# The best ticketing plugins for WordPress and your own site — Box Office Fees

> Source: https://boxofficefees.com/category/website-ticketing (curated, re-verified)
> Updated 28 October 2026 · Reviewed by the Box Office Fees editorial team

Sell tickets from your own WordPress site, with no fee per ticket beyond your card processor.

3 ticketing platforms in this category, ranked by what we can confirm about each (a public price, an API and docs, independent sources, stated limits; payment never changes the order). Each name links to its answer-first markdown twin.

## Facts

- Free to start: 1 of 3
- API: 2 of 3
- First paid plan a month: none of the 3 publishes one
- Checked against their own sites: 28 October 2026 (3 of 3)
- Added in November 2026: 0

| Name | What it is | Pricing | API |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Event Espresso](https://boxofficefees.com/event-espresso.md) | Self-hosted WordPress ticketing plugin with no per-ticket commission while your license key is active. | Free, then $129 a year | Yes |
| [FooEvents](https://boxofficefees.com/fooevents.md) | WooCommerce ticketing plugin: one annual license per domain, no per-ticket commission, sales run on your own site. | From $99 a year | — |
| [Tickera](https://boxofficefees.com/tickera.md) | Sell tickets from WordPress on unlimited sites, with 25 add-ons and a pay-once license option. | From $149 a year | Yes |

## Ticketing plugins for WordPress and your own site compared

| Ticketing platform | Price on its site | MCP server | API | Open source | Self-host |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Event Espresso](https://boxofficefees.com/event-espresso) | Free, then $129 a year | Not stated | Partly | Not stated | Not stated |
| [FooEvents](https://boxofficefees.com/fooevents) | From $99 a year | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| [Tickera](https://boxofficefees.com/tickera) | From $149 a year | Not stated | Partly | Not stated | Not stated |

All 3 ticketing plugins for WordPress and your own site we list.

## Questions buyers ask

### Which ticketing platform here costs the least?

1 of the 3 has a free plan: Event Espresso.

### When were these prices checked?

Fees read on 28 October 2026 from each platform's own fee schedule.

## Sources and method

Ranked by the fees on the same event, read from each platform's own fee page. [How we rank](https://boxofficefees.com/methodology/)

Every fee is read from the platform's own fee schedule.

- [Event Espresso](https://boxofficefees.com/event-espresso): [eventespresso.com/pricing](https://eventespresso.com/pricing), checked 28 October 2026
- [FooEvents](https://boxofficefees.com/fooevents): [fooevents.com/products/fooevents-for-woocommerce](https://www.fooevents.com/products/fooevents-for-woocommerce/), checked 28 October 2026
- [Tickera](https://boxofficefees.com/tickera): [tickera.com/pricing](https://tickera.com/pricing/), checked 28 October 2026

## Where next

### Related categories

- [Lowest fees on 200 tickets](https://boxofficefees.com/category/lowest-fees)
- [Nonprofits](https://boxofficefees.com/category/nonprofits)
- [Theatres and performing arts](https://boxofficefees.com/category/theatres)
- [Classes and workshops](https://boxofficefees.com/category/classes-workshops)
- [Conferences](https://boxofficefees.com/category/conferences)