Say hello to Eventrise

Hello 👋… we're Eventrise, the event platform built on fair pricing, instant payouts, and human support from people who actually run events. Designed for organizers who care about communities, not scale.

The frustration that built this

Event organizing is hard enough without your platform working against you. After 15 years producing Creative South, growing it from hundreds to nearly thousands of attendees, and wrestling with every major event platform, three problems finally broke us:

Watching our revenue disappear in excessive fees. That's money that could pay for another speaker, upgrade the venue, or lower ticket prices so more people can attend.

Waiting days for money we needed immediately. Your vendors need deposits. Your speakers need travel booked. Meanwhile, your money sits in your event platform’s account while you scramble to cover costs.

Getting templated support from people who don't get it. When something breaks at 11 PM and the clock is ticking until doors open, you need real help from someone who's lived through the same nightmare.

Every frustration. Every workaround. Every compromise. We felt all of it… so we built something different.

Three things we do differently

Here's what we built instead:

Transparent pricing: 2.5% platform fee. That's it. No monthly costs, no setup fees, no surprise charges. Just Eventrise's 2.5% fee plus Stripe's standard processing fee. The difference between our fees and the industry standard goes back into your event budget where it belongs.

Instant payouts. Your money, available when you need it. Not weeks and weeks later when it's too late to matter. No more fronting deposits from your personal account while your revenue sits in limbo.

Human support from fellow organizers. When you reach out, you're talking to people who've run events, managed crises, and understand what you're going through. Real people who've been in your shoes and genuinely want to help.

Built for those who build communities

Eventrise is purpose-built for independent and community-oriented event organizers who value experience over scale. Whether you're running a flagship conference, a workshop series, or a community festival, we built this for you. For organizers who care deeply about their attendee experience and want tools that feel the same.

Here's what makes our model different: we only make money when you sell tickets. Your success is literally our success.

What this means in practice

Every organizer has a story about platform friction at the worst possible moment. A feature that doesn't work the way you need it to. A cost you didn't see coming. A support response that clearly came from someone who's never planned an event.

We've lived those moments. When we designed Eventrise, we started with the question: what would we have wanted when we were organizing Creative South?

The answer became our filter for every decision. Does this make life easier for the organizers using it? Does this respect their budget, their time, their vision? Does this treat them as partners, not transaction IDs?

We're a committed, bootstrapped team, and every feature we ship comes from listening to people like you.

Welcome to Eventrise

This is the platform we wished we'd had all along, built on the belief that organizers who bring communities together deserve tools that work for them, not against them.

If you've ever thought 'there has to be a better way,' you were right.

We built Eventrise to prove it.