Event Espresso price and terms
Terms
- Free plan
- YesYes
The terms in full
Decaf is a standing $0/year download from the WordPress plugin repository with unlimited events, registrations and ticket sales, but carries 3% pay-as-you-go, is listed as 'Not compatible with add-ons', and has community support only.
- Sign up without sales
- YesYes
What needs a higher plan
- Core
- Fees on 200 tickets at $25, Fees on 50 tickets at $25
For AI agents
- API
- Partly
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What we checked on Event Espresso
Fees on 200 tickets at $25
$185.75 in fees on 200 tickets at $25 on Core, all paid by the organizer: each ticket costs the buyer $25 and the organizer keeps $4,814.25. The subscription is billed yearly. The figure counts one month of it.
0% Pay-as-you-go with a active license key
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Fees on 50 tickets at $25
$54.50 in fees on 50 tickets at $25 on Core, all paid by the organizer: each ticket costs the buyer $25 and the organizer keeps $1,195.50. The subscription is billed yearly. The figure counts one month of it.
On the page: Plans section, Core plan feature list, first bullet
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The fee per ticket
The plugin charges a percentage of sales rather than a per-ticket amount: 0% while a paid license key is active, and 3% on the free Decaf plan, with no stated minimum or cap.
On the page: Plans section, Core plan feature list, first bullet
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Who pays the fees
There is no platform fee for a buyer to carry on a paid license, and card costs land on the organizer unless it buys the Charge Processing Fees add-on, which adds a labeled fee to the buyer's checkout total.
Protect your event revenue from payment processing and administrative costs by adding a percentage fee, a fixed fee, or both to any Event Espresso…
Card processing
The organizer connects its own card processor and keeps that relationship, so the rate is the processor's and sits outside anything Event Espresso charges; the vendor names PayPal, Stripe and Square.
Even though we do not charge any fees to sell ticketes, the gateway of your choice (e.g. PayPal, Stripe, Square) will still charge their fees.
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All-in price at checkout
The vendor states a buyer sees the fee before paying and that fees are itemized, but that describes the optional add-on's own charges rather than a guarantee that the first price shown carries every mandatory amount.
Attendees see the fee before completing payment, reducing surprises and keeping checkout straightforward.
Free events
Free registrations and free tickets are supported on every plan including the no-cost Decaf download, and the percentage the vendor charges applies to money taken rather than to ticket count.
Paid or Free Registrations
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Nonprofit rates
A discount for registered nonprofits exists but applies only to the first purchase, must be requested with details of the organization, and cannot be combined with other offers; no rate is published.
Yes, we offer a discount on the initial purchase for nonprofit, NGO, and charitable organizations. Share information about your nonprofit…
Plans and subscriptions
Two paid yearly licenses are sold, Core at $129 and All Access at $399, and holding an active key is what removes the 3% the free Decaf plan carries.
$199 Value for just $129$129 / year
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Sales tax on tickets
adds a tax line: the organizer configures its own global or per-item taxes, which then appear on attendee invoices and receipts; the vendor does not remit anything on the organizer's behalf.
Configure global taxes and/or individual taxes only on certain items, tickets or registrations. Taxes are shown on invoices and receipts to attendees.
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When you get the money
Money never passes through the vendor: each purchase settles straight into the organizer's own merchant account as it happens, so there is no holding period and no payout fee to the platform.
When attendees pay you, the money goes straight into your merchant account.
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Your buyers’ details
The attendee database lives in the organizer's own WordPress install, the vendor states outright that the organizer owns it, and lists can be downloaded even on the free Decaf plan.
With Event Espresso you own your attendee data and always have access to use and download the data to use it however you need it
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Ticket types and discounts
Tiered early-bird phases, graduated and bundle pricing by quantity, and member-only tickets are core features; promotion and discount codes come from a separate $119.95 add-on included in All Access.
Create phased ticket like Early Bird, Regular and Late registrations all stopping and starting according to the dates you set, all with different…
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Reserved seating
The vendor names seating charts in its own list of projects the plugin is not built for, so buyers cannot pick a seat on a chart at checkout.
Event Espresso is not a good fit for the following projects:event directories, event marketplaces, or user-submitted eventspoint of sale or box…
Questions at checkout
Organizers build their own question set per event and per ticket, with text, radio, dropdown and multi-select fields, and can mark each one required or optional.
Collect any type of information with text, radio button, dropdown, multi-select form questions, questions based on conditional answers to other…
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Registration forms and waivers
Custom registration forms with the organizer's own fields are core, and the vendor states attendees can be required to agree to a policy before registering; conditional logic is a $99.95 add-on.
Configure almost any type of question with specific or open-ended answers, set questions as required or optional, require people to agree to a policy…
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Timed entry
Events can carry several dates and times with a capacity set against specific dates rather than only the whole event, but the vendor never frames this as timed-slot admission windows.
while also controlling capacity limits for specific dates or the complete series regardless of ticket type
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Waitlist
A waitlist exists only through the $89.95 Wait List Manager add-on, which is included in All Access but costs extra on Core and cannot be used at all on the free Decaf plan.
Allow attendees to add themselves to a wait list if an event is full or all the tickets are sold out.
Online events
Virtual events work by the organizer setting up a virtual venue and pasting the meeting link into the confirmation email itself; there is no built-in integration that issues the link automatically.
Yes, you can customize the registration confirmation email to include access to an online event ahead of time through Zoom, Google Hangouts, Go to…
Sell on your own website
Checkout runs on the organizer's own WordPress site by design, and tickets can also be embedded elsewhere with the purchase completed back on the organizer's site.
Your audience will select their tickets on the the other website, and finish their registration or ticket purchase on your secure website.
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Website builders
native plugin or app, but for WordPress alone: the vendor requires self-hosted WordPress and points buyers without it to its separate hosted sister product, so Squarespace, Wix and Shopify are out.
Event Espresso is a WordPress plugin and the self-hosted version of WordPress is required.
Add-ons
Merchandise, meals and parking can be sold alongside a ticket, but only through the $99 Registration Upsells add-on that attaches prices to registration form answers.
Registration Upsells lets you attach prices to the answer options attendees already choose options such as T-shirts, meals, workshops, parking, etc.
Recurring events
Scheduling a series without building each date by hand needs the $119.95 Recurring Events Manager add-on; core alone offers one-click event duplication instead.
Put your events on autopilot by schedulingf events days, weeks, months or years, in advance and automatically opening and closing registrations on…
Refunds and transfers by buyers
Attendees can cancel their own registration, but only via the $59.99 Self-Serve Registration Cancellation add-on; nothing on the vendor's pages lets a buyer pass a ticket to a friend.
Provide attendees a way to cancel their own registrations.
Check-in app
Free iOS and Android apps scan tickets and check attendees in, but the barcodes themselves come from a $119.95 add-on and the vendor never states whether scanning works without a connection.
Add barcodes to your event tickets, then scan the barcodes with a 2D barcode scanner or through our mobile app on your phone or tablet on your…
Door sales
The vendor lists point of sale and box office among the projects the plugin is not built for, so there is no door-selling terminal; staff can only add attendees manually in the admin.
Event Espresso is not a good fit for the following projects:event directories, event marketplaces, or user-submitted eventspoint of sale or box office
Listed where buyers browse
There is no platform marketplace to be listed on: the plugin publishes events only on the organizer's own site, and the vendor names event marketplaces among the projects it does not suit.
Event Espresso is not a good fit for the following projects:event directories, event marketplaces, or user-submitted events
Email to buyers
The plugin automates transactional email and reminders itself, but reaching past buyers about a future event means pushing them into Mailchimp through a $59.95 add-on.
Automatically add attendees to a email list and/or group in MailChimp after they register for your events.
Promoter links
An affiliate program with per-affiliate referral links needs the $59.95 AffiliateWP Integration add-on, and that in turn depends on the separate third-party AffiliateWP plugin.
Build an affiliate and referral program for your events so affiliates can promote your events and send more registrations your way.
Works with
Mailchimp, Keap, QuickBooks and more than a dozen card processors have their own add-ons, and the $99 Webhooks add-on reaches Zapier or Make; none of this is available on the free Decaf plan.
A small outbound message is delivered to a URL you choose, so tools like Zapier, Make, N8N, CRMs, Quickbooks, or your own custom integrations can…
API
The vendor lists an API among developer tools on the paid Core license and advertises documented hooks and filters, but the free Decaf plan's feature list does not carry the developer tools row.
Developer Tools: API, Hooks, Filters, Logging, Maintenance Mode, staging sites support, etc.
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Free to start
The Decaf plugin is a genuinely free download that sells unlimited paid tickets, but it carries a 3% charge, is not compatible with any add-on, and gets community support only.
3% Pay-as-you-go$0 / Year
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Sign up without a sales call
Both paid licenses are bought straight from the cart with no sales call, and the free Decaf build downloads directly from the WordPress plugin repository.
$2,500 Value for just $399 $399 / year Get Started!
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Contract
Licenses run twelve months with automatic renewal the organizer can switch off from its account page at any time, backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee and no exclusivity.
You can turn off the automatic renewal feature from your account page whenever you’d like.
Support on event day
Core buys email support and All Access adds premium support with an install and setup video call; the free Decaf plan gets community support only, and no phone line or service hours are published.
Premium SupportSVG ImageInstall & set up video call
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Event Espresso alternatives
All 9 alternatives6 more alternatives
8 of the 9 publish a price.
- Ticket TailorFree, then about $0.80 per ticketFlat per-ticket fee ticketing paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account.
- GivebutterFree, then $33.80 a monthFree nonprofit fundraising platform with event ticketing, auctions and a built-in donor CRM.
- RSVPifyFree, then $0.90 per ticketRegistration, ticketing, guest management, seating, and QR-code check-in in one platform.
- HumanitixFree, then $1.29 per paid ticketNonprofit ticketing: 5% + $1.29 a paid ticket, card processing included, profits to charity.
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- /addons/self-serve-registration-cancellation
- /addons/ticket-barcode-scanner
- /addons/wait-list-manager
- /addons/webhooks
- /addons/wordpress-recurring-events-manager
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