Free ticketing that sells for you.
Grofomo is a free events platform for UK organisers: ticketing, the lineup, your event website, your contacts and your marketing in one place. You keep 100% of face value. Fans pay a booking fee of 7.50% + £0.25 per ticket at checkout, less than they pay on Skiddle or DICE today.
Built by people who actually put events on: festivals, club nights and venues, from the first lineup tease to the last scan on the gate.
The control room
One screen. Every moving piece.
Switch between the box office, the booking desk and the social calendar without changing tabs. It feels like the same product because it is.
Ticketing
Tiers, releases, group tickets, payment plans, comps, and discounts that apply themselves.
Marketing
Instagram and Facebook, email, push and WhatsApp, to your own audience, not a rented one.
Artist booking
Offers, fees, guest-list allocations and remittance invoices, all on the artist's record.
Run-of-show
Stages, event days and set times on one axis. Volunteers, vendors and suppliers alongside.
Live analytics
Sales against a target, sell-through by tier, door counts by gate, year on year.
Compare
What your fans pay now, and here.
Each page below sets one platform’s published fee beside ours, on real ticket prices, with the source it was read from and the date we checked it.
A lot, actually. We replace these point solutions.
- TicketingEventbrite, Skiddle, DICE
- Social schedulingLater, Buffer, Hootsuite
- Artist bookingMuzeek, Prism.fm, Master Tour
- Run-of-showNotion, Airtable, Google Sheets
- Event websiteSquarespace, Webflow, Wix
- CRM and emailMailchimp, HubSpot, Klaviyo
Six tools. Six logins. Six invoices. One platform from now on.
We were running a 3,000-cap festival on six different tools held together with spreadsheets and prayers. Grofomo replaced all of them in a weekend, and our advance team actually slept this year.
Claim your event free. Sell here and the rest turns on.
Free when you claim
- Your event pageA public page with your dates, venue, lineup and ticket link, on your own short URL.
- Listed in the directoryYour event stays on the Grofomo directory where fans browse what is on.
- Website builderDesign the page block by block, publish when you are happy with it.
- Lineup builderStages, set times and artist profiles, laid out on a shared time axis.
- Artists and bookingsYour roster, booking offers and artist-facing pages in one place.
- News and articlesWrite announcements that publish straight to your own event site.
- Media and creative toolsArtwork, clips and lineup overlays, sized for every platform.
- Ticket setupBuild your tiers, releases and prices before you commit to selling here.
Your ticketing, included
- Tickets in the Grofomo app and in WalletApple and Google Wallet, the app your fans already have, and a QR that scans with no signal.
- Doorman, our door appA check-in list per gate, staff added by scanning a share code, and live counts as people arrive.
- Payment plansTake a deposit, then collect the instalments automatically for the tickets people save up for.
- Discounts that apply themselvesBuy-one-get-one, bundles and quantity tiers, applied at checkout with no code to remember.
- Comps and guest listsSeeded from your lineup, vendors and suppliers, then tallied on the door with everyone else.
- Transfers and lost-ticket recoveryFans pass tickets to friends, each with their own QR, and find their own order without emailing you.
- Every artist and fan can sell for youPersonal links for your lineup and last year’s buyers, earning commission or rewards you set.
- Refunds, upgrades and cancellationsMove someone to another tier, refund a ticket, or cancel the whole event and refund it in one go.
- Paid out 3 to 7 days after your eventMoney sits in your own Stripe account and releases automatically once the event has been and gone.
Marketing that switches on
- WhatsApp campaignsMessage ticket holders on your own approved number, with a shared inbox your crew can reply from.
- Email marketingSend to your mailing list and past ticket buyers, from your own domain rather than ours.
- Social publishingSchedule to every connected Instagram and Facebook account from one draft.
- Phone alerts on the dayA notification to the fans who saved your event: stage swaps, weather calls, last-minute releases.
Frequently asked
Answers to the things everyone asks first.
- It is free? Really? Where is the catch?
- Really. You never get an invoice from us. There is no subscription, no listing fee, no per-seat charge and nothing to pay for the marketing tools. We earn from the booking fee added at checkout, the same fee every ticketing platform charges: ours is 7.50% + £0.25, lighter than Skiddle or DICE, and you receive the full face value of every ticket. Card processing comes out of our side, not yours.
- The catch, if you want to call it one, is that you sell your tickets through Grofomo. That is what makes the rest of it work: once your sales run through the platform it knows who bought, what they bought, who came last year and who never opened your last email, and that is what turns a mailing list into an audience you can actually sell to. Bolt the marketing onto someone else's checkout and you are back to exporting spreadsheets.
- When do I get paid?
- Money from ticket sales is held on your own Stripe account and released automatically three days after your event ends. Paying out after the event is what protects your buyers if a date moves or cancels, which is why the industry works this way. If you need the funds sooner, you can request an early release.
- Can I move over from Skiddle, Eventbrite or whoever I am on now?
- Yes. We read Skiddle order exports directly, so last year's sales come across as history you can actually report against rather than a folder of spreadsheets. Your whole ticket catalogue imports and exports as a CSV, and your contacts import with duplicate detection, so you are not merging lists by hand. On other platforms, send us an export and we will tell you straight away whether we can read it.
- Which social channels can I publish to?
- Instagram and Facebook, from a single draft: feed images, carousels, video and reels on Instagram, plus posts, video, reels and stories on Facebook.
- The bigger win is usually the channels nobody else gives you: WhatsApp campaigns from your own number, email to your own buyer list, and a phone alert to everyone who saved your event.
- Does the gate scanning work without service?
- Every ticket carries a QR that scans offline, so a field with no signal does not stop the door. You set up a check-in list per gate, add your staff with a rotating share code, and see checked-in against total in near real time. Duplicate scans, wrong-day tickets and ones already transferred are flagged as they happen, and anything scanned in error can be undone.
- What do I get before I sell a single ticket?
- Your event page and directory listing, the website builder, the lineup builder, your artist roster and bookings, news and articles, the media and creative tools, and the whole ticket setup. Build the entire event, show it to your team, and decide about ticketing afterwards. Nobody asks you for a card.
- Sell your tickets through Grofomo and the marketing suite, WhatsApp, email, social publishing and phone alerts, switches on too, still at no cost to you.
Switching
Stop running your next event on duct tape.
You do not have to move everything at once. Put your next date on Grofomo alongside your current platform, import last year’s sales from a Skiddle export or a CSV, and see what the marketing tools do with an audience that is actually yours. If it works, the rest follows.