02The lede · what it costs

Real numbers · platform cut only · drag to fit your room

35¢ a ticket.
Nobody else is close.

Stagetime takes a flat thirty-five cents per ticket. No tiers, no monthly minimum, no per-seat surprise. Set the dials to look like your room and watch what everyone else would take.

Avg ticket$22

Seats / show80

Shows / week2

Fill rate80%

Platform cut · per month

554 tickets / month

StagetimeYou

$0.35/tix$194

SeatEngine

$1.25/tix$693

+$499 more than Stagetime, every month

click to compare

Brown Paper Tickets

$1.76/tix$975

+$781 more than Stagetime, every month

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EventbriteCompared

$2.60/tix$1,443

+$1,249 more than Stagetime, every month

click to switch

Ticketmaster

$5.64/tix$3,126

+$2,932 more than Stagetime, every month

click to compare

Platform cut only — Stripe processing (2.9% + 30¢) applies on every platform listed, so it's left out. Eventbrite uses the Professional tier; Ticketmaster is a conservative estimate of opaque, deal-by-deal pricing. Last verified Jun 2026.

Your year on Stagetime

$2,328all year

The same year on Eventbrite$17,319

You keep $14,991. Every year, just for not overpaying a ticketing tax.

Click any row on the left to compare against a different platform.

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Founder & CEO · on the roadmap

“If you raise the price of the hot dog ticket fee, I'll f***ing kill myself.”

B

Bob

after somebody floated a price increase

The Arizona Iced Tea of ticketing

They've held the line at 99¢ for thirty years out of pure stubbornness. Same energy. The fee on the can is the fee on the can.

Not a platform of enshittification

No bait-low-then-bleed-you playbook. No “growth” quarter where the fees quietly triple. We’re building the boring kind of company that’s still here in a decade.

The number only goes down

$0.35 is our starting point, not our floor. As the network grows, the per-ticket fee drops with it. We will lower prices. We will not raise them.

All-in pricing, no exceptions

Every show on Stagetime advertises the full price the customer pays — fees baked in, before tax unless state law says otherwise. Per event, you pick what to absorb and what to pass through; the poster price IS the cart price, every time.

03Founder offer · first 100 rooms

☞ 100 spots · 99 left

We'll build your whole site.
And you'll own every key.

If retyping your venue into a new platform sounds like the thing you'll never get around to — don't. Send us the link to your current site. A real human (his name is Bob) rebuilds it on a fully customizable domain — same look, the improvements you've been meaning to make — then hands you the repo, the hosting, and a plain-English “how to change this” doc. Free, for the first hundred rooms.

Full rebuild of your existing site, page-for-page

Your domain, your repo, your deploy keys — no lock-in

We keep doing the tweaks for you, no extra invoice

No catch. No upsell tier.

Run your whole site in plain English

In the pipe

B

“Put a banner on the homepage — we're closed tonight, burst pipe in the back room, back open Friday. Hold all tonight's tickets, no refunds yet.”

Done — live in 4 seconds. Banner up, tickets held, tonight's list paused.

ccu.stageti.me

Closed tonight — burst pipe. We're back Friday. Tonight's tickets are safe.

CC

The Comedy Corner Underground

Minneapolis, MN

An in-the-pipe feature: point plain-English prompts at your whole site — like the one above — and it just happens.

04The night begins

It's a busy Friday at The Comedy Corner Underground. There's an 8 o'clock headliner that's nearly sold out, and right behind it, the 10pm open mic that's always packed — performers and audience both. Two people keep this room moving: Lahiru has the night, Tidohas the morning after. Tonight is Lahiru's — doors are open, the headliner's up in eighteen minutes, and he's got one URL.

05Open the room

Open the room · ccu.stageti.me/tonight

The whole evening,
on one screen.

Lahiru opens /tonight and the night is just… there. Both shows, what's sold, who's checked in, what's left to do. No tab he has to go hunting for. The snapshot the manager actually needs, and nothing he doesn't.

The real production view, framed for tonight's bill.

ccu.stageti.me/tonightVenue admin

Fri · Jun 6 · 19:42 · The Comedy Corner Underground

Tonight.

2 shows on tonight.

20:00

doors 19:30 · show 20:00

Paid show · doors open

Wes Calder

Touring headliner · sharp crowd work, new hour. Half an hour of fast, dark, very fun…

74

tickets sold

34

checked in

6

left of 80

22:00

doors 21:45 · show 22:00

Open mic · before doors

Friday Night Open Mic

Late-night mic · back room · make the list by 21:30 and publish

18

signed up

4

first-timers

12

will draw

Venue tools · tonight

L

Lineup builder

Open mic · 18 on list

C

Set-Clip status

Daemon · 4 sets queued

1 attn

$

Box office books

Calder settles tonight · $1,406 in transit

B

Broadcasts

Push to ticket holders · 74 contacts

M

Marketing

Weekly digest · sending

live

▢

Poster maker

4 templates · 6 export sizes

20:00CC · Door

Wes Calder · door

80/ 80

74 online · 6 at the door0 left

SOLD OUT

hit the cap on Wes's show · online + door, same instant

Live — last sales

19:58Walk-up · 2card+$50

19:56Walk-up · 1cash+$25

19:54Will-call · Reyesheld—

19:51Walk-up · 3cash+$75

06At the door · Lahiru

Android · in development

The door and the website,
reading the same live count.

Lahiru's phone is the box office now, and it draws from the exact same inventory as the website — one count, the POS and the web reading it together. How much you expose is up to you. Sell the room to cap, oversell by 10% on a safe bet, or open held seats back up when that group of 20 only sends 8. The limit is yours to set; Stagetime just keeps both doors honest to it.

One count, two doors

Your POS and the website read the same live inventory — never double-sell the last seats.

A safe limit you define

Online keeps selling up to the ceiling you set. Oversell a little, or hold seats back — your call.

07The open mic · Lahiru

ccu.stageti.me/friday — 22:00

Make the list however your room likes.

At 10pm the back room fills with comics. Some venues draw from a hat, some run points so the regulars who show up every week get the love, some just go first-come. Stagetime does all of it — Lahiru picks the method, the room signs up from their phones, and nobody's name gets lost on a clipboard.

ccu.stageti.me/mic/1/lineupVenue admin · drag & drop

Back to open mics

venue / mic / friday-night-open-mic / 2026-06-05 / lineup

Not saved yet Kiosk QR Show on screen View as performer

Run show Start the show

Friday, June 5 · 21:45 doors

Build the lineupFriday Night Open Mic

Drag from Signups → into the order. Doors open in 0 min.

Run time

0 / 120 min

0:000:301:001:30 · safety2:00

0

on list

of 20 cap

0

checked in

confirmed

3

alternates

waitlist

0

conflicts

resolve →

Signed up · pool

11 unassigned

In signup order. Drag onto the list.

01

NB

Nati Brennerthey

21:53·8× here

⚑ unconfirmed

02

LU

Luis Uzhe/him

22:04·16× here · regular320p

03

ES

Elizabeth Selinshe/her

22:12·1× here

⚑ name match

04

GS

Garrett Simpson-Lindhe/him

22:13·16× here · regular280p

05

JD

Julian Diazhe/him

22:15·12× here50p

06

RW

Reese Whamshe/her

22:16·first time50p

⚑ name match

07

CS

Cedric Simmonshe/him

22:18·first time

08

AW

Asha Wolframshe/her

22:21·first time

09

SG

Santiago Garciahe/him

22:24·21× here · regular380p

10

MF

Michelle Finniganshe/her

22:27·first time

11

AM

Aboud Maktoumhe/him

22:30·3× here

The running order

0 slots · 0 breaks · 0 open

Drop a name here to add a slot

Drag a number to reorder · ⌘ del to remove · ⌘ ⇧ ↑ promote to topLast set ends · 21:05 · 25 min buffer to last call

22:01ccu.stageti.me/friday

Signups open · close 21:00

Friday Night Open Mic.

5-minute sets · 18 cap · lottery at 21:00. Regulars get +1 entry.

You're at the door. ✓

42m from the pin · inside the 100m fence

Signed in as

Hannah Park

3× at the Underground · last set Apr 22

✓ Drawn at signup close if the lottery runs.

✓ Tape rolls. Set-Clip sends your highlights tomorrow.

Meanwhile · on the performer's phone

Geo-fenced, signed in, tap to join the list.

Performers show up to the door, open ccu.stageti.me/fridayon their phone, and the geo-fence confirms they're here. One tap puts them in the signup pool — the same pool feeding the lineup builder above.

08Set-Clip · the recorder that delivers itself

A small install · Win / macOS / Linux

Stop paying somebody to cut tapes
every Monday morning.

Every recorded room ends up with the same ritual: someone opens an audio editor, scrubs the whole night, exports a clip per performer, emails them out. Set-Clip retires that job. Install the little daemon on whatever machine records the night, and it serves the tapes itself.

~4hr/wk

before

0hr/wk

after

01

You already capture the night

A laptop in the booth, a board feed, a phone on a tripod — whatever you use. Set-Clip doesn't replace it. The long file just sits there.

02

A performer requests their tape

After the set they hit /request-a-tape, pick the night and their slot, drop $2. The request lands on your daemon — nowhere else.

03

The daemon trims it

It finds the recording, matches the timestamp to their slot from your lineup, cuts just their set with a little pre-roll, uploads it.

04

They get the download

A wallet-style link, expires in 72 hours. Performer keeps the tape, you keep a cut, nobody at the venue touched an editor.

Set-Clip daemonRunning

42

sets recorded · 30d

14

clips delivered

$120

licensed back to you

Queue · auto-cut

Santiago GarciaApr 26 · slot 04delivered

Hannah ParkApr 26 · slot 03trimming…

Luis UzApr 26 · slot 07requested

Nothing leaves the room without a request.

Stagetime never pulls a performance off your machine unless the performer asks for theirs. You decide who's even allowed to request — gate it to regulars, to a list, to nobody. Or don't run Set-Clip at all and keep cutting tapes yourself. It's your tape, your room, your call.

Stagetime charges $2 a set to auto-clip the tape

Add your own fee on top — keep the recording gear paid for

Gate requests by performer, by list, or off entirely

09The morning after · Tido

The lights are off, the chairs are stacked. Saturday morning, Tido — who owns the place and handles the daylight half — pours a coffee and opens the books. Last night already did the math.

ccu.stageti.me/box-office-books · $5/mo

Track every dollar. Email every settlement.
Pay people how you already do.

Online, at the door, comps, the bar — every sale lands in one ledger, sorted by date, show, and artist automatically. When a show closes, Tido clicks Send and each performer (or their manager, or their agent) gets an itemized statement of exactly what they're owed. You pay them however you like — Venmo, Zelle, a check, cash. Stagetime keeps the books; you settle.

Book № 4 · FY 2026 · the running ledger

$24,116net · 90 days

▲ +12.4%vs prev 90

DateShowKindGrossState

Jun 7

Wes Calder · Fri

S-2041

Paid$1,798to-send

Jun 6

Friday Night Open Mic

S-2040

Mic—closed

Jun 1

Cassie Vu · after hours

S-2039

Late$560paid

May 31

Hannah Park · feature

S-2038

Paid$684paid

May 30

Tuesday Open Mic

S-2037

Mic—closed

Auto-imported · by date, show & artist2,038 settlements lifetime · $1.4M paid

Ready to send · Wes Calder

Settlement S-2041

$320

Door fee guarantee$200.00

Back-end · 20% over $1,000$95.60

Set-Clip licensing · 1 clip$24.40

Statement goes to Wes's agent at Avalon — set once, remembered forever.

1099 watch · 2026 tax year

file by Jan 31

2 performers crossing $2,000

Maya Chen$2,140crossed

Hannah Park$1,920approaching

Stagetime flags who's near the threshold before you trip it. No spreadsheet, no surprise in January.

10Make the next show · Tido

Next Friday's show, live
before the coffee's cold.

With the books squared away, Tido locks in the booking he just inked online. He copies last Friday, swaps in the new headliner from the roster, sets the date, hits publish. Two minutes, start to on-sale — the kind of thing the old setup made an afternoon.

01

Copy from last Friday

Name, ticket types, lineup roles, promo codes — all carry over. No blank page.

02

Swap the headliner + date

Type the new name. They're already on the roster. Pick the date off the calendar.

03

Publish

The public page goes live on your subdomain. Checkout, the door scanner, the kiosk, the marquee — all wired off this one record.

No more 1990s headshots.

Because Marcus has a Stagetime profile, his current photo, bio, and the reels he wants shown all flow onto the event by default — from the profile he manages, or the one you made for him.

ccu.stageti.me/manage/events/newCreate event

↳ pulling “Wes Calder · Jun 6” — lineup, tickets & codes carried over.

Event name

What's the name of your event? *

Marcus Bell · Live at The Underground

Lineup

Pulled in from Marcus's Stagetime profile — he keeps it current.

HEADSHOT

Marcus Bell✓ profile linked

Half Hour on Comedy Central, two Fests, sharp crowd work.

▶ Tight 5▶ Crowd work▶ Album promo

HEADLINER

Date & time

Show

Fri · Jun 13 · 20:00

Doors

19:30

Ends

21:30

✓ Room free · no conflicts · 80 seats available

Tickets

General Admission

80 available

$20.00

Couple’s special

20 available · save $4

$36.00

Door price

walk-up · same inventory

$25.00

1:42from blank → on-sale

11Draft the email · Tido

ccu.stageti.me/marketing · drag to your list size

Email that costs less than
your espresso machine.

Last thing before Tido locks up: tell the list who's on next Friday. Everyone else charges a fixed monthly bill set by your list size — with a send ceiling baked in. Stagetime charges $0.0015 an email plus two dollars a campaign. No monthly, no cap, nothing the weeks you stay quiet.

New blast · to the listspam score 1.2 · clean

Thursday · ahead of the show

Marcus Bell takes the Underground.

Hi {first_name}— Friday Jun 13, doors 19:30. GA's $20 in advance, $25 at the door if we have room. They go fast.

presale code carried from last week

Regulars + recent buyers · 1,284

scheduled · tomorrow 10:30 (best open rate)

$3.93

this whole send

Cost per month

verified Jun 2026

Contacts on your list5,000

Campaigns / month4

StagetimeYou

$38

$0.0015/email + $2/campaignno cap, no monthly

Mailchimp

$75+$37

Essentials · billed by list sizeincl. 50k sends/mo · then upgrade

Klaviyo

$100+$62

Email plan · by active profilesincl. 50k sends/mo · then upgrade

Constant Contact

$110+$72

Standard · billed by list sizeincl. 60k sends/mo · then upgrade

Every competitor bills a fixed monthly set by list size, with a send ceiling baked in (Mailchimp caps you at 10× your contacts — go over and you upgrade). Stagetime has no monthly and no cap: $38 for 4 campaigns to 5,000 contacts.

12The drawer · everything else

The stuff other platforms nickel-and-dime

And then all the small things
nobody charges you extra for.

Every feature below is something a venue ends up buying somewhere else — a design tool, a seating add-on, a lobby screen, a cart-recovery app. They're all just… in here.

Still paying Canva?$0

The poster maker's already in here.

Drop in a phone photo, get a tour-ready poster auto-sized for Instagram, the kiosk, and print. Cancel the design subscription.

Open the real poster maker →

No upchargeincl.

Reserved seating, when the room needs it.

Booths, two-tops, a rail with bottle service — build a seat map and sell holds. Other platforms make it a premium tier. Here it’s just a toggle.

ccu.stageti.me/displayfree

A screen that always shows who’s up next.

Point a TV in the lobby at /display and it loops tonight’s lineup and the shows coming up. Advertise the room to the room.

Open CCU's live /display →

Abandon-cart recovery$0.01