Valore vs Ticket Tailor: Low-fee ticketing vs. a full event and community platform.
Ticket Tailor is a no-subscription ticketing tool with flat, low per-ticket fees (in the UK, £0.60 per paid ticket pay-as-you-go, less with prepaid credits), payments through your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account, and a mature API. Valore is free to host and covers more than the ticket: designed event pages, RSVPs with approvals and waitlists, subscribable calendars with newsletters, guest messaging and an AI agent.
Choose Valore if…
- You want an event page your guests enjoy, not just a checkout
- You mix free RSVPs, approvals and paid tickets
- You run a community calendar with newsletters and memberships
- You want an agent to write blasts, screen registrations and follow up
Choose Ticket Tailor if…
- You sell a lot of tickets and want a flat per-ticket fee
- You want to keep your own payment processor, like PayPal or Square
- You need seated ticketing
Valore vs Ticket Tailor, feature by feature
| Valore | Ticket Tailor | |
|---|---|---|
| Price to host | Free to host. No subscription or plan tiers. | No subscription; free tickets are free up to an annual allowance |
| Fees on paid tickets | No subscription required to sell; Stripe processing applies (see Valore pricing) | Flat fee per ticket, no percentage (UK: £0.60 pay-as-you-go, from £0.22 with prepaid credits), plus your processor's fees |
| Payments | Stripe checkout | Your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account |
| Event pages | Page builder with 18 blocks and 30+ themes, custom event URL | Customizable box office and ticket widget |
| RSVPs & approvals | Going / Maybe / Can't go, plus-ones, custom questions, approvals and an auto-filling waitlist | Ticket-based checkout with a waitlist |
| Recurring communities | Subscribable calendars with newsletters, paid memberships and an iCal feed | Event series |
| Check-in | QR tickets, staff scanner links with no login, kiosk self check-in, badges | Free scanning app |
| AI & API | Valore Agent drafts events, screens registrations, schedules blasts and runs follow-ups (pay-as-you-go credits). Free REST API, signed webhooks, embeds and an MCP server for Claude and Cursor | Public API, Zapier, and an MCP connector for Claude |
Ticket Tailor details checked November 2026 from tickettailor.com/pricing. Pricing and features change, so confirm on their site.
Where Ticket Tailor is the better pick
- Very low flat per-ticket fees at high volume.
- Bring your own processor, including PayPal and Square.
- Seated ticketing and a mature API and Zapier ecosystem.
Switching from Ticket Tailor
- Recreate your ticket types, capacity and coupons on a Valore event.
- Connect Stripe so payouts go straight to you.
- Point your website at your Valore calendar, or embed it.

