Townscript is an Indian ticketing platform, owned by BookMyShow, and on headline percentage it is cheaper than us. That is the honest starting point, so the rest of this page is about the two things a percentage does not show.
Townscript charges 1.99% + ₹10 platform fee, plus about 1.99% payment gateway, from their own support documentation read on 12 September 2026. MintLink charges 5% plus gateway, 8.26% all in. On a ₹2,000 ticket their percentage wins and no amount of writing changes that.
Two things complicate it, and both are about the shape of the fee rather than its size.
A fixed fee per ticket behaves like a percentage that rises as the price falls. On a ₹2,000 conference ticket ₹10 is half a percent. On a ₹150 open-mic ticket it is nearly seven percent on its own, before the percentage fee and the gateway are added.
Townscript lets the organiser choose whether the fee comes out of the ticket price or is added on top for the buyer — The organiser chooses whether the buyer or the organiser pays the fee. That is a genuinely useful option and we do not offer it: on MintLink the fee always comes out of the organiser's side and the buyer pays exactly the number on the ticket.
Which you prefer is a real choice. Passing the fee on makes your margin predictable and your checkout price less so. We took the other side deliberately, because a price that changes at the payment step is the most common reason an Indian buyer abandons a cart.
| MintLink Tickets | Townscript | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | 5%, 8.26% all in | 1.99% + ₹10 platform fee, plus about 1.99% payment gateway |
| Fixed fee per ticket | None | ₹10 |
| Free events | Free, with no ceiling on registrations | Free events are free |
| Fee can be passed to the buyer | No — the buyer pays the ticket price | Yes, organiser chooses |
| UPI at checkout | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple sessions on one event | Yes, with combo tickets holding a seat in each | Separate events |
| Organiser-set refund policy | Date-wise tiers, settled against a 5% floor | Refund terms set per event, handled manually |
| Memberships and class packs | Yes, with credits and freeze days | No |
| Sell anything other than tickets | Digital downloads, physical goods, services, paid reviews | Tickets |
| Storefront for the seller | Yes, one link carries everything | Event pages |
The gap is what happens on either side of the sale. Sessions with real per-session capacity and combo tickets that hold a seat in each. A cancellation policy you define as date-wise refund tiers that the system settles rather than you settling by hand. Memberships for the organiser whose event is really a class that repeats every Tuesday. And one storefront that also sells your downloads, your merch and your services, with one payout.
If you are a promoter selling ₹2,000 tickets, take the cheaper percentage. If you are a creator whose events are one of several things you sell, the arithmetic stops being the whole question.