Futura Tickets vs Shotgun

What Shotgun is

• Platform by Shotgun SAS (France) for music venues, promoters and festivals, with an app and a marketplace for the public.[source]

Futura Tickets and Shotgun, point by point

We only include what we could check on Shotgun's website. Each fact links to its source.

Why, in our view, Futura Tickets is the best option compared with Shotgun

• You sell through your own channel: checkout carries your brand and sits inside your website.
• Your buyers' data is 100% yours and you get paid before the event.
• Dynamic QR that cannot be copied and official resale with the price cap you set.
• Seat-map editor with numbered seating, season and multi-event passes, and dynamic pricing.
• Scanning app with dynamic QR and real-time validation.
• Nine languages, eleven country domains and payment by card, Bizum, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Klarna, among others.

Which organizers we recommend Futura Tickets to over Shotgun

We recommend Futura Tickets over Shotgun if any of these sounds like you:

• You want your buyers' data —emails, phones and purchases— to be 100% yours, so you can sell to them again without depending on anyone.
• You want to control resale: official resale inside your own sales channel, with the price cap and window you set, named tickets and a dynamic QR that cannot be copied.
• You need to get paid before the event, with weekly or monthly payouts, to cover production and artists.
• You sell in several countries or to foreign audiences: nine languages, eleven country domains and payment by card, Bizum, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Klarna, among others.
• You want to sell through your own channel and under your brand, with checkout built into your website, instead of sending your audience to someone else's storefront.

How to switch from Shotgun to Futura Tickets

Changing ticketing provider does not mean stopping sales. These are the steps we follow with organizers coming from Shotgun:

1. Finish on Shotgun whatever is already on sale. Switching mid-sale confuses buyers; the clean way is to launch Futura Tickets with your next event or date.
2. Take your data with you. Download from Shotgun whatever its dashboard lets you export about your buyers and events; if you are unsure what you can take, ask them in writing before switching.
3. Sign up to Futura Tickets and set up the event: ticket types, capacity, a numbered seat map if you need one, season passes and prices.
4. Connect sales to your website under your brand and run a full test purchase before announcing it.
5. From that event on, your buyers' data is 100% yours and you get paid before the event. In the demo we go through your case with you and give you the price.

Frequently asked questions

Can I move my events from Shotgun to Futura Tickets?

Yes. You create new events in Futura Tickets after signing up online, in minutes. Whatever is already on sale on Shotgun is best finished there, launching Futura Tickets with the next date. From Shotgun you take the data its dashboard lets you export.

Who keeps my buyers' data with Futura Tickets?

You do. With Futura Tickets the attendee database is 100% the organizer's: emails, phones and purchases are handed over in full, in line with the GDPR. What data Shotgun gives you is set by its terms: ask before signing.

When do I get paid for tickets with Futura Tickets?

Before the event. Futura Tickets offers weekly or monthly payouts ahead of the event date, so you do not have to wait until it is over to have the money.

How much does Futura Tickets cost compared with Shotgun?

We give you the Futura Tickets price in the demo, based on your event. This page does not compare rates: to decide, ask each option for a written quote with the total cost.

Does Futura Tickets have official resale?

Yes, and it is available today. In Futura Tickets' official resale the organizer sets the price cap and the resale window, and the platform applies that cap to every resale. Tickets are named and the QR is dynamic, impossible to copy.

In which languages and countries does Futura Tickets sell?

Futura Tickets sells in nine languages —Spanish, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese— and on eleven country domains, with payment methods such as card, Bizum, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Klarna.

What we could not verify

• On Shotgun's website we found no information we could cite about: customer data ownership; payouts; payment methods; customization / white-label; languages. That is why those rows are not in the table.
• Its resale and waitlist terms: its help centre lists them, but it blocks automated access and we could not check them.

Sources

1. Shotgun Pro · The ticketing platform for music venues, promoters and festivals · checked on October 13, 2026