# bzar pricing for event organizers

bzar is free for organizers: no subscription and no per-event fee.

- Booth payments: 3.9% platform fee plus card processing (2.9% + $0.30), paid by vendors by default. Organizers can split or absorb fees per event.
- Paid tickets: 3%, card processing included.
- Free events and free tickets: no fees.
- Payouts through Stripe Connect.

## What a real event costs on each platform

Total fees taken out of the event's money (platform fees, subscriptions, card processing), whoever pays them.

### Market with paid entry: 40 booths at $75, 300 tickets at $10

| Platform | Total fees |
|---|---|
| bzar | $313 |
| VendorsMap | $396 |
| Eventeny | $453 |
| Forms + Square + Eventbrite | $846 |
| BoothCentral | $1,329 |
| Marketspread | $1,434 |
| EventHub | $1,831 |

### Free-entry market: 40 booths at $75

| Platform | Total fees |
|---|---|
| Forms + Square + Eventbrite | $111 |
| VendorsMap | $159 |
| bzar | $223 |
| Eventeny | $244 |
| BoothCentral | $594 |
| Marketspread | $699 |
| EventHub | $1,096 |

### Festival: 120 booths at $150, 2,000 tickets at $5

| Platform | Total fees |
|---|---|
| bzar | $1,598 |
| Eventeny | $1,949 |
| VendorsMap | $2,008 |
| Forms + Square + Eventbrite | $4,909 |
| BoothCentral | $5,293 |
| EventHub | $5,795 |
| Marketspread | $6,598 |

## Included on every event

- **Free for vendors:** Vendors pay no subscription; bzar Pro is included free for vendors who take bookings.
- **Storefront:** A storefront page with your packages, products, photos and a booking link you can share anywhere.
- **Booking fees:** When a customer pays for a booking by card, they pay a service fee on top of your price, and bzar covers card processing from it.
- **Bookings and deposits:** Customers request a date from your packages and pay a deposit online; the balance can be charged automatically.
- **Quotes and invoices:** Send quotes and invoices that customers pay online.
- **Contracts:** Attach a contract to a package or quote for the customer to sign before they pay.
- **Inquiry forms:** Ask customers your own questions when they inquire.
- **Google Calendar sync:** Sync bookings with your Google Calendar.
- **Clients:** Keep every client, booking and message in one client list.
- **Messages:** Message customers and organizers on bzar.
- **Square:** Connect Square to bring in your catalog.
- **Market applications:** Apply to markets and events on bzar and pay booth fees by card.
- **Pre-orders:** Shoppers can pre-order from you for a market and pick up at your booth.
- **Document vault:** Keep your licenses, permits and insurance certificates on file and reuse them across applications.
- **Recommendations:** Customers can recommend you, and your storefront shows the share who recommend you once there are enough.
- **Free for organizers:** Organizers pay no subscription and no per-event fee to run events on bzar.
- **Vendor applications:** Vendors apply online with your own questions, and you approve, reject or waitlist each one.
- **Booth types and limits:** Sell booth types with their own prices and quantities, including multi-booth applications.
- **Booth map:** Lay out your venue and assign vendors to booths on a map.
- **Booth fee collection:** Booth fees are paid by card through Stripe and paid out to you; if you reject a vendor, their booth fee is refunded.
- **Choose who pays fees:** Pass platform and card fees to vendors, split them, or absorb them yourself.
- **Email automations:** Set up automatic emails to vendors, ticket holders or shoppers when vendors apply, are approved or rejected, and before or after the event.
- **Vendor agreements to sign:** Attach documents vendors must sign, and send them automatically on approval.
- **Vendor documents:** Require documents such as insurance certificates and permits with each application.
- **Ticketing:** Sell free and paid tickets with QR codes; free events never touch a payment processor.
- **Promo codes:** Create discount codes for tickets.
- **QR check-in:** Check attendees in on the day by scanning their ticket QR code or searching by name.
- **Public vendor directory:** Approved vendors appear in your event's public directory, which you can also embed on your own site.
- **Vendor messaging:** Message vendors one to one or send announcements to all of them.
- **Vendor export:** Export your vendor list as a spreadsheet or PDF.
- **Organizer profile and followers:** Get a public organizer page; followers hear about each new event and when applications open.
- **Built-in vendor network:** Vendors on bzar are notified when organizers they follow publish an event or open applications.
- **Payouts and analytics:** See ticket and booth revenue, and get paid out through Stripe Connect.
- **Vendor preorders:** Shoppers can preorder from your vendors before the event.
- **Shop the market:** Your event page shows what your vendors sell.
- **Weekly market seasons:** Run a weekly market as one season: vendors buy a season package once and are booked on every market day.
- **Vendor fee charges:** Charge vendors later for extras or no-show fees through the same card flow.
- **Organizer-set application fee:** bzar charges vendors no application fee. Organizers can set their own, from $1 to $100 per event, and it goes to them.

Comparisons: https://bzar.app/compare