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How we offer the lowest fees in the industry: 2% and your own bank’s payment gateway
No monthly fee, your first €500 each month commission-free and 2% after that. And if you take payments with Redsys instead of Stripe, the cost of each payment drops too.
If you sell tours, excursions, workshops or tickets, you know every booking loses a slice on the way. Part of it goes to the booking software and part to the payment provider. Added up, they can easily take 4%, 5% or more of every sale, and activity marketplaces usually take between 20% and 30%.
At myTicketCalendar we set out to do the opposite: make selling online cost you as little as possible. Two decisions get us there.
1. 2% per booking, and only beyond €500 a month
Our model is simple:
- €0 monthly fee, no setup cost and no lock-in.
- The first €500 you sell each month pay no commission. The counter resets on the 1st.
- After that, 2% per booking, with a minimum of €0.30 per booking.
In a quiet month you pay nothing. In a busy one you pay 2% of what you sell beyond €500, with no tiers and no surprises. Every feature is included from day one: booking widget, QR tickets, check-in app, coupons, invoicing with Verifactu and the API.
We can charge this little because we never touch your money. Customers pay straight into your account, so we are not a financial middleman and do not have to cover what that costs.
2. Redsys instead of Stripe: payments cost less too
The software fee is only half of the bill. The other half is what each card payment costs.
Stripe is very convenient: you open an account in minutes and accept cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay. But its standard rate for European cards is 1.5% plus €0.25 per payment, and that fixed €0.25 weighs heavily on cheap tickets.
Most businesses in Spain already have, or can ask for, a virtual POS from their bank, which runs on Redsys. You negotiate its rate with your bank and it is usually well below Stripe’s, especially if you already bank with them. Redsys also lets your customers pay with Bizum, which is very common in Spain.
That is why myTicketCalendar now lets you choose how you get paid:
- Stripe, if you want to start today with no paperwork.
- Redsys, with your own bank’s virtual POS, to pay less on every payment.
With Redsys the money goes from the customer’s card to your bank account, without passing through us or waiting for payouts. Since we cannot deduct our commission from each payment, we invoice it once a month.
The numbers for a real month
Take an agency that sells 100 bookings of €50 in a month, €5,000 in total.
| Item | With Stripe | With Redsys |
|---|---|---|
| myTicketCalendar commission (2% of €4,500) | €90 | €90 |
| Payment costs | €100 | €25 |
| Total | €190 (3.8%) | €115 (2.3%) |
The Stripe cost comes from its standard rate for European cards (1.5% + €0.25 per payment). The Redsys one is an example at 0.5%: your bank will give you your exact rate.
With Redsys, this agency keeps 97.7% of what it sells. No monthly fee, no lock-in and nothing to pay in slow months.
Compared with the biggest platforms
Saying “the lowest fees in the industry” is easy, so we compared it with the prices each platform publishes on its website (November 2026). We count only the software fee, without the payment provider, and for each sales volume we take each platform’s cheapest plan. Bókun and Rezdy publish their prices in dollars, so we kept them in their currency.
| Platform | You sell €3,000 | You sell €10,000 |
|---|---|---|
| myTicketCalendar 2% beyond €500, no monthly fee |
€50 | €190 |
| TuriTop €29 to €299 a month + 2% to 0.75% |
€89 | €199 |
| Bókun $49 to $499 a month + 1.5% to 1% |
$94 | $199 |
| Rezdy $49 to $249 a month + 3% |
$139 | $349 |
| Checkfront €99 a month + 3% |
€189 | €399 |
FareHarbor and Peek do not publish a price list. According to operator reviews, they charge around 6% per online booking, usually paid by the customer as a surcharge on the price. And activity marketplaces usually keep between 20% and 30%.
To be fair with the numbers: on tickets under €15 our €0.30 minimum per booking weighs in, and from about €11,000 a month TuriTop’s and Bókun’s subscription plans start to come out cheaper. If you sell more than €11,000 a month, one of our account managers will get in touch to look at your case and offer you a more competitive deal. But the vast majority of tour and activity businesses sell less than that, and for them no option costs less.
How to turn it on
- Ask your bank for a virtual POS (e-commerce) if you do not have one yet.
- In the panel, go to Settings → Payments and choose Take payments with Redsys.
- Enter the merchant number (FUC), terminal and secret key your bank gives you.
- Press Test connection to check everything works, and start selling.
Refunds work from the panel just like with Stripe, in full or in part. And if you ever prefer Stripe again, you switch back in one click: bookings already paid do not change.
Want to see what you would pay? Try the pricing calculator or book a demo and we will go through your numbers.