If you’re hosting an event in Canada and figuring out where to list it, AdmitONE and Eventbrite are probably both on your shortlist. Eventbrite is the largest event marketplace in the world. AdmitONE is the largest Canadian-owned event marketplace. Listing with us (and Eventbrite) is free, and we’ll happily explain why you should cross-list on Eventbrite while you’re at it.
Free to post. Always
Free events are free to post and free to attend. No platform fee, no setup charge, no monthly subscription. If your event sells tickets, attendees pay a service fee at checkout (you can absorb it if you’d rather), and you keep the rest.
For paid tickets on our Community tier, attendees pay $0.59 + 1.89% CAD per ticket plus a 2.89% payment processing fee. Eventbrite charges $1.29 + 3.5% on the same checkout. At any meaningful volume the difference is real money — and it’s money your buyers keep, which means cleaner conversion at the cart.
What you get on the free tier
A custom event page, hosted on a marketplace that pulls more than a million visitors a month. Your listing is SEO-optimized, so people can find your event organically rather than only through your own social channels. You also get an organizer profile page, so attendees who liked your last event can follow you and get notified about your next one.
The ticketing engine is full-featured out of the box:
- Unlimited ticket types and pricing tiers
- Promo codes and discount controls
- Comp tickets for VIPs, media, and sponsors
- Timed entry for attractions and gated events
- Embedded checkout you can drop into your own website
- A mobile organizer app (iOS and Android) for door scanning, real-time sales, and check-in
- REST API and webhooks if you want to wire it into your stack
On the marketing side: social media pixel tracking, one-click sharing, referral link tracking, a sales dashboard, and email marketing built into the platform. You can pull audience reports, marketing analytics, and heatmaps showing where ticket buyers are coming from geographically.
That covers the same ground Eventbrite advertises on its post-events page: customizable event pages, flexible ticket offerings, the mobile organizer app, marketing tools, social selling, attendee discovery, email marketing, audience reports, organizer profile pages, and embedded checkout.
Why “Canadian-owned” actually matters
Eventbrite is American. We’re not. Our team is in Canada, our support is in Canada, and our payouts are in Canadian dollars. If you’ve ever sent a Friday-night ticketing question and gotten a reply at 4am Pacific from someone with no context on a Canadian long weekend, you know why this matters.
We also support multi-currency for organizers running cross-border events, and our chargeback and insurance support is built around Canadian payment rails.
Cross-list on AdmitONE and Eventbrite at the same time
Here’s the part most platforms won’t say out loud: you don’t have to pick one.
Posting on AdmitONE doesn’t lock you out of listing the same event on Eventbrite, Facebook Events, or anywhere else. The more discovery surfaces your event sits on, the more tickets you sell. We don’t charge you for cross-listing, we don’t penalize it, and our API, webhooks, and ticket-transfer tools make it straightforward to keep inventory in sync across platforms if you want to actively manage availability.
Our pitch is simple: post on AdmitONE because it’s free, the fees are lower, and you tap into a Canadian audience that’s actively browsing for things to do. Then list anywhere else you want.
When the free tier isn’t enough
Most organizers never need more than the free Community tier. But if you’re running a venue, a festival series, or an attraction with year-round ticket sales, our PoweredBy tier adds a dedicated client services rep, on-site box office support and staffing, custom fee structures, contracted prepayments, and deeper integrations with your CRM and POS. Our team builds your tickets for you, configures the event types, and shows up on event day if you want them at the door.
See the full PoweredBy feature list and pricing →
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