Bookings, safeguarding and money, in one place.

Ticketing sites sell tickets. Church databases keep records. StewardStack runs the whole Event: the booking, the parent’s consent, the volunteers’ checks and the money, with nothing copied between systems.

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A typical year on StewardStack: £1,038
The same year elsewhere: £1,125.50 to £1,523
Kept by your organisation: +£485

20 Events of 30 tickets at £25, and 250 donations of £25, in the UK, against the other products we can price in pounds. See how it adds up

Everything an Event needs, not just the tickets.

Most tools do one part well. StewardStack also keeps the consent, the checks, the concerns and the budget with the Event they belong to. Tap the information beside a feature to see what it means.

StewardStack’s prices and features compared with Eventbrite, ChurchSuite, Planning Center and Brushfire
Feature	StewardStack	Eventbrite	ChurchSuite	Planning Center	Brushfire
Price
How it’s priced	Free plan: 3% a ticket and 1.5% a donation, plus card processing	6.95% + £0.59 a ticket in the UK, card processing included, paid by bookers by default	From £9 a month, by how many contacts you keep, plus 1% and card processing on each card payment	Free tiers, then a monthly price for each product, such as Registrations from $15 and Giving from $15	$299 a month for churches under 1,500 weekly attendance, plus card processing
A typical UK yearHow it adds up	£1,038tickets, donations and their fees	£1,523tickets, donations and their fees	£1,125.50tickets, donations and their fees	Can’t take card payments in the UK. In the US, about $564 in plan fees, plus card processing	$3,588 in plan fees, plus card processing
Tickets and payments
Tickets and registration	YesOn Event pages under your own name	Yes	Yes	PartlyCard payments in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand only	Yes
Discount codes	YesOn Events Pro: a percentage or an amount, on chosen Tickets	YesPromo codes	Not found	Yes	YesPromo codes
Ticket add-ons	YesOn Events Pro: T-shirts, meals and transport, refunded on their own	YesAdd-ons and merchandise	Not found	Yes	YesPaid add-ons
Paying in instalments	YesOn Events Pro: monthly card payments, or offline in parts	PartlyThrough pay-later partners	Not found	PartlyPay part now and the rest later	YesPayment plans
Waitlists	YesOn Events Pro: freed places offered in turn	Yes	Not found	Yes	YesRegistration links sent as places open
Payments made offline	YesCash, cheque and transfer, and refunds of them	YesCash and cheques	YesPay on arrival, marked paid at check-in	YesCash and cheques applied by hand	YesCash and cheque tickets
On the day
Check-in	YesCheck-in and check-out, so you know who has left	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Self check-in	YesAttendees scan a poster with their own phone, in and out	Not found	YesA kiosk people use themselves	YesSelf check-in stations	YesAn iPad set up as a kiosk
Walk-ins on the day	YesWith their details and any forms	YesSold at the door in the organiser app	YesSign-up on the day	PartlyChecked in as guests, registered separately	YesBox office app
An app for conference attendees	YesWith the Big conference plan	PartlyTickets in Eventbrite’s own app	PartlyA members’ app for the whole church	PartlyA members’ app for the whole church	YesSchedules, sessions and push notices
People
Every Event a person has attended	YesBooked, attended and checked in, on each person	Not found	Not found	PartlyCheck-in history on each person	Not found
Consent forms signed as families book	YesSigned forms kept with the booking	PartlyA tick-box to accept terms	Not found	PartlyA form to print and sign	YesDigital liability waivers
Email to bookers and mailing lists	YesNewsletters, with a public archive	YesEmail marketing tools	YesEmail people and groups	YesEmail lists of people	PartlyEmails to ticket buyers
Safeguarding
Volunteer checks such as DBS, PVG and Garda Vetting	YesRequired checks for each role, references and training	Not found	PartlySet up by hand with tags and flows	PartlyUS background checks, through a paid add-on	Not found
Incident and concern reporting	YesSeen on a need-to-know basis	Not found	Not found	Not found	Not found
Risk assessments before each Event	YesSigned off, with every version kept	Not found	Not found	Not found	Not found
Money
Online giving	YesFundraising pages, one-off and recurring	PartlyDonation tickets on an Event	Yes	PartlyUS, Canada, Australia and New Zealand only	PartlyGiving as people register
A donation added at checkout	YesAn optional gift, with Gift Aid, as people book	YesA donation ticket beside the others	Not found	Not found	YesGiving as people register
Fundraising targets and donor lists	YesA target, a progress bar and who gave	Not found	Not found	PartlyPledge campaigns with a goal	Not found
Gifts given offline	YesRecorded against each giver, with what it was for	Not found	YesDonations added or imported	YesCash and cheque batches	Not found
Gift Aid	YesDeclarations and the claim schedule	Not found	YesDeclarations	Not found	Not found
Tax receipts and statements for donors	YesReceipts in Canada and Australia, and Ireland’s donation scheme	Not found	YesStatements of donations	YesDonor statements	Not found
Event budgets and expense claims	YesApproved and paid back in Finance	Not found	Not found	Not found	Not found

A dash means we couldn’t find it on the product’s own published pages when we checked on 27 October 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.

Joined up, so nothing falls through the gaps.

With a ticketing site, a giving tool and a spreadsheet of checks, someone has to match it all up by hand. Here it’s one record.

Consent arrives with the booking

Parents sign the consent form as they book, and it stays with that child’s booking for the Event. Nobody matches forms to names afterwards.

The Event team shows who is cleared

Choosing the Event team shows each person’s checks, and every role’s required checks, references and training are tracked as they come due.

A concern links to the Event and the people

An incident is reported against the Event or the person it’s about, and safeguarding concerns go to your safeguarding lead and their deputies alone.

The money adds up on its own

Ticket income, donations, Gift Aid, Event budgets and expense claims sit together in Finance, where a Finance viewer sees the money without anyone’s personal details.

Giving sits beside every booking

Families can add a gift as they book, fundraising pages show a target, a progress bar and who gave, and Gift Aid is claimed on all of it together.

You know who is still on site

Attendees check themselves in and out by scanning a poster with their own phone, so the team can see at a glance who hasn’t left yet.

All of it, for less than Eventbrite charges for tickets alone.

A year of 600 tickets at £25 and 250 donations of £25 in the UK, with your organisation paying every fee, at each product’s published prices.

StewardStack
£1,038 a year
Essentials and Finance, both free: 3% a ticket and 1.5% a donation, plus card processing
Plan
£0
Platform fees
£545
Card processing
£493
ChurchSuite
£1,125.50 a year
Starter, three modules, for 200–499 contacts (£35 a month), plus a 1% fee and card processing on every card payment
Plan
£420
Platform fees
£212.50
Card processing
£493
Eventbrite
£1,523 a year
6.95% + £0.59 a ticket, and donations taken as donation tickets at 2%, card processing included, before VAT
Plan
£0
Platform fees
£1,523
Card processing
Included

What a typical year of tickets and donations costs
Product	Plan	Platform fees	Card processing	A year
StewardStackEssentials and Finance, both free: 3% a ticket and 1.5% a donation, plus card processing	£0	£545	£493	£1,038
ChurchSuiteStarter, three modules, for 200–499 contacts (£35 a month), plus a 1% fee and card processing on every card payment	£420	£212.50	£493	£1,125.50
Eventbrite6.95% + £0.59 a ticket, and donations taken as donation tickets at 2%, card processing included, before VAT	£0	£1,523	Included	£1,523

Card processing is 1.5% + 20p on each UK card payment wherever a product charges it separately; Eventbrite’s fees include it.
StewardStack’s and Eventbrite’s fees are shown before VAT. Eventbrite adds 20% VAT to its fees unless you give it a VAT number, so without one its year costs more than shown. ChurchSuite’s subscription includes VAT.
Eventbrite and StewardStack can both pass booking fees on to the people booking instead. ChurchSuite’s price grows with the number of contacts you keep, whatever your Events.
Safeguarding is free on StewardStack for up to 10 active volunteers and employees. Planning Center takes card payments only in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and Brushfire’s church plan is $299 a month, so neither is costed for a UK year.

When something else may suit you better.

We’d rather you chose well than chose us. These are the honest cases.

You mainly need strangers to find your Events

Eventbrite lists Events on its own marketplace. StewardStack gives you Event pages on your own domain, but no marketplace.

You need a whole church database

ChurchSuite and Planning Center also run rotas, small groups and Sunday check-in. StewardStack is built around Events, fundraising and safeguarding.

Where these facts come from

Everything we say about other products is from their own published pages, checked on 27 October 2026. Names belong to their owners, who don’t endorse this comparison.

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