How to Sell Tickets With Stripe: 3 Ways Compared (2026)

Last updated: October 2026. Fees checked on Stripe's and TixFox's pricing pages in October 2026.

You already have a Stripe account. Maybe it's for your shop, your classes or your consulting. Now you're running an event and you want to sell tickets with Stripe too, because the money should land in the same place as everything else.

Good instinct. Stripe is a great payment processor. It's just not a ticketing system, and that gap shows up on event day, when 140 people are standing at the door and you're scrolling through Stripe receipts looking for names.

This guide covers the three ways to sell tickets using Stripe, what each one costs, and the setup most organizers end up with: TixFox for the tickets, Stripe for the money.

Can you sell tickets on Stripe by itself?

Sort of. Stripe's Payment Links let you create a checkout page for a "product" (your ticket) and share the link. Stripe's own docs list what you can turn on:

• Limit the number of payments. The link deactivates after, say, 100 payments. Careful: it counts payments, not tickets, so an order for four tickets counts as one.
• Let customers adjust quantity, with a minimum and maximum per order.
• Custom fields (text, numbers or a dropdown) to ask a question at checkout.
• Promotion codes, collecting names and phone numbers, and an email receipt.

What you don't get is a ticket. The buyer receives a payment receipt, not a ticket with a QR code. There's no check-in app, so on the night you're working from a list of payments. You can put several ticket types on one link as separate products, but they don't get their own capacity or sale dates, so an early bird doesn't close and hand over to regular pricing by itself. Refunds, attendee lists and door sales are all manual.

For a 20-person workshop where you know everyone, that's fine. For anything you'd call an event, you'll want ticketing on top of Stripe.

3 ways to sell tickets with Stripe

The money ends up in your Stripe account in all three cases. What changes is how much of the ticketing you build or do by hand.

How to sell tickets with Stripe using TixFox

Here's the whole setup. If you'd rather watch, the video below walks through it start to finish.

Step 1: Create a free TixFox account

Go to tixfox.co/signup. There's no credit card, no monthly fee and no setup fee.

Step 2: Connect your Stripe account

TixFox uses Stripe Connect. You connect the Stripe account you already have, or create one during setup (it's free and takes a few minutes). From then on, every ticket sale is paid straight into your own Stripe account. TixFox never holds your money, so there's no waiting until after the event to get paid. More on how TixFox payouts work.

Step 3: Create your event

Click Create Event and add the name, date, location, description and a banner image. Your event page is what buyers see, so a good photo and a clear description do a lot of the selling for you.

Step 4: Add your ticket types

This is where TixFox does what a Payment Link can't. Create as many tiers as you need, such as early bird, general admission and VIP, each with its own price, quantity and sale window. When the early bird window closes, general admission takes over on its own. You can also set a per-order limit, add discount codes, sell add-ons like merch or parking, and use custom fields to collect T-shirt sizes or dietary needs at checkout.

Step 5: Decide who pays the fees

With fee control you either absorb the Stripe and TixFox fees into your ticket price, or pass them on to buyers as a line at checkout. There's no right answer. Community events often absorb them, and bigger shows often pass them on.

Step 6: Publish and share your link

Your event page goes live with a link you can post anywhere: Instagram, your newsletter, a QR code on a flyer. If you have a website, the TixFox WordPress plugin, the Framer plugin or an embed code puts the checkout right on your own page.

Step 7: Check people in at the door

Every buyer gets an e-ticket with a unique QR code by email. On the day, open the free TixFox app, pick your event and scan. It shows valid, already used or invalid in under a second, and the same QR code can't get in twice.

Ready to try it? Create a free TixFox account and connect Stripe. Free events cost nothing, and paid tickets are $0.39 each.

What it costs to sell tickets with Stripe

You'll pay Stripe's processing fee whichever way you go. According to Stripe's pricing pages (October 2026), that's 2.9% + 30¢ for domestic cards in the US and 1.5% + 20p for standard UK cards. International cards and currency conversion cost more.

On top of that, TixFox charges a flat $0.39 per paid ticket, or $0.30 for tickets under $5. There's no percentage, no monthly fee, and free tickets cost nothing at all. TixFox supports 18 currencies, including USD, GBP, EUR, CAD and AUD.

Scale that to a 200-ticket show at $25 and the TixFox fees come to $78 in total. Stripe's 30¢ is per transaction, not per ticket, so orders of two or more tickets cost a little less in Stripe fees than the example shows.

Getting paid: the money goes straight to your Stripe account

This is the part people worry about most, so here's exactly how it works. Because TixFox uses Stripe Connect, each sale is paid into your Stripe account the moment it happens. You see it in your Stripe dashboard like any other payment, and you pay out to your bank on your usual Stripe schedule.

Refunds work the same way. They're processed through your connected Stripe account, so you decide who gets refunded and when. TixFox's $0.39 fee isn't refunded once a ticket has sold.

Selling at the door with Stripe

Walk-ups happen. With TixFox's Tap to Pay, the same check-in app turns a supported iPhone or Android phone into a contactless card reader. The buyer taps a card, phone or watch, the ticket is issued on the spot, and the sale shows up in the same dashboard as your online orders. No card reader to buy.

Running a bigger door? Invite check-in assistants to scan on their own phones. They can scan tickets for your event but can't see your sales or account settings.

When Stripe Payment Links alone is enough

We'd rather you use the right tool than the one we like. Stripe on its own works if all of these are true:

• There's one ticket type at one price.
• It's small enough to check people off a printed list.
• You don't need tickets that can be scanned or that block a second entry.
• You're fine handling transfers, refunds and the attendee list by hand.

The moment you add an early bird, a VIP tier, a door team or a few hundred buyers, a ticketing layer pays for itself in the time you save. That's the point where TixFox makes sense.

One more tip, whichever way you sell: give buyers a way to save the date. A ticket sitting in an inbox gets forgotten. A CalGet add-to-calendar link in your confirmation email puts the event in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar in one click.

FAQ

Can you sell tickets directly on Stripe?

You can take payments for tickets with Stripe Payment Links, and limit how many payments a link accepts. But Stripe doesn't issue tickets, QR codes or a check-in list. For that you connect Stripe to a ticketing platform such as TixFox.

What's the best ticketing software that uses Stripe payments?

Look for a platform that pays into your own Stripe account, has ticket tiers with their own limits, emails QR tickets, and has a check-in app. TixFox does all four for a flat $0.39 per paid ticket plus Stripe's fee, with no monthly fee. If you need reserved seating with a seating map, TixFox doesn't offer that, so look at a platform that does.

How much does Stripe charge to sell tickets?

Stripe's standard rate is 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction for US cards and 1.5% + 20p for standard UK cards (October 2026). That's the same whether you use Payment Links or a platform like TixFox.

Which ticketing systems work with Stripe and have mobile check-in?

TixFox connects to Stripe and includes a free check-in app for iPhone and Android. It scans QR tickets, blocks duplicate entries and supports several scanners at once. It can also take card payments at the door with Tap to Pay.

Do I need a website to sell tickets with Stripe?

No. TixFox gives you an event page with its own link to share. If you do have a website, you can embed the checkout with the WordPress plugin, the Framer plugin or an embed code.

Can I run free events too?

Yes. Free tickets cost nothing on TixFox and carry no Stripe fees, and you still get the event page, QR tickets and check-in.

Start selling tickets with Stripe today

Connect the Stripe account you already have, add your ticket types and share the link. Buyers get real tickets, you get paid into Stripe as each sale happens, and the door runs from your phone.

Create your free TixFox account, or watch the TixFox demo first.

Written by the team behind CalGet and TixFox. We build the tools organizers use to sell tickets, collect RSVPs and get people to show up. Fees in this guide come from Stripe's and TixFox's pricing pages, and Stripe Payment Links features from Stripe's documentation, all checked in October 2026.