Revel
Revel is an open-source event management platform for communities, clubs, and independent venues.
What Revel is
Revel is an open-source event management platform for communities, clubs, and independent venues. Organizers can offer free or paid tickets, create ticket tiers, reserve seating, and check in attendees with QR codes. Custom questionnaires can screen participants before an event address is shown. Community tools include potluck coordination, memberships, class passes, and members-only events; venues and theaters can use a seat-map designer, zone pricing, and QR door scanning. Event listings, individual events, and series can be embedded on an organizer’s website. Integrations listed include Stripe payments, Google OAuth sign-in, optional OpenAI questionnaire evaluation, Telegram notifications, and Apple Wallet ticket and pass downloads. Revel has a hosted platform and MIT-licensed self-hosting, with Docker deployment and a REST API documented through OpenAPI. Its privacy policy says data is stored in Germany, not sold, and not tracked with analytics or tracking cookies. Stripe handles payments, and Revel says it does not store card numbers or bank-account details. Self-hosting is free, while hosted payment processing is charged only when Revel processes a payment.
Good
- Supports free and paid tickets with QR check-in.
- Includes memberships, class passes, and members-only events.
- Events can be embedded on organizer websites.
- MIT-licensed self-hosting option is available.
- Free events have no hosted processing fee.
Watch out
- Hosted processing costs 3% + €0.50 when Revel processes payment.
- Self-hosting requires paying infrastructure costs separately.
- Stripe processes payments.
Who it suits
Revel suits community groups, clubs, independent venues, and organizations such as book circles, gyms, dance schools, or choirs. Self-hosting may fit groups that want to deploy the platform themselves; hosted users should account for processing fees on payments.
Verdict
Revel brings ticketing, community features, and venue tools together, with both hosted and self-hosted options. The main cost distinction is that self-hosting still requires infrastructure spending, while hosted fees apply when Revel processes payments.
Plans and prices
From Revel's own pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free events / RSVPs / offline payments | Free | Free events · RSVPs · offline payments · no platform charge · forever |
| Self-hosted | Free | MIT code · organizer pays infrastructure and payment-provider costs · ongoing |
| Hosted platform fees | €0.50, paid once | Cash or wire transfer managed in dashboard for free · fees exclusive of VAT, where applicable · 3% + €0.50 only when we process the payment; €0 for free events |
| Hosted paid-ticket processing | €3, paid once | Paid tickets · Stripe processing required · fixed fee per order · 3% + €0.50 per order when Revel processes payment; VAT may apply |
The facts
Each one read from Revel's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Age requirement
- Users must be at least 16 to create an account, while organizers remain responsible for enforcing event-specific age restrictions.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Attendee screening
- Organizers can require customizable questionnaires, approve or decline applicants, and maintain invitation-only or private guest lists.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Community activities
- Revel includes potluck coordination with dietary flags and contribution tracking.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Community features
- The platform includes potluck coordination, memberships, class passes, and members-only events.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The project provides MkDocs documentation, a self-hosting guide, repository READMEs and a demo environment whose data resets nightly.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Embedding
- Event listings, individual events and event series can be embedded on other websites using script, iframe or oEmbed.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Embeds
- Organizers can embed event listings, individual events, or event series on their own websites using an embed script, iframe, or oEmbed integration.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Eventbrite integration
- Organizers can optionally cross-list Revel events on Eventbrite.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Infrastructure provider
- Hosted application, database, background jobs, monitoring and logs run on Hetzner infrastructure with data located in Germany.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The terms list Stripe payments, Google OAuth sign-in, optional OpenAI questionnaire evaluation, Telegram notifications, and Apple Wallet ticket and pass downloads.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site describes use by queer collectives, kink clubs, supper clubs, book circles, gyms, yoga studios, dance schools, and choirs.checked 7 Oct 2026
- License
- Revel's backend, frontend and infrastructure repositories are released under the MIT License.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: deployment architecture
- Published container images are built for linux/amd64 only, so other CPU architectures require additional work.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: email dependency
- A self-hosted instance can run without SMTP, but users will not receive verification or ticket emails until mail delivery is configured.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: support maturity
- The project is small, with LinkedIn showing only 2–10 employees and the GitHub organization showing no public members.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Memberships
- Clubs and studios can sell recurring monthly or annual memberships, class passes and members-only activities.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- The project's GitHub profile identifies Revel v1.0.0 as its first major release, dated November 19, 2025.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Other integrations
- Official terms list optional Google sign-in, Telegram notifications, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet and connected third-party apps.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Payment data
- Payments are processed by Stripe; Revel says it does not store credit-card numbers or bank-account details.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Payment integration
- Stripe handles payment processing, recurring subscription billing and referral payouts, with money sent to the organizer's Stripe account.checked 21 Oct 2026
The company
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Let's Revel as a privately held software-development company with 2–10 employees.checked 21 Oct 2026
- Headquarters
- Vienna, Austriachecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker and headquarters
- The legal service provider is Biagio Distefano, with a listed address in Vienna, Austria.checked 21 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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