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How does Opendate compare?

Thirteen platforms, side by side. Every one of them sells a ticket. Almost none of them book the show.
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Every claim sourced and dated
An honest concession on every page
One record from hold to settlement

How does Opendate compare?

Ticketing platforms

They sell the ticket. The ten weeks before it never enter the system.

Opendate vs
Etix
Best for
Box office terminals, mail fulfilment and staffed phone sales.
Why venues pick Opendate
Etix stops at checkout. Opendate prices the on-sale off the offer you just signed and settles the night off live counts.
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Opendate vs
Tixr
Best for
High-volume ticketing, with booking bolted on through Prism.
Why venues pick Opendate
Tixr hands booking to Prism. On Opendate one record carries the hold, the offer, the on-sale and the settlement.
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Opendate vs
AXS
Best for
Arena-scale ticketing inside the AEG ecosystem.
Why venues pick Opendate
The company ticketing your show also books against it. On Opendate the fan list your shows built is yours alone.
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Opendate vs
EVENTIM
Best for
Self-service ticketing under about 12,000 tickets a year.
Why venues pick Opendate
Four shows a week and you outgrow the tier. Opendate never meters your volume and settles the show.
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Opendate vs
Eventbrite
Best for
One-off events and open discovery marketplaces.
Why venues pick Opendate
Eventbrite owns the analytics layer built on your buyers. Opendate keeps every fan in your own CRM.
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Opendate vs
TicketSpice
Best for
Fast, cheap, highly customisable checkout pages.
Why venues pick Opendate
Checkout is the last ten minutes of a ten-week job. Opendate holds the ten weeks and the ten minutes together.
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Opendate vs
Saffire
Best for
Fairs, festivals and destinations that need a website fast.
Why venues pick Opendate
A fairgrounds platform has never settled with a headliner. Opendate puts the deal layer under a branded site and app.
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Opendate vs
DICE
Best for
Discovery-led promoters who want access to DICE's audience.
Why venues pick Opendate
On DICE the ticket belongs to the app, and so does the fan. Opendate lands every buyer in your own CRM.
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Opendate vs
TicketWeb
Best for
Clubs already inside the Ticketmaster ecosystem.
Why venues pick Opendate
Your website is a feature of your ticketing contract. Opendate hands you the CMS and an app under your own ownership.
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Cheap checkout is easy. The ten weeks before it are the job.

Every platform above prices the sale. None of them price the deal behind it — the hold you ranked on Tuesday, the offer you signed on Wednesday, the advance you sent on Friday, and the split you settled at one in the morning.

Independent rooms run the whole year on Opendate.

Event pipeline up 82% in year one.

Buskirk-Chumley Theater, comparing the twelve months before and after moving onto Opendate.

Unique fans up 531%, revenue up 326%.

Nobool Presents, measured across a full season of programming on one fan record.

Add-on revenue up 505% per show.

Rock the Ruins, with average tickets per show up 87% over the same period.

Enterprise box office

Built for the institution, not for the deal desk.

Opendate vs
Tessitura
Best for
Large arts institutions with fundraising and development teams.
Why venues pick Opendate
Nine years of box office software that can't cut an offer. Opendate runs the offer, the on-sale and the settlement off one record.
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Booking tools

They book the show, then hand the fan to somebody else.

Opendate vs
Prism.fm
Best for
Booking teams already happy with their ticketing vendor.
Why venues pick Opendate
Prism reads your ticketing company's API, so you get counts, never names. Opendate attaches the fan to the show you just booked.
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Attractions

Purpose-built for one season. Your calendar runs all year.

Opendate vs
HauntPay
Best for
Haunt operators running a 40-night October.
Why venues pick Opendate
October is 40 nights. Opendate's CRM fills the concerts and rentals that run the other 325.
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Opendate vs
FEARTICKET
Best for
Haunted attractions that need the gate to run clean.
Why venues pick Opendate
Purpose-built means 40 nights. Opendate books and settles the concerts, rentals and private events that fill the other ten months.
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Run the whole room

The offer prices the on-sale, and the night settles before load-out. See it on your own calendar.

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