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The Eventbrite alternative built for communities, not ticket sales
Eventbrite is built to sell tickets to strangers. If the same people come back every week — if they have memberships, friendships and a favorite table — you've outgrown it. IRL.OS is the operating system for exactly that kind of community.
Where Eventbrite stops
Eventbrite ends at the ticket. It doesn't know that Lena is a member who books everything 48 hours early, that Jonas has skipped his last two RSVPs, or that Thursday's dinner only makes sense with twelve people at the table. Every one of those facts is a first-class feature in IRL.OS: member-tier pricing and presale windows on every ticket, automatic no-show accountability, and guaranteed-minimum events where nobody is charged until the event is actually on.
The same gap applies to Luma, Meetup and Heylo: they host your event page inside their brand. IRL.OS puts your app in the App Store, your payments on your Stripe account, and your member data in a database you can export any day.
What migrating looks like
Founding-cohort communities get white-label setup and data migration included — members, past registrations and mailing lists move with you. Ticketing, memberships, door check-in and marketing automation then run in one system instead of five, and the first event you run tells you more about your community than a year of Eventbrite exports.
| Eventbrite | IRL.OS | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | One-off ticket sales to the public | Recurring communities of members |
| Fees on paid tickets | Service fee added per ticket | No per-ticket toll — payments run on your own Stripe account |
| Member pricing | Coupon-code workarounds | Native member tiers, presale windows and secret tickets |
| Memberships | Not included | Subscriptions with capability-gated tiers and built-in upsells |
| At the door | Organizer check-in app | QR + geofence self check-in, walk-in charging, no-show fees, table matching |
| After the event | An attendee list | Connections, photo recaps, surveys, win-back automations |
| Your brand | An Eventbrite page | Your own iOS & Android app and your domain |
| Your data | Lives on their platform | Your own isolated database, exportable anytime |
Eventbrite alternative — fair questions
Is IRL.OS cheaper than Eventbrite?
There is no per-ticket toll baked into what your guests pay — ticket and membership revenue lands directly in your own Stripe account. IRL.OS is priced as a flat platform fee plus usage, quoted openly on a call, which for communities running regular paid events typically undercuts percentage-based ticketing fees.
Can I migrate my existing attendees and members?
Yes. Founding-cohort onboarding includes data migration — members, registration history and mailing lists — so your community arrives with its memory intact.
Does it handle free events?
Yes, including the part Eventbrite ignores: free-event no-shows. Optional accountability tools — attendance records, no-show rules and waitlist auto-promotion — keep free events full instead of half-empty.
Do I need my own Stripe account?
Yes — that's deliberate. Payments run on your Stripe account, so payouts go straight to your bank and your revenue never sits with a platform in the middle.
See it running on your community
Battle-tested by the operators of a 4,000-member community in Munich. We onboard a small founding cohort at a time — white-label setup, data migration and our operators' playbook included.