Luma makes the nicest event page on the internet and it is free to use. The question is not which tool is better designed. It is what happens the moment you charge money for a ticket in India.
Luma is an RSVP and invitation tool that grew a ticketing feature. It is built around the guest list — a link, a page, an approval queue, a calendar subscription — and it is very good at that. MintLink Tickets is a checkout that grew an event page. It is built around the sale: a 5% platform fee plus standard payment gateway charges, money in rupees, paid out to an Indian bank account.
If your event is free and your audience is on Luma already, this page has an easy answer: stay on Luma. The rest of it is about paid tickets.
Luma processes paid tickets through Stripe, which it states on its own pricing page (read 12 September 2026). Stripe's Indian offering does not give an overseas-registered organiser a rupee checkout with UPI in it, and UPI is how most Indian buyers pay for anything under ₹1,000.
| MintLink Tickets | Luma | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee on a paid ticket | 5% | 5% on paid events, or 0% on Luma Plus |
| All-in deduction | 8.26% — you keep 91.74% | Platform fee plus Stripe at roughly 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Subscription to remove the fee | There isn’t one | Luma Plus at $59/month billed annually |
| UPI at checkout | Yes — Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, any app | No |
| Ticket price currency | INR | Whatever your Stripe account supports |
| Free events | Free, with no ceiling on registrations | Free, unlimited |
| Payout destination | Indian bank account, IMPS/NEFT | Your Stripe payout account |
| Time to clear | 3 days per sale | Stripe’s schedule |
| Multiple sessions on one event | Yes, with combo tickets that hold a seat in each | One event per page |
| Custom registration form | Yes, eight field types | Yes |
| QR check-in | Yes, camera or typed code | Yes |
| Refund policy set by the organiser | Date-wise tiers, settled automatically | Manual |
Three cases, and they are not small ones.
An organiser selling 200 tickets at ₹499 takes ₹99,800. On MintLink 8.26% comes off and ₹91,556 lands in an Indian bank account in rupees. On Luma the same event needs every one of those 200 buyers to hold a card that clears an international gateway — and the ones who would have paid by UPI are not a conversion percentage, they are simply absent from the count.
MintLink also carries the parts of an Indian event that are not ticketing: a registration form you build yourself, per-session capacity, a date-wise cancellation policy the system settles for you, and memberships if the event is really a class that repeats.