I'll be honest up front: Posh is good. Real discovery feed, real texting tools, millions of people browsing it, a lot of money behind it. If you came here expecting me to tell you it's secretly bad, I'm not going to, because it isn't. TokTix and Posh just answer two different questions about your events, and the right one depends on where your crowd comes from.
The question that decides it
Do people show up to your events because they found you, or because they found the event while scrolling?
If you have a following, a group chat, a list, a door you built yourself, keep reading. If you genuinely rely on strangers discovering you, Posh's marketplace does something I don't, and I'll say so plainly below. This isn't a trick question. It's the whole thing.
What you're actually renting on Posh
Posh is a marketplace. That's its strength and it's also the catch. When someone buys a ticket to your event on Posh, they become a Posh user. Posh now has that relationship too, and Posh will happily show that person other events, including ones that compete with yours, in the same feed you just sold them through. To be fair, Posh lets you export your attendee data, names and phone numbers included, so nobody is holding your list hostage and I'm not going to claim otherwise. But the feed is the product. The audience you built gets marketed to by the marketplace, every time they open the app.
That's a fine trade if Posh's feed is what filled your room. You're paying for reach and you're getting reach. But if you brought the crowd yourself, you're handing your customer relationships to a marketplace that's using them to grow itself. That's the part I'd want you to see clearly before you commit a season of events to it.
What TokTix does differently
TokTix isn't a marketplace, and that's on purpose. Your event page is yours. Your buyers are yours. When someone buys a ticket, they don't get dropped into a feed of other people's parties. There's no algorithm quietly marketing your competitor to the list you worked to build.
The money runs through your own Stripe account, not a TokTix balance. Your guest list is yours to text and yours to keep. And the fee is lower: 5% plus 50 cents a ticket, against Posh's 10% plus 99 cents. On a $50 ticket that's about a dollar back in your pocket per sale, on a $100 ticket about two. I won't oversell that, fees aren't the reason to move. Ownership is. The fee is just a nice consequence of not running a marketplace you have to feed.
On texting, because you might have heard it's our thing
It is our thing, but I'm not going to pretend Posh can't text. They can, and theirs is good. So if someone tells you "TokTix texts your guests and Posh doesn't," that's not true, and I'd rather you hear it from me.
The real differences are practical, not magical. Posh's blasts run from the web dashboard and are capped per month, and a number branded as yours costs extra. On TokTix, texting is the core of the app: your opted-in list rides with you from event to event, you send from your phone, from your own dedicated number on the paid tiers, with the carrier registration handled. Both tools text. One of them is built around it.
Where Posh wins, straight up
If you don't have your own crowd yet, Posh's discovery feed is a real advantage and TokTix has nothing like it. Millions of people open Posh looking for something to do tonight, and a growing share of tickets on Posh come from that feed rather than the host's own promotion. If you're new, or breaking into a new city, or you just want the marketplace doing some of the work, that's worth the higher fee and the trade on ownership. I'd genuinely point you there.
TokTix is the better call once you've got an audience and you'd rather own it than rent access to a bigger one.
The honest one-liner
Posh lends you their crowd and keeps the relationship. TokTix helps you own yours. Pick based on which problem you actually have.