# Ticket Fairy > Ticket Fairy is a ticketing, marketing and operations platform for live events, including festivals, club nights, concerts, conferences and tours. Organisers use it to sell tickets, build event websites, run referral and paid marketing, handle door operations, and get paid; it also offers embedded banking and working capital financed against ticket sales. It has processed over $300M in ticket sales across the US, UK, Canada, Mexico, the EU, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, India and other markets, for events from 50 to 100,000+ attendees, and is backed by Y Combinator. This site serves organisers and fans in United Kingdom. ## What Ticket Fairy does - [Ticketing and checkout](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/): Sell tickets for festivals, club nights, concerts, conferences and tours. - [Embedded checkout](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/embedded-ticket-checkout): Sell on your own website instead of sending fans elsewhere. - [Event website builder](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/event-website-builder): Build and publish an event or brand site without a developer. - [Referral marketing](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/referral-marketing-ticketing): Reward the fans who bring other fans, tracked to the individual sale. - [Multi-network advertising](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/multi-network-event-advertising): Plan, launch and measure paid campaigns across ad networks from one place. - [Social media management](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/social-media-management): Publish, schedule and reply across your brand's social accounts. - [Abandoned cart recovery](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/abandoned-cart-recovery): Bring back buyers who left before paying. - [AI concierge and support inbox](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/ai-event-concierge): An AI agent that answers fans, and one inbox for every channel. - [Analytics and reporting](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/event-data-analytics): Where sales come from, what they cost, and what to do next. - [Door scanning and check-in](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/ticket-scanning-app): Scan tickets at the door, online or offline. - [RFID and cashless](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/rfid-cashless-events): Wristband access control and cashless spending on site. - [Anti-scalping and face-value resale](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/anti-scalping-ticketing): A resale marketplace capped at face value so tickets stay with fans. - [Payment plans](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/event-payment-plans): Let buyers pay for a ticket in instalments. - [White-label](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/white-label-ticketing): Run the entire platform under a partner's own brand and domain. - [Event banking (Vault)](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/event-banking): Multi-currency accounts and corporate cards for event businesses. - [Event funding (Capital)](https://www.ticketfairy.com/capital): Working capital advanced against ticket sales. - [Fai, the AI co-pilot](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/ticket-fairy-ai): Use Fai to run your dashboard through chat. - [Command-line interface and MCP server](https://www.ticketfairy.com/cli): Install the official CLI with `npm install -g ticketfairy`, explore it with `ticketfairy --help`, or start its local MCP server with `ticketfairy mcp`. Package documentation: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ticketfairy - [MCP server for AI assistants](https://www.ticketfairy.com/mcp-server): Connect Claude Code, Cursor or another MCP client to live event, ticket and order data. ## Who it is for - [Festivals](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/festivals-events-ticketing): Multi-day, multi-stage events with camping, tiers and payment plans. - [Nightclubs and venues](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/night-club-ticketing-software): Recurring nights, residencies and door operations. - [Promoters and agencies](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/promoter-ticketing-management-platform): Many events across many brands, with roles for each team. - [Conferences](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/conference-ticketing-software): Registration, sessions, timed entry and badges. - [Concerts and tours](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/concert-promoter-ticketing-platform): Touring runs, on-sales and artist presales. - [Charity and fundraising](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/charity-gala-ticketing): Galas, tables, donations and fundraising events. ## Pricing - [How pricing works](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/pricing): No mandatory monthly fee to start selling tickets; free tickets carry no platform fee. ## Payments and regions - [Payments and payouts](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/sell-tickets-with-stripe): Local payment methods and currencies across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific. ## How Ticket Fairy compares - [Eventbrite alternative](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/eventbrite-alternative): Compare fees, data access and selling tools when you have outgrown a general-purpose platform. - [DICE alternative](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/dice-alternative): Compare music-ticketing tools when you want to own your audience data. - [See Tickets alternative](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/see-tickets-alternative): Compare your options when your festival is moving off a legacy agency platform. - [Humanitix alternative](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/humanitix-alternative) - [Ticket Tailor alternative](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/ticket-tailor-alternative) - [Platform comparison](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/event-ticketing-software-comparison): Side-by-side comparisons across the ticketing market. ## Free planning tools - [Planning tools](https://www.ticketfairy.com/tools): Calculators for capacity, pricing, pacing, budget and commission. No account needed. ## Step-by-step guides - [How-to guides](https://www.ticketfairy.com/guides): Walkthroughs for setting an event up: advertising pixels, festival ticket tiers and releases, add-ons, and resale rules. ## Get started - [Ticket Fairy home](https://www.ticketfairy.com/): Start here, or create an account. - [Live events on sale](https://www.ticketfairy.com/events): What is currently selling on the platform. - [Support and contact](https://www.ticketfairy.com/support): Help for your team and ticket buyers, plus ways to reach us. - [About the company](https://www.ticketfairy.com/is-ticket-fairy-legit): Y Combinator-backed, $300M+ in ticket sales processed to date. - [Press and media coverage](https://www.ticketfairy.com/press): Announcements from the company, and what the press has written about it. ## More - [Full platform description](https://www.ticketfairy.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every capability above described in detail, in one file. - [Sitemap](https://www.ticketfairy.com/sitemap.xml): every indexable URL, including every live event. - Every *page* here is also available as Markdown. Add `.md` to any page URL above, or send `Accept: text/markdown`, and the response comes back as Markdown instead of HTML. (The sitemap and other XML feeds are unaffected.)