Sway vs Weeztix: which ticketing platform for your event?
Compare Sway and Weeztix 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 | Weeztix |
|---|---|---|
| Fees paid by the buyer | 3% + €0.30 per paid ticket, VAT included. No fees on a free ticket. | A booking fee is charged to the buyer by default; the organiser can include it in the price. The amount for paid tickets is not published as a single public rate in November 2026. |
| Fees paid by the organiser | No extra commission: you receive the price you set (e.g. a €20 ticket → €20) on a standard card. | The first 5,000 free tickets are free to sell, then €0.20 each. Extra fees apply on paid tickets; the public page does not list a single rate. |
| Payout timing | The money reaches your account within a week, even before the event. Sway does not hold your ticket money. | Payout timing is not published as a single calendar comparable to Sway's 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. | Festival, venue and nightlife shops. Not a scene app with line-ups, galleries and an ambassador programme built in. |
| 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. | People reach a Weeztix shop from the organiser or venue. It is not an electronic-music discovery app like Sway. |
| Niche | Electronic music (techno, house, raves, festivals). Tickets in 16 currencies. | Festivals, venues and nightlife, with a strong presence in Belgium in Sway's event sample. |
| Site and photos | A site on your own domain from the Studio plan, fed by your Sway events. Photo galleries per event. | Ticket shops under Weeztix domains. A personal site on your own domain is not the product in the same way as Sway Studio. |
Weeztix is a ticketing platform used by festivals, venues and nightlife organisers, especially in Belgium and the Netherlands. 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 Weeztix notes below match what is public in November 2026. The first 5,000 free tickets are free to sell, then €0.20 per extra free ticket. For paid tickets the public pricing page says extra fees apply, without publishing a single rate anyone can recompute like Sway's 3% + €0.30. A booking fee is charged to the buyer by default; the organiser can include it in the price instead. If your contract says something else, your contract wins.
What is public about the fees
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 Weeztix, the published free-ticket line is clear: the first 5,000 free tickets cost nothing to sell, then €0.20 each. The paid-ticket extra fees are not published as a single rate. For paid tickets, ask them for a quote: extra fees apply, without a published single rate.
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.
Weeztix is ticketing for festivals, venues and nightlife, with shops where people buy. 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 Weeztix
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.
Weeztix can be the better fit if you already sell through that shop, you run a lot of free tickets in the published 5,000 allowance, or your buyers in Belgium and the Netherlands know that checkout.
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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Frequently asked questions
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Last reviewed 5 November 2026
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