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Switching from Skiddle · UK

The Skiddle alternative with no booking fees for your guests

Skiddle sells a lot of tickets for UK club nights, festivals and live music, and it does it by charging your guests rather than you. The booking fee is added on top of the price you set, at the checkout, after they have already decided to come.

Roomful takes the opposite approach: 0% commission from you, and nothing added to your guests' total. The price you advertise is the price they pay.

Free migrationLive tomorrowMoney goes straight to your Stripe

The maths

200 tickets at £15.00. Who takes what?

Platform fees on £3,000.00 of ticket sales — the bit you or your guests hand over before card processing.

Skiddle
Booking fee, added at checkout
£354.00
Paid by your guests
You keep £3,000.00
Roomful
0% commission on every ticket you sell — unlimited. No booking fees for your guests.
£0.00
Paid by no one
You keep £2,915.00

Based on 200 tickets at £15.00 each. Card processing (Stripe) applies on every platform, including this one — typically 1.5% + 20p for UK cards, taken by Stripe, not by us. Roomful adds nothing on top. Ever. Skiddle's published fees checked 27 July 2026.

Skiddle

£354.00

comes out of the sale

Platform fee
£354.00
Card processing
included
You bank
£3,000.00
Your guest pays
£16.77 a ticket

Roomful

£85.00

comes out of the sale

Platform fee
£0.00
Card processing
£85.00
You bank
£2,915.00
Your guest pays
£15.00 a ticket

That is £269.00 less taken out of this one event. Your guests keep £1.77 each — because on Skiddle they, not you, carry the fee.

Card processing (Stripe) applies on every platform, including this one — typically 1.5% + 20p for UK cards, taken by Stripe, not by us.

What Skiddle does well

  • Skiddle has real audience reach in UK dance, festival and live music, and their own listings genuinely put events in front of new people.
  • Their promoter tools are built for exactly the events they specialise in — ticket waves, guest lists, reps and door management.
  • Because the guest carries the fee, the headline cost to a promoter looks like nothing, which suits people working on thin margins.

Why organisers move to Roomful

  • The booking fee is still your problem even though your guest pays it: it inflates your advertised price at the final step, which is exactly where checkouts get abandoned.
  • You are competing for attention on a listings page alongside every other event on the same night, including the ones you are competing with.
  • The relationship, and the data, belongs to the platform rather than to you.
How it works

From Skiddle to live in a day.

We do the rebuild for you, free. You check it and go.

  1. Send us the link

    Paste the URL of your current Skiddle event. Nothing needs to come down while we work.

  2. We rebuild it for you

    We recreate the event, ticket waves, prices and capacity on Roomful, free, and send it back for you to check.

  3. Connect your Stripe

    Ticket money lands directly in your own Stripe account as tickets sell, rather than being paid out after the event has happened.

  4. Advertise one price

    Because there is no booking fee, the price on your poster is the price at the checkout. Nothing changes between the two.

Free migration

Send us your Skiddle link.

We rebuild your event on Roomful, free, and send it back for you to check. Most are ready the same day.

Get your ticket shop

Send your Eventbrite link (or your website / Instagram) — we'll build your shop and reply within one working day.

Free. No card. No commitment — your events stay yours.

FAQ

The questions everyone asks.

Who pays the fees on Roomful?

Nobody pays a platform fee. We take 0% commission from you and add no booking fee for your guests. The only cost on a sale is card processing, typically 1.5% + 20p for UK cards, taken by Stripe rather than by us.

Will I lose the audience Skiddle sends me?

Be honest with yourself about how much of your audience genuinely arrives through Skiddle's own discovery rather than through your own promotion. If it is a meaningful share, run both for one event and compare. Many organisers find the overwhelming majority of their sales came from links they shared themselves.

Do I get the money before the event?

Yes. Roomful uses direct charges into your own Stripe account, so ticket income arrives as tickets sell rather than after the event has happened.

Can I still run ticket waves and door lists?

Yes — multiple ticket types with their own prices and capacities, and a door check-in list on the night. Both are free.