Pricing

No SaaS bill, just a cut of what sells.

Stagetime makes money when the room sells tickets and tapes. Open mics are free. Performers are always free.

For performers
Free, always

Sign up for mics, manage your profile, request your tapes. No upgrade, no paywall.

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For venues
$0.35 per ticket

Cheapest in the industry. Reserved seating is the same price — no surcharge for the seat map. Open mics are free. No monthly bill, no per-event fee, no SaaS contract.

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À la carte
Pay for what you use

Set-Clip tape sales (you keep 80% minus card fees). Marketing emails $2 + provider cost. Box Office Books and custom email $5/mo each. Free poster maker. No tiers, no "Pro" upsell.

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Live comparison

See what you’d pay everywhere else.

$
You keep an extra
$7,848/yr
vs. Eventbrite’s standard rate at your volume. That’s $654 back in the room every month.
We’re cheaper than the cheapest of them by
3.6×
(SeatEngine is the next-lowest at your numbers.)
you
Stagetime
$105/mo
$0.35/ticket × 75 × 4
$0.35/ticket flat. Reserved seating exactly the same.
Eventbrite
$759/mo
$2.53/ticket × 75 × 4
3.7% + $1.79/ticket (Essentials tier).
SeatEngine
$375/mo
$1.25/ticket × 75 × 4
$1.25/ticket flat (no percentage).
Brown Paper Tickets
$885/mo
$2.95/ticket × 75 × 4
5% + $1.95/ticket.
Ticketmaster
$2,100/mo
$7/ticket × 75 × 4
~15% + $4 service charge/ticket (industry avg).
Competitor numbers are public US rate cards (Eventbrite Essentials, SeatEngine published flat rate, Brown Paper Tickets standard, Ticketmaster industry average — service fees vary by event). Stripe payment processing (~2.9% + $0.30/ticket) applies on every platform including ours and isn’t included above. Math is per-ticket × tickets × shows; we don’t add a monthly bill, per-event fee, or SaaS contract.
The breakdown · pay only for what you use

Build your month, line by line.

Put in what a normal month looks like for your room and flip on what you'd actually use. The number on the right is the whole bill. Nothing else gets added to it.

300
tickets a month
TICKETING
The headline. Every paid ticket, no monthly bill.
ALWAYS
Ticket sold
Flat. No percent, no tiers.
$105.00
$0.35 × 300
ALWAYS
Reserved seating
Seat map, seat locking, the lot. The same flat fee as general admission — there is no seat surcharge.
Included
$0.00
PASS
THRU
Stripe card processing
Your Stripe account at Stripe's own rate. You choose per ticket type whether to absorb it or pass it to the buyer. Never touches your Stagetime bill.
2.9% + $0.30
MARKETING
Your list is free to keep. You pay when you send.
Email campaigns
$2.00 a send plus $0.90 per 1,000 emails, passed through at cost.
+$26.00
$6.50 × 4
ALWAYS
Contact storage
However many people are on your list. A contact is a row in a database — we don't charge rent on your audience.
Free
$0.00
5,000
Storage: $0.00/mo, whatever the size
Campaigns / month
4
Send nothing this month and this line is $0.00.
Proofread before send
Optional. Catches typos and flags the tone before twenty thousand people see it.
+$0.00
$0.05 × 4
SUBSCRIPTIONS · OPT-IN
Two extras worth a monthly line. Cancel any time.
Box Office Books
Settlements, performer payouts, sales-tax reports, exports your bookkeeper will accept.
+$5.00
Custom email domain
Confirmations and reminders from hello@yourvenue.com, replies back to you. DKIM and SPF set up for you.
+$5.00
SET-CLIP · TAPES THAT PAY FOR YOUR GEAR
Every performer gets their tape after the show. You don't lift a finger.

No chasing SD cards, no emailing files at 1am. You set the price. You keep all of it — Stagetime's flat $2.00 is added on top for the buyer, not taken out of your side.

01
Your camera rolls
A small app on a machine at the room records the whole night.
02
Every set gets cut
It transcribes the night, works out who was on when, and splits it into one tape each.
03
Comics buy, you get paid
Their set is waiting with their name on it, within hours.
6
Comic pays $7.00 · you keep $5.00 × 6 × 4 shows
+$120.00
toward your gear / mo
The breakdown · pay only for what you use

Every line item, written down.

Most of what we charge is below. The free column on the right is the part competitors usually bury behind a Pro upsell.

Ticketing
The headline — every paid ticket sold, no monthly bill.
Put a show on sale in a few minutes: ticket types, door time, capacity, a public page, a poster. Buyers check out on your own Stripe account, so the money lands in your bank, not ours, and you are never waiting on a payout. On the night, any phone becomes the door scanner — QR check-in, name lookup, comp list, live count of who is actually in the room.
GA ticket sold
Flat. No percent.
$0.35/ticket
Reserved-seating ticket
The same as GA — no seat-map surcharge. Eventbrite charges $0.99 + 2.5% for the same ticket; seats.io charges $0.13 a seat on top of whatever your ticketer takes.
$0.35/ticket
Ticket transfer
Date change or attendee change — same fee as a sale.
$0.35/transfer
Stripe processing
Pass-through. Venue decides per ticket type whether to absorb or pass to buyer.
2.9% + $0.30
In-person (Stripe Terminal)
Lower rate for card-present at the door.
2.7% + $0.05
What that means
Sell 80 tickets at $15 and you pay us $28.00. The same 80 tickets on Eventbrite Essentials (3.7% + $1.79 each) costs $187.60 — 6.7× more, on an identical night.
Marketing
Your list is free to keep. You pay when you send.
Everyone who ever bought a ticket is already a contact, with no import and no CSV: the box office builds the list as the door runs. Write the email in a block editor, drop in a row of upcoming shows that fills itself in from your calendar, and send. You get opens, clicks, and which shows people actually bought from. The difference from a monthly email platform is the billing, not the features. They charge for the SIZE of your list, every month, whether you send or not — so a quiet January costs the same as a busy October, and growing your audience raises your bill. We never charge to store a contact. You pay when you press send, and a month with no sends costs nothing.
Campaign send
Flat fee per send, regardless of list size.
$2.00 per campaign
Email delivery
Resend pass-through. We don't mark it up.
$0.90 per 1,000 emails
Contact storage
However many you have. A contact is a row in a database — charging rent on it would be charging you for having an audience.
Free
Proofread before send
Optional. Catches typos and flags the tone before 20,000 people see it.
$0.05 per email
What that means
A real one: CCU emailed 22,421 people in October. The whole bill was $22.70. Mailchimp charges $270–310 EVERY MONTH for a list that size, before sending a single email — more than twelve times as much, for the privilege of storing names.
Set-Clip · tape sales
Your cameras already ran. This turns the footage into something performers pay for.
A small app on a machine at the venue watches the folder your cameras record into. When a night finishes it transcribes the audio, works out who was on stage and when — from the host's stopwatch where you ran one, from the signup list and the transcript where you did not — and cuts the night into one tape per performer. The performer scans a QR in the room or opens your tape page, finds their set already sitting there with their name on it, and buys it. Nobody scrubs a timeline. Nobody emails a file. You keep 80% of every sale of footage you were already recording.
Tape
Performer pays. 80% to the room, 20% to Stagetime, minus card fees.
$5.00/clip
Burned subtitles add-on
Auto-captioned from the transcript.
+$0.50
9:16 vertical add-on
Center crop for socials.
+$0.50
Performer-tracking 9:16
Camera-follow when the performer moves.
+$0.75
What that means
Twelve comics buy their set from one open mic: $60 of tapes, $48 of it yours, for work nobody did.
Subscriptions (opt-in)
Two things worth a monthly line. Everything else is pay-per-use.
Box Office Books is the paperwork after the lights come up: what the show took, what the door took in cash, what each performer is owed on whatever split you agreed, paid out to them directly, with the sales-tax figure and a CSV your bookkeeper will accept. Custom email domain means the ticket confirmations and show reminders go out from hello@yourvenue.com instead of from us, and replies come back to you — DKIM and SPF configured for you, so it lands in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Box Office Books
Settlements, performer payouts, sales-tax reports, QuickBooks-ready CSV exports.
$5/mo
Custom email domain
Send + receive from hello@yourvenue.com. DKIM + SPF auto-configured.
$5/mo
Always free
Things the platform pays for so you don't have to.
The open-mic side is free in full, not as a trial: signups, the lottery, the regulars bonus, the geo-fence that stops people listing from their couch, the running order, the on-deck ping to the next comic, the host stopwatch. A room that only runs mics never sees a bill from us. We charge when you sell a ticket, and a mic has no tickets to sell.
Performer accounts
Forever. Sign-up, profile, tape requests, performance history.
Free
Open-mic signups
Lottery + regulars bonus + geo-fence, no fee on open-mic nights.
Free
Poster maker
11×17 templates, brand tokens baked in, PDF export. Use it for any show.
Free
Public venue page
yourvenue.stageti.me with calendar, lineup, ticket links.
Free
Night-of door scanner
Run from any phone. QR check-in, ticket lookup, comp list.
Free
Set-Clip daemon
The local app that cuts every set into a tape. No license fee.
Free
FAQ
What do you take?
$0.35 per ticket sold + Stripe processing fees, paid by the venue. That's it on tickets. Open mics are free to run.
Who pays the credit-card fees?
Venue decides per ticket type — absorb the fee (cleaner price) or pass it to the buyer.
Can performers use it for free?
Yes. Forever. Performers never pay anything to use Stagetime.
Do I need to use Set-Clip?
No. Set-Clip is opt-in per venue. The rest of Stagetime works without it. When you do use it, performers get their tape automatically within hours of the night ending.
What about reserved seating?
Exactly the same $0.35/ticket as GA. No seat-map surcharge, no separate seating plan, no add-on. Eventbrite charges $0.99 + 2.5% on a reserved ticket; seats.io charges $0.13 a seat on top of whatever your ticketer already takes.
Email blasts?
2.00 per campaign + 0.90 per 1,000 emails (Resend pass-through). Storing contacts is free, however many you have.
How does that compare to Mailchimp?
Mailchimp bills monthly for the size of your list whether you send or not — $270–310/mo at 25,000 contacts. We charge nothing to hold a list and bill only when you press send: a 22,000-person blast is $22.70, and a month where you send nothing is $0.
Are the competitor numbers above real?
Eventbrite Essentials, Brown Paper Tickets standard, and Ticketmaster's industry-average service fees as of late 2025. Their actual cost varies by event and tier — these are the published baselines.