Spektrix alternative.
Little Box Office vs Spektrix.
Little Box Office: a website builder included, designed for small teams. Go live in days and learn as you go, with no weeks of training and no £12,500 annual minimum.
Spektrix is a strong choice for larger arts organisations with the staff and budget for a structured implementation. Little Box Office is built for smaller teams who need to start selling quickly, without a separate website project or a long-term contract.
The Quick Answer.
Choose Spektrix if you have a large box-office team, want weeks of structured training before you go live, value its consultancy and customer community, and sell enough tickets to access its lower rates.
Choose Little Box Office if your team is small and busy. You go live in days and learn as you go, with online guides, webinars and one-to-one calls whenever you need them. Little Box Office is also a complete website builder. Run your whole website on it, use it just for ticketing, or both, with unlimited pages, full CMS, custom domain, and no developer needed. There is no lock-in contract.
Comparison at a Glance.
Little Box Office
4.15% platform fee, with lower rates for larger organisations. Payment processing is additional.
No lock-in contract and no exit fees.
Live in days. Around 30 minutes of training for front-of-house staff and up to three hours for administrators.
Website builder and CMS included.
Create and schedule your own custom reports.
Works with most existing printers and iOS or Android devices.
Seven-day phone and email support from a team that knows you.
Spektrix
Rates from 3.3%, with a £12,500 annual minimum. Lower rates for larger organisations. Payment processing (SpektrixPay) is additional.
Fixed initial term, then automatic annual renewal. Leaving early incurs a termination fee.
Typical implementation of 10 to 12 weeks, with a structured training programme.
Basic hosted subsite. A fully branded website usually means a separate development project.
Standard and custom reports. Some custom reports need Spektrix support.
Specific supported printers and scanning hardware required.
Large support and consultancy team, plus a customer community.
Features
Little Box Office
Spektrix
4.15% platform fee, with lower rates for larger organisations. Payment processing is additional.
Rates from 3.3%, with a £12,500 annual minimum. Lower rates for larger organisations. Payment processing (SpektrixPay) is additional.
No lock-in contract and no exit fees.
Fixed initial term, then automatic annual renewal. Leaving early incurs a termination fee.
Live in days. Around 30 minutes of training for front-of-house staff and up to three hours for administrators.
Typical implementation of 10 to 12 weeks, with a structured training programme.
Website builder and CMS included.
Basic hosted subsite. A fully branded website usually means a separate development project.
Create and schedule your own custom reports.
Standard and custom reports. Some custom reports need Spektrix support.
Works with most existing printers and iOS or Android devices.
Specific supported printers and scanning hardware required.
Seven-day phone and email support from a team that knows you.
Large support and consultancy team, plus a customer community.
Pricing.
Little Box Office charges a standard platform fee of 4.15% of sales, with progressively lower rates for higher volumes. Payment processing is additional: Stripe’s standard UK rate is 1.5% + £0.20 per order.
Spektrix rates start at 3.3% of sales, with an annual minimum service charge of £12,500, according to its UK Government Digital Marketplace listing. Lower rates are offered to larger organisations. Payment processing through SpektrixPay is additional and uses a variable cost-plus model: banking rates plus a fixed 0.8% markup.
A worked example. A venue selling £150,000 of tickets a year would pay:
Little Box Office
£5,775*
Included
Spektrix
£12,500 (annual minimum)
Typically £5,000 to £10,000 or more, plus hosting and maintenance
Little Box Office
Spektrix
£5,775*
£12,500 (annual minimum)
Included
Typically £5,000 to £10,000 or more, plus hosting and maintenance
Figures exclude VAT and payment processing. *Based on Little Box Office’s 3.85% rate at £150,000 of annual sales.
The main differences.
Getting started.
Spektrix suits organisations that want every team member fully trained before going live. Its typical implementation runs 10 to 12 weeks, and larger clients may schedule several weeks of administrator training.
Small teams rarely have that time. With Little Box Office, front-of-house staff need around 30 minutes of training and administrators up to three hours. You go live in days, then learn as you go with online guides, webinars and one-to-one calls with our team.
A complete website builder, included.
Most ticketing platforms give you a booking page and leave the website to someone else. Little Box Office includes a full website builder and CMS at no extra cost. Use it as your whole website, just for ticketing alongside your existing site, or both.
Build unlimited pages and menus on your own custom domain, set your own fonts and colours, and design layouts with content blocks, event listings, forms, videos, images and sliders. No coding, no developer and no separate website contract.
Spektrix offers a basic hosted subsite. A fully branded, integrated website usually means hiring a developer, with budgets that commonly reach £5,000 to £10,000 or more, plus ongoing hosting and maintenance.
No lock-in contract.
Little Box Office has no lock-in contract and no exit fees.
Spektrix contracts run for an initial term, then renew automatically each year unless cancelled with 30 days’ notice. Leaving early incurs a termination fee covering the rest of the term, and you must use Spektrix as your only ticketing system for as long as the contract runs.
Switching from Spektrix.
Little Box Office has moved more than 150 organisations onto its platform. Live customer and event data is migrated at no charge, and historical data is scoped and quoted before any work starts. We set up your account, train your team and support you through going live.
What leaving Spektrix involves:
Give Spektrix at least 30 days’ written notice before your renewal date.
Leaving before the end of your term triggers a termination fee for the remaining charges.
Request your data backup within 10 days of your contract ending. We will tell you exactly what to ask for.
We plan your move around your renewal date, so you never pay for both systems.
FAQs
Your next step.
Tell us your annual ticket sales and we will send you your rate within one working day.