Comparison
Reunly vs Eventbrite for class reunions
Eventbrite is a public ticketing platform. Reunly is a class reunion planner. The fee math alone usually decides it - at 100 attendees and $75 a ticket, Eventbrite takes $456 in fees. Reunly costs $324 all-in.
What you pay for 100 attendees at $75 a ticket
Keep more for the open bar, not Eventbrite's fees
$99 once covers the whole reunion - RSVPs, payments, badges, committee seats - plus 3% on tickets sold online, well under Eventbrite's cut.
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Eventbrite Flex plan: 3.7% + $1.79 per paid ticket. Reunly: $99 once + 3% of online ticket sales.
Where Eventbrite fits - and where it falls short
Eventbrite is genuinely good at one thing: a public, single-event ticket sale where the audience is open and discovery matters. Concert, conference, workshop, public meetup - that's the sweet spot.
A class reunion isn't any of those things. The audience is private (just your class), discovery is irrelevant (you have the email list), and the work isn't selling tickets - it's finding the missing 40% of the class, coordinating a committee, building a memorial wall, printing badges, and running a weekend. Eventbrite has zero tools for any of that.
Side-by-side feature comparison
The committee workflow problem
On Eventbrite, the committee's actual planning lives outside Eventbrite - in a shared spreadsheet, a Facebook Messenger group, a Google Drive folder. Eventbrite just collects tickets. So you end up running the reunion across five tools: Eventbrite (tickets), Sheets (classmate list), Forms (RSVP questions), Facebook (announcements), Venmo (refunds). Every committee member has to log in to each.
Reunly consolidates all five into one app with one shared login for the committee. The math on time saved is even more dramatic than the fee math on money saved.
Reunly vs Eventbrite FAQ
Should I use Eventbrite for my class reunion?
Only if the reunion is a single, simple ticketed event with no need for missing-classmate tools, name badges, memorial wall, or committee collaboration. For most class reunions, Eventbrite's per-ticket fees alone usually cost more than everything Reunly charges - and you'll still need separate tools for everything else.
How much does Eventbrite cost for a class reunion?
Eventbrite charges 3.7% + $1.79 per ticket on its Flex plan. For a 100-person reunion with $75 tickets, that's $456 in fees. For 150 attendees at $95 tickets, it's $796. Reunly is $99 once plus 3% of tickets sold online - $324 total for that 100-person reunion and $527 for the 150-person one.
Does Eventbrite help find missing classmates?
No. Eventbrite is a public event listing and ticketing platform. It has no concept of a known attendee roster, no missing-attendee finder, and no committee outreach tools. You'd manage classmate contacts entirely outside Eventbrite.
Can Eventbrite handle a multi-day reunion weekend?
Sort of. You'd create separate Eventbrite events for Friday mixer, Saturday dinner, Sunday brunch - each with its own fees, ticket pages, and attendee lists. Reunly handles this in one site with per-event RSVPs against a unified classmate list.
Can multiple committee members manage an Eventbrite reunion?
Eventbrite has limited team access on higher-tier plans. Reunly includes up to 7 committee seats with real-time shared editing as part of the one-time $99 - purpose-built for the committee workflow that every reunion needs.