What each platform does
ApexGo
ApexGo is a white-label ticketing platform for clubs, festivals, and venues. Sell tickets, merch, and drinks from your own branded site — with a built-in bar POS, QR scanner, season passes, and memberships. Free to start; 1% + 10p per ticket.
TicketSource
TicketSource is a long-established UK box-office and ticketing platform, popular with theatres, arts venues and community groups. It's known for a straightforward booking-fee model (often passed to the buyer, with free events free to run), solid box-office tools, seating plans and e-tickets.
ApexGo vs TicketSource, feature by feature
| Feature | ApexGo | TicketSource |
|---|---|---|
| Branding / white-label control | ✓ Yes | Branded box office |
| Pricing & fees (per ticket) | 1% + 10p (free to start) | Booking fee per ticket |
| Built-in bar / event POS | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| Merch shop | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| Membership management | ✓ Yes | Limited |
| Custom domain | ✓ Yes | ✗ No |
| Data ownership | Yours | Yours (organiser) |
| Support & market focus | UK · clubs, festivals, venues | UK · arts & box office |
Comparison based on each platform's publicly published information at the time of writing. TicketSource is a trademark of its respective owner; check their site for the latest pricing and features. Last verified: 21 June 2026.
Where ApexGo stands out
More than a ticket page
ApexGo runs your bar and event POS, a merch shop, season passes and memberships on the same platform as your tickets. TicketSource concentrates on ticketing and box office — strong at that job, but it isn't a till for your bar or a shop for your merch.
Fully white-label on your domain
ApexGo sells from your own domain with your branding end to end, including confirmation emails and no 'powered by' badge. TicketSource gives you a branded box-office page, but not a full custom-domain, white-label storefront in the same way.
A modern, mobile-first checkout
ApexGo's checkout is built for fast mobile buying with Apple Pay and Google Pay, embeddable widgets, promo codes and tiered pricing — designed to convert browsers on a phone in a few taps.
Built for clubs and festivals, not just arts
ApexGo speaks the language of matchdays, festival weekends and venue calendars — season passes, multi-day passes, camping add-ons, wristbands and the on-site bar — alongside conventional ticketed events.
One number at the end of the night
Because tickets, bar and merch share a dashboard, your gate, drinks and shop takings reconcile in one place — no exporting from one system and adding up another.
A trusted box office vs an all-in-one platform
TicketSource and ApexGo are both genuinely good at selling tickets, so the real question is how much else you want the platform to do. TicketSource is a focused, well-respected UK ticketing and box-office tool, especially strong for theatres, arts venues and community organisations that need dependable seated ticketing and a fair, simple booking fee.
ApexGo is an all-in-one platform for clubs, festivals and venues. It sells tickets from your own branded site, but it also runs the bar, the merch stall, season passes and memberships — so the tickets are one part of a single system rather than the whole product. If your event has a gate, a bar and a shop, that breadth is where the difference shows.
In fairness to TicketSource
TicketSource has earned a loyal following in UK arts and community ticketing. Its fee model is transparent and friendly to free events, its box-office and seating tools are mature, and many organisers value its long track record and support. For a seated theatre running a season of shows, it is a perfectly sensible, well-priced choice — and we'd say so to anyone.
ApexGo is aimed at a different shape of organiser: clubs with matchdays and season tickets, festivals with camping and bars, venues juggling a calendar of events and a busy bar. Where the job extends past the ticket to the till and the shop, ApexGo brings it under one roof.
What you get by moving to ApexGo
Organisers who move from TicketSource to ApexGo usually do it when ticketing stops being the only job. They've added a bar, started selling merch, launched memberships or season passes, or simply want everything on their own domain with one set of numbers. Running tickets in one tool and the bar in another quickly becomes a reconciliation headache.
ApexGo is free to start, charges 1% + 10p per paid ticket, and includes the bar POS, merch shop, season passes and memberships as part of the same platform, with paid plans at £49/mo (Essentials) and £99/mo (Pro) and no contracts. You can stand it up next to TicketSource, run a real event for nothing, and decide with evidence.
Frequently asked questions
How do ApexGo and TicketSource fees compare?
TicketSource typically charges a booking fee per paid ticket, which is often passed on to the buyer, and free events are free to run. ApexGo is free to start and charges 1% + 10p per paid ticket, with free tickets free. The cheaper option depends on your ticket prices and whether you pass fees on, so it's worth modelling both against your real prices — and checking TicketSource's current published fees.
Is TicketSource white-label?
TicketSource offers a branded box-office page and embeddable booking, which looks tidy. ApexGo goes further: a fully white-label storefront on your own domain, with your branding through the whole journey including confirmation emails, and no third-party badge.
Does TicketSource have a bar POS or merch shop?
TicketSource is focused on ticketing and box office rather than on-site retail, so it doesn't provide a bar till or a merch shop in the way ApexGo does. With ApexGo, the same platform that sells the tickets also runs the bar and sells the merch.
Can ApexGo do seating plans and box office like TicketSource?
ApexGo handles allocated capacity, multiple ticket types, on-the-door and box-office style selling, and QR check-in. TicketSource has a long heritage in seated-venue box office specifically, so if complex reserved seating is your core need, compare both carefully for that feature.
Who is ApexGo better suited to?
ApexGo suits clubs, festivals and venues that want their own branded site, a bar POS and merch in the same platform, memberships, and modern mobile checkout. TicketSource remains a strong, fair choice for arts venues and community box office where seated ticketing is the main job.
Can I try ApexGo before switching?
Yes — ApexGo is free to start with no contract, so you can build an event, take it live and compare the experience and the fees against TicketSource before moving anything important.
See why organisers switch to ApexGo
Free to start. 1% + 10p per ticket. No contracts, cancel any time.