--- title: "Festival Pro vs Ticket Fairy: fees and features (2026)" description: "See Festival Pro and Ticket Fairy side by side: fees, features and what switching takes. Checked October 2026." canonical: "https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/ticket-fairy-vs-festival-pro" --- 1. [Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/) 2. [Compare](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare) 3. [Event and festival management](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management) 4. Festival Pro vs Ticket Fairy # Festival Pro vs Ticket Fairy On both Festival Pro and Ticket Fairy, you can send artist contracts for e-signature, collect advances, schedule crew and issue passes. What changes is how each one charges you and how your budgets connect to your ticket sales. [Book a demo](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-ticketing/book-a-demo) [Get started free](https://manage.ticketfairy.com/welcome?utm_source=compare&utm_campaign=compare-event-management-ticket-fairy-vs-festival-pro) Ticket Fairy publishes this comparison and also sells event ticketing and event management software. [How we compare platforms](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/methodology) - **8 of 8** of the things you need, included on Ticket Fairy - **8 of 8** of the things you need, confirmed on the published pages of Festival Pro - **$4** Ticket Fairy fee on a $40 ticket ## Which should you choose? ### Where Ticket Fairy is stronger - You can settle with artists from a draft built on your actual ticket sales after refunds, and see where every line came from.[1](#source-1) - You can see who you owe for each event, filled in from your artist and supplier bookings with deposits and balances, and pay them from Vault once a person approves.[2](#source-2) - Your artists can open their advance from a link without a login, and Fai fills in the advance from riders, tour books and emails.[3](#source-3) ### Where Festival Pro is stronger - Festival Pro has a site planner that uses your own map as a base, with satellite or street maps, scale, PDF download and public sharing.[4](#source-4) - Festival Pro assigns organizations a fixed number of passes by type and lets the lead contact name each pass holder.[5](#source-5) - Festival Pro says it was created in 2018 and has grown to over 550 events worldwide.[6](#source-6) Ticket Fairy is the better fit when you want to sign and advance your artists, book suppliers and settle up in the same system you sell your tickets with. Festival Pro suits you if you want a site planner that uses your own map as a base, with satellite or street maps, scale, PDF download and public sharing. ## What does each cost when you sell 500 tickets at $40? You can compare each platform's own published fee for a ticket at this price. Enter your own price and quantity to see what your event would cost on each. ### What does one order of 500 tickets at $40 cost on each platform? - Ticket Fairy Fee on each ticket **$4** Buyers pay **$22,000** You receive **$20,000** Card processing included - Festival Pro Fee on each ticket **$0.80** Buyers pay **$20,000** You receive **$19,600** Plus card processing fees, which is not published as a rate On this order, your buyers pay $2,000 more on Ticket Fairy than on Festival Pro, with card processing included. Festival Pro's figure leaves out card processing fees. Sources[7](#source-7) [8](#source-8) | For 500 tickets at $40 | Ticket Fairy | Festival Pro | | --- | --- | --- | | Who pays the fee | The buyer, unless you choose to absorb it | You, from your payout | | Fees per ticket | $4 | $0.80 | | Buyers pay in total | $22,000 | $20,000 | | You receive for the tickets | $20,000 | $19,600 | | Left out of these figures | Nothing | Card processing fees, which we did not find as a published rate | | Your Pro plan ($20 a month), once the Ticket Fairy fees on these sales come off it | $0 to pay that month | Published subscription prices by team size, shown per month and billed yearly. USD per month: Small: Entry 50, Basic 99, Starter 165; Medium: Starter 165, Pro 299, Ultimate 420; Large: Pro 299, Ultimate 420, custom (no price). GBP: 45, 79, 135, 249, 330. Plus 2% on event ticketing and invoices paid through Festival Pro (excluding Stripe fees); extra file storage $45/£30 per GB per year; add-ons such as the attendee app, public calendar and artist/vendor pages are marked 'Available to purchase' without a published price. Prices subject to change. | Ticket Fairy's standard booking fee is the same on every plan. Each month, Ticket Fairy's fees on your paid tickets come off your next plan bill, up to the plan price. Festival Pro's fee is from [its published pricing](https://festival-pro.document360.io/docs/stripe-fees-and-commissions), read on 16 October 2026. [See Ticket Fairy pricing](https://www.ticketfairy.com/pricing). ## What can Festival Pro and Ticket Fairy each do for running your event? ### Where does each platform win on what you need? - Included Contracts and e-signing On a paid plan **7 things you need are the same on both:** Artist advancing, Supplier management, Run of show and day sheets, Crew and volunteer rota, Passes and accreditation, Budgets and settlements, Ticket sales in the same system Ticket Fairy and Festival Pro include the same things you need, where both publish them. | What you need | Ticket Fairy | Festival Pro | | --- | --- | --- | | Artists and suppliers | | | | Contracts and e-signing | Included[9](#source-9) Contracts go from your templates to many performers, traders or suppliers at once and come back signed online, with a signature certificate | On a paid plan[10](#source-10) Contract templates, e-signatures with PDF download, counter-signing, rescinding and bulk sending Plans: Full Contracting Module: Pro and Ultimate (Medium team size), Ultimate (Large team size) | | Artist advancing | Included[3](#source-3) Your artists can open their advance from a link with no login, and Fai fills it in from riders, tour books and emails | Included[11](#source-11) Artist advance form where artists upload tech specs, riders, photos and stage plots | | Supplier management | Included[12](#source-12) You can send hire lists, have suppliers confirm orders on their own page, match quotes to orders and count deliveries | Included[13](#source-13) Quotes and purchase orders from Finance and Billing, and equipment requests from contractors | | Show day | | | | Run of show and day sheets | Included[14](#source-14) Your run of show names who calls each cue, and each team gets its own day sheet and show-day timing | Included[15](#source-15) Running orders, stage calendars and a combined master schedule | | Crew and volunteer rota | Included[16](#source-16) Your team builds the rota, fills open shifts, recruits volunteers, approves hours and checks staff in | Included[17](#source-17) Volunteer and staff shifts that people can choose themselves, shift import from a spreadsheet and clash flags | | Passes and accreditation | Included[18](#source-18) You can take accreditation requests, approve them and issue passes from a pass desk, and your door team scans them with the same app as tickets | Included[19](#source-19) Pass allocations for each organization, access levels, wallet passes and scan reports | | Money | | | | Budgets and settlements | Included[20](#source-20) Your budget works in several currencies, and each artist and supplier cost counts as you book them | Included[21](#source-21) Summary of performance fees against budget, and budget and quote fields for contractors | | Ticket sales in the same system | Included[22](#source-22) Your tickets sell with checkout on your own website, and your door team scans them on phones and tablets | Included[23](#source-23) Its own ticketing with branded event pages, QR e-tickets and a scanning app, at a 2% commission | ## What else should you know about Festival Pro and Ticket Fairy? Can I send contracts for signature in Festival Pro?: Yes, on a paid plan. Festival Pro's own pages describe contract templates, e-signatures with PDF download, counter-signing, rescinding a contract and sending contracts in bulk. On Ticket Fairy, you can use contract templates, collect e-signatures with a signature certificate, and send contracts to many performers, traders or suppliers at once. [24](#source-24) [9](#source-9) Can Festival Pro advance my artists?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages describe an artist advance form where artists upload tech specs, riders, photos and stage plots. On Ticket Fairy, your artists can open their advance from a link without a login, and Fai fills it in from their rider, tour book and emails. [25](#source-25) [3](#source-3) Can Festival Pro manage my suppliers?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages say you raise quotes and purchase orders from Finance and Billing, and contractors can request equipment. On Ticket Fairy, each hire supplier can confirm your order on its own page, Fai checks their quote against your list, and your crew counts in what arrives. [26](#source-26) [12](#source-12) Does Festival Pro have a run of show?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages describe running orders, stage calendars and a combined master schedule. On Ticket Fairy, you can plan your run of show with who calls each cue, and every team gets its own day sheet and show-day timing. [27](#source-27) [14](#source-14) Can Festival Pro build my crew rota?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages describe volunteer and staff shifts that people can choose for themselves, shift import from a spreadsheet and flags for clashes. On Ticket Fairy, you can build your rota, fill open shifts, recruit volunteers, approve hours and check staff in on the day. [28](#source-28) [16](#source-16) Can Festival Pro issue passes and accreditation?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages describe pass allocations for each organization, access levels, wallet passes and scan reports. On Ticket Fairy, you can take accreditation requests, approve them and issue passes from a pass desk, and your door team scans passes and tickets with the same app. [29](#source-29) [18](#source-18) Can you manage budgets and settlements in Festival Pro?: Yes. Festival Pro's own pages describe a summary of performance fees against budget, and budget and quote fields for contractors. On Ticket Fairy, you can budget in several currencies, and every artist and supplier you book counts against your budget as you book them. [30](#source-30) [20](#source-20) How much does Festival Pro cost?: Festival Pro's pricing page lists monthly prices, billed yearly by team size, from $50 a month on the smallest plan to $420 a month on Ultimate. Festival Pro also takes 2% on event ticketing and on invoices paid through Festival Pro. [31](#source-31) Can I export my data from Festival Pro?: Festival Pro's own pages say you can export form data to PDF, CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and HTML, and system data, including artist and ticket buyer data, as CSV spreadsheets. You can share saved exports as live links. [32](#source-32) ## How do I move my festival to Ticket Fairy as my Festival Pro alternative? You can import your artists, crew shifts and pass holders into Ticket Fairy, then add your suppliers and plan show day on your new event. ### How do you move from Festival Pro to Ticket Fairy? 1. **Export from Festival Pro** 2. **Import your artists** 3. **Add contracts and riders** 4. **Bring in your crew shifts** 5. **Issue your passes** 6. **Add suppliers and plan show day** Each step is shown with the time it takes. ### What moves across - You import your artists, with their dates, set lengths, fees, deposits, balances and contacts, from a CSV file. - You add each act's contract, invoice and rider as files, and Fai says what each one is. - You add your crew and volunteer shifts, up to 500 at a time, from a CSV or Excel spreadsheet. - You upload your accreditation lists, one CSV file for each department. ### What stays behind - Past ticket orders and buyers stay in Festival Pro, and its CSV export of your ticket buyers gives you a copy for your records. - You enter your suppliers, schedules and running orders on your new event. - You upload your site plan as an image, then mark the stages, bars, toilets, first aid and routes on it again. Form data exports to PDF, CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and HTML, and system data, including artist and ticket buyer data, exports as CSV spreadsheets. Saved exports can be live links.[32](#source-32) ## What else are you comparing? - [Lennd vs Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/ticket-fairy-vs-lennd) - [Prism.fm vs Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/ticket-fairy-vs-prism-fm) - [Rosterfy vs Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/ticket-fairy-vs-rosterfy) - [Beatswitch vs Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/ticket-fairy-vs-beatswitch) - [Festival Pro alternatives](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/festival-pro-alternatives) - [Festival Pro vs Lennd vs Ticket Fairy](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/festival-pro-vs-lennd) - [Best festival management software for festival producers](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/best-festival-management-software) - [Questions about event management software](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management/questions) - [Event and festival management compared](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/event-management) ## Where does each fact come from? Every fact about another company comes from its own published pages, quoted word for word. Where we did not find something in those pages, we say exactly that. [How we compare platforms](https://www.ticketfairy.com/compare/methodology) 1. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Settle a show with an artist after your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/settle-a-show-with-an-artist) 2. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Pay everyone you owe for an event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/pay-everyone-you-owe-for-an-event) 3. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Fill in each performer's advance for your event from tour books, riders and emails](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/fill-in-advances-from-tour-books-riders-and-emails) 4. Festival Pro Festival Pro has a site planner that uses your own map as a base, with satellite or street maps, scale, PDF download and public sharing. "Use your own map as a base to create your layout of areas and items on the map." [www.festivalpro.com/site\_plan.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/site_plan.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016194500/https://www.festivalpro.com/site_plan.html) 5. Festival Pro Festival Pro assigns organizations a fixed number of passes by type and lets the lead contact name each pass holder. "Assign organisations a fixed number of passes of different types, e.g. 4 x Artist, 2 x Artist Guest" [www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193511/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html) 6. Festival Pro Festival Pro says it was created in 2018 and has grown to over 550 events worldwide. "Created in 2018, Festival Pro has grown to over 550 events worldwide." [www.festivalpro.com/](https://www.festivalpro.com/), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192521/https://www.festivalpro.com/) Show all 32 sources 7. Ticket Fairy [Ticket Fairy pricing](https://www.ticketfairy.com/pricing) 8. Festival Pro Fees per ticket "Festival Pro charge a flat 2% commission on any transactions that go through the Stripe payment gateway." [festival-pro.document360.io/docs/stripe-fees-and-commissions](https://festival-pro.document360.io/docs/stripe-fees-and-commissions), read on 16 October 2026. 9. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Send your event contracts and get them signed online](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/send-contracts-and-get-them-signed-online) 10. Festival Pro Contracts and e-signing "{ label:'Full Contracting Module', href:'/features/more-features.html#Full-Contracting-Module', small:\['n','n','n'\], medium:\['n','y','y'\], large:\['n','y',''\] }" [www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192716/https://www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html) 11. Festival Pro Artist advancing "Artists upload their own technical requirements, riders, photos and stage plots" [www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192918/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html) 12. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Get hire suppliers to confirm orders and count deliveries for your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/get-hire-suppliers-to-confirm-orders-and-count-deliveries) 13. Festival Pro Supplier management "You have a choice of outgoing / incoming invoices. A quote, or a Purchase Order." [festival-pro.document360.io/docs/new-ui-finance-and-billing-section](https://festival-pro.document360.io/docs/new-ui-finance-and-billing-section), read on 16 October 2026. 14. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Plan your run of show and who calls it](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/plan-your-run-of-show-and-who-calls-it) 15. Festival Pro Run of show and day sheets "Combine multiple schedules - from artists to production and more - in to one global list" [www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193816/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html) 16. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Build your event rota and check staff in](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/build-your-event-rota-and-check-staff-in) 17. Festival Pro Crew and volunteer rota "Create shift schedules and allow some shifts to be self selected." [www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193326/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html) 18. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Issue accreditation passes for your event](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/issue-accreditation-passes-for-your-event) 19. Festival Pro Passes and accreditation "Assign organisations a fixed number of passes of different types, e.g. 4 x Artist, 2 x Artist Guest" [www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193511/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html) 20. Ticket Fairy [You know what every act and event really costs](https://www.ticketfairy.com/event-operating-system/budget-and-costs) 21. Festival Pro Budgets and settlements "Performance fee summary to check you’re not over budget" [www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192918/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html) 22. Ticket Fairy [Guide: Scan tickets at the door](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides/scan-tickets-at-the-door) 23. Festival Pro Ticket sales in the same system "Create event pages with your own branding and custom ticket types." [www.festivalpro.com/ticketing.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/ticketing.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016194347/https://www.festivalpro.com/ticketing.html) 24. Festival Pro Contract templates, e-signatures with PDF download, counter-signing, rescinding and bulk sending "{ label:'Full Contracting Module', href:'/features/more-features.html#Full-Contracting-Module', small:\['n','n','n'\], medium:\['n','y','y'\], large:\['n','y',''\] }" [www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192716/https://www.festivalpro.com/pricing.html) 25. Festival Pro Artist advance form where artists upload tech specs, riders, photos and stage plots "Artists upload their own technical requirements, riders, photos and stage plots" [www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192918/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html) 26. Festival Pro Quotes and purchase orders from Finance and Billing, and equipment requests from contractors "You have a choice of outgoing / incoming invoices. A quote, or a Purchase Order." [festival-pro.document360.io/docs/new-ui-finance-and-billing-section](https://festival-pro.document360.io/docs/new-ui-finance-and-billing-section), read on 16 October 2026. 27. Festival Pro Running orders, stage calendars and a combined master schedule "Combine multiple schedules - from artists to production and more - in to one global list" [www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193816/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/schedules.html) 28. Festival Pro Volunteer and staff shifts that people can choose themselves, shift import from a spreadsheet and clash flags "Create shift schedules and allow some shifts to be self selected." [www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193326/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/volunteers.html) 29. Festival Pro Pass allocations for each organization, access levels, wallet passes and scan reports "Assign organisations a fixed number of passes of different types, e.g. 4 x Artist, 2 x Artist Guest" [www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016193511/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/accreditations.html) 30. Festival Pro Summary of performance fees against budget, and budget and quote fields for contractors "Performance fee summary to check you’re not over budget" [www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192918/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/artists.html) 31. Festival Pro Published subscription prices by team size, shown per month and billed yearly. USD per month: Small: Entry 50, Basic 99, Starter 165; Medium: Starter 165, Pro 299, Ultimate 420; Large: Pro 299, Ultimate 420, custom (no price). GBP: 45, 79, 135, 249, 330. Plus 2% on event ticketing and invoices paid through Festival Pro (excluding Stripe fees); extra file storage $45/£30 per GB per year; add-ons such as the attendee app, public calendar and artist/vendor pages are marked 'Available to purchase' without a published price. Prices subject to change. "\['USD \\$','50','99','165','165','299','420','299','420','0'\]" [www.festivalpro.com/js/pricing.min.js](https://www.festivalpro.com/js/pricing.min.js), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016192813/https://www.festivalpro.com/js/pricing.min.js) 32. Festival Pro Form data exports to PDF, CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and HTML, and system data, including artist and ticket buyer data, exports as CSV spreadsheets. Saved exports can be live links. "Form information can be exported to a variety of formats, PDF, CSV, Excel, XML, JSON and HTML for quick access of API access." [www.festivalpro.com/features/forms-data-collection.html](https://www.festivalpro.com/features/forms-data-collection.html), read on 16 October 2026. [Archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20261016194222/https://www.festivalpro.com/features/forms-data-collection.html) Updated 17 October 2026: First published. Festival Pro is a trademark of its owner. Ticket Fairy is not affiliated with it. **You choose the tools to start with** You can start with event management or marketing alongside your current ticketing provider. 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