The Best Recurring Event Ticketing Software for Weekly Shows, Workshops, and Seasonal Events

Last updated: May 28, 2026. Pricing figures verified against publicly available pricing pages from each platform cited.

Recurring events are a different animal. A one-off concert is easy: build the page, sell the tickets, run the show. A weekly comedy night is fifty-two of those — fifty-two event pages, fifty-two payouts, fifty-two times you have to think about ticketing fees. The platform you pick has to make that repetition cheap and painless, not multiply the friction.

Most ticketing platforms quietly punish recurring organizers. Percentage-based fees stack up across dozens of shows a year. "Free" tiers cap the number of events. Setup tools treat each event like it's the first one you've ever created. None of that works when your business model is repetition.

TixFox was built around that exact pain. This post walks through why it's the right ticketing software for weekly shows, ongoing workshop series, and seasonal event runs — with concrete numbers, not pitch language. If you want a broader comparison of independent-organizer platforms first, our 2026 guide to selling event tickets covers the landscape.

Why Recurring Events Need Different Ticketing Software

A standard ticketing platform is designed for one event. You build a page, set a date, sell tickets, collect a payout. The platform's pricing, dashboard, and workflow all assume you'll do it once.

Recurring events break that assumption in three ways:

You're running the same event over and over. A weekly improv show is the same venue, same start time, same ticket types, same artwork — only the date changes. Rebuilding the page from scratch every week is a tax on your time.

Fees compound. A 3.7% platform fee on a single event is annoying. The same fee across forty-eight weekly events in a year is a salary line you didn't budget for.

Your reporting needs to span shows. You want to know how the Tuesday slot is performing vs. the Thursday slot across the last quarter — not how a single event sold. Most platforms make this hard because their reporting is event-scoped.

A ticketing platform built for one-offs treats each event as isolated work. A platform built for recurring events treats them as a series, with shared setup, predictable fees, and roll-up reporting.

TixFox: Built for Recurring Events from the Ground Up

TixFox charges $0.39 flat per ticket. No percentage. No monthly fee. No per-event setup cost. That pricing model is what makes it work for recurring events, because the fee doesn't compound on you as you scale up the number of shows you run. We broke down the per-ticket math in detail in our analysis of the lowest-fee ticketing platform on the market.

Here's what that looks like across the three most common recurring event types.

Weekly Shows

A weekly comedy club, jazz night, drag show, trivia night, or open mic. Same venue, same crew, fifty-plus shows a year.

Picture a 100-seat comedy room that sells out at $20 a ticket. Run the math on a full year (50 shows, accounting for two weeks of holiday downtime):

• Eventbrite: ($20 × 0.037 + $1.79) × 100 × 50 = $12,650 per year in platform fees
• TixFox: $0.39 × 100 × 50 = $1,950 per year in platform fees

That's $10,700 saved per year by switching to TixFox — enough to hire a part-time booker or pay a year's worth of rent on a back-office space. And it's recovered without raising ticket prices, finding new audiences, or doing anything other than changing where you sell tickets. (Eventbrite's percentage + flat fee structure is published on Eventbrite's pricing page — we walk through it in detail in our Eventbrite pricing breakdown.)

Workshops

Multi-week pottery classes, an eight-session writing workshop, a monthly cooking series, a Saturday-morning yoga course. Smaller capacity, higher per-ticket price, and often sold as both individual sessions and full-series packages.

TixFox handles this without forcing you into a complicated package builder. You can:

• Create a single TixFox event for the workshop series with a "full series" ticket type at one price.
• Create separate TixFox events for each individual session with a "drop-in" ticket type.
• Use TixFox's promo codes to give returning students a discount on the next session.

Consider a six-week beginner pottery series running twice per quarter at $180 for the full series, selling roughly twelve seats per cohort. On TixFox, that's $0.39 × 12 × 8 cohorts = $37.44 per year in fees. The same revenue on Eventbrite would cost roughly $124 in flat fees plus 3.7% of $17,280 in revenue — about $764 per year, twenty times more. The difference covers a kiln firing for the whole quarter.

Seasonal Events

Holiday markets, summer concert series, fall theater seasons, winter ice rinks, spring festivals. Events that cluster into a few months of the year and then go dormant.

Seasonal organizers get hit hardest by monthly-subscription ticketing platforms — you pay every month whether you're selling tickets or not. TixFox has no monthly fee, which means there's no carrying cost in your off-season. You pay $0.39 per paid ticket sold, and during the four months your operation is dark you pay nothing.

Take a five-show winter theater season — November to March, then dark for seven months. With 180 tickets per show at an average $32 price, the total platform fees on TixFox come out to $351. On Eventbrite, the same season costs $2,628 in fees. For most regional theater operations, that gap funds an entire marketing budget for the following season.

Start your first recurring event on TixFox — $0.39 per ticket, no monthly fee →

Duplicate, Don't Rebuild: How TixFox Speeds Up Recurring Setup

The single biggest time sink for recurring organizers is rebuilding the same event page every week. TixFox solves this with event duplication.

Build the event once — venue, ticket types, artwork, description, add-ons, refund policy, everything. When the next week's show is ready, you duplicate the event, change the date, and publish. Total time to launch the next show: about ninety seconds.

That's not unique to TixFox in concept, but it's unusually clean in practice because TixFox doesn't gate duplication behind a paid tier or limit the number of events you can create per month. Every recurring organizer gets the same workflow regardless of how many shows they're running.

A few specific things that matter when you duplicate:

• Ticket types carry over. Your early bird, GA, and VIP tiers come with the duplicate, so you don't rebuild your pricing each time.
• Promo codes can be reused or scoped per event. If your "REGULAR20" discount applies all season, set it once. If it's only good for one show, scope it.
• Add-ons stay attached. Your $5 drink token add-on, your $10 parking pass, your merch bundle — all of it comes along.
• Branding stays consistent. Colors, images, and event-page styling are inherited from the duplicated event.

Most ticketing platforms either don't offer duplication or hide it behind their highest-tier subscription. TixFox makes it the default.

Recurring-Event Features That Come Standard on TixFox

A lot of platforms split recurring-event functionality across tiers. You start on the free plan, then discover that the feature you actually need — multi-event reporting, promo codes, custom branding — sits two paid tiers up.

TixFox bundles everything into one price. Here's what comes standard:

Unlimited events. Run fifty-two weekly shows, run two hundred — no event limit, no per-event surcharge beyond the $0.39 ticket fee.

Unlimited ticket types per event. Early bird, general admission, student rate, member pricing, VIP, group bundles. Build the tier structure you actually need.

Promo codes and discount support. Recurring audiences love loyalty. Issue a "RETURNING" promo code for past attendees, or set a series-wide discount for advance purchasers.

Recurring add-on sales. Drink packages, merch, parking, bring-a-friend bundles. Set them up once on the parent event and they carry over each time you duplicate.

Cross-event sales dashboard. The dashboard shows you sales across your entire event list, not just one event at a time. You can compare Tuesday vs. Thursday performance over the last quarter without exporting CSVs.

Mobile check-in app. Door staff scan tickets from the iOS or Android app. It works offline — important when your weekly venue has flaky WiFi.

Custom branding on event pages. No "Powered by TixFox" stamp. Your audience sees your brand, not a ticketing vendor's.

Free for free events. Running a community open mic with no cover? TixFox charges $0. Useful for organizers who mix paid and free events across the same calendar.

Built-in Stripe payment processing. Standard Stripe rates apply (2.9% + $0.30 per order), and you don't need to set up your own merchant account. Want to squeeze more revenue from each show? Our seven ticketing strategies post covers tactics that work especially well across recurring runs.

Real Math: A Year of Recurring Events on TixFox vs. Eventbrite

Three scenarios, real numbers. Payment processing is excluded because it's roughly the same on every platform.

Scenario 1: Weekly Comedy Club

• 100 seats, $20 per ticket, 50 shows per year (closed two weeks for holidays)
• Annual gross: $100,000

TixFox saves $10,700.

Scenario 2: Eight-Week Workshop Series, Three Cohorts Per Year

• 15 students per cohort, $250 per workshop seat, 3 cohorts per year
• Annual gross: $11,250

TixFox saves $479.

Scenario 3: Five-Show Winter Theater Season

• 250 seats per show, $35 per ticket, 5 shows
• Season gross: $43,750

TixFox saves $3,375.

The pattern is the same in every case. Percentage-based fees grow with your ticket prices and your event count. TixFox's flat fee doesn't. Recurring organizers feel that difference the most because their event count is high by definition.

Who Should Use TixFox for Recurring Events

TixFox is the right call if any of these describe you:

• You run a weekly or biweekly show — comedy club, music venue, drag night, trivia bar, open mic, community theater.
• You teach ongoing workshop series — cooking classes, fitness courses, art studios, wellness retreats, professional development cohorts.
• You produce seasonal programming — winter theater seasons, summer concert series, holiday markets, fall festivals.
• You already have an audience that knows where to find you — email list, neighborhood following, mailing list, regular crowd. You don't need a discovery marketplace.
• Your tickets are $20 or higher, where percentage-based fees start eating real money.
• You're a nonprofit or independent organizer watching your budget and tired of subsidizing a ticketing company's margin. (If you fall in this category specifically, our nonprofit ticketing platform guide is worth a read.)

Where TixFox Isn't the Right Fit

Worth being honest about: TixFox is not a discovery marketplace. Eventbrite has millions of browsers looking for events to attend. If you're launching a brand-new event in a new city with zero audience, that marketplace can be worth the fees. Most recurring organizers don't fit that profile — by the third or fourth show, you've built an audience that already knows where to look.

TixFox also targets events under 5,000 attendees. Stadium-scale festivals with complex multi-day access tiers need different infrastructure. For weekly shows, workshops, and seasonal series, none of that complexity applies.

How to Move Your Recurring Series to TixFox

If you're already running a recurring series elsewhere, the migration is straightforward:

1. Set up your parent event on TixFox. Build the page the way you want it for an average week — venue, ticket types, artwork, refund policy, add-ons.
2. Export your historical attendee list from your current platform. Most platforms support a CSV export. You'll want this for marketing your next event to past attendees.
3. Duplicate your parent event for the next scheduled show. Update the date, publish.
4. Send your existing audience the new TixFox link. Email list, social posts, website link — point them at the new platform.
5. Track sales on TixFox's dashboard. You'll see real-time numbers without exporting anything.

Most recurring organizers can complete this in under an hour. The savings start on the next ticket sold.

Set up your recurring event series on TixFox →

FAQ

What is the best recurring event ticketing software?

TixFox. It's purpose-built for organizers running weekly shows, workshop series, and seasonal events. The $0.39 flat fee doesn't compound with ticket price or event count, event duplication takes about ninety seconds, and there's no monthly subscription to carry through quiet seasons.

Can I set up a weekly recurring event on TixFox?

Yes. TixFox supports unlimited events on every account. The standard workflow is to build the event once and duplicate it for each new date — duplicated events inherit ticket types, branding, add-ons, and promo codes, so each new show takes about a minute and a half to publish.

How much does TixFox charge per workshop ticket?

$0.39 flat per paid ticket sold. There's no percentage component, so a $250 workshop seat costs the same to sell as a $20 comedy ticket. Free events (community open mics, free workshops, donation-based sessions) cost $0.

Does TixFox work for seasonal events with off-months?

Yes, better than most platforms. TixFox has no monthly subscription, which means there's no carrying cost during off-season months when you're not running events. You pay $0.39 per paid ticket sold when you're active, and nothing when you're not.

Can I sell full-series tickets and single-session tickets on TixFox?

Yes. You can create multiple ticket types within a single event — for example, "Full 8-Week Series" at $200 alongside "Single Session Drop-In" at $35. Each ticket type can have its own quantity limit, sales window, and promo code support.

Does TixFox have multi-event reporting?

Yes. TixFox's dashboard shows sales across your full event list, not just one event at a time. Recurring organizers can compare performance across shows, time slots, and ticket types without exporting CSVs.

Can I let attendees pay the TixFox fee instead of absorbing it?

Yes. TixFox lets you choose whether the $0.39 fee is absorbed by your organization or passed to the buyer at checkout. If you pass it through, TixFox is effectively free for you as an organizer.

Is there a limit on the number of recurring events I can run on TixFox?

No. There's no event limit, no per-event surcharge, and no premium tier required for unlimited events. You can run a weekly show fifty-two times a year on the same account.

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Recurring events deserve ticketing software built for repetition. Flat per-ticket pricing, fast event duplication, unlimited shows, no monthly fees, and roll-up reporting across your whole series — that's what makes recurring organizing sustainable. TixFox is the platform built around those constraints.

See how much you'd save by moving your recurring series to TixFox →