Crackerjack compared
Crackerjack and BookMyShow
Ticketing at national scale
What BookMyShow is good at
BookMyShow is the biggest ticketing platform in India, and for filling a large venue or putting a show in front of a national audience, very little comes close to its reach.
Where we differ
It is built for selling tickets to an event that already exists. Finding the artist, agreeing a fee and paying them safely happens somewhere else entirely — usually over WhatsApp and a bank transfer. Crackerjack is built for that other half, and sells the tickets too.
Side by side
| Capability | BookMyShow | Crackerjack |
|---|---|---|
| Sell tickets to an event | Its core product, at national scale | Yes, with your own event page |
| Find and book the artist | Not what it's built for | A searchable roster with real rates |
| Hold the artist's fee until the show happens | Artist fees are arranged off-platform | Held from booking until you confirm the set happened |
| Cover for an artist who drops out | Not part of a ticketing platform | We open the gig to other artists at 5% instead of 10% |
Compared on what each platform is built to do, from what each publishes publicly. We haven't compared fees: BookMyShow doesn't publish a single rate that applies to everyone, and we're not going to guess at one.
Plenty of nights need both platforms. If you want the booking and the tickets in one place, that's the part we built.
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