A second Stripe table headed “partnership rates” shows 2.9% + $0.30 base, 2.6% + $0.10 chip and PIN and 3.5% + $0.15 keyed in, so ask which Stripe rates apply to you. Prices as shown on its pricing page, checked 9 November 2026, in US dollars.

Brushfire’s billing terms describe a second route, a flat one-off, monthly or yearly subscription covering all events and attendees, arranged with its sales team. Its help centre says subscriptions are typically a 12-month commitment.

Free plan and trial

There is no free plan or time-limited trial. You can open an account and build events without paying anything, because pay-as-you-go fees are only taken when tickets sell. Free tickets carry no charge on the attractions and education rates. The billing terms add that free attendees elsewhere are charged a reduced fee, and that a ticket discounted by 100% still counts as paid and is charged on its original price. Account creation places a $1 authorisation hold on your card, which drops off within a few days.

Integrations and API

The integrations that save you most work are the payment ones. Square and Stripe handle all card data, so it never passes through Brushfire’s servers. Brushfire also names CartStack (cart recovery), Spot (refund guarantees for buyers) and Smartwaiver, added in October 2026, which puts a waiver link in confirmation emails and blocks unsigned attendees at check-in. For churches it lists a native integration with Rock RMS and connections to Planning Center and Breeze. Developers get a REST API using OAuth 2.0, with rate limits, plus webhooks for completed and updated orders and for created and updated attendees, documented on developer.brushfire.com.

Deployment and platforms

You run everything from a browser, with nothing to install on a server. Brushfire is cloud software hosted across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and MongoDB’s cloud service, with data replicated in several locations, according to its data security page. The organiser app for iOS (iOS 16 or later) and Android (Android 11 or later) needs an internet connection to scan. The attendee event app is a progressive web app opened in any browser. Brushfire says PCI DSS compliance reports are available on request and that it takes part in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions.

Company

Brushfire is the trading name of E-vent Software, Inc., a Texas corporation whose principal mailing address is in Fort Worth. Its founder, Stan Coker, built it for church and ministry events, and the company says it has been in business for more than 20 years. The team works fully remotely.

What to check before buying

• Which rate you fall under. The per-ticket fee ranges from $0.75 to $1.50 + 1% depending on your category, and the billing terms say rates are often negotiated per organisation and per event.
• The church subscription terms. The pricing page FAQ says there are no monthly costs and no contracts, but the under 1,500 church rate is $299 a month and the help centre describes subscriptions as typically 12 months. If a subscription is cancelled, your event data and attendee details stop being accessible.
• What counts as an add-on. The help centre lists assigned seat layout creation, a custom attendee event app, attendee support, hardware rental and on-site support as possible extra costs.
• Fees on cancellations. Brushfire fees are not refunded for cancelled attendees, including when you cancel the whole event.
• Connectivity at the door. The check-in app needs Wi-Fi or mobile data, so confirm signal at your venue or ask how offline scanning works.
• Which Stripe rates apply, since the pricing page shows two different Stripe tables.

Brushfire pricing

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

Pricing model	Fee per ticket sold
Published starting price	$0.75 per ticket plus card processing fees
Free plan	No
Free trial	No

Per-ticket rate depends on organisation type (attractions and education $0.75; other events $1.50 + 1%; churches over 1,500 weekly attendance $1 + 1%); churches under 1,500 weekly attendance $299 per month. Card processing by Square or Stripe on top. No setup fees; flat subscriptions available via sales, typically 12-month commitment. Pricing page shows two different Stripe rate tables.

Source: brushfire.com, checked 9 November 2026.

Alternatives to Brushfire

Other directory profiles that do the same job as Brushfire.

• inwink, also listed for AI event management and data tools
• PheedLoop, also listed for event floor plan software
• RegFox, also listed for lead retrieval apps and badging tools
• Eventsforce, also listed for lead retrieval apps and badging tools
• Billetto
• Fourwaves

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• BoxCast, a dedicated streaming platform if you need more than Brushfire’s online events add-on.
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• Choosing event registration software, our guide to comparing registration tools.
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• How pretixSCAN handles offline check-in, for the questions to ask about scanning without signal.

Sources: brushfire.com pricing, ticketing, integrations, churches and ministries, event app, about, September 2026 product update, October 2026 product update, Brushfire Technology, the beginning, billing terms, pricing and subscription FAQ, data security and privacy, check-in app help, privacy policy, developer documentation, checked 9 November 2026.