Always free for the venue
Built for venues.
Run your entire venue from one platform — ticketing, box office, check-in, fundraising and donor records, artist deals, payouts, marketing. Built for the way live events actually happen. Costs you nothing.
100% Free for Venues
No setup fees, no monthly charges, no contracts, no hidden costs. Noctern earns a small service fee on each ticket sold — paid by the ticket buyer, not you. You keep your full ticket price.
Why venues choose Noctern
The differentiators that other ticketing platforms can't match — and don't.
Always free, no contracts
No setup fee, no monthly fee, no contracts. Buyers cover the service fee and you keep your full ticket price. The only ticketing platform that can say it.
Built for nonprofit venues and arts organizations
Donations at checkout and on a shareable giving page, recurring sustainers, donor records with full giving history, funds and appeals, LYBUNT/SYBUNT reports, IRS-compliant receipts and acknowledgment letters, tax-exempt fundraiser events. Noctern takes no cut of a gift.
Your artist relationships, end to end
Deal sheets, settlement, digital signing, 1099-NEC reports, payment history. The booking + accounting workflow that usually lives in a separate tool — already inside the platform.
AI built for the people running the venue
Bulk check-in from photos, artist discovery, AI-assisted event promotion, plain-language analytics. Designed for the operator, not the buyer.
From the front door to the IRS
Box office, QR check-in, branded payout reports, a full ticket ledger with QuickBooks-ready journal exports, artist settlement and 1099-NEC, tax reporting. One platform for selling the seat and accounting for it.
Designed for the way live events actually happen
Arrival windows, booths, whole-table booking, walk-up door sales, seat holds, VIP reservations. The patterns the big platforms ignore.
Marketing data the big platforms keep
Sales by geography, device, traffic source. Detailed attribution data the legacy ticketing platforms collect for themselves — yours by default.
Bar revenue, attributed to every show
Plug in Square or Toast. Noctern attributes bar sales to the exact event running during that window, computes bar-per-attendee, and builds per-event gross margin from ticketing + bar minus artist payout. Nobody else in ticketing does this.
Run your whole venue from one platform
Ticketing & Sales
- ✓Reserved seating + general admission
- ✓Multiple pricing tiers per event
- ✓Promo codes (percentage, fixed, max-price)
- ✓Pricing categories (Senior, Student, member)
- ✓Early-access codes & scheduled on-sales
- ✓Multi-day event passes
- ✓Venue membership programs
Fundraising & Donors
- ✓Donations at checkout + giving page with QR code
- ✓Recurring giving with failed-payment dunning
- ✓Donor CRM with giving history and interactions
- ✓Funds, appeals and goal tracking
- ✓LYBUNT/SYBUNT and top-donor reports
- ✓IRS-compliant receipts and acknowledgment queue
- ✓Tax-exempt fundraiser events for 501(c)(3)s
- ✓Migrate donors from PatronManager or Salesforce
Box Office & Door
- ✓Walk-up point-of-sale
- ✓Seat holds & VIP reservations
- ✓QR-code check-in (phone or tablet)
- ✓Bulk check-in from photos (AI vision)
- ✓Real-time seat availability
- ✓Arrival windows for staggered seating
- ✓Guest list management
Money & Operations
- ✓Payouts straight to your bank via Stripe
- ✓Ticket ledger + QuickBooks Desktop journal export (IIF/CSV)
- ✓Branded venue payout reports (PDF)
- ✓Artist deal settlement + 1099-NEC
- ✓Sales reports by event, date, geography
- ✓Refund processing built in
“You see the room. We see the system behind it. Both have to be working for the night to feel right.”
Powerful tools, included
Every feature is available to every venue. No premium tiers. No feature gates.
Visual Layout Editor
Drag-and-drop seat map editor. Tables, rows, booths, GA zones, sections, custom shapes — all with live previews.
Fundraising & Donations
Donations at checkout or on a dedicated giving page with its own QR code. Supporters pick a fund, can cover processing fees, and your venue keeps 100%.
Donor CRM
Every buyer and donor becomes a patron record with giving history, contact details and logged interactions. Search, segment, and migrate from PatronManager or Salesforce.
Full-Service Box Office
Point-of-sale for walk-up sales, seat holds, and reservations. Process payments on the spot.
QR Check-in
Any phone or tablet becomes a scanner. Real-time validation, fraud prevention, and a fast door line.
Artist Deals & Settlement
Guarantee, door deal, versus, and bonus structures. Digital deal-sheet signing and automatic settlement.
Membership Programs
Tiered memberships per venue. Free-ticket allotments, discount tiers, and exclusive perks.
Calendar Distribution
Push your events to local listing sites and calendar partners to reach new audiences.
Social Publishing
Promote events to X, Facebook, and Instagram from your dashboard in one click.
Pricing Categories
Senior, Student, Member — buyer-selectable category overrides at checkout, per event.
Apple Wallet & PDF Tickets
Deliver tickets straight to Apple Wallet. PDF and email options for everyone else.
Email Reminders & Confirmations
Automatic ticket confirmations, event reminders, and post-event thank-yous.
Menus & Add-ons
Reusable menu templates, on-the-ticket add-ons, and arrival-window seating for restaurant venues.
Secure Payments
Stripe-powered processing for cards, digital wallets, and Apple Pay. Funds deposited directly to your bank.
See how Noctern compares to every other ticketing platform
A side-by-side comparison against Etix, Dice, AXS, Eventbrite, TicketSpice, Ticket Tailor, and others. Spoiler: we're the only one with a $0 row across the board.
How it works
One platform. From the deal sheet to the deposit slip.
What it actually looks like to run a venue on Noctern — from booking the show to closing the books.
Twin Cities Artist Discovery
3,506 with Bandcamp · 1,052 with Spotify
Discovery
Find the right artist before the gig.
Browse a curated database of local artists with real audience signal — tier, kind, reach across Spotify, YouTube, and Instagram, genre fingerprint. Filter to the headliner you actually want, or surface the new opener you would never have found.
- 3,500+ local artists with audience signal across Spotify, YouTube, Instagram
- Audience tier + classification (Major, Regional, Local · Solo, Band, DJ)
- Filter by genre, tier, activity — add to your roster in one click
The Friday Set
Saturday, Aug 22 · 8:00 PM · Headliner + 1 opener
Booking
You set the deal. We do the math.
Build artist deal sheets — guarantee, door deal, versus, bonus — with the exact terms you negotiated. Send a signing link, get a digital signature. When the show is done, settlement is one click and the artist gets a clean PDF with the math shown.
- Guarantee, door deal, versus, bonus structures
- Digital signing, settlement PDF, 1099 reporting
- Hospitality, schedule, billing, radius clause — all in one sheet
On-sale
Build the show. Hit go.
Set your layout, your pricing tiers, your promo codes, your arrival windows. Publish, and the event is live across every channel that matters — buyers, your calendar, third-party event sites, Apple Wallet.
- Visual seat-map builder — rows, tables, booths, sections
- Pricing tiers, promo codes, max-price ALL-IN, early access
- Automatic calendar distribution to 40-mile radius
Annual Fund 2026
$42,300 raised of $60,000
Giving
Every ticket buyer is a donor you haven’t asked yet.
Take a gift at checkout or on a shareable giving page with its own QR code. Supporters pick the fund, can cover the processing fee, and become sustainers with one tap. Every gift lands in a donor record with full history, receipts go out automatically, and development reports are ready when the board asks.
- Donations at checkout + giving page with QR code — Noctern takes no cut
- Recurring sustainers, IRS-compliant receipts, acknowledgment queue
- Funds, appeals, LYBUNT/SYBUNT and top-donor reports
The Friday Set
Doors 7:00 · Set 9:00
Doors
Walk-ups, holds, and the will-call line, handled.
A real box office, not a check-in app. Sell tickets at the door on any tablet, place comp holds, manage the guest list, and process refunds — all from the same interface your team already knows.
- Walk-up sales, seat holds, comp tickets
- Real-time capacity + sold counts
- Refund any seat in one tap — money flows back through Stripe
Show time
QR scan in under a second.
Check guests in by scanning their phone or a printed PDF. Bulk check-in from a photo of the guest list. See arrival rates live, spot duplicates, override when you need to. Built for the way actual doors run.
- QR check-in on any phone — no special hardware
- AI bulk check-in from a photo of the door list
- Live arrival metrics, duplicate detection, manual override
The Friday Set
Saturday, Aug 22 · 8:00 PM
After the show
Did this show actually make money?
Connect your POS system in two clicks. Noctern attributes bar revenue to the exact event that was running, computes bar-per-attendee, and builds an event-level gross margin — ticketing take-home + bar revenue minus the artist payout — on one page. The report nobody else in ticketing can give you.
- Read-only POS connection — never charges, never mutates anything
- Per-event bar revenue with a configurable window around doors
- Gross margin = ticketing + bar − artist payout, in one click
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