Can I sell tickets without sending members to another site?

Yes. The event lives on your community page, checkout runs through your own connected Stripe account, and Inviter never holds the money. Members stay on a domain they recognise, which is most of the reason community events convert better on a community page.

Do ticket buyers have to join my community?

No, and members do not have to buy. Registration and membership are separate flows that happen to share a page. Somebody can pay for a workshop without ever applying to your Discord, and a member can ignore every event you run.

Will my events show up in Google?

Public event pages emit schema.org Event structured data, including ticket offers on paid events. That is the markup Google reads for event rich results. Whether it shows them is Google’s decision, not ours, and anyone promising otherwise is guessing.

Is Luma the same as Luma AI?

No, and this trips people up constantly. lu.ma is the events and RSVP product this page compares against. Luma AI is an unrelated video and 3D company. If you landed here looking for the second one, you want a different corner of the internet.

Luma alternatives

Luma (lu.ma) alternatives

First, the disambiguation: this is lu.ma, the events product — not Luma AI. If your events belong to a community that lives in a chat app, here is the field, including the parts where lu.ma beats us.

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What each product is for

Different jobs, different homes

A fair read starts with what each tool is actually built to do — not a feature laundry list.

Luma

What lu.ma is very good at

Event pages that look expensive and take four minutes to build, RSVPs that behave, and a discovery network that puts your meetup in front of people who have never heard of you. For a public series, that last part is hard to replicate and we do not try.

Inviter

What Inviter does differently

Events live on your community page — the same URL where people apply to join your Discord server or Telegram group. Ticket money lands in your own Stripe account. There is no discovery network, so promotion is your job. That is the trade for keeping everything on one domain.

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Where the centre of gravity sits

Two products aimed at different halves of the same evening. For lu.ma’s current pricing, read it on their site — ours is below and stated plainly.

Capability	Luma	Inviter
Centre of gravity	The event	The community the event belongs to
Discovery	A real network — people browse lu.ma on purpose	Your page, our directory, and search. That is it
Where the link points	lu.ma/your-event	Your community page, under your own slug
Join flow into chat	Not what it is for	Applications and approvals into Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack
Guest list vs member list	Two lists on two platforms, reconciled by you	Same page, still separate flows — a ticket is not a membership
Search markup	Events-first product surface	schema.org Event markup on public event pages

lu.ma repackages, and any percentage we typed here would age badly. Check theirs at the source; ours is 10% of ticket sales on Free, 5% on Pro, plus Stripe: lu.ma pricing

The wider field

The whole shortlist

People search for a lu.ma alternative for four different reasons — fees, discovery, casualness, or wanting the event to belong to a community. Different answers for each.

lu.ma open_in_new
Fast, good-looking event pages with RSVPs, calendars, guest messaging, and a discovery network attached.

Hard to beat when the event is for strangers.
Eventbrite open_in_new
Grown-up ticketing: complex ticket types, refunds, door scanning, and a marketplace people already trust.

Overkill under a hundred seats, essential over a thousand.
Partiful open_in_new
Playful invite pages built around phone contacts and parties, with no interest in being a ticketing platform.

Charming for social nights, wrong for paid events.
Meetup open_in_new
A network with genuine local search intent behind it, charged as a subscription whether or not you sell anything.

Still the strongest option for recurring local groups.
A Stripe Payment Link and a page you control open_in_new
Processing fees and nothing else. Capacity, reminders, the attendee list, and the refunds are all yours.

The baseline every paid tool has to beat.

Inviter belongs in that list only if your events serve a community you already run somewhere else. If they do not, one of the five above is a better answer than we are.

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Be honest

Use lu.ma, not us, when

arrow_outward The event is for strangers. Discovery is the entire reason to be on an events network, and we do not have one.
arrow_outward There is no chat community behind the event — half of what we do would sit unused.
arrow_outward The event stands alone: a conference, a launch night, a one-off with nothing after it.
arrow_outward You want people following a calendar of your future events on a network they already open.

When we fit

Use Inviter when

check The people you want in the room are already in your Discord server or Telegram group.
check You are tired of matching a guest list on one platform against a member list on another.
check The event should sit on the page your members already have bookmarked.
check You need a screened join flow anyway, and events are the smaller half of the job.

FAQ

Questions, answered

One where the event and the join flow share a page, because otherwise you spend every event cross-referencing who bought a ticket against who is actually in the server. That is the shape Inviter is built in. If you do not mind the reconciliation, lu.ma pages are lovely and the discovery network is real value we cannot match.

One page for joining and attending

Run free RSVPs or paid tickets on the same URL people join from. Free to start; Pro drops the ticket fee.

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