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Chobble Tickets vs DICE

DICE is a mobile-first ticketing platform popular with music venues and live events. Here is how Chobble Tickets compares on pricing, features, and data ownership.

Open source & flat fee DICE alternative

Chobble Tickets is a white label ticketing platform made in the UK by a community interest company. Its source code is published under the AGPL-3.0-only licence, so anyone can read it, fork it, or run their own copy. DICE is closed source and does not publish its code.

DICE does not publish its fees, so rates are agreed case by case, and tickets live in the DICE app. Chobble Tickets costs £50/year or £5/month, and tickets are sent by email with Apple and Google Wallet passes, so attendees do not need to install an app.

Pricing comparison

DICE doesn't put its prices on its website. You have to talk to them and agree a deal. Industry estimates suggest fees of around 10% per ticket, but what you pay will depend on your agreement.

Chobble Tickets is a flat £50/year or £5/month (£25/year for charities and community groups) with no per-ticket platform fees. You also pay Stripe, Square or SumUp processing fees on top. If you sell more than a few dozen tickets in a year at typical prices, Chobble Tickets is already cheaper, and the savings grow the more you sell.

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"Your share" assumes the organiser pays the fees out of the ticket price. Where a platform lets the organiser add its fees on top, the buyer pays them and the organiser keeps more than the figure shown. These figures exclude VAT and cover paid tickets. Several platforms charge nothing for free tickets, and the notes below record that where it is published.

DICE fees are negotiated per partnership and not publicly disclosed. This estimate uses approximately 10% per ticket (bundled, including payment processing). Actual fees may vary. Chobble Tickets: £50/year or £5/month flat + Stripe processing (1.5% + 20p).

Data ownership and privacy

Attendees who buy through DICE become DICE users. DICE markets other events to them through the app. Your attendee data is stored on DICE's platform.

With Chobble Tickets, attendee data is encrypted with hybrid RSA/AES encryption and stays under your control. Chobble Tickets does not market other events to your attendees and does not send them marketing emails.

Payouts

DICE pays out after your event ends. You're essentially lending DICE your ticket revenue until the event is over.

Chobble Tickets uses Stripe, Square, or SumUp directly, so payments go straight to your account with standard processing times. You're always in control of your own payment processor account.

The app

DICE is built around its mobile app. Tickets live in the app as a QR code tied to your phone number. This is how their anti-scalping system works: tickets are locked to the app, so they cannot be screenshotted and resold. If you can't use the app, DICE does offer limited web access as a fallback, but the app is very much the main event.

Chobble Tickets works in any browser on any device. Attendees get their tickets via email with a QR code, and can add them to Apple or Google Wallet. No app download required.

Feature comparison

Both sites share some features

  • Online ticket sales with payment processing
  • QR code or barcode scanning for entry
  • Email or in-app confirmations to ticket holders
  • Event capacity limits
  • Refund processing
  • Apple Pay and Google Pay at checkout
  • Upfront, all-in pricing (the price you see is the price you pay, with no surprise fees at checkout)

DICE has some features Chobble Tickets doesn't, and vice versa:

DICE has features Chobble Tickets doesn't

  • Event discovery app - DICE's mobile app helps fans discover events in their area based on their music tastes, location, and past attendance, which can drive extra ticket sales you wouldn't get on your own
  • Spotify and Apple Music integration - personalised event recommendations based on fans' listening history, plus the option to buy tickets through Spotify
  • Anti-scalping via app lock - tickets are tied to the DICE app and cannot be screenshotted or forwarded, making them very hard to resell on secondary markets
  • Waiting list with face-value resale - fans can join a waitlist for sold-out events, and if a ticket holder can't attend, DICE automatically resells their ticket at the original price
  • Marketing attribution - track which channels and campaigns are driving ticket sales via the MIO dashboard
  • Algorithmic event recommendations - personalised discover feed for each fan based on their tastes and location
  • Large-scale access hardware - DICE Access system with laser scanning hardware, zone-based scanning, and time-slot scanning
  • Real-time audience insights - segmentation by genre, spend, and geography via the MIO partner dashboard
  • DICE TV - livestreaming platform for virtual events
  • Multi-currency support - sell in different currencies across DICE's international markets (UK, US, Europe, Australia)
  • Partner API - a GraphQL Ticket Holders API for reading events, tickets, orders, returns, and transfers

Chobble Tickets has features DICE doesn't

  • Encryption at rest - attendee data is encrypted at rest with hybrid RSA-OAEP + AES-256-GCM
  • No app required - tickets work in any browser on any device
  • Apple & Google Wallet tickets - attendees can add tickets to their phone wallet without a separate app
  • ICS calendar feeds - subscribers get automatic calendar updates
  • RSS feeds - syndicate your events to feed readers
  • Pay-what-you-want pricing - let attendees choose their price
  • Daily/recurring event support - built for events that repeat on a schedule with per-date capacity
  • Custom domain support - get a host-provided subdomain instantly, or point your own domain
  • Public-facing website and CMS a homepage, content pages, news posts, and a contact form with spam protection, edited from the admin panel in Markdown with custom CSS
  • Fully brandable checkout - your brand, not DICE's
  • Self-hosting option - run the platform on selected infrastructure without a Chobble software licence fee
  • Open source - inspect, modify, and contribute to the code under AGPLv3
  • Custom questions - add multiple-choice questions to events and collect answers at checkout
  • Public & admin API - RESTful JSON API for building custom integrations, plus authenticated admin API with full event CRUD via API keys
  • Webhooks - outbound POST on every registration
  • Event groups with tiered ticketing - organise related events into collections for multi-event bookings with a single checkout, and create ticket tiers sharing a venue capacity cap
  • Custom email providers - use Resend, Postmark, SendGrid, or Mailgun so emails come from your domain, not the platform's
  • Customisable email templates - full control over confirmation emails with Liquid syntax for a fully white-label experience
  • Embeddable widget - drop an iframe into your existing website
  • No marketing emails to attendees - your audience stays yours
  • Transparent pricing - no negotiations, no surprises

When DICE might be better

  • You want access to DICE's event discovery platform and mobile app audience to drive extra ticket sales
  • You're running large music events and want DICE's app-based anti-scalping protection
  • You have very low volume and prefer negotiated per-ticket fees over an annual subscription
  • You want DICE's built-in waitlist and face-value resale features

When Chobble Tickets might be better

  • You want predictable, flat-rate pricing with no per-ticket platform fees
  • You don't want attendees forced to download an app
  • Privacy and encryption matter to you
  • You don't want a platform marketing to your attendees or promoting competing events
  • You're a charity, community group, artist or musician (£25/year on the annual plan)
  • You want Apple/Google Wallet integration, calendar feeds, or RSS
  • You value open source and the ability to self-host
  • You want full control over your brand and checkout experience
  • You're selling enough tickets that per-ticket fees add up quickly

Who owns DICE?

DICE was started in London and grew into one of the most well-known music ticketing apps in the world. Along the way it raised a lot of money from big investors, including SoftBank, one of the world's largest investment funds. It was then bought by Fever, a large live entertainment company that helps people discover events in cities around the world.

Chobble Tickets is run by one person as a Community Interest Company, a type of UK company that exists to benefit the community, not to make profit for shareholders. All of Chobble's code is public, and anyone can run the platform on their own servers.

Pricing sources

DICE does not publicly disclose its fees. The estimate used here is based on industry analysis and publicly available comparisons. Check the links below for the latest information.