Revel
Revel is an open-source event management, ticketing and membership platform for communities, clubs, independent venues and independent artists.
Buyers pay the ticket price with no service fee on top. Ticket money goes straight to the organizer's own Stripe account, and the code is MIT-licensed, so you can use the hosted version or run it on your own server.
Who it's for
- Venues, clubs and studios. For gyms, yoga studios, choirs, comedy clubs, supper clubs and theaters, Revel runs recurring memberships, series passes, seat maps and the box office.
- Artists selling their own shows. Musicians, DJs and bands get ticketing with no promoter in between. The attendee export gives you every buyer's name and email. Tiers can be pay-what-you-can, presales can go to members or to holders of an invitation link before general sale, and a run of dates can be one event series.
- Communities that vet who comes. Revel was first built for queer collectives, kink clubs and activist groups, which is why attendee vetting, private guest lists and invitation-only events are part of the core.
This repository is the API and the main project page. The web app lives in revel-frontend and the deployment in infra. If you find Revel useful, a star on this repo helps other people find it.
Try it
Demo: demo.letsrevel.io. Pick a test account on the login page (password password123). Data resets every night at midnight CET. No real email is sent; outgoing mail shows up at mailpit.letsrevel.io. The demo API is browsable at demo-api.letsrevel.io/api/docs.
Hosted: letsrevel.io.
Self-host:
git clone https://github.com/letsrevel/infra && cd infra && ./setup.sh
You need a Linux x86-64 server, run as root or as a user in the docker group, with ports 80 and 443 open and DNS A records for two hostnames: one for the web app and one for the API, which defaults to api.<your domain>. Add a third for Grafana if you enable observability. The wizard offers to install Docker if it is missing, asks for your domains, email settings and which optional services to run, writes .env with generated secrets, pulls the prebuilt images and starts the stack. The slim tier needs 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, about €20/month (Hetzner CPX22, September 2026). The full tier, with observability and malware scanning, needs 8 vCPU and 32 GB RAM. Full guide: docs.letsrevel.io/self-hosting.
Fees and data
| What the organizer pays |
|---|
| Free events, RSVPs and offline payments | Nothing |
| Online payment on letsrevel.io | 3% + €0.50 per order for standard EEA cards: Stripe's 1.5% + €0.25 plus Revel's 1.5% + €0.25 (plus VAT where Revel has to charge it). Non-EEA cards cost more on Stripe's side. Membership subscriptions: 1.5% to Revel with no fixed part, plus Stripe. |
| Self-hosted | Nothing to Revel. The code is MIT-licensed; you pay only your payment provider. |
The fixed part is charged once per order, not per ticket: four €20 tickets bought together cost €2.90 in total fees (3% of €80 plus €0.50).
Ticket money goes straight to the organizer's own Stripe account (Stripe Connect, direct charges), so Revel never holds it. The web app loads no third-party analytics or tracking scripts.
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