Chapter 1 is live.
This is Chapter 2.
Everything in Chapter 1 works today — open the demo, no signup. Chapter 2 is what VenueCircuit becomes next, and none of it is guesswork: it comes from verified research into what operators, promoters, tour managers, and bands actually use, love, hate, and wish existed — plus a feature-by-feature comparison against the incumbent platforms.
Close the night. Know your numbers.
- Nightly close — bar, door, staff, payouts, settled in one pass
- Live P&L — every number drills down to the receipt
- Offers & deals — 5 real structures, walk-away simulator, e-sign, version history, co-pro splits
- Holds — H1/H2 levels, 48-hour challenge clock, paste a whole run, one-tap hold sheet
- Two-sided settlement with a lock — venue money separated from promoter money
- Spreadsheet mode — paste from Sheets, bad rows flagged, every number keeps its source
- Show-aware staffing — qualified cover + manager approval; labor lands in the night’s P&L
- Touring OS — routing, travel, set lists, day sheets you can edit from a phone on show day
- Merch OS — counts, 0% fair-merch, artist sign-off
- Booking intelligence — draw index, suggested guarantee range, book-again verdict, honest confidence labels
Money truth, deeper
The owner’s wedge, sharpened — every dollar of the night accounted for, before, during, and after.
- House nut per venue — every offer and every night shows "breaks even at N tickets"in the demo →
- No-surprise fees — every house fee itemized on the offer the artist sees before booking, reconciling 1:1 with the settlementin the demo →
- Receipts on the statement — every settlement line carries its proofin the demo →
- Tax panel — sales & liquor tax accrued per period, due dates counting downin the demo →
- Deposits & payment schedules — netted automatically at settlementin the demo →
- W-9 at acceptance, 1099 summaries in Januaryin the demo →
- Comp tracking — who comped whom and what it cost, per nightin the demo →
- Cash drawer counts — expected vs. counted, in the closein the demo →
A network that recruits itself
Every artifact you send makes its recipient a user. Promoters, artists, and crews get their side free.
- Verified Draw Passport — every settled night becomes provable ticket history an act can carry to any room (no more "our draw is 400, trust us")in the demo →
- Per-act door attribution on split bills — who actually drew, settled to the centin the demo →
- Claim-your-side links on every shared day sheet, offer, and settlementin the demo →
- The staff app — schedules on your crew’s phones: my shifts, open shifts, availability. Calm, no feed.in the demo →
- Morning ticket counts + pace alerts — "this show is pacing behind your Fridays," two weeks outin the demo →
- Agent avail-links — "what’s open in October?" answered with one live linkin the demo →
- A thread on every show — venue, promoter, and tour talking on the same record as the moneyin the demo →
- Family view — a read-only link so the people at home know the hotel and the set timein the demo →
Switching made effortless
Leaving the old tools takes an afternoon — and nobody you work with will even notice you switched.
- Exit kits — import your calendar, settlement history, and contacts from the incumbent platformsin the demo →
- Industry-standard paper — our settlements and offers print in the layouts agents already recognizein the demo →
- Calendar feeds — subscribe to holds, confirms, and on-sales from Google Calendarin the demo →
- The door scanner — validate tickets and guest lists from any ticketing provider; verified attendance feeds the Draw Passportin the demo →
- Radius-clause guard — the calendar warns before you double-book an act inside its radiusin the demo →
- Announce → on-sale workflow — the marketing checklist attached to every confirmed dateproduction build
- Riders, stage plots, COIs, and contracts attached to the show recordproduction build
- Show-day incident log — timestamped and exportablein the demo →
- The Billing Bill of Rights — public pricing, month-to-month, never charged without asking. And if you’re locked into a competitor’s annual contract: free until it expires.in the demo →
VC Tickets
When you’re ready, the ticket itself — optional, never forced. Bring-your-own-ticketing stays first-class forever.
- Flat fee per ticket — no percentage games, no hidden buyer fees beyond itin the demo →
- Next-day payout to the venuein the demo →
- Scalper-hostile by design — rotating entry codes, door validation, face-value transfer onlyin the demo →
- One more connector in the hub — switch in when your current ticketing contract expires, not beforein the demo →
Why this compounds
Every night closed in VenueCircuit builds something no competitor holds: verified draw history, real per-room economics, and a web of promoters, artists, and crews who got their side free. The incumbents sell software. Chapter 2 builds the network — and the network is the moat.
Chapter 2 ships as proof-of-concept surfaces on the live demo first, then hardens into production inside the funded build program. Sequenced, priced, and scoped — ask for the build documents.