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Event ticketing that doesn't take a cut, doesn't lock in, and sends 3p from every ticket to a charity the organiser picks. Because watching Welsh venues hand 10-15% of every pound to massive platforms got old.
I'm Jez. I live in Pembrokeshire. I run a web design business called SE Digital, and I've been building software and helping small businesses for years.
A couple of years ago I started paying attention to what ticketing platforms actually charge. Eventbrite takes 6.95% plus 59p per ticket. Skiddle takes 10% plus 25p. Ticketmaster takes around 13.5% plus £2.50. Fatsoma, See Tickets, Gigantic — all between 5% and 15% in commission, sometimes with monthly fees on top.
On a £20 ticket, a small Welsh venue can hand £2-£3 to a platform that has nothing to do with the community the event serves. On a charity gig at a rural community hall, those percentages sting even harder. I watched a friend run a benefit night, take in a few hundred pounds gross, and lose nearly £100 of it to a platform that contributed nothing beyond a booking form.
It seemed wrong. Not illegal, not scandalous, just… wrong. The infrastructure costs behind ticketing haven't scaled with ticket prices. Stripe charges 1.5% + 20p to process a card payment. That's the actual cost. Everything on top is margin for a platform whose servers don't care whether the ticket was £5 or £500.
So I built TocynTicket. Flat 25p per ticket. No commission. No monthly fees. No contracts. The Stripe processing fee passed through at cost, shown transparently on the checkout breakdown. And 3p from every ticket goes to a charity that the event organiser picks.
The name "Tocyn" is Welsh for "ticket". Built in Wales, for Welsh venues first, but anyone in the UK can use it. The Vine in Pembrokeshire was the first customer. The Patti Pavilion in Swansea is in conversation. It's early days, but the approach works: flat fees, transparent costs, charity baked in.
That's the whole thing. No fake scarcity, no growth-hacking, no "10x your sales" language. Just cheaper, honest ticketing for people running events.
— Jez Turner
Founder, Tocyn Ltd
TocynTicket is operated by Tocyn Ltd, a UK company registered in England and Wales (Company Number 17141975). The company was incorporated in April 2026 to bring a small family of flat-fee, charity-integrated platforms to small businesses across the UK.
TocynTicket is the first product. More are coming — the focus for now is making ticketing work properly. Once it does, the same philosophy will roll out to adjacent problems.
The philosophy, in one line: infrastructure costs what it costs, not what the market will bear.
Every Tocyn product will share three principles:
That's Tocyn Ltd. A small company in Pembrokeshire building tools that don't feel like they're trying to fleece you.
The cultural health of a place isn't measured in stadium capacities. It's measured in Friday nights at the pub, Sunday jams at the community hall, and benefit gigs for the local foodbank. Those are the events we built for.
A % commission is a bet that your ticket prices will go up. That's it. It's a growth-extraction mechanism disguised as a pricing model. Flat fees give every penny of upside to the organiser, not to us.
Email addresses, ticket buyers, purchase history — your data, your customers, downloadable whenever you want. Ticketing platforms that lock your audience in their database are selling you a product that costs you every year you stay.
No tie-ins, no notice periods, no cancellation fees. Try us for one event. Bin us for the next. We'd rather earn your next event than trap you into it.
3p per ticket, every ticket, to a charity the organiser picks. Not a campaign, not a partnership deal, not a Q4 fundraiser. Just how the product works.
Not by committee. Not by funnel optimisation. Not by a landing-page generator. If the site feels a bit handmade, that's because it is.
We built it for Welsh venues because we could reach them first. It works for anyone in the UK. The "Welsh" bit isn't a gimmick — it's where we live, where the product was tested, and where it'll stay based.
If the approach resonates, get in touch. First ten promoters lock in 15p per ticket for life.
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