Sway vs Weezevent: which ticketing platform for your event?
Compare Sway and Weezevent on who pays the fees, when you get paid, and organiser tools. On Sway the buyer pays 3% + €0.30 and you receive the full ticket price.
| Feature | Sway | Weezevent |
|---|---|---|
| Fees paid by the buyer | 3% + €0.30 per paid ticket, VAT included. No fees on a free ticket. | Published euro rate: 2.5% per ticket sold online, minimum €0.99 including taxes, banking fees included. Free events are free. The Canadian-dollar line is 2.75% + $0.99 excluding taxes. |
| Fees paid by the organiser | No extra commission: you receive the price you set (e.g. a €20 ticket → €20) on a standard card. | No setup fees and no subscription on the published ticket rate. Extra modules (cashless, accreditation, numbered seating, on-site booths) sit outside that rate. |
| Payout timing | The money reaches your account within a week, even before the event. Sway does not hold your ticket money. | Revenue is paid every 15 days on the published line. On Sway the money reaches you within a week, even before the event. |
| Marketing tools | Automatic notifications to people who follow you; email and custom push on paid plans; an ambassador programme (personal codes, credits, rewards); Meta and TikTok pixels; Swapy, your team's AI assistant, free on every plan. | Online tickets plus cashless, access control, accreditation and on-site booths. Not a scene app with line-ups and set times like Sway. |
| Discovery / audience | The Sway app and site, focused on raves, clubs and electronic festivals: search by genre, city and artist, with line-ups and set times. | Organiser shops and event-ops tools, not an electronic-music discovery app. |
| Niche | Electronic music (techno, house, raves, festivals). Tickets in 16 currencies. | General events across Europe (concerts, festivals, nightlife), with cashless and accreditation as extras. Sway is built for electronic music and sells tickets in 16 currencies. |
| Site and photos | A site on your own domain from the Studio plan, fed by your Sway events. Photo galleries per event. | Organiser ticket shops plus on-site modules. Sway offers a site on your own domain from the Studio plan, fed by your events. |
Weezevent is a European ticketing platform used for concerts, festivals and nightlife, with extra modules for cashless, access control and accreditation. Sway is an app and a ticketing platform built for electronic music: line-ups, set times, door check-in, and organiser tools in one place.
Both can sell a paid ticket. The difference sits in what is published about the fee, when the money reaches you, and whether you want a venue box office, a large marketplace, or a scene app with line-ups and discovery.
The notes below match what is public in November 2026. The published euro rate is 2.5% per ticket sold online, with a minimum of €0.99 including taxes, and banking fees included. There are no setup fees and no subscription. Free events are free. Revenue is paid every 15 days. The published Canadian-dollar line is different: 2.75% + $0.99 per ticket sold, excluding taxes. Tailor-made extras (a dedicated project manager, numbered seating, on-site booths) sit outside that ticket rate. If your contract says something else, your contract wins.
A €20 ticket
On Sway, the buyer fee is published and the same on every standard plan: 3% + €0.30 per paid ticket, VAT included. On a €20 ticket the buyer pays €0.90 and you receive €20.00 on a standard card.
On Weezevent's published euro line, 2.5% of €20 is €0.50, which sits below the €0.99 minimum, so the published figure on that ticket is €0.99 including taxes (banking fees included). Weezevent pays out every 15 days; Sway within a week, including before the event.
In the US, the price a buyer sees on Sway is all-in: the event page shows the price with fees included. In US dollars the service fee is 4.5% + $0.35 per paid ticket.
Tools, discovery and the scene
Sway puts together what an electronic-music team needs: tickets (early bird, promo codes, pay-in-instalments), order control (resend, refund), door check-in and offline scanners, guest list, line-up and set times, sales insights, photo galleries, ambassadors, and Swapy to ask how a night is selling or to draft a campaign. Creating a page and an event is free. Email campaigns, custom push notifications and discovery boosts are growth tools on paid plans. Swapy is free on every plan, Basic included.
Weezevent is built as full event operations: online tickets, cashless, access control, accreditation and on-site booths. It is not a discovery app organised around electronic-music line-ups the way Sway is.
When to choose Sway, and when to stay on Weezevent
Sway makes sense if you want a published buyer fee, the full ticket price in your account within a week — including before the event — and ticketing, check-in, line-up, galleries, ambassadors and an assistant in one place, on an app ravers use to find electronic events.
Weezevent can be the better fit if you already run cashless, accreditation or on-site sales with them, or you want that broader event-ops suite rather than a scene app.
Both can be the right fit. It depends on your contract, where people already buy, and what you want to keep: the ticket price, the cash-flow calendar, or a particular discovery network.
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Last reviewed 5 November 2026
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