C-TIX — Ticketing for event organisers

How it works

Selling tickets
in three steps

Your ticket shop is your own order page with your name, image and colours. You link to it or place it on your own website, and you are online within ten minutes.

Set up your shopSign up with your email address and set up your ticket shop. Put the link on your website, in your newsletter or on social media.

Sell ticketsBuyers pay securely with iDEAL or Festivalcadeau; you can switch on credit card, Apple Pay and Bancontact as well. You follow sales in your dashboard, and every Wednesday your balance is transferred.

Welcome your audienceScan the e-tickets at the door with the free iPhone app, or tick visitors off on the door list.

C-TIX at a glance

Per order, however many tickets it holds

€ 1.50

Weekly payout to your account

Wednesday

Via Mollie. Credit card, Apple Pay and Bancontact optional

iDEAL · Festivalcadeau

Free QR scanner for the door

iOS app

Fully privacy-proof, no cookies

GDPR

Pricing

€1.50 per order.
Not per ticket.

An order with four tickets costs €1.50, the same as an order with one ticket. No percentage of your revenue and no subscription. You decide whether to pass the €1.50 on to your buyer.

1.97

tickets per order, on average across our organisers over the past twelve months. That is €0.76 per ticket. Updated 10 October.

Start for free →

€ 1.50

per order

VAT included · You decide what you pass on

No subscription fees

Free tickets cost nothing

Weekly payout (every Wednesday)

No payment provider account of your own needed

Your money is held separately by an escrow foundation

Optional extras: credit card 3%, Apple Pay 2%, Bancontact € 0.25 per order, deducted from your payout

Free scanner app for iPhone

Dashboard with exports and door list

No cookies · GDPR-proof

What you get

Less to arrange,
more music

Follow your sales

See per concert how many tickets are sold and how many are left. At any moment, on your phone too.

Handle the administration

Orders, exports and payouts sit in one dashboard. Afterwards you have an overview of every transaction, with no invoicing to do.

Free promotion

Your concert may appear in C-TIPS, our monthly newsletter for over 6,000 concert-goers, and in the listings on c-tix.com. You decide per concert whether to take part.

Ordering on your own website

Let visitors order tickets directly on your own website. You embed the order form in your own page.

Bundles and festival passes

Sell several concerts in one go: a fixed bundle, a pass for the whole festival or a choice from your programme.

Discount codes and your own questions

Give friends or sponsors a discount code, and ask the questions you need at checkout.

And also Early-bird and last-minute prices Enter a whole season in one go Guest tickets Sales at the door Voluntary contribution

Scanning at the door
with your iPhone

Open your concert in the app and scan the QR code on the e-ticket. You see at once whether the ticket is valid, along with the name of the visitor.

The app is free and runs on iPhone. No iPhone at the door? Use the door list, on paper or on a screen.

Cango Tickets Scanner on the App Store →
The app still carries our company name, Cango Tickets.

A staff member scans a visitor's e-ticket at the door with her phone

Our story

Built by …

C-TIX grew out of practice. Jasper Berben, a producer in classical music, was looking for a simple ticketing system for his concerts — and found nothing that fit. Too expensive, too complicated, too impersonal.

Together with programmer Felipe Noriega he built C-TIX: fairly priced, paying out weekly, without the fuss. For choirs, festivals, concert series and venues — for anyone who wants to sell tickets without making a full-time job of it.

Thousands of events have been sold through C-TIX since. The money arrives in the organiser's account every Wednesday. It is that simple.

Jasper Berben — founder

Works as a producer and managing director in the cultural sector. Sails a historic flat-bottomed boat. Plays continuo and jazz.

Felipe Noriega — technical director

Composer, programmer and live-coding artist. Co-founder of the CodeKlavier project. Graduated cum laude from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Manon Schreurs — marketing & publicity

Musicologist and literary scholar. Previously manager at Splendor Amsterdam. Found C-TIX while looking for a ticket shop for a house-concert festival of her own.

Reviews

What organisers say

"Our staff always had to carry a cash box through the streets. I created a profile with C-TIX and put the link on our website. Sales started within five minutes."

— Dimitri Houtman

"We were looking for a practical online system to collect entry fees for our running events. We found it at C-TIX."

— Rianne Vreeswijk, Pheidippidesloop Utrecht

"C-TIX shows us where ticket sales stand, and afterwards a clear overview of the transactions. The system is fast and the money arrives every week."

— Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Free? How is that possible? +

C-TIX has no subscription and takes no percentage of your revenue. We deduct €1.50 per order. Most organisers pass that on to the buyer as a service fee, and then C-TIX costs you nothing. You may also charge less, or nothing; you then cover the difference yourself. There are no hidden costs and you are not tied to anything.

I would rather not pass the service fee on to my customers. Is that possible? +

Of course. You decide what you charge: anything from €0 to €1.50 or even more. You set it in your own dashboard.

Can my buyers pay by credit card, Apple Pay or Bancontact? +

Yes. You switch them on yourself, in your dashboard under Payment methods; they are off by default. These methods cost us more than iDEAL, so we deduct a small amount per order from your payout: 3% for credit card, 2% for Apple Pay and € 0.25 for Bancontact. You see it per order. Your buyer pays the same with every payment method — a surcharge for a payment method is not allowed in the EU. iDEAL and Festivalcadeau are always on.

I sell four tickets in one order. What does that cost? +

€1.50. The fee is per order, not per ticket, and includes VAT. An order with only free tickets costs nothing.

Do I need my own account with a payment provider? +

No. Payments run through Mollie, the payment provider C-TIX works with. There is nothing for you to apply for or connect; you only enter the bank account you want to be paid out to.

Where is the money from my ticket sales held until it is paid out? +

In the account of an escrow foundation (stichting derdengelden). That money is kept apart from the assets of C-TIX and is meant for the organisers. Every Wednesday we transfer your balance to your own bank account.

How and when do I receive the payments? +

Every week, on Wednesday, C-TIX transfers the proceeds of your ticket sales to your bank account. No invoicing afterwards — simply money in the bank.

What about privacy? +

C-TIX takes privacy seriously and follows the GDPR strictly. C-TIX is the data processor and you (or your organisation) are the data controller. We use no cookies.

What do I need to do to become a customer? +

Enter your email address in the sign-up form at the top of this page. You will receive a link to create your account and set up your first project straight away.

The finest performances
in your inbox every month

A short letter about what there is to see and hear at the venues that work with C-TIX. You will first receive an email to confirm your subscription, and you can unsubscribe with a single click.

Do you organise concerts yourself? If you sell your tickets through C-TIX, your concert may appear in this newsletter: free, to over 6,000 concert-goers. You decide per concert whether to take part. How C-TIX works →

Your own
ticket shop

Selling tickets
in three steps

€1.50 per order.
Not per ticket.

Work it out yourself