Hi.Events

Hi.Events is a free, open-source event management and ticketing platform that assists organizers in conducting conferences, workshops, meetups, and paid events without having to share a portion of each ticket's revenue with a SaaS provider. Developed with Laravel for the backend and React for the frontend, it integrates event creation, branded checkout pages, ticket sales, attendee management, and on-site check-in into one self-hosted application that organizations of any scale can operate on their own infrastructure.

Common Use Cases

Conference and meetup organizers utilize Hi.Events to publish event pages, sell tiered tickets, and manage attendee lists across multiple recurring events from a unified dashboard. Workshop hosts and trainers make use of the promo code, capacity, and per-ticket question features to conduct paid sessions with customized registration flows. Community groups and non-profits depend on the free-ticket and donation functionalities to coordinate member events without incurring per-ticket fees. Corporate teams employ the platform for internal events, hackathons, and partner summits where attendee data must remain on the company's own infrastructure for compliance reasons.

Key Features

• Fully customizable event pages with branding, custom homepages, and configurable checkout flows
• Multiple ticket types with tiered pricing, capacity limits, and time-based availability
• Native Stripe integration for paid tickets, with support for promo codes and discount rules
• QR-coded tickets and a built-in check-in interface for fast on-site validation
• Order management with refunds, ticket resends, and attendee data exports
• Custom checkout questions and per-attendee data collection
• Real-time sales and attendance analytics dashboards
• Email confirmations and ticket delivery via configurable SMTP
• REST API and webhook system for integrating with CRMs and external tools
• Multi-event support with isolated branding and configuration per event
• Open-source codebase under a permissive license, with no per-ticket fees

Why deploy Hi.Events on Hostinger VPS

Event ticketing platforms typically levy per-ticket fees that can rapidly accumulate for organizers managing numerous paid events. Deploying Hi.Events on Hostinger VPS substitutes those recurring SaaS expenses with a fixed hosting fee, irrespective of the number of tickets sold. The VPS environment ensures attendee data, payment configuration, and event content remain on infrastructure you fully control — a crucial aspect for organizations with stringent privacy requirements or regional data residency obligations. With dedicated VPS resources, on-sale traffic surges are efficiently managed by hardware that can be scaled as per demand, and Stripe credentials, mail providers, and domain configuration can all be customized to your specific operational requirements without any platform-imposed restrictions.