Looking for a Ticket Tailor alternative?

Choosing between Little Box Office and Ticket Tailor.

Little Box Office and Ticket Tailor are both ticketing platforms for venues and event teams, with no subscription and no lock-in contract.

Both offer online and in-person sales, reserved seating, time slots, branded event pages, discount codes, donations, and payouts straight to your own payment account.

On paper, both platforms do much the same job. The difference is in the box office system your staff use every day, with a built-in CRM, and your website.

The Quick Answer.

Choose Ticket Tailor if you run straightforward events and want a simple flat fee per ticket, especially for general admission tickets or if you are happy to buy credits in advance. Free events are free for up to 5,000 tickets a year, and registered charities get 50% off.

Choose Little Box Office if you run a venue or a regular programme and want more control with less effort. A complete box office system lets your staff take phone and in-person orders, look up customers and issue refunds, and sub-accounts keep each department’s events and ticket income separate. Your booking site can also be your whole website, built and hosted at no extra cost. You get all the tools (CMS) you need to update it, and even customise your booking journey, without needing a developer. Reserved seats cost the same as any other ticket, and there is nothing to pay upfront.

Pricing.

Ticket Tailor. According to its published pricing, Ticket Tailor charges a flat fee per ticket sold: £0.60 + VAT on pay-as-you-go, or less if you buy credits in advance, down to £0.24 + VAT per ticket when you buy 20,000 credits (£4,800 + VAT upfront). A reserved seat costs two credits, so seated events cost twice as much per ticket. Payment processing is additional, and registered charities get 50% off.

Little Box Office. Our standard rate is 4.15%, with significant discounts for higher sales volumes and for events supporting children in distress, and nothing to buy in advance. Reserved seats cost the same as any other ticket. Payment processing is additional: Stripe’s standard UK rate is 1.5% + £0.20 per order.

Lowest fees? Ticket Tailor advertises “lowest fees, guaranteed”, but its lowest rates depend on buying credits in advance, reserved seats use two credits each, and Little Box Office offers significant discounts for higher sales volumes. Which platform costs less depends on your own mix of ticket prices, seating and volume.

How they compare. As a rule of thumb, Ticket Tailor becomes more cost-effective the more credits you buy in advance and the higher your ticket prices, because its fee stays the same whatever the ticket costs. Little Box Office is likely to cost less for seated events, for those who’d rather not pay upfront, and for larger clients, who qualify for significant volume discounts. Every venue is different, so ask us for a quote based on your own events.

Switching from Ticket Tailor.

You can move whenever it suits you. Live customer and event data is migrated at no charge, and historical data can also be included, so you don’t need to wait for events already on sale to finish. We have dedicated migration tools to import your data, such as events, customers, orders, transactions, seating plans and venues, and we’ve moved clients from many different ticketing systems, so we know how to plan your move.

Box office and website.

Box office. Ticket Tailor lets you take in-person card payments through its check-in app. Little Box Office includes a complete box office system for your staff. They can take phone and in-person orders, look up any customer and everything they’ve booked, view the details of each transaction, resend emails, issue full or partial refunds and merge duplicate customer records. Its built-in CRM is designed for box offices, so each customer’s bookings, membership level, credits and refund balance are all in one place.

Website. Ticket Tailor lets you design branded event pages, connect your own domain and embed its checkout on your website. Every Little Box Office venue gets its own booking site. That same site can also be your whole website, with all your other pages alongside your events and checkout, and we can build and host it for you at no extra cost. It runs on your own domain name, and you can update it without needing a developer.

For your research.

Wherever you are in your research, you’ll probably want more detail on Little Box Office. Get in touch and we’ll arrange a time to meet, so we can take you through how it would work for your events. In the meantime, here are highlights of what our platform brings, from saving time and money to helping you earn more and stay ahead.

Save time.

Designed so everyday tasks take as few steps as possible.

  • Manage events and orders with admin tools built for speed
  • Customise reports and schedule them to be sent automatically
  • See customer details, orders, emails, etc., in one place (CRM)
  • Create bespoke user roles so admin users only access what they need
  • Use sub-accounts to keep each department’s events and ticket income separate
  • Hand tasks over to the Little Box Office concierge service

Save money.

  • Get your best Little Box Office rate, based on your sales volume
  • Have your website built and hosted at no extra cost, fully integrated with your events and checkout
  • Customise your booking journey without paying a developer
  • Add your own booking fees to cover some or all of your costs
  • Keep refund money by issuing credit notes

Make more money.

  • Convert more buyers at checkout, with cart abandonment well below the e-commerce average
  • Secure early bookings with deposits and balance payments
  • Encourage repeat purchases with loyalty programmes
  • Raise extra income through donations
  • Use dynamic pricing to maximise revenue or fill more seats

Stay ahead.

Every update is shaped by ticket buyer feedback, venue requests and industry trends.

  • Feedback is collected from ticket buyers after every transaction: our engineering team is alerted and fixes critical issues straight away. Most other feedback can be addressed by changing the event settings and booking journey without delay or developer costs.
  • New functionality is released every 10 weeks, driven by venue requests and industry trends, with improvements added every week

FAQs

Ticket Tailor and Little Box Office are both ticketing platforms for venues and event teams, with no subscription and no lock-in contract. Ticket Tailor charges a flat fee per ticket and suits straightforward events. Little Box Office includes a complete box office system for phone and in-person orders, with a built-in CRM. Your Little Box Office booking site can also be your whole website, built and hosted at no extra cost.
It depends on your events. Ticket Tailor’s flat fee per ticket becomes more cost-effective the more credits you buy in advance and the higher your ticket prices. Little Box Office is likely to cost less for seated events, for those who’d rather not pay upfront, and for larger clients, who qualify for significant volume discounts. Ask us for a quote based on your own events.
Yes. On Ticket Tailor, a reserved seat costs two credits, so seated events cost twice as much per ticket. With Little Box Office, reserved seats cost the same as any other ticket.
To get its lowest rates, Ticket Tailor requires you to buy credits in advance, down to £0.24 + VAT per ticket when you buy 20,000 credits (£4,800 + VAT upfront). With Little Box Office, there is nothing to pay upfront: you pay a share of what you sell.
Yes. Little Box Office handles online, in-person and phone sales from one system, so your team can take phone bookings using the same seating plans and customer records as online sales.
Yes. Every Little Box Office venue gets its own booking site. That same site can also be your whole website, with all your other pages alongside your events and checkout, and we can build and host it for you at no extra cost. It runs on your own domain name, and you can update it without needing a developer. Ticket Tailor provides branded event pages that you can connect to your own domain.
Yes. Little Box Office migrates live events and their orders at no charge, so you don’t need to wait for events already on sale to finish.
Yes. Little Box Office can run theatre performances, cinema screenings, workshops, dinners, parties, classes and courses side by side, each with its own ticket types, settings and booking journey, all from one account. Customers can book a whole course or just some of its sessions, or buy a season ticket covering several events.

Your next step.

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