Event organizer money in Ukraine 2026: one calculation — 100 tickets at UAH 300, from payment to take-home

One event a month, 100 tickets at UAH 300, all bought with Ukrainian cards, the organizer is a FOP (sole proprietor). That is UAH 30,000 paid by buyers. Here is how much each layer takes.

Three things the table shows.

On cheap tickets the fixed part outweighs the percentage. RegToEVENT's EUR 0.39 per ticket is UAH 19.72, or 6.6% of a UAH 300 ticket. 2.9% looks lower than Eventmate's 6%, but together with the fixed fee and WayForPay it costs almost twice as much.

Who pays the payment-system fee changes the 2event row by a third. If the 3.5% is passed to the attendee, the organizer pays only UAH 2,097 and keeps UAH 27,903 — but each buyer pays UAH 310.50 instead of 300.

Count the register. Without a PRRO the AET line would be UAH 29,610; UAH 180 a month for check by mono is 0.6% of this event. Free alternatives exist (WayForPay's PRRO, LiqPay's PRRO for a PrivatBank account, the free DPS PRRO with manual receipts), but not with plata by mono.

Next come taxes, which are the same for every setup, and the two other scenarios.

FOP tax is calculated not on what you received but on what the buyer paid. The State Tax Service's 2026 explanation says that for card payments income is the full amount, including the bank's fee. So the base is UAH 30,000, not UAH 29,610 after acquiring.

How to read it:

• Group 3 pays a percentage of income: the less you sell, the less tax. For one or two small sales a month it is almost always cheaper.
• Group 2 pays a fixed amount every month, even with no events. The single-tax rate is set by the local community — up to 20% of the minimum wage, i.e. up to UAH 1,729.40. If your community set less, group 2 is cheaper than in the table.
• Break-even. At group 2's maximum rate, group 3 is cheaper while sales are below roughly UAH 43,235 a month (group 2's UAH 2,594.10 of single tax and levy divided by group 3's 6%). Above that, group 2 wins.
• ESV is a minimum contribution, the same for both groups, paid every month regardless of events. If you are also employed, the rules may differ — ask an accountant.
• Group 2 may sell services only to individuals and single-tax payers. If tickets are bought by a company on the general tax system, you need group 3.

These taxes are the same on every platform in the table if you are the seller of the ticket. In agent setups (the agent sells the ticket in its own name and pays you the amount after its fee), the tax base is defined by your contract with the agent — ask your accountant whether it is the full sale amount or your remuneration.

No tickets are sold, so no money moves. The only question is whether registration itself is free.

There is no tax because there is no income. No PRRO is needed because there are no payments. ESV, if you are a FOP, is still paid every month, but that is not a cost of the event.

One caveat: a "free event" with donations to a card is no longer a free event. Money for participation, even voluntary, is income, and everything below applies to it. Collecting it on a personal card is a bad idea: banks' financial monitoring and P2P transfer limits of UAH 50–100 thousand a month (Minfin, 17.08.2026).

UAH 400,000 in a month from one event. At this scale percentages matter more and fixed costs less.

Notes on the calculation:

• 2event lowers its rate by quarterly volume. If such an event runs every month, the quarter is UAH 1,200,000 ≈ $26,547 — rate 3.99% (from $20,000), as in the table and in our calculator. If it is the only event of the quarter (≈ $8,849), the rate is 5.99%: platform UAH 23,960, kept UAH 362,040. If the attendee pays the 3.5%, the organizer gets UAH 384,040. 2event's page for organizers still says 7%, so confirm the rate in your contract.
• RegToEVENT has a separate plan for large events — from 1,000 generated tickets: 2% + EUR 0.37. 500 tickets is still a "small event". Tickets with seats, slots or a stream have a different rate: 4.5% + EUR 0.3 for a hall up to 1,000 seats.
• AET stays on the Free plan because there is one event a month. Pro ($29, ≈ UAH 1,310.86 at the NBU rate) is needed only for more than three events a month.

Taxes: group 3 — UAH 24,000 (6% of 400,000) plus ESV UAH 1,902.34, so the take-home with AET is UAH 368,717.66. Group 2 at the maximum rate — UAH 4,496.44 a month regardless of sales: UAH 390,123.56. At this turnover group 2 is UAH 21,405.90 better — if all buyers are individuals or single-tax payers and the annual limit of UAH 7,211,598 is not exceeded.

The order of platforms depends on the ticket price, because some services charge a fixed fee per ticket and others a percentage. Same event, 100 tickets, one a month, amounts before tax:

In brackets is the share of sales taken by platform, acquiring and register together. For 2event at UAH 1,000 the 5.99% rate applies, because a monthly event gives ≈ $6,637 a quarter.

Where the order changes:

• RegToEVENT beats Eventmate when a ticket costs more than ≈ UAH 1,793: the fixed UAH 19.72 per ticket stops outweighing the difference in percentages (6% vs 2.9% + 2%).
• RegToEVENT beats 2event when a ticket costs more than ≈ UAH 353 (at 2event's 6.99% with the 3.5% on the organizer).
• Eventmate beats AET + plata by mono only when monthly sales are below ≈ UAH 3,830: then the UAH 180 for the check by mono register outweighs the 4.7-point difference in percentages. If you already have a free register, AET is cheaper from the first ticket.
• Cheap tickets (under UAH 150) are the main trap of fixed fees: EUR 0.39 per ticket is 20% of a UAH 100 ticket.

If your price falls between rows, run your event through the ticket fee calculator — it uses the same formulas for the hryvnia market.

"0% commission" is the most common promise in ticketing ads, and it means different things.

• 0% to the platform, acquiring separate. This is how AnyEventTool works: the platform takes nothing, and the bank takes its percentage for accepting the card (plata by mono — 1.3%). The money goes to your account; you are the seller.
• One rate, acquiring included. Eventmate: 6% of sales, with the bank's fee already inside. Easier to calculate, but more expensive.
• The fee moved to the buyer. 2event lets you pass the 3.5% payment-system fee to the attendee; ticket agents traditionally charge buyers a 5–10% service fee. The organizer sees "0% for me", and the buyer pays more for the ticket.
• Free for free events. Almost every service charges nothing until you sell tickets.

The right question is not "is there a platform fee" but "how many hryvnias out of every 300 reach my account, and how much does the buyer pay on top of the price". The tables above answer exactly that. A wider ranking across 18 cost tables is in the Paid events in Ukraine ranking.

Break-even: if you have to pay for the register, mono with check by mono (1.3% + UAH 180) is cheaper than WayForPay (2% with a free PRRO) once monthly sales exceed ≈ UAH 25,714. On an event of 100 tickets at UAH 300 (UAH 30,000) mono is already slightly cheaper: UAH 570 vs UAH 600.

AnyEventTool connects only plata by mono; LiqPay and WayForPay do not work in AET. A detailed comparison of the three services is in plata by mono vs LiqPay vs WayForPay.

Most often, yes. The Law on cash registers requires a receipt for payment by card, including when the order and payment happen online. The State Tax Service in Kyiv region (June 2025) says it plainly: if a service is paid by card online and delivered in person, a receipt is mandatory; the bank's confirmation is not a receipt.

When a PRRO is not needed:

• FOP group 1 — but it cannot organize events.
• Account-to-account transfer without a card.
• Two disputed exemptions: tickets of entertainment venues and payment for services exclusively through transfer services. Regional tax offices interpret them differently, so without a written position from your accountant it is safer to issue a receipt for every ticket.

The fine for a sale not recorded through a register is 100% of the sale amount the first time and 150% for each subsequent violation. For an event of 100 tickets at UAH 300 that is UAH 30,000 — the entire revenue.

For 100 tickets, manual receipts in the free DPS app are an hour of work, not a saving. Exemptions and the tax service's position in detail: PRRO for online ticket sales.

Rule of thumb: while events are few and small (up to ≈ UAH 43 thousand of sales a month), group 3 is cheaper because tax follows actual income. When events are regular and large, group 2 wins because the payment is fixed. If companies buy the tickets (corporate conferences, business trainings), you need group 3.

Two limits:

• Group 1 does not fit — event organization is not on its closed list of services.
• Touring events — concerts and performances by artists outside their permanent venues — cannot be organized on the single tax of groups 1–3.

In detail: which FOP group an event organizer should choose.

• Foreign cards. All three payment services take 2% on cards issued abroad. If a third of your buyers are from abroad, plata by mono's average cost on UAH 30,000 rises from UAH 390 to UAH 460.
• Refunds. With AET and RegToEVENT you are the seller: you refund from your own account. plata by mono refunds from the business dashboard; LiqPay also returns its fee; WayForPay charges no extra fee. With agents, refunds go through the agent, and the buyer's service fee is often not returned.
• Payouts. mono — next day in one sum; Eventmate — daily payouts; WayForPay — next banking day; 2event says different things in different sections (from "instantly" to "within 5 days after the event").
• Exchange rate. Fixed parts in euros or dollars (RegToEVENT, AET Pro) move with the rate. We used the NBU rate on 26.10.2026.
• Chargebacks. If you are the seller, disputes with the buyer's bank are yours too. Keep the event description, refund rules and proof that the service was delivered.

Ticket agents — Karabas, Kontramarka, Concert.ua, Internet-bilet — work differently from the platforms above: they sell the ticket as an agent and pay the organizer under a contract.

• Organizer fee — by individual contract; we found no public organizer rates on agents' sites.
• Buyers pay a service fee, traditionally 5–10%, which is usually not refunded even on cancellation.
• Pros: box offices and cash (Karabas lists box offices in 41 cities), someone else's audience and listings.
• Cons: the money is not in your account until payout, refunds go through the agent, and each has its own cancellation terms.

For small events with their own audience, agents are usually more expensive for the buyer and slower for the organizer. For large concerts with box offices and offline sales they are often the only option. How agents handled cancellations and refunds in wartime: Paid events in Ukraine during the war.

Honestly: there is almost no legal way to sell tickets to your own events regularly without a FOP.

• Personal card — financial-monitoring risk and P2P transfer limits of UAH 50–100 thousand a month (Minfin, 17.08.2026). The bank may block the account, and taxes remain your obligation anyway.
• Agent — sells in its own name; you need a contract with the agent, and receiving remuneration without a FOP is still complicated.
• Partner with a FOP — they sell the tickets and you agree on a split; legally it is their income.
• NGO or charitable foundation — a separate regime; whether such an organization can open a business account for plata by mono, check with monobank.

AnyEventTool accepts payment only to the account of a FOP or company at monobank. If you do not plan to open a FOP, free events with registration in AET work without any account.

1. Sales: number of tickets × price. This is the tax base.
2. Platform: percentage × sales + fixed part × number of tickets (if any; convert from euros or dollars at today's rate).
3. Acquiring: 1.3% (mono, LiqPay) or 2% (WayForPay, foreign cards) × sales — unless included in the platform rate.
4. Register: UAH 180 (check by mono), UAH 249 (Checkbox) or UAH 0 — per month, not per event.
5. Taxes: group 3 — 6% of sales; group 2 — a fixed UAH 2,594.10 a month at the maximum rate; plus ESV UAH 1,902.34 a month for both.
6. Take-home: sales − platform − acquiring − register − taxes.

Example for 40 tickets at UAH 500 on AET and group 3: 20,000 − 260 (1.3%) − 180 − 1,200 (6%) − 1,902.34 = UAH 16,457.66. If you run several events a month, split the register and ESV between them.

Faster: the ticket fee calculator for the hryvnia market compares Eventmate, 2event, RegToEVENT, Karabas and AnyEventTool on your numbers. An AI assistant connected to AET calculates the same with the aet_fee_calc tool and the market parameter uah.

• You have no FOP or company with a monobank account. AET accepts payment only through plata by mono to the seller's account.
• You need box offices, cash or someone else's audience. AET has no box offices, POS or public listings — that is agents and 2event.
• You need promo codes, a waitlist, reminders. AET has none of these; promo codes exist in RegToEVENT, Eventmate and 2event.
• You want one rate with no separate acquiring and no register. Eventmate is simpler to calculate, though more expensive.
• More than three events a month, and they are small. AET needs Pro ($29, ≈ UAH 1,311); at low turnover Eventmate can be cheaper — thresholds in the cost ranking.
• You need offline ticket checking. Every scan in AET needs an internet connection.

Rates: plata by mono — 1.3% / 2%; LiqPay — standard plan 1.3% / 2%; WayForPay — 2%, no refund fee; check by mono — UAH 180.00; Eventmate — 6% of sales, acquiring bank fee included; RegToEVENT — 2.9% + EUR 0.39 for small events, 2% + EUR 0.37 from 1,000 tickets, 0% for free events up to 100 participants; 2event — 6.99% → 2.49% by quarterly volume plus 3.5% payment-system fee; AnyEventTool. Exchange rate: NBU, 26.10.2026.

Taxes and PRRO: Tax Code of Ukraine (Art. 291–298, cl. 296.10); Law on cash registers No. 265/95-VR (Art. 3, 9, 17); 2026 income limits, DPS in Chernihiv region (26.01.2026); card-payment income includes the bank fee, DPS in Ternopil region (13.03.2026); PRRO for online card payments, DPS in Kyiv region (02.06.2025); free DPS PRRO.

Calculations in all tables are ours, from the rates above, the minimum wage of UAH 8,647 and the NBU rate. Detailed rules and exemptions: PRRO for online ticket sales, which FOP group, mono vs LiqPay vs WayForPay and how to accept event payments in Ukraine.

This is not legal or tax advice. If a rate has changed or we got something wrong, write to support@anyeventtool.com and we will correct it with a date.