Best event ticketing platform in India in 2026
On published India rates, KonfHub's Silver plan is 3.75% plus GST with gateway charges included, Townscript's own example nets ₹946.80 from a ₹1,000 ticket across three separate 2% fees and statutory deductions, and BookMyShow publishes no organiser rate at all. The cheapest way to sell a ticket in India is still to be paid directly on UPI, which costs nothing and moves the work to you. This page compares them on what lands in your account.
Every platform in this market publishes a percentage and most of them mean something different by it. One includes the payment gateway charge, one does not, one adds a fee to the buyer's price as well, and one publishes nothing. The only comparison that survives contact with a real event is what reaches your bank from a ticket you sold.
The published rates, side by side
All read on 19 September 2026 from each platform's own pricing page, India view.
| Platform | Organiser-side cost | Charged to the buyer | Settlement |
|---|---|---|---|
| KonfHub Lite | 2% plus 18% GST, UPI only, up to 300 registrations per event | Gateway fee if you select Participants | Weekly, Thursday end of business |
| KonfHub Silver | 3.75% plus 18% GST, stated to include payment gateway charges, up to 2,500 registrations per event | Same, organiser-selectable | Weekly, Thursday end of business |
| Townscript | 2% Townscript fee plus a separate 2% gateway fee | 2% platform fee, always | Daily, weekly or after the event; new organisers generally weekly |
| BookMyShow | Not published | A per-ticket internet handling fee and a non-refundable per-order processing fee, neither valued | Not published |
| Thrivia, gateway mode | 4.9% inclusive of GST, applied last on the GST-inclusive subtotal | Only if you choose to pass it on, per event | The gateway settles to your own account on a T+2 cycle |
| Thrivia, manual mode | Nothing | Nothing | The attendee's UPI payment lands in your bank directly |
Townscript is the only one that publishes the arithmetic, and it is the clearest number in the market: on its own worked example a ₹1,000 ticket costs the buyer ₹1,023.60 and pays the organiser ₹946.80, after the two 2% organiser-side fees, ₹5 of TCS at 0.5% and ₹1 of TDS at 0.1%.
The cheapest way to sell a ticket in India
Being paid directly is the cheapest way. A UPI payment from an attendee's app to your VPA costs you nothing, costs them nothing, and reaches your bank in seconds. Every percentage on this page is the price of not doing that.
What you are actually buying with the percentage is the reconciliation. Someone has to match a ₹1,499 credit at 11:47pm to a person, mark a seat sold, decide whether the next booking is inside capacity, and answer the attendee asking whether their payment went through. At forty tickets that is an evening. At four hundred it is a job.
Thrivia's manual mode is the middle position: the attendee pays your VPA from any UPI app and uploads the payment reference, the booking waits in a verification queue, and you confirm it against your own bank credit. No percentage, because Thrivia is not in the payment, but the seat, the capacity and the balance owing are all tracked. You still do the verifying. The UPI collection guide covers the mechanics and where it stops scaling.
How operators do this today
| How it works today | Where it breaks | What Thrivia does instead |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone pays the full ticket price at checkout. | Right for a ₹500 gig, wrong for a ₹28,000 trek. Full payment up front is the most common reason a booking does not happen at all. | A booking can take a deposit now and carry the balance as owing, so the seat is held and the rest is a number you can chase. |
| One event, one date, one capacity. | A fixed-departure business sells the same trip eleven times a season with different capacity each time. | Capacity is per batch, so each departure has its own seats and its own remaining count. |
| Entry is a scan at the gate against the platform's server. | At a base camp or a farm venue there is no network, and the queue does not care. | The mobile scanner queues offline check-ins and reconciles them when a signal comes back. |
| Everyone who did not buy is an export you never look at again. | The pipeline is mostly people who asked and have not paid, and they live outside the ticketing tool. | The enquiry is a lead on the event, so a WhatsApp campaign can work a filtered slice of those leads in up to ten timed steps. |
| The platform's own marketplace puts your event in front of people who have never heard of you. | Nothing breaks. That reach is exactly what BookMyShow, Townscript and KonfHub are selling. | Nothing. Thrivia has no marketplace and brings you no new audience. If discovery is the reason you list, that reason stands. |
So which one
- Mid-sized paid events where you want one predictable all-in rate: KonfHub Silver. 3.75% plus GST with the gateway charge inside it, and a settlement day you can plan around.
- Small UPI-first events under 300 registrations: KonfHub Lite at 2% plus GST, as long as UPI-only is not a problem for your audience.
- Large city events where marketplace discovery is the point: Townscript, or BookMyShow if the act warrants it, accepting that BookMyShow's terms are a negotiation rather than a published rate.
- Treks, retreats, workshops and anything with a deposit: the ticketing model is the wrong shape. See the event organisers page for what changes.
- Forty people and your own audience: take UPI directly and do the reconciliation yourself. It is genuinely the cheapest answer and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Common questions
What is the best event ticketing platform in India in 2026?
For mid-sized paid events, KonfHub's Silver plan at 3.75% plus 18% GST is the clearest all-in published rate because it states that payment gateway charges are included. For small UPI-first events, KonfHub Lite is 2% plus GST up to 300 registrations. For events that depend on marketplace discovery, Townscript and BookMyShow have the reach. For anything sold as a dated departure with a deposit, a ticketing platform is the wrong shape.
What is the cheapest way to sell event tickets online in India?
Being paid directly on UPI. A UPI transfer from the attendee's app to your VPA carries no platform fee at all. The cost is the reconciliation work, which you take on yourself, and that is what every percentage in this market is really charging for.
How much does Townscript take from a ₹1,000 ticket?
On Townscript's own published example with India and INR selected, the buyer pays ₹1,023.60 and the organiser receives ₹946.80. That is a 2% Townscript fee and a 2% gateway fee on the organiser, a 2% platform fee added to the buyer, and ₹5 of TCS plus ₹1 of TDS deducted from the payout.
Does BookMyShow publish its organiser commission?
No. As checked on 19 September 2026, no commission, per-ticket fee or payout timeline appears on BookMyShow's self-serve listing product, its terms or its support centre. Its terms name a per-ticket internet handling fee and a non-refundable per-order processing fee charged to buyers, and publish neither amount.
Can I pass the platform fee to attendees?
On KonfHub, yes: the pricing calculator asks who pays the payment gateway fee and offers Organizer or Participants. On Townscript, a 2% platform fee is already charged to the buyer on top of the ticket. On Thrivia you choose per event whether the 4.9% gateway rate is added to the attendee's total or absorbed into your price.