Venue Management Software
Shows, seats, season tickets, room rentals and the box office in one place, with no monthly fee.
What It Does
Platform Fee
$0.85
USD per ticket
Setup Support
1-on-1
setup help
Features
Weekly shows and one-time events, grouped into seasons
Multiple rooms, each with its own seat map
Seat map builder with rows, tables and wheelchair seats
Seat tiers that price the house by section
Season passes that keep the same seat all season
Flex passes and memberships with member discounts
Seat and ticket changes where buyers pay only the difference
Room rentals booked and paid for online
Point of sale for walk-ups and door sales
Card reader, typed card or cash at the box office
QR scanning on any phone or tablet, at every door
Staff shifts with a default crew for each show
Staff Report with hours and pay for every staff member
Task boards shared with your staff
Embeddable checkout and full theme customization
Abandoned checkout recovery emails
Seating, sales, fee and buyer reports
How It Works
We set it up with you
We help you set up your rooms, seat maps and first season with a real person on the call, so you go on sale knowing it works.
Build Your Seat Map
Add each room as a zone and draw its seating map once, with tiers that price it by section. Every date in that room sells from the same map.
Build The Season
Add weekly nights and one-time shows on the Events page, group them into seasons, and drag them onto the schedule room by room.
Sell Tickets & Passes
Single tickets, season passes, flex passes and room rentals sell from your free venue page or a checkout embedded on your own site.
Organize Your Crew
Give each show a default crew of box office, ushers and techs, adjust single dates, and pay from the Staff Report.
Open The Doors
Staff scan QR tickets on their phones at every door while the box office sells walk-ups by card or cash.
Pricing
Venue Ticketing
$0.85
USD / ticket
+ CC processing fees
Flat fee per ticket. No monthly fees, no setup fee, no per-seat licence.
Event management
Not selling tickets through Eventist? Run your events on a monthly plan instead. Every plan unlocks the festival, conference, competition and venue tools.
Starter
$100
CAD / month
- Unlimited scheduling
- Invoicing
- Email marketing
- 500 public map views a month
- 200 registrations a month, then $0.50 each
Growth
$500
CAD / month
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Staff task management
- Up to 15 staff, performers and vendors
- Up to 5 e-sign contracts
- 2 additional checkouts
- 2,500 public map views a month
- 1,250 registrations a month, then $0.40 each
Enterprise
$2,250
CAD / month
Everything in Growth, plus:
- Up to 100 staff, performers and vendors
- Up to 50 e-sign contracts
- Unlimited additional checkouts
- 15,000 public map views a month
- 9,000 registrations a month, then $0.25 each
Month to month, cancel any time. Staff counts everyone with a role, including performers and vendors. Additional checkouts are extra sign-up pages, like vendor or volunteer applications. Paid tickets on any plan are charged the usual per-ticket fee. A registration at a festival, conference, expo or competition counts as 4.
The schedule, the seats, the rentals and the door, in one platform
Venues carry more software than almost anyone in events: a booking calendar, a seat map tool, a spreadsheet of season ticket holders, a separate system for room hire, a till at the box office, a rota in a group chat and a ticketing platform that owns the audience. Eventist replaces the stack with one venue management system, so the schedule, the seats, the rentals, the door and the staff all share the same data.
Every show on one schedule
Weekly nights and one-time events live on one Events page and fill the Repeating and Weekly Schedules, room by room, inside the seasons you define. Get-ins, rehearsals and briefings go on as staff-only events, so the crew sees them and the storefront never sells them.
Seat maps with pricing tiers
Draw each room once with rows, tables and marked wheelchair and companion seats, then group the seats into tiers. Every date in that room sells from the same map, buyers pick their seat at checkout, and any show can set its own tier prices for a gala or a press night.
Season tickets that keep their seats
Sell a season pass and holders keep the same seat on every date of the season, including shows you add later. Flex passes cover pick-your-own bundles of shows, and memberships give regulars a member ticket discount, billed monthly, yearly or in instalments.
Room rentals beside the shows
Switch on Venue Rentals and customers book and pay for room time online, in slots inside the windows you open on the schedule. A slot another rental already holds in that room is never offered twice, and bookings pay through the same checkout as your tickets.
A box office in the browser
Sell walk-ups by card on a reader, a typed card or cash, hold phone orders under a name until they are paid, and give box office staff a point of sale of their own in the staff portal. Door sales land in the same sales report as online sales, filterable by channel.
Staff shifts and the Staff Report
Give each show a default crew and change single dates when someone is off. Staff see their upcoming shifts, hours and earnings in their portal, next to the scanner and their tasks, and the Staff Report totals hours and pay for every staff member over any date range.
Venue management software on Eventist has no monthly subscription when you sell tickets through it, no setup fee and no per-seat licence. The platform fee is a flat $0.85 USD per ticket, and card processing runs through your own Stripe or Square account. Your buyer and audience lists are yours to export whenever you want them, and real people help you set everything up.
How Eventist compares with venue software
| Platform | Pricing model | Reserved seating built in | Season seat management | Room rentals booked online | Audience list stays yours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eventist | $0.85 USD per ticket | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Venue management suites | Custom quote | Separate vendor | Partial | Partial | Yes |
| Space booking tools | Monthly subscription | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Ticketing marketplaces | % + fixed fee per ticket | Yes | Partial | No | 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 a building rather than a single show: the schedule across every room, the seat maps each date sells from, the season ticket holders, the rooms you rent out, the box office and the staff on shift. Eventist runs all of it on one platform for theatres, clubs, halls, arenas, community centres and galleries, so the shows, the seats, the rentals and the door read from the same data.
How much does Eventist cost for a venue?
Selling tickets through Eventist has no monthly subscription, no setup fee and no per-seat licence. The platform fee is a flat $0.85 USD per ticket. Card processing goes through your own Stripe or Square account at the processor's published rate. A venue that does not sell tickets through Eventist runs on a monthly event management plan instead.
Can I price seats by section?
Yes. Draw each room once in the seating map builder, with rows, tables and marked wheelchair and companion seats, then group the seats into tiers such as stalls, circle and balcony. Every date in that room sells from the same map: the cheapest tier sells at the show's ticket price, the others keep their difference, and any show can set its own tier prices. Seats you leave out of every tier, like the sound desk, are never sold.
How do season tickets work?
Create a season, then sell a season pass for it. Holders choose a seat once and keep it for every date in the season, and shows you add later are booked for them in the same seat. Flex passes cover a pick-your-own bundle of shows, and memberships can give regulars a member ticket discount or spread a yearly fee over monthly or quarterly instalments.
Can I rent out rooms as well as sell shows?
Yes. Switch on Venue Rentals and customers book and pay for time in a room online, in slots inside the booking windows you open on your schedule: a rehearsal room by the hour, a studio for a recording session, the hall for a day. A slot another rental already holds in that room is never offered twice, and rentals pay through the same checkout as your tickets.
What happens at the door?
Your door team scans QR tickets in the browser on any phone or tablet, at as many doors as you need, and an order checked in at one door shows as checked in at the next. A guest who lost the email is found by name. Walk-ups buy at the box office point of sale by card on a reader, a typed card or cash, phone orders can be held under a name until they are paid, and door sales land in the same sales report as online sales.
How do staff shifts and pay work?
Add your box office, ushers and crew with an hourly pay rate, give each show a default crew and change single dates when someone is off. Get-ins, rehearsals and briefings go on the schedule as staff-only events that are never sold. Staff see their upcoming shifts, hours and earnings in their staff portal, and the Staff Report totals hours and pay for every staff member over any date range, ready to export as a PDF.
Who owns the audience list?
You do. Every buyer's name and email is yours to export to Excel at any time, whether they bought through your venue page or a checkout embedded on your own site. For a venue with a returning audience that list is the whole business, which is why it is never held hostage.
Case Study
A venue is not one event, it is hundreds of them in the same rooms. The work is keeping the schedule straight, selling the same seats night after night, keeping season ticket holders in their seats, renting the rooms out between shows, and still having the right crew on the door. Eventist runs the shows, the seats, the rentals, the box office and the staff on one platform, so nothing is copied from one system to the next and the audience list stays with the venue.