Run your comedy club from one system.

Book the talent

Every show starts as a booking. Put a date on hold, send the comic or their agent a deal memo to accept online, and book a whole comedy week (headliner, feature and MC across every show) in one step. Change a night or add a late show without starting over. Each act's record at your club shows every show they've done in your rooms, with tickets sold, ticket money and spend per head, plus your team's private star ratings and notes.

Comics who travel get a proper advance: the condo or hotel you're putting them in, their flights and the run sheet, all on one page. GigTools warns you before two comics are booked into the same condo on the same night.

Sell the seats

Set up ticket types once and copy them to the rest of the week. Raise prices as a show sells, hide a ticket type behind a code, sell passes for a weekly show, and seat parties together at cabaret tables, bar counters and accessible seats on a floor plan buyers can pick from. Your shows appear with Buy tickets buttons on your GigTools website, and the same calendar can go on the website you already have with one piece of code.

Ticket money is paid by card through your own Stripe account. Add a notice like "Two-drink minimum" to checkout, the tickets and the confirmation email, so nobody is surprised at the table.

Run the night

The Venue dashboard shows tonight at a glance: each show with its sales, comps and check-ins, the week ahead, and the dates on hold. The box office keeps a live headcount by room, sells to walk-ins by cash or card, finds a buyer by name and prints will-call. The door scans QR codes from a phone. Print the run sheet for the booth, and check who's working the door, the bar and the floor tonight.

Fill the room

Everyone who buys a ticket becomes a patron, with their visits, spend, favorite comics, tags and birthday. Announce a show to the people most likely to come, send a weekly "this week at the club" email, and let anyone unsubscribe in one click. Promote each show with ready-made social posts, and run open mic sign-up lists, first come or by lottery, with a waitlist and bringer counts.

Keep them coming back

Sell memberships that renew by themselves each month or year, with a percent off tickets, free tickets each year, early access to presales and no ticket fees. Members get a card with their code, and their own page to manage it. Sell season tickets with the same seats at every show, let subscribers swap a night they can't make, and hold their seats for renewal next season. Flex packs are a code good for any show. Take donations on your giving page or at ticket checkout, run campaigns with a goal, and send numbered receipts (tax receipts for nonprofits) and a yearly summary.

Run the building

Bring in each night's food and drink sales from your POS, track drink minimums and sell prepaid drink credit. Schedule door, bar, servers, sound and light, and hosts by show night, send shift reminders by text, and export hours for payroll. Turn rental inquiries into proposals with menus and packages, take deposits, send the contract to sign and hand your staff an event order sheet. Venue reports show attendance and sell-through by night, room, headliner and day of the week, food and drink per head, comps, and each show's profit across the month and year over year.

Already booking acts?

GigTools started as gig management for performers and the agents who book them, so the deal side is built in: holds and hold challenges, deal memos, settlement sheets signed by the venue and the act, insurance certificates and an audit trail. If you run a booking agency and a room, add the Venue add-on to your Agency plan. See Venue pricing, or talk to us about your rooms.