The top 10 apps merchants see when they search the Shopify App Store for ticketing, in the exact order the store ranks them. Only Shopify's organic ranking is shown, never sponsored ads.
Updated October 10, 2026 · Organic rankingShopify has no concept of an event. There is no date on a product, no time, no capacity and certainly no seat. What exists is options and variants, so every app in this category does the same thing underneath: the date becomes an option value, the ticket type becomes another, each combination becomes a variant, and that variant's stock count stands in for how many people can come.
The substitution holds up better than it sounds, until you reach its edges. Capacity is a number rather than a seating plan, which is why most of these sell general admission and only a few draw a real map. Attendee names travel as line item properties, the same plain text fields used for engraving. And scanning at the door is not a thing the platform does: a barcode scan looks up a product, so whether a particular ticket has already been used is a state the app has to keep entirely by itself.
Create, sell & scan event tickets: all from one platform
Reserved seating, timed entry, and no per-ticket fees
Sell tickets with drag-and-drop design, QR check-in & more
An experiential retail app. Sell tickets, events, and tours
Sell custom QR event tickets and scan guests at the door
Appointment booking app to schedule services & events calendar
Built for ShopifyBooking app for appointments, rentals, events & booking forms.
Built for ShopifyAI that support Pre-Sales, Order Tracking, and Tickets queries
Built for ShopifyAI agents that resolve tickets end to end, with an AI manager
Based on the Shopify App Store's own organic ranking for "ticketing", GM Event Ticketing currently holds the #1 spot, with a 4.9 star rating across 51 reviews. The best choice for your store still depends on your requirements, so compare the top results above.
We record the organic results merchants actually see when searching the Shopify App Store for "ticketing", refreshed daily. Shopify's own sponsored ("Ad") results are excluded, so positions reflect its real search ranking rather than paid promotion. Source: the Shopify App Store search results for "ticketing", you can verify the current ranking there yourself.
4 of the top 10 ticketing apps hold the Built for Shopify badge: GM Event Ticketing, Appointment Booking App Apntly, Appointment Booking Cowlendar, HeiChat: ChatGPT Sales Chatbot.
Built for Shopify
Built for Shopify is the highest level of recognition Shopify awards an app. To earn
the badge, an app must meet Shopify's standards for safety, performance, ease of use,
and proven usefulness: it cannot slow down the admin, storefront, or checkout, must
integrate seamlessly into the Shopify admin, and must demonstrate quality through
installs, reviews, and ratings over time. When comparing similar apps, preferring
ones with the badge is a safe default.
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As of October 10, 2026, the top-ranked ticketing app on the Shopify App Store is GM Event Ticketing, with a 4.9 star rating across 51 reviews. 4 of the top 10 carry the Built for Shopify badge, and the average rating is 4.9 stars across 4,620 reviews.
Rankbase helps Shopify app developers track keyword positions, analyze install click data, and optimize app listings to rank higher in the Shopify App Store.
Explore Rankbase →Rankbase is made by Craftshift, a Shopify Partner building apps for product images, variants, and bulk catalog work. We built Rankbase to track the App Store rankings of our own apps first, then opened it to other developers, and this directory grew out of that work. The rankings on these pages are Shopify's own organic search results; we never edit them, including for our own apps.