What It Does
Ticket Fee
$0.85
flat, per ticket
Subscription
$0
per month
Setup Support
3 hours
free, one on one
Features
One calendar across every room and space
Reusable seat maps with sections, rows and accessible seats
Pricing groups and holds for house seats and comps
Rental agreements with e-signature
Deposits and balances through the same checkout
Promoter links with their own sales reporting
Point of sale for walk-ups and door sales
Offline QR scanning with live counts per door
Staff and volunteer roles with shift schedules
Run of show your crew reads from their phones
Payment plans on higher-priced tickets
Abandoned checkout recovery by email and SMS
Embeddable checkout and full theme customization
Reports by ticket type, fees, refunds and date
Export your audience list at any time
How It Works
Add Your Rooms
Set up every room and space in the building on one calendar, with load-in, rehearsal and strike alongside the shows so a turnaround is never a surprise.
Build Your Seat Map
Lay out sections, rows and accessible seats once. Every event in that room reuses the map, with pricing groups for different price points and holds for house seats.
Book Rentals & Take Deposits
Put holds and confirmed rentals on the same calendar, send the agreement for e-signature, and take the deposit through the same checkout that sells your tickets.
Put Shows On Sale
Sell from your free branded venue page or embedded on your own site. Promoters get their own links, and abandoned checkouts get followed up automatically.
Staff The Doors & Settle
Schedule the crew, scan from any phone offline with counts per door, sell walk-ups on the same device, and settle from one report by ticket type, fees and refunds.
Pricing
Tickets
$0.85
Flat per paid ticket. No subscription, no setup fee, no per-seat licence. Multi-day programming runs at $4.99 on the festival and conference package.
Free events
Full pricing detailsFree tickets, registrations and RSVPs carry no per-ticket fee — they run on a monthly plan instead.
Starter
$100
CAD / month
200 free registrations a month, then $0.50 each
Growth
$500
CAD / month
1,250 free registrations a month, then $0.40 each
Enterprise
$2,250
CAD / month
9,000 free registrations a month, then $0.25 each
Month to month, no contract, cancel any time.
The room calendar, the seat map, the door and the money, in one platform
Venues carry more software than almost anyone in events: something for the booking calendar, something for the seat map, a drive full of rental agreements, a ticketing platform that owns the audience, and a spreadsheet that tries to settle with promoters afterwards. Eventist replaces the stack with one venue management system, so the hold, the contract, the seat, the scan and the settlement report all share the same data.
One calendar for every room
Holds, confirmed bookings, your own programming and incoming rentals sit on the same calendar, so nobody promises the hall twice. Load-in, rehearsal and strike are on it too, which is what stops a turnaround being discovered on the day.
Build the room once, sell it forever
Sections, rows, accessible seats and sightline notes go in once. Every event afterwards reuses the map, with pricing groups for different price points per show and holds for house seats and comps. The seating report shows who is sitting where before doors.
Rentals, agreements and deposits
Send the rental agreement for e-signature and take the deposit through the same checkout that sells your tickets. Promoters get their own link and see their own numbers, so settlement starts from one report you both already trust instead of two spreadsheets that disagree.
A box office that runs on phones
Scan at every door from any phone, offline if the room has no signal, with live counts per door. Sell walk-ups on the same device, so door and online sales land in one report and one audience list. No rented scanner hardware and no separate box office system.
Venue management software on Eventist has no monthly subscription, no setup fee and no per-seat licence. Tickets are a flat $0.85 CAD each, card processing runs through your own Stripe or Square account so money settles as it sells, and your audience list is yours to export whenever you want it. Support comes from real people at a Canadian company that prices in CAD, and the first three hours are free.
How Eventist compares with venue software
| Platform | Pricing model | Reserved seating built in | Box office and door sales | Promoter settlement reporting | Audience list stays yours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eventist | No subscription, $0.85 CAD flat per ticket | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Venue management suites | Quoted per venue, no public rate | Separate vendor | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Space booking tools | Published monthly subscription tiers | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ticketing marketplaces | Percentage of the ticket plus a fixed fee | Yes | Partial | Partial | No |
| Spreadsheets, email and a ticket link | Free, until you count the hours | No | No | No | Partial |
Pricing is each category's published model as of September 2026; card processing is extra on every platform, and venue management suites are quoted per venue rather than published.
Venue management software FAQ
What is venue management software?
Venue management software runs the building rather than a single event: the calendar of every room and space, the holds and confirmed bookings, the rental agreements and deposits, the seat map each show sells from, the box office and door sales, the staff on shift, and the settlement report you hand a promoter afterwards. Eventist covers all of that and sells the tickets too, so the room calendar, the seat map, the gate and the money are one system rather than four.
How much does Eventist cost for a venue?
There is no monthly subscription, no setup fee and no per-seat licence. Tickets are a flat $0.85 CAD each for general admission, or $4.99 for the festival and conference package if you run multi-day programming. Card processing goes through your own Stripe or Square account at the processor's published rate, so the money settles to you as it sells rather than weeks after the show.
Can I build a seat map for my room once and reuse it?
Yes. Build the room once in the seat builder with sections, rows and accessible seats, then reuse it for every event in the space. Pricing groups let the same map sell at different prices per show, holds keep house seats and comps off sale, and the seating report tells you who is in which seat on the night.
Does it handle rentals as well as our own shows?
Yes. Put the rental on the same calendar as your own programming so a hold cannot be double booked, send the agreement for e-signature, take the deposit through the same checkout, and give the promoter a link that reports their own sales. When the show is over, the sales report by ticket type, fees and refunds is the settlement conversation.
What happens at the door?
Staff scan tickets from any phone, including offline from a cached list, with counts across multiple doors. Walk-ups sell on the same phone through point of sale, so door sales land in the same report as online sales and those buyers land in the same list. Will-call, comps and re-entry all work from the same screen.
Who owns the audience list?
You do, without exception. Every buyer's email is yours to export at any time, whether the ticket sold through your page, an embedded checkout on your own site or a promoter's link. That is the difference between a venue with an audience it can email before the next on-sale and one that rents its own audience back from a marketplace.
Can we move over mid-season?
Better to move between shows than mid-sale, but yes. Import past buyers, rebuild the seat map and the ticket types, point your existing links at the new page, and let the last event finish selling where it started. Named Canadian support covers the setup and the first three hours are free.
Case Study
A venue that sells its own shows, rents the room to promoters and runs a box office on the night is paying for at least three systems and reconciling them by hand. On Eventist the calendar, the seat map, the agreements, the checkout and the gate share one set of data, so the settlement report is already written when the last person leaves. There is no subscription to carry through a quiet month, and the audience list belongs to the venue rather than to a marketplace.