Venue Management Software
Run a smoother season. Recurring programming that repeats itself, season seats that stay with their holders, packages billed in one click, and a box office on phones, with no monthly fee.
What It Does
Single Ticket Fee
$0.75
flat, per ticket
Subscription
$0
per month
Setup Support
3 hours
free, one on one
Features
Recurring series built as blocks of dates with auto-repeat
Season seat management with the same seats across every date
Renewals and seat exchanges for season subscribers
Season packages, half seasons, flex passes and punch cards
One-click batch billing with automatic retries and notices
Payment plans on season packages
Reusable seat maps with sections, rows and accessible seats
Pricing groups and holds for house seats and comps
Patron portal for renewals, exchanges and payment on any phone
Staff portal with attendance, scanning and shift cover
Offline QR scanning with live counts per door
Point of sale for walk-ups and door sales
Abandoned checkout recovery by email and SMS
Embeddable checkout and full theme customization
Reports by series, seat, fees and refunds
How It Works
Set Up Your Venue
Add every room and space in the building to one calendar, with load-in, rehearsal and strike alongside the performances so a turnaround is never a surprise.
Build Your Seat Map
Lay out sections, rows and accessible seats once. Every date in the season reuses the map, with pricing groups for different price points and holds for house seats.
Build The Season
Create the series as a block of dates. When the season ends the next one generates itself with the same programme, rooms and times unless you change something.
Create Season Packages
Full seasons, half seasons, flex passes, punch cards and single tickets, each with its own rules. Subscribers hold their seats, and billing runs in batches with one click.
Launch & Run The Door
Go live on your free branded venue page or embedded on your own site. Subscribers renew and exchange from their phones, and the crew scans and sells walk-ups from theirs.
Pricing
Season Packages
0.5-1.9%
Of what you charge. Single tickets a flat $0.75 USD. No monthly fees, no setup fee, no per-seat licence. Contact us for large-volume plans.
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 season, the seats and the subscribers, in one platform
Venues carry more software than almost anyone in events: something for the booking calendar, something for the seat map, a subscriber spreadsheet nobody dares touch, a renewal process run by hand every spring, and a ticketing platform that owns the audience. Eventist replaces the stack with one venue management system, built on the same scheduling and membership engine as Eventist Studios, so the series, the season seats, the billing and the door all share the same data.
Programming that repeats itself
Build the series once as a block of dates. When the season ends the next one generates itself with the same programme, times and rooms, and the season seats come with it. One-off rentals and specials sit on the same calendar, so nobody promises the room twice.
Season seats that stay with their holders
Subscribers hold the same seats across every date in the series, and those seats stay off general sale until released. At renewal holders keep their seats by default, can move up when something better frees up, and anything not renewed goes back on sale automatically.
Season packages billed like memberships
Full season, half season, flex passes, punch cards and single tickets live side by side with their own rules. Billing runs in batches with one click, retries failed cards and notifies subscribers, and payment plans spread an expensive package across the months before opening night.
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. Season packages bill at 0.5% to 1.9% of what you charge, single tickets are a flat $0.75 USD, and card processing runs through your own Stripe or Square account so money settles as it sells. Your subscriber and audience lists are yours to export whenever you want them, and support comes from real people at a Canadian company that prices in USD, with the first three hours free.
How Eventist compares with venue software
| Platform | Pricing model | Recurring programming that auto-repeats | Season seat management | Reserved seating built in | Audience list stays yours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eventist | 0.5% to 1.9% of season billing, single tickets $0.75 flat, no subscription | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Venue management suites | Quoted per venue, no public rate | Partial | Partial | Separate vendor | Yes |
| Space booking tools | Published monthly subscription tiers | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Ticketing marketplaces | Percentage of the ticket plus a fixed fee | No | Partial | Yes | 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 room on a repeating schedule rather than one event at a time: the series and the season, the seat map every date sells from, the subscribers who hold the same seats all year, the billing behind their packages, the staff on shift and the door on the night. Eventist runs all of it on the same platform as Eventist Studios, so a venue gets a scheduling and membership engine built for things that come back every week instead of a ticketing tool that starts from zero each time.
How much does Eventist cost for a venue?
There is no monthly subscription, no setup fee and no per-seat licence. Season packages and subscriptions bill at 0.5% to 1.9% of what you charge, so a quiet season costs you almost nothing. Single tickets are a flat $0.75 USD each. Card processing goes through your own Stripe or Square account at the processor's published rate, so money settles to you as it sells.
How does season seat management work?
Build the room once, then attach a season to it. Subscribers hold the same seats across every date in the series, and those seats stay off general sale until they are released. At renewal, holders keep their seats by default, can move to something better when it frees up, and anything not renewed goes back on sale automatically. The seating report shows who is in which seat for any date in the season.
Do recurring events repeat themselves?
Yes, and it is the part venues notice first. Build the series once as a block of dates. When the season ends, the next one generates itself with the same programme, times and rooms unless you change something, and the season seats come with it. One-off rentals and specials sit on the same calendar as the repeating programme.
How do season subscribers renew and pay?
Subscribers renew, exchange seats and pay from any phone on your free branded venue page or embedded on your own site. Billing runs in batches with one click, failed cards are retried and subscribers are notified automatically, and payment plans spread an expensive season package across the months before it starts.
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. Season seat holders, will-call, comps and re-entry all work from the same screen.
Who owns the audience list?
You do, without exception. Every subscriber and buyer email is yours to export at any time, whether the ticket sold through your page, an embedded checkout on your own site or an influencer's link. 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 with a season is running a subscription business that happens to have seats in it. The work is not selling one night, it is rebuilding the programme every year, keeping several hundred subscribers in the seats they have sat in for a decade, chasing the renewals, and then still opening the doors on the night. Eventist does that on the same platform that runs studio terms and memberships, so the series regenerates itself, the season seats carry forward, the billing goes out in one click, and the audience list stays with the venue.