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Two Australian Platforms, Different Strengths
TryBooking is one of Australia's most recognised event ticketing platforms. Schools, community groups, and arts organisations use it daily. It handles seating allocation, ticket types, and payment processing with a straightforward interface.
TidyHQ is a membership management platform that includes event tools. Events are connected to your member database, committee workflows, and financial reporting.
The overlap is events. The difference is everything around them.
Where TryBooking Shines
Public-facing events with ticket sales. Your club's annual gala dinner. A community theatre performance with allocated seating. An agricultural show with gate entry. A school fete with pre-sold ride tickets.
TryBooking has strong seating allocation tools, competitive per-ticket fees for high-volume events, and brand recognition that buyers trust. The checkout experience is clean and mobile-friendly.
For standalone public events, TryBooking is hard to beat.
Where TidyHQ Fits
Member events where you need to know who is coming and whether they are financial. Training workshops linked to membership tiers. AGM registrations where only current members can vote. Social events with member pricing versus guest pricing.
In TidyHQ, when a member registers for an event, their attendance is recorded against their member profile. The committee can see who attended, pull reports for the AGM, and track engagement over time.
That connection between events and membership is the difference.
The Practical Question
If your club runs one big public fundraiser per year, use TryBooking for that. If you also run monthly social nights, quarterly training sessions, an AGM, and a committee planning day, those member events belong in TidyHQ.
Many organisations use TryBooking for the public events and TidyHQ for everything else. No conflict. Each tool doing what it does best.
Cost Comparison
TryBooking charges per ticket — typically $0.50 per ticket plus payment processing fees. For a 200-ticket event, that is $100 in platform fees.
TidyHQ event management is included in your subscription. No per-ticket charge. Run as many events as you want.
If your club runs 20 events per year, the per-ticket fees from a dedicated ticketing platform add up. If most of those events are for members who are already in your TidyHQ database, the maths favours keeping them in one place.
The Decision
Use TryBooking for high-volume public ticketing where seating allocation and brand trust matter. Use TidyHQ for member events where you need attendance linked to membership data. Use both if your organisation does both.
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