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Kintana vs Tixr
Launch on your domain today — or scale complex commerce with an enterprise desk.
Tixr is a commerce and ticketing platform built for high-volume live events — festivals, sports, nightlife venues, and complex on-sales with reserved seating, dynamic pricing, payment plans, and merch in one checkout. Kintana is for comedians, promoters, and venues who want to start free, run checkout and CRM on their own domain, and grow without a sales-led onboarding process. Tixr fits stadium-scale ops; Kintana fits indie rooms and touring acts who want an owned stack.
Often a fit if you are…
- Comedy clubs and indie promoters who want self-serve signup — not a custom sales quote
- Teams building an owned email list and marketing site beside ticket sales
- Acts and promoters who need request-a-show and settlement tools — not multi-venue seating maps
Side by side
Kintana vs Tixr
| Kintana | Tixr | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand & checkout | ||
| Checkout on your own domain | Tixr-branded event storefront | |
| Full marketing site (bio, tours, pages) | Event pages + syndication | |
| Custom domain for your brand | Pro plan | Branded storefront theming |
| Self-serve signup — start without a sales call | Sales-led onboarding | |
| Audience & CRM | ||
| Contact on every order in your workspace | First-party data + segmentation | |
| Tags, segments, and campaigns built in | Audience tools + export | |
| Email drips & broadcasts you fully control | Marketing pixels + retargeting | |
| Export data / tenant-isolated workspace | Exportable first-party data | |
| Operations | ||
| Stripe Connect payouts to your account | Tixr payment & remittance flow | |
| Reserved seating & venue maps | General admission focus | |
| Dynamic pricing & payment plans | — | |
| Merch, parking & package upsells in checkout | Ticket types + comps | |
| QR check-in & door scanner | ||
| Request-a-show & tour tools (performers) | — | |
| Pricing & migration | ||
| Free tier to start | Custom quote — no public pricing | |
| Transparent published pricing | Performance-based — contact sales | |
| Import prior buyers / contacts | CSV import + migration support | Export from Tixr dashboard |
| Live Tixr sales sync | — | N/A — source platform |
Why teams switch
What changes after migration
Launch without the enterprise sales cycle
Tixr Studio powers major festivals and venues — Kintana lets comedy clubs and indie promoters sign up, publish a site, and run an on-sale the same week with published pricing.
Built for performers and promoters
Request-a-show, tour demand, and promoter settlement views are first-class in Kintana. Tixr excels at high-demand on-sales, dynamic pricing, and complex inventory — different scale, different fit.
Site + checkout + mail in one desk
Block-based pages, Stripe checkout on your domain, and email campaigns share one workspace — without stitching commerce, CRM, and marketing across a sales-configured stack.
Move from Tixr
Move from Tixr
Export contacts and sales from Tixr — first-party data is exportable from the platform — then import into Kintana and put your next on-sale on your own checkout and site. We can walk through mapping on a call; Agency plans include hands-on setup for your first shows.
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