Eventist Blog
Insights, tips, and customer stories from the world of event planning, festivals, competitions, and studio management.
You Get a Person, Not a Ticket Queue
Most software companies treat support as a cost to squeeze, because that is what investors ask for. We are privately owned and nobody here is trying to become a billionaire, so we do it the expensive way instead: everyone who signs up gets paired with one real person who stays with them. No sales team, no handoff, no starting over with a stranger who has never seen your event.
Best Festival Ticketing Software Compared for 2026
Six festival ticketing platforms compared on what actually decides a festival: multi-stage scheduling, vendor and volunteer coordination, gate throughput, and whether the fee grows with your pass price. Most of the field sells checkout and leaves the rest to you.
7 Ticketing Software Facts Canadian Festivals Should Know
Live gate counts, Canadian data residency, flat fees, offline scanning, cart recovery, real multi-day pass structures, and who owns your attendee list. Seven things that decide whether your ticketing platform is doing work for you or handing it back.
How to Choose Canadian Festival Ticketing Software (2026)
A practical evaluation guide for Canadian festival organizers: the features that matter on event day, the pricing structures that protect your margin, the PIPEDA and CAD requirements international platforms overlook, and the questions to ask every vendor before you sign.
Large Event Management: What Reddit Says Actually Goes Wrong at Scale (2026)
Read enough r/eventplanning post-mortems and the failures at large events are never the stage or the lineup — they are check-in lines, volunteer chaos, and five tools disagreeing about who bought what. Here is the Reddit consensus on managing events at scale, and how to build an operation that survives day-of.
Help That Floats: A Video on Every Page, Because Not Everyone Has Two Screens
Every page in Eventist has a short video walkthrough of that exact page, and every tricky setting has a help guide one hover away. Both open in floating windows you can drag, resize, and park in a corner while you follow along. Here is why we built help this way: most people run their whole event from one screen, and flipping between a tutorial tab and the page it describes is miserable.
Search That Understands What You Mean: One Index Behind Our Search Bar and Our AI Assistant
Event management software gets harder to use as it grows more powerful, because every new feature is one more page to hunt for. Eventist solves that with a search bar and an AI assistant that both understand plain English: type "who bought" or ask the chatbot "where do I refund someone" and land on the exact same button. Here is the small piece of architecture that makes both work.
Making Complex Software Easy to Understand
A look behind the curtain at how we build Eventist: a search bar that walks you to the exact button, an AI assistant that does the work with your approval, a how-to video on every page, and a wish list where users steer our roadmap.
A Wish List That Lets Users Vote on What We Build Next
The second in our series on making software easier to use. Inside every Eventist dashboard is a Wish List: request features, vote on other people's ideas, report bugs, and watch our real roadmap. Think of it as a private, Reddit-style upvote board for the product, except the votes actually move development.
Free Ticketing Fee Comparison Calculator: What Will Your Platform Really Cost in 2026?
Compare event ticketing platform fees side by side in CAD. Enter your ticket count and price to see total fees on Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Ticket Tailor, Eventist, and more.
Free Ticket Sales Pace Calculator: Are Your Sales on Track for a Sell-Out?
Project week-by-week ticket sales for your event and check whether you are ahead of, on, or behind the typical sales curve — free interactive calculator.
Best Ticketing Platform According to Reddit (2026)
Reddit never crowns a single winner, but r/eventplanning and r/Ticketmaster agree on what matters: low transparent fees, fast payouts, real support, and owning your attendee data. Here is how Eventbrite, Ticketmaster, Humanitix, and Eventist score on those criteria.