MeraEvents is one of the older Indian ticketing platforms and its organiser fee is genuinely low. The thing to understand before comparing is that part of the cost sits on the buyer rather than on you.
Two fees, pointing at two different people
MeraEvents lists events free and charges on tickets sold: Listing is free; about 4.71% comes off a paid ticket once the gateway fee and GST are counted, by their own worked example on their pricing page read 12 September 2026. Separately, their terms allow A ₹25 + taxes booking fee can be charged to the buyer on bookings under ₹2,000.
MintLink charges the organiser 5%, which is 8.26% once GST on the fee and the gateway are counted, and charges the buyer nothing at all. The buyer pays the number printed on the ticket.
Why a buyer-side fee matters more in India than it looks
A booking fee appears after the buyer has decided. The ticket said ₹500, the payment page says ₹525, and at low price points that gap is the single most cited reason Indian buyers abandon a checkout. It is not that the fee is unfair. It is that it arrives at the worst possible moment.
We chose the other side of that trade deliberately, and it costs us: our headline organiser fee looks worse in exactly this comparison.
Side by side
MintLink Tickets and MeraEvents — MeraEvents figures read from their pricing page and terms on 12 September 2026
MintLink Tickets
MeraEvents
Fee on the organiser
5%, 8.26% all in
About 4.71% all in
Fee on the buyer
None
₹25 + taxes possible on bookings under ₹2,000
Listing an event
Free
Free
Free events
Free, with no ceiling on registrations
Supported
UPI at checkout
Yes
Yes
Multiple sessions on one event
Yes, with combo tickets holding a seat in each
Separate events
Registration form builder
Yes, eight field types, drag and drop
Custom fields
Organiser-set refund policy
Date-wise tiers, settled against a 5% floor
Per event; refund requests can carry a 3.99% + taxes gateway charge
Memberships and class packs
Yes
No
Sell anything other than tickets
Digital downloads, physical goods, services, paid reviews
Tickets
Where MeraEvents is the better choice
Your margin is thin and your buyers are not price-sensitive. Moving the fee onto the buyer is the cheapest possible outcome for you, and on a corporate or B2B ticket nobody blinks at it.
You want the older Indian ticketing brand. They have been selling Indian event tickets since 2008 and have the marketplace traffic that comes with it.
Your tickets are above ₹2,000, where their buyer-side booking fee does not apply and their organiser rate is simply low.
Where we are different
Beyond the fee shape, the difference is scope. MintLink Tickets sits inside a creator account that also sells digital downloads, physical goods and services, with one payout and one dashboard. Our ticketing carries sessions with real per-session capacity, combo tickets, and a cancellation policy the system settles from date-wise rules you set once.
And if your event repeats every week, it is probably not an event. MintLink Memberships handles the version with visit credits, freeze days and a front desk.
Frequently asked questions
What does MeraEvents charge organisers?
Listing is free and charges apply on tickets sold. By their own worked example, about 4.71% comes off a paid ticket once the payment gateway fee and GST are counted, read from meraevents.com/pricing on 12 September 2026.
Does MeraEvents charge the ticket buyer anything?
Their terms allow a booking fee of ₹25 plus taxes on bookings under ₹2,000. Compare platforms on the total that leaves the transaction, not only on the organiser line.
Does MintLink charge ticket buyers a booking fee?
No. The buyer pays the ticket price you set. The 5% platform fee, which is 8.26% including GST on the fee and gateway charges, comes out of the organiser side.
Which is cheaper overall?
For the organiser alone, MeraEvents. For the total cost of the transaction on a sub-₹2,000 ticket, the two are close once their buyer-side booking fee is counted. Work it out on your actual ticket price.
Can I sell more than tickets on MeraEvents?
No, it is a ticketing platform. A MintLink account sells tickets, memberships, digital downloads, physical products and services from one storefront with a single payout.