Software profile
Chobble Tickets
A UK-built, open-source service for event tickets and check-in. It covers paid and free events, registration, donations and equipment hire, with hosted or self-hosted options.
30-second answer
What to know before you open the full record
- What it is
- A UK-built, open-source service for event tickets and check-in. It covers paid and free events, registration, donations and equipment hire, with hosted or self-hosted options.
- Contexts worth testing
- Churches, circuits or charities running paid or free events, Teams that want ticket revenue paid directly to their own Stripe, Square or SumUp account, Organisations that value an open-source, self-hostable event platform
- Published starting price
- £5 / month
- Relevant UK checks
- Available more broadly · UK registered
- Shortlist when
- Church events, conferences, workshops and paid registrations
- Check first
- Run a real registration and check-in scenario, then confirm payment fees, data-processing terms, refund controls and the organisation's support responsibility
- Evidence date
- Sources checked 25 July 2026
This is an evidence-led starting point, not a ranking or hands-on verdict. Supplier sources establish what they publish; your church should test material workflows and resolve the questions below.
Five-minute assessment
Assess the likely fit and trade-offs
Directory assessment
Chobble Tickets is a credible UK event-ticketing choice for churches that need more control than a marketplace platform but do not need a full church-management system. Its low flat managed-hosting price, organiser-owned payment accounts and open-source route are distinctive. The trade-off is that it is general event software, so a church must test its own registration, safeguarding, Gift Aid and volunteer check-in workflows rather than assume those needs are covered.
Decision framing
Shortlist when, then check first
- Shortlist when
- Running church events without marketplace-style ticket commissions or surrendering payment-account ownership
- Test in a real workflow
- Open-source ticketing with managed or self-hosted deployment and direct Stripe, Square or SumUp payments
- Settle before buying
- Run a real registration and check-in scenario, then confirm payment fees, data-processing terms, refund controls and the organisation's support responsibility
Decision evidence
Published details for a shortlist
These details are traced to the source shown. Supplier material establishes what the supplier publishes; it is not hands-on testing.
- UK purchasing availability
- Independent sourceChobble CIC is a UK community-interest company, number 17050113, and publishes managed hosting prices in GBP.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
- GBP pricing
- Supplier sourceSupplier publishes £5/month or £50/year managed hosting, with no per-ticket platform fee stated.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
- Hosting and location
- Supplier sourceSupplier states that managed-hosting attendee data is encrypted at rest and kept in EU regions on Bunny.net infrastructure in Slovenia.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
- Export formats
- Supplier sourceSupplier describes operational and financial data exports, an API and a self-hosted option.Source: Recorded evidence · checked 25 July 2026
Best suited to
- Church events, conferences, workshops and paid registrations
- Organisations wanting direct payment-provider ownership and no stated platform commission
- Technically capable teams that may prefer self-hosting or API integration
Evidence-backed strengths
- Clear GBP managed-hosting pricing and a free self-hosted option
- UK CIC identity, ICO registration reference and detailed supplier data-location information
- Broad ticketing, registration, refund, check-in, API and export functionality
Limitations and questions
- Not designed specifically for church administration, Gift Aid or safeguarding workflows
- Managed hosting uses EU rather than UK-only infrastructure according to the supplier
- Self-hosting shifts security, support, updates and incident responsibilities to the church or its technical partner
What the supplier publishes
- Paid and free tickets
- Repeating, fixed-date and multi-day events
- Donations and equipment hire
- Attendee questions, capacity and booking windows
- QR check-in and reversal
- Refunds and attendee email
- Operational and financial exports
- Activity log
- Custom terms at booking
What does the supplier currently publish?
Pricing and trial
Managed hosting is published at £5 per month or £50 per year, with a stated 50% annual discount for charities, community groups, artists and musicians. Chobble states that it does not charge a per-ticket platform fee; payment-processor charges still apply.
| Tier or starting point | Published price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Managed hosting | £5/month | Unlimited events and tickets; no stated platform commission |
| Managed hosting annually | £50/year | Supplier states charities and community groups receive 50% off the annual price |
| Self-hosted | Free software | AGPL-3.0 software; the organisation owns hosting, payment and operations |
Full due diligence
Evidence, operations and source record
Use this full record to test practical details, retain source links and take specific gaps to the supplier.
Published operations and support details
- Data hosting
- For managed hosting, the supplier states that attendee data is encrypted at rest and kept in EU regions on Bunny.net infrastructure in Slovenia. Self-hosting location, processors and operations are chosen by the organisation. Confirm the current data-processing agreement and payment-provider data flows for a particular event.
- Data protection information
- Chobble identifies itself as a UK ICO-registered controller for managed-hosting attendee data and describes UK/EU data handling. These are supplier statements, not a compliance assessment for an organiser, which remains responsible for its event privacy information and processing decisions.
- Integrations
- Stripe, Square or SumUp for organiser-owned payments, Public and authenticated admin API, Webhooks, Embeddable event widget, RSS and calendar feeds, Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes
- Import and export
- Supplier states that operational and financial data can be exported, Self-hosted deployment gives the organisation direct control of its data and deployment
- Support
- Managed-hosting support is included according to the supplier, Open-source documentation and source code, Self-hosting requires the organisation to own technical support
Sources reviewed
Sources support only the fields named beneath each link. Supplier material is not independent testing; external review material is included as a limited signal rather than a verdict.
- Chobble Tickets overview and pricing
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Managed hosting pricing, No stated platform commission, Core ticketing and check-in features, Payment-provider options - Chobble Tickets features
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Registration features, Exports, Security claims, Integrations - Chobble Tickets European infrastructure
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Managed-hosting data location, Hosting provider, Email and payment-processor context - About Chobble Tickets
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: Operating company, UK CIC identity, ICO registration reference, Self-hosted option - Companies House: Chobble CIC
Reviewed 25 July 2026 · Supports: UK-registered organisation
