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Respect Where It Is Due
Humanitix is a genuinely impressive platform. Booking fees fund children's charities. The UX is clean. The brand carries trust. For public-facing events with high ticket volumes, it is hard to argue against it.
This is not a takedown piece. Both tools are good. They serve different situations.
When Humanitix Wins
Your annual fundraising gala. A public community event. A charity concert where 500 people buy tickets and you want beautiful event pages, strong social sharing, and the feel-good factor of fees going to a cause.
Humanitix is built for this. Public ticketing at scale with a social mission baked in.
If your primary need is selling tickets to the public, use Humanitix. Full stop.
When TidyHQ Wins
Your AGM where you need to know which attendees are financial members. A training workshop where registration is tied to membership level. A social night where ticket pricing differs for members and non-members.
TidyHQ events live inside your membership database. When someone registers, you already know who they are, whether their membership is current, what group they belong to, and their dietary requirements from last time.
No double-handling. No exporting a guest list from one platform and cross-referencing it against a member spreadsheet in another.
The Double-Handling Problem
This is the real issue for clubs. You sell tickets through Humanitix. Great. Now you have a list of attendees in Humanitix and a member database in a spreadsheet or another system. Who on the attendee list is a current member? Who bought a ticket but is not a member? Did that registration count toward the member's event quota?
When events and membership live in different systems, someone on your committee is manually reconciling data. That someone is a volunteer. They have a day job.
The Practical Split
Many organisations use both. Humanitix for the big public events - the ones where ticket sales matter and the charity angle resonates with buyers. TidyHQ for the member events - AGMs, committee workshops, social nights, working bees.
The key question: is this event primarily about selling tickets to the public, or is it primarily about your members?
If public tickets, Humanitix. If member events, TidyHQ.
What About Cost?
Humanitix passes fees to ticket buyers (or absorbs them into ticket price). The fee structure is competitive for high-volume public events.
TidyHQ event management is included in your subscription. No per-ticket fees. No transaction markup. If you already use TidyHQ for membership management, events cost nothing extra.
For a club running 15 member events per year, that adds up.
The Decision
Use Humanitix when the event is public, high-volume, and the social mission matters to your audience. Use TidyHQ when the event is tied to your membership and you need attendance data connected to your member records.
Use both when your organisation does both types of events. There is no conflict.
References
- TidyHQ - Club management platform with integrated event tools connected to membership data
- Humanitix - Event ticketing platform that directs booking fees to children's charities
- Stripe - Payment processing platform used by both TidyHQ and Humanitix for online transactions
- Xero - Cloud accounting software integrated with TidyHQ for event revenue tracking
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