District is where someone opens an app with no particular plan and leaves with a ticket. That is a genuinely valuable thing and it is not what MintLink does. Here is how to tell which one your event needs.
District, built on Zomato's going-out business and the Paytm ticketing assets it acquired, sells intent that has not yet chosen. Someone is free on Friday, opens the app, and picks. If your event can be picked by a stranger in a city feed — a gig, a comedy night, a food festival — that demand is real and you cannot manufacture it yourself.
MintLink assumes the opposite starting point: the people who will attend already follow you, and what you are missing is not attention but a way to take ₹499 from them and give them a ticket.
No published organiser rate card; District takes a percentage of each ticket sold. Listing is listing is curated and sales-led, not self-serve, so terms come out of a commercial conversation rather than a pricing page. Anything you read online about District's organiser rate — including anything we might write here — is reported, not published; checked 12 September 2026.
MintLink's rate is published and fixed: 5% on a paid ticket, 8.26% all in, nothing charged to the buyer, free events free with no cap.
| MintLink Tickets | District by Zomato | |
|---|---|---|
| Can you list it yourself | Yes, in minutes | No — curated and sales-led |
| Fee on the organiser | 5%, 8.26% all in, published | A percentage per ticket; not published |
| Audience brought to you | None — you bring your own | City-level discovery demand |
| Best fit | An audience that already follows you | An audience deciding what to do tonight |
| Who owns the attendee data | You | The marketplace relationship |
| Free events | Free, with no ceiling on registrations | Not the product |
| Recurring classes and memberships | Yes, with credits, freezes and a front desk | No |
| Sell anything other than tickets | Digital downloads, physical goods, services, paid reviews | Going-out inventory |
A yoga teacher with 4,000 followers, a supper club with a waiting list, a workshop that sells out to the mailing list every month — none of these need discovery. They need tiers, a registration form, a QR at the door and money in an Indian bank account three days later.
And because those events repeat, the more useful half is often not ticketing at all. MintLink Memberships carries the same audience as a plan with visit credits, freeze days and a check-in desk, which no going-out marketplace models.