Admittee vs Hometown: service, or fewer systems to need it for.
Digital ticketing sold on service: every account gets a named client success manager. The same gate, on top of the calendar that scheduled the event in the first place.
Where Hometown Ticketing shines
- Online and pre-sale ticketing for athletics, theatre, music, and activities
- Gate scanning from any iOS or Android phone with their Gate app
- A dedicated client success manager on every account
- No facility calendar, no outside-group rentals, no registrations
Where Admittee shines
- One calendar for practices, games, rentals, and everything ticketed
- Outside-group rentals with agreements, COI, invoicing, and ACH
- Registrations for camps and programs, with waitlists and forms
- $0 platform fee; a transaction fee only when you collect a payment
Buy Hometown for the service
Hometown's pitch is not a feature. It is that somebody picks up — a named client success manager, assigned to your account, who knows your season. For an athletic director who has been burned by a support queue, that is a completely reasonable thing to buy, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Admittee's answer to the same anxiety is different in kind: fewer systems to need support for. The reason a ticketing question becomes a support ticket is usually that the ticket was created somewhere other than where the event was scheduled, and the two disagree. When the calendar and the gate are one record, most of that category of question stops existing.
Where the two actually differ
Hometown does one job. If your school's problem is genuinely just "sell tickets online and scan them at the door", it does that job and assigns you somebody to call about it.
The question worth asking is what else is on your plate. If the gym is rented to a youth league on Saturdays, if the spring musical needs reserved seats, if camps take registrations in June, if the business office reconciles from three different reports — those are four systems, four logins, and four support relationships. Admittee exists to make that one.
Capability by capability
| Job | Admittee | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Online ticketing | Included | Included |
| Gate scanning on any phone | Included | Included |
| Reporting on ticket revenue | Included | Included |
| Named client success manager | Not offeredsupport, not an assigned manager | Includedon every account |
| Reserved seating charts | Included | Partial or add-onNot published |
| Concessions and card-present sales | Included | Partial or add-onNot published |
| Shared facility calendar | Included | Not offered |
| Outside-group facility rentals | Included | Not offered |
| Registrations for camps and programs | Included | Not offered |
| Athletic game proposals | Included | Not offered |
| Published pricing | Included | Contact them |
Based on public documentation as of September 2026. Tell us if something is out of date.
Hometown’s column is read from hometownticketing.com. “Not published” means we could not find a public statement either way, not that the feature is absent. We have deliberately given them the row they win.
How schools switch
Ticketing moves at a natural break — end of a season, start of a year. The calendar can move first and changes nothing for families or renters.
Who switches. Schools where the gym is also rented, the theatre also sells reserved seats, and the business office reconciles from more than one report.
Common questions
Does Admittee assign us a person?
Not in the way Hometown does. You get support from the people who build the product, and onboarding help to get your calendar and facilities set up. If a named account manager is the deciding factor, that is a real point in their favour and you should weigh it.
What does Admittee cost compared to Hometown?
Hometown does not publish pricing, so we cannot compare honestly. Ours is on the pricing page in full: no platform fee, and a transaction fee only on paid transactions — 5% + $0.75 on an online ticket, which you can pass to the buyer or absorb.
We already use Hometown. Is moving disruptive mid-season?
Most schools start with the calendar rather than the gate, because that changes nothing for families. Ticketing moves at a natural break — end of a season or start of a school year — and the two can overlap while it does.