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Afton Tickets

Online ticketing, box office and on-site equipment for festivals, fairs and live events.

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63#25 of 47
63#25 of 47

Overall score out of 100, from the published formula.

Visit Website aftontickets.com Last verified 2026-11-02 · Suggest a correction
Founded2015
Team SizeUnknown
HeadquartersPortland, Oregon

Team Size uses LinkedIn-style ranges. "Unknown" means we found no reliable public figure; we don't guess. Sources: About Afton Tickets (founded 2015 by Ryan Kintz and Amy Kintz, Portland).

Pros & cons

Our summary from this vendor's published pricing, features and sources.

✓Pros

  • Low Basic Starter fee: $0.79 + 2% per ticket.
  • Box office iOS app for scanning, selling and check-in, plus full box office and cash management.
  • Professional adds donations, custom checkout forms, unlimited add-ons and pre-printed hard tickets.
  • Phone and email support with a dedicated account manager on Professional; on-site staff and equipment on Custom Elite.

–Cons

  • Processing is charged on top at a rate Afton doesn't publish (about $3.54 all-in on a $50 ticket at 2.9% + $0.30).
  • Basic Starter allows only two ticket types and three promo codes; donations, forms and phone support need Professional ($1.29 + 3%).
  • Early payouts are listed only on the custom-priced Elite tier.
  • Missing a few tools others include: no season passes, patron CRM, embeddable checkout, gift cards, volunteer management, public API or SSO found.

Pricing

All-in fees include card processing where the vendor publishes it.

Basic Starter: $0.79 + 2.00% per ticket. Professional: $1.29 + 3.00% per ticket. Custom Elite: quote. Payment processing and taxes apply to all packages (rate not published). Scored on Basic Starter.

$10 ticket$1.58estimate
$15 ticket$1.83estimate
$25 ticket$2.32estimate
$50 ticket$3.54estimate
Credit Card Processing
Paid in addition to your ticket feesPayment processing charged on top of the service fee (rate not published; estimate assumes 2.9% + $0.30).
Who pays fees
Organizer can pass service fees to buyers or absorb them.
Contracts / fixed fees
Self-serve packages with no required contract published; Custom Elite is an optional negotiated tier.
Payouts
Payout by ACH, check or PayPal; early payout options listed on Custom Elite (terms not published).
Support
Phone and email support on Professional, with a dedicated account manager reachable by phone; online help center on Basic Starter. Hours not published. About page says each client gets a dedicated account manager reachable 24/7 by phone or text.
✓ Human Support? Weekend Support? Nighttime Human Support

"Phone & Email Support" (Professional); "1-on-1 Access to Your Dedicated Afton Consultant" (Custom Elite). Source · checked 2026-11-02

Score breakdown

Six weighted categories, applied identically to every system.

Fees & cost30%
56
Features30%
47
Pricing transparency10%
75
Contracts & fixed fees10%
100
Support10%
100
Payouts10%
50

Features

Scored features count toward the 30% Features category. Each status links to the vendor page we checked.

Reserved Seating✓ Yes
Box Office / POS✓ Yes
Mobile Scanning✓ Yes
Donations✓ Yes
Season Tickets / Passes— Not found
Patron CRM— Not found
Email Marketing~ Claimed
Concessions / Merch POS◐ Limited

Unlimited add-on items (camping, parking, rides) on Professional; mobile POS for parking; no concessions POS found. Source

Embeddable / White-Label Checkout— Not found
Gift Cards— Not found
Volunteer Management— Not found
Flexible / Pre-Event Payouts~ Claimed
Hard Ticket Printing✓ Yes

"Pre-Printed Hard Copy Tickets for Outlet Sales" (Professional). Source

Custom Forms✓ Yes

"Customizable Registration & Checkout Forms" (Professional). Source

API— Not found
SMS Marketing~ Claimed

"Email & SMS Text Message Your Past Customers"; tool details not documented. Source

SSO— Not found

More features

Not in overall score
Memberships? Unknown
Class Management? Unknown
Custom Branding? Unknown
Data Imports? Unknown
On-Demand Merch? Unknown
International? Unknown
Pledging? Unknown
Donor Levels? Unknown
Letter Sending? Unknown
Mobile App Scanning✓ Yes

Box Office mobile iOS app scans, sells and checks in. Source

Zebra Scanning? Unknown
Payment Plans? Unknown

✓ Yes: verified on a cited source · ~ Claimed: commonly advertised but not yet verified (half credit) · ◐ Limited: functionally partial, e.g. read-only, partner-only, reminders-only, regional (half credit) · — Not found: no credit; may still exist.

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Change log

Verification updates and observed changes to Afton Tickets's features, pricing and website, newest first.

  1. Note

    Afton Tickets founding year corrected to 2015 per its About page. Source

  2. Note

    Afton 24/7 account-manager support claim noted. Source

  3. Note

    Added to directory. Source

Sources

Checked 2026-11-02.

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