Fees on one $5 ticket
TixFlo0.98 $0.98
GoFan1 $1
Youth football ticketing
Youth football and cheer ticketing that keeps game day moving.
Families buy tickets on their phones, volunteers scan them in at the gate, and fans order food from the bleachers with OrderUp. Built for youth football and cheer associations, jamborees, playoffs and bowl games.
- Families buy on their phones and get QR tickets; gate volunteers scan them in with the free Game Day app.
- $0.50 a ticket plus card processing charged once per order, so a family buying four tickets pays less than with a flat $1-a-ticket fee.
- Add OrderUp so fans order food from the bleachers and get a text or email when it’s ready.
TixFlo vs GoFan
Service fee$0.50per paid ticket, plus card processing
GoFan default$1per paid ticket, plus card processing
Built for youth football and cheer associations, conferences, jamborees, and bowl games that need clear checkout, payment-aware QR tickets, and fast front-door scanning.
Customer highlight
“Before TixFlo, we ran the gate with a cash box and Cash App, and our concession lines got long on big nights. Now families can buy tickets on their phones and order food from the bleachers with OrderUp. It’s made the gate and the concession stand so much easier.”
Detailed comparison
Why TixFlo is a better operational fit for youth football and cheer associations, conferences, jamborees, and bowl games.
The best ticketing platform is not just the one with the longest feature list. It is the one that protects revenue, makes checkout clear, and helps staff run the door without confusion.
Category
TixFlo
GoFan
Why it matters
Family orders
About $2.97 in fees on four $5 tickets: $0.50 a ticket, with card processing charged once for the whole order.
$4.00 in fees on four $5 tickets: $1 a ticket.
Most youth football tickets are bought by parents buying for grandparents, siblings and friends in one order.
Single tickets
About $0.98 in fees on one $5 ticket.
$1.00 in fees on one $5 ticket.
On single tickets of $10 or less the two are within a few cents. TixFlo saves the most on family orders and tickets over $10.
How you get paid
Ticket money goes straight to your own Square or Stripe account and pays out on that account’s normal schedule.
Weekly deposit by check or ACH, with one statement per week.
Your treasurer can see Saturday’s money without waiting for a weekly statement.
Concessions
OrderUp: fans order and pay from the bleachers and get a text or email when it’s ready. $0.60 per order, paid by the fan.
Point-of-sale concessions with digital payments at the stand.
Ordering from the bleachers takes people out of the halftime line instead of just speeding up the register.
Getting started
Sign up, connect Square or Stripe, and set up your first game yourself, tonight.
Set up through GoFan for your organization.
Associations often decide a week before the season, not a semester ahead.
Charts
Fee and complexity snapshots.
Use these visual comparisons as a quick read before using the full calculator. Numbers are defaults for the page scenario and can vary by processor, configuration, and fee pass-through settings.
Fees on a family order of four $5 tickets
TixFlo2.97 $2.97
GoFan4 $4
Fees on 3,000 tickets bought in orders of four
TixFlo2227.5 $2,227.50
GoFan3000 $3,000
Interactive revenue calculator
Compare retained revenue after estimated ticketing fees.
Use this calculator to model the organizer-side impact when fees are absorbed by the event. If you pass fees to buyers, the same savings can help lower the final checkout total or make pricing easier to explain.
GoFan’s published fan fee is $1 per ticket up to $10 ($1 + 5% per ticket above $10), with card fees included. TixFlo is $0.50 per ticket plus 2.9% + 30¢ card processing, charged once per order. Change the numbers to match your games.
- Platform fees
- $1,500.00
- Processing estimate
- $660.00
- Total estimated fees
- $2,160.00
- Platform fees
- $3,000.00
- Processing estimate
- $0.00
- Total estimated fees
- $3,000.00
Estimated TixFlo advantage$840
Based on 3,000 tickets at $5.00 each, with roughly 750 orders.
Screenshots
What your gate volunteers use
The free Game Day app runs on the volunteers’ own phones. No scanners or card readers to buy.
Built for back-to-back game days
A youth football Saturday can run from the first flag game in the morning to the oldest division under the lights. Families come and go all day, and the gate is usually a folding table run by whichever parents are free.
With TixFlo, most families buy before they arrive and walk up with a QR ticket on their phone. Volunteers scan with the Game Day app on their own phones, so the line moves and nobody has to keep a tally on paper.
From a cash box and Cash App to one record
Many associations still run the gate with a cash box and a payment app on someone’s personal phone. It works until the end of the night, when the treasurer has to match cash counts and screenshots to figure out what each game made.
Online ticket sales go straight to the association’s own Square or Stripe account, tied to the game they were for. You can keep taking cash for families who need it, and still have a clean record of everything sold online.
Concessions without the halftime line
The snack stand is often a youth football association’s second-biggest fundraiser, and the line is longest exactly when people want to be watching. OrderUp lets fans scan a QR code, order and pay from the bleachers, and get a text or email when their order is ready to pick up.
Volunteers work from a live order board on a tablet and hand orders out at the window. The stand keeps the full menu price, and fans pay $0.60 per order however many items they buy.
Operational wins
Where TixFlo improves the event day experience.
Lower fees for families
Card processing once per order means a family of four pays about $2.97 in fees on $5 tickets instead of $4.00.
Faster gate lines
Families arrive with QR tickets and volunteers scan them in from their own phones.
Shorter concession lines
OrderUp moves ordering to the bleachers, so the window only hands out food.
FAQ
Questions about choosing TixFlo.
Can we still take cash at the gate?
Yes. Many families still pay cash, and you can keep a cash option. Cash sales recorded in the Game Day app carry no TixFlo fee.
Our conference uses GoFan. Can we still use TixFlo?
If your conference requires GoFan for its games, follow that for those games. You can still use TixFlo for events your association runs itself, like jamborees you host, banquets, camps and fundraisers.
Do volunteers need special equipment?
No. The free Game Day app runs on the volunteers’ own iPhone or Android phones.
Can we use it for cheer competitions and banquets too?
Yes. Any event with paid admission can have its own event page, ticket types and QR tickets.
Ready when your doors open
Sell tickets, deliver QR codes, and check guests in with a smoother flow.
Use the organizer portal to create a test event, connect Stripe or Square, and share a polished ticket page.