Best Stream In Tickets Alternative: TicketingHub

Sell beyond your own ticketing page

Stream In Tickets has served Canadian venues and museums well since 2009, but its model is a standalone hosted site — and a standalone site only sells to people who already found you. Every traveller browsing Viator or GetYourGuide for things to do in your city is a customer you currently cannot reach.

TicketingHub is built for that wider game: a booking widget on your own website, an OTA channel manager pushing your availability to resellers, a point of sale for walk-ups, and 24/7 support — all for 3% per online booking, with no setup fee and no monthly fee. You pay only when you sell. Operators on TicketingHub grew their OTA sales 401% between 2022 and 2025, and the platform is rated 5.0 on Capterra.

What is Stream In Tickets?

Stream In Tickets (StreamInTickets Corporation) is a small online ticketing provider based in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, in business since 2009 under founder and CEO Christine Dick. It is a self-owned company with a small team, per its LinkedIn profile.

The product is a hosted, venue-branded ticketing site: each client gets its own web sales module, built to feel like an extension of their own website. It covers general admission and timed, capacity-controlled events, plus fundraisers, donations, registrations, memberships, and subscriptions.

Its published client list, linked from its own homepage, includes the Art Gallery of Ontario, City of Toronto Museums, the Toronto Zoo, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum (Ingenium) — suggesting it is best known among Canadian museums and municipal attractions rather than global tour operators.

Stream In Tickets pricing: run your own numbers

Stream In Tickets publishes one number: use its own merchant account and it charges 2.5% of the transaction plus $0.15 per order. Use your own third-party merchant account instead, and it invoices a separate, low per-ticket fee — the exact rate is not published.

Do the math for your volume: $10,000 in monthly online bookings at a $40 average order (250 orders). Stream In Tickets' own-merchant-account rate: 2.5% of $10,000 ($250) plus 250 orders at $0.15 ($37.50) = $287.50. TicketingHub, flat 3% with no monthly fee: $300. The two land close here, and we won't pretend otherwise — Stream In Tickets' per-order charge means its total tracks order count, not just revenue, so a lower average order value pushes it above TicketingHub, a higher one below. The real difference between the two isn't a few dollars of fees; it's what the platform can sell for you, which is where the next sections go.

Stream In Tickets vs TicketingHub, side by side

• Pricing — Stream In Tickets: 2.5% + $0.15/order via their own merchant account; undisclosed per-ticket fee if you bring your own. TicketingHub: 3% per online booking, no monthly fee.
• Monthly fee — Stream In Tickets: not published. TicketingHub: none.
• Setup — Stream In Tickets: no setup fee, per the company's own profile. TicketingHub: no setup fee.
• Booking widget — Stream In Tickets: a hosted, venue-branded ticketing site, not confirmed as an embeddable widget. TicketingHub: one line of code, brand-matched, multi-language and multi-currency.
• OTA channel manager — Stream In Tickets: not published; its materials say each client's site does not link to other venues or portals. TicketingHub: real-time sync with Viator, GetYourGuide and other resellers from one dashboard.
• Magic Link — Stream In Tickets: customers can view tickets and manage membership details via a 24/7 account area; no published self-serve reschedule, cancel, or refund-to-voucher. TicketingHub: Magic Link lets customers do all three themselves.
• Point of sale — Stream In Tickets: supplies check-in scanning hardware (handheld, USB, web); no published walk-up sales POS. TicketingHub: offline-capable iOS and Android apps with printers, cash registers, and PDQ machines.
• Support — Stream In Tickets: direct phone and email with its small team; no published 24/7 commitment. TicketingHub: 24/7 support via chat and email.
• Reviews — Stream In Tickets: no public Capterra or G2 profile found. TicketingHub: 5.0 rating on Capterra.

Why operators switch to TicketingHub

Fill the slots your own marketing can't

Stream In Tickets builds each client a standalone site that does not link to other venues or portals — fine for a single museum, but it leaves no built-in path to online travel agents. TicketingHub's OTA channel manager syncs real-time availability with Viator, GetYourGuide and other resellers from one dashboard, so marketplace demand flows into the same calendar with no double-bookings. Operators' OTA sales grew 401% between 2022 and 2025, and Jungle Cat World — a wildlife park in Ontario, the same market Stream In Tickets serves — saw growth of more than 300% on TicketingHub.

Get your evenings back

Stream In Tickets' self-service covers viewing tickets and updating membership details, but stops short of rescheduling or refunding a booking — which means those requests land on you. TicketingHub's Magic Link lets customers reschedule, cancel, or convert to a voucher themselves, so you keep the sale as a new date or a voucher instead of a refund, and your inbox stays quiet. The email validator catches typo'd addresses at checkout, so confirmations actually arrive and no-shows drop.

Your website stays the star

Stream In Tickets hosts each client on its own branded ticketing site. TicketingHub's booking widget drops onto your existing website with one line of code, matches your brand, and sells in multiple languages and currencies — so visitors finish booking where they already are instead of being handed off to another domain.

Know your fee before you call anyone

Stream In Tickets' cheapest published rate only applies with its own merchant account; bring your own and the per-ticket fee is not published. TicketingHub publishes one number — 3% per online booking, no monthly fee — so your cost is knowable today, whatever payment setup you prefer. And when you need help, it comes fast at any hour: Chris G., a developer, says on Capterra, "from getting started and setup fast to general random questions about functionality at 9pm on a Saturday night the team reply fast".

Who is Stream In Tickets right for?

• Museums, galleries, and municipal attractions running general-admission and timed capacity-controlled entry — its client list is exactly this profile.
• Organizations that primarily sell memberships, subscriptions, or donations alongside event tickets.
• Venues comfortable working directly with a small team and their own merchant account, for the lower published rate.

Who is TicketingHub right for?

• ✅ You want OTA distribution earning alongside your own website sales, in one dashboard.
• ✅ You want a quiet inbox — customers reschedule, cancel, or convert to a voucher themselves.
• ✅ You sell online and at the door, and need a POS that keeps selling when the WiFi dies.
• ✅ You want the checkout on your own website, not a separate hosted ticketing site.
• ✅ You want your fee written down before you call anyone: 3% per booking, no monthly fee.
• ✅ You're migrating mid-season and want free, hands-on setup help.

What operators say about TicketingHub

"TicketingHub is a fantastic booking management system. The abandoned cart emails have noticeably reduced the number of people that don't book." — Shannon R., small business owner (Capterra)

City Tours Belfast saw ticket sales grow 400% after switching to TicketingHub from Checkfront. TicketingHub is rated 5.0 on Capterra.

FAQs about switching from Stream In Tickets

How do I move my events from Stream In Tickets to TicketingHub?

Switching costs you an afternoon, not a season. TicketingHub's team migrates your products, events, and bookings for free — with hands-on support if you are moving mid-season — and most operators have their first product live in minutes.

Is TicketingHub cheaper than Stream In Tickets?

It depends on your order volume and pricing route, and we'd rather you do the math than take our word. Their own-merchant-account rate is 2.5% + $0.15 per order; your own merchant account adds an undisclosed per-ticket fee on top of processing costs. TicketingHub is a flat 3% per booking with no monthly fee. Run your average order value through both — then weigh what OTA distribution and self-serve changes are worth on top.

Can I try TicketingHub before moving my Stream In Tickets events over?

Yes, and it costs nothing to find out. No setup fee, no long-term commitment — set up a product and test the booking widget while your existing events still run on Stream In Tickets, then migrate on your own timeline.

The fees are close — the growth isn't

A hosted site can only sell to the visitors you bring it. TicketingHub adds the channels that bring visitors to you: OTAs, resellers, walk-up POS, and a checkout on your own site. Setup is free, migration is handled — including mid-season — and your first product can be live in minutes. Start free and see what a platform built for operators changes for you.