Ummah Unite vs Luma
Luma made event pages people actually enjoy — beautiful invites, frictionless RSVPs, calendar subscriptions — and it has become the default for tech and creator meetups. Ummah Unite is event commerce for Muslim gatherings: tickets, halal vendor storefronts, and booth space in one checkout at $0 to your organization. A monthly halaqa RSVP is Luma’s lane. A masjid Eid festival with twenty vendors is ours.
| Ummah Unite | Luma | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee on paid tickets | $0 to your organization; small fee added at attendee checkout | 5% platform fee + Stripe processing on the free plan; 0% with Luma Plus at $59/month |
| Who absorbs the fee | Added at the attendee’s checkout by default | All-in pricing — fees come out of the price you set, unless you raise it to compensate |
| Free events & donations | No platform fee, ever | Free events free — generous free tier |
| Vendor storefronts in checkout | Yes — attendees pre-order food, books, and products with their ticket | Not offered |
| Booth, table & floor-plan sales | Included — interactive venue maps | Not offered |
| Brothers’, sisters’ & family zones | Built in | Not offered |
| Discovery | Muslim-specific event discovery | Calendar subscriptions and a strong tech/creator network |
| Event operations & media | Full stack — logistics crews, media production, and custom tech builds from the team that built the platform | Software only |
Every platform on this page sells tickets. That is where they stop.
Ticketing is one line item in running an event. These are the parts nobody else on this page attempts — and they are the reason organizers move to us even when the fee comparison is a tie.
Commerce for the whole event
- Vendors sell their own products from storefronts on your event page, paid straight into their own Stripe accounts
- Booths, tables and seats sold from an interactive floor plan, with timed holds so two vendors cannot buy the same spot
- Merchandise with shipping, tracking and fulfilment
- Donations captured inside the ticket checkout, with the organizer keeping 100%
- Every party paid automatically at the moment of sale — no reconciling spreadsheets afterwards
A team, not just software
- Event operations crews on the ground on the day
- Media production — photo, video, reels, live coverage
- Marketing, sponsorship strategy and outreach
- Custom technology built for your event by the people who built the platform
- White-glove migration from whatever you use today
Built for how Muslim events actually run
- Gender-segregated ticketing as a native allocation — brothers', sisters' and family, not a workaround
- Approval-gated registration for members-only and restricted programmes
- Multi-session and multi-track registration for conferences
- Volunteer shift scheduling and assignment
- QR check-in with a live door command centre — 635 real door scans to date
If all you need is a payment link, several tools on this page will do that and we will say so plainly. The moment your event has vendors, a floor plan, sponsors, sections, or a queue at the door, there is nothing else in this category that covers it.
On $50,000 of tickets — 1,000 seats at $50
| Platform | What it costs you | You keep |
|---|---|---|
| Runs the whole event: marketing, website, operations | ||
| Donations inside the ticket checkout | ||
| Who pays the platform fee | ||
| Ummah Unite | $0 to your organization — fee added at attendee checkout | $50,000 |
| Luma — free plan (5%) | $2,500 deducted from sales | $47,500 |
| Luma Plus — $59/mo (0%) | $0 in fees + $708 subscription | $49,292 |
Card processing is separate and charged by the payment processor on every platform.
Where Luma wins
- Event-page design widely regarded as the best in the industry
- Calendar subscriptions that turn recurring series into a followable feed
- The default network for tech, startup, and creator events
- A genuinely generous free tier for free-RSVP gatherings
Where Ummah Unite wins
- An operations, media, and engineering company behind the checkout — Luma hosts the page, we can run the room
- Whole-event commerce: tickets, vendor products, and floor space in one order
- $0 to your organization — and fees are added at attendee checkout instead of coming out of your ticket price
- Brothers’, sisters’, and family zones, halal vendor rows, Muslim-specific discovery
- Operational depth for the day: QR routing, waitlists, approvals, live headcount
- A team that can run the event, not just host the page
The honest version: if you run a recurring, mostly-free meetup — especially anywhere near the tech world — Luma is excellent and its pages will make your event look better than almost anything else. Two structural gaps matter for Muslim community events: on the free plan the 5% fee comes out of the price you set rather than being added at checkout, so the organization quietly absorbs it, and there is no concept of vendors, booths, or gendered seating anywhere in the product.
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Frequently asked questions
What does Luma charge for paid tickets?
On the free plan, Luma charges a 5% platform fee plus Stripe processing (2.9% + 30¢), shown all-in — the fee comes out of the price you set. Luma Plus at $59/month (billed annually) drops the platform fee to 0%. Ummah Unite charges your organization $0, with a small fee added at the attendee’s checkout.
Can I pass Luma’s fees to attendees?
Not directly — Luma shows one all-in price, so covering the fee means raising your ticket price to compensate. On Ummah Unite the platform fee is added at the attendee’s checkout by default and your organization receives the full ticket price.
Does Luma sell vendor booths or floor space?
No. Luma is built around event pages and RSVPs. Vendor storefronts, booth and table sales, and interactive floor plans are core Ummah Unite features.
When is Luma the better choice?
Recurring free events with a calendar-subscribing audience — community calls, tech meetups, halaqa series where the job is RSVPs, not commerce. When the event has a floor to sell, that is what Ummah Unite is built for.
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Competitor pricing referenced from public pricing pages and independent fee breakdowns, verified August 2026. Rates change — always confirm current terms with each provider.