Eventbrite alternative
Your dinner isn't a ticketed event.
Ticketing platforms were built to move a thousand general-admission seats. You are filling twelve, and you know most of their names. Boketta is one of the few Eventbrite alternatives built for hosts of curated experiences: paid seats, a page that still looks like yours, and every guest detail waiting for you at service.
Why hosts look elsewhere
The tool is fine. It just wasn't made for your night.
A ticket stub, not an invitation
A marketplace checkout sets the tone before anyone tastes anything. Guests see someone else's branding, a fee line, and a list of unrelated events they might like instead of yours.
Nowhere to put what actually matters
A coeliac guest, a nut allergy, an anniversary. On a general ticketing platform these end up in an email thread or a note field nobody reads on the night.
Built for volume, priced for volume
Ticketing tools are designed around hundreds of general-admission sales. When you are selling twelve seats, the same machinery feels heavy and the fees feel personal.
An honest comparison
Where each one belongs
If you are selling out a five-hundred-person venue, use Eventbrite. If you are setting one long table, read on.
| Feature | Large ticketing platforms | Boketta |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Large ticketed events | Intimate, curated experiences |
| Checkout branding | No | Your name, your page |
| Guest preferences at checkout | No | Questions you choose to ask |
| Dietary notes and allergies on the guest list | No | Yes |
| Guest account required | Usually | Never |
| Promotes other events to your guests | Yes | No |
| Use your own payment link | No | Yes |
| Discovery marketplace | Yes | No |
What you get instead
A guest list, not a ticket count
The number of seats sold is the least interesting thing about a private event or small dinner like yours. What you need on the day is who is coming, what they can eat, and what they are quietly hoping you remember.
- A branded page that reads like your work, not a marketplace listing
- Payment taken up front, so a seat is only held for a confirmed guest
- The questions you choose to ask, answered before anyone arrives
- Dietary needs, allergies and occasions on the list you host from
Questions hosts ask us
- Is Boketta a replacement for Eventbrite?
- For small, curated experiences, yes. If you are selling hundreds of general-admission tickets to a conference or a concert, Eventbrite is the better tool and we would happily tell you so. Boketta is for the host running an intimate dinner, a tasting, a workshop or a pop-up, where every guest matters by name.
- Do guests need to create an account to book?
- No. A guest opens your page, pays, answers the questions you chose to ask, and is confirmed. No marketplace account, and no nudge towards somebody else's event on the way out.
- Can I take payment without setting up a new payment provider?
- Yes. Collect payment through Boketta's checkout, or keep the payment link you already use and mark guests as paid from your guest list. Either way, a seat is only held for a confirmed guest.
- What happens to the guest details I collect?
- They sit on your guest list, ready for service: who is coming, what they can and cannot eat, and what they are celebrating. It is a list you host from, not a spreadsheet you export.
Sell seats the way you host.
Publish a branded experience, take payment up front, and arrive at service knowing every guest at the table.