Most ticketing platforms sit between you and your revenue. With Praticable's Stripe integration, European organisers keep full control of payments, from Wero and Bancontact to Apple Pay.
You sell 500 tickets at 25 EUR each. That is 12,500 EUR. On most ticketing platforms, that money goes to the platform first. They hold it for days or weeks, deduct their commission, and transfer what is left. You have limited visibility into individual transactions, and reconciling your books means cross-referencing two or three systems.
For associations and non-profits, this is even worse: auditors want clear, auditable trails, and a third-party intermediary holding your funds creates exactly the kind of complexity they flag.
Praticable takes a fundamentally different approach: a white label ticketing system with direct Stripe integration, built for the European market.
"I don't want a middleman sitting on my money"
There is no middleman. When you set up Praticable, you connect your own Stripe account through the dashboard. Every ticket purchase is processed by Stripe and lands in your Stripe balance directly. Praticable never holds, routes, or touches your funds.
You see every transaction in your own Stripe dashboard. You control when and how funds are paid out to your bank account. Your accountant works with one source of truth, not a reconciliation puzzle.
"The platform took a 5% cut on top of Stripe fees"
Praticable does not take a commission on sales. Zero percent. You pay Stripe's standard processing fee (typically 1.5% + 0.25 EUR for European cards), and you pay Praticable a fixed annual subscription based on your ticket volume. Those are two separate, predictable costs.
If you sell 10,000 tickets or 100, your Praticable subscription stays the same within your tier. There is no incentive for us to push you to raise prices or sell more aggressively.
"Half my audience couldn't pay because the platform only accepted cards"
Because Praticable uses Stripe, your participants have access to whatever payment methods you enable in your Stripe account:
- Credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express)
- Apple Pay and Google Pay for one-tap mobile payments
- Bancontact for Belgian debit card holders
- iDEAL for Dutch bank payments
- SEPA Direct Debit for recurring or high-value transactions
- Klarna or Afterpay for buy-now-pay-later, if you choose to enable it
You activate or deactivate payment methods directly in your Stripe dashboard. Praticable automatically reflects what you have enabled.
This matters in Belgium and the Netherlands especially, where Bancontact and iDEAL are the dominant payment methods. A ticketing platform that only supports cards is leaving money on the table.
"The checkout felt slow and participants abandoned their cart"
The checkout is designed for speed. Participants select their tickets, see a clear total, and pay. No forced account creation, no upsells, no multi-page forms.
Apple Pay and Google Pay let participants on mobile skip typing card numbers entirely. A purchase triggered by an Instagram story can be completed in under 60 seconds.
The checkout stays on your branded page or inside the mobile app. There is no redirect to a third-party payment page.
"A participant asked for a refund and I had no idea what to do"
Events on Praticable are non-refundable by default. This is the standard policy for most live events and protects organisers from last-minute cancellation losses.
A refund feature is currently in development. When available, refunds will be processed through Stripe back to the original payment method used for the purchase. Organisers will be able to issue refunds directly from the Praticable dashboard.
"I want to let my audience support us beyond the ticket price"
You can add a "Support our work" option to the checkout flow. Participants can choose to add a voluntary contribution on top of their ticket price. The donation is processed as part of the same Stripe transaction, so there is no extra step for the participant and no separate payout for you.
This is particularly useful for associations, cultural venues, and non-profits that rely on audience generosity alongside ticket revenue.
The bottom line
Your money goes to your Stripe account. Your subscription cost is fixed and predictable. Your participants pay with whatever method works best for them. And your books are clean.
The setup takes less than five minutes. Request a demo and we will walk you through it.