An honest comparison for organisers in India. Checked October 2026.
Keep your UPI either way. Use a Google Form for a free sign-up list. Use Yano when guests pay and you check them in at a door: every booking shows who paid how much, every guest gets their booking and then their pass by email, bookings stop when you’re full, and your team scans passes on a phone.
Because it is free, every guest already knows how to fill a Google Form, and the answers land in a Google Sheet you can share with your team. For a free sign-up list it works well.
Once money and a door are involved. You match each screenshot or UPI notification to a row by hand, guests message you asking whether you got their payment, the form keeps accepting people after you are full, and at the door someone searches a sheet for each name.
Yes. Guests pay your UPI ID directly (GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM). Yano never touches or holds ticket money.
Each booking shows the guest’s name and the exact amount to look for. Open your UPI app, find it, and tap Approve; their QR pass is emailed. Guests can also send their payment screenshot to your WhatsApp in one tap, with their name and amount already written.
Right after booking, an email with their own booking link, where they can see your UPI details, say they’ve paid and check whether you’ve approved them. Once you confirm their payment, their QR pass. If you approve guests first, they also get a “you’re in” email with a link to pay, and if you cancel or move the date, every guest who booked is emailed.
Free events are free on Yano too: free passes never use credits. Paid passes use 1 credit each (₹6–₹10), and new organisers get 50 free credits. No commission, no monthly fee.
Yes. Download your guest list as a CSV file from your event’s Guests tab and open it in Google Sheets or Excel.
Free events cost nothing. For paid events you start with 50 free credits.
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