Audience1st

So you can build the community around your community arts and culture organization

Audience1st is a web-based, all-in-one, open source system for ticketing, subscriptions, development, and backoffice functions, designed expressly for the needs and budgets of small to medium sized nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. Theaters in the San Francisco Bay Area have been relying on Audience1st for over 10 years.

Run for theaters, not for profit

Audience1st is run by theater folks for theater folks. Low monthly fees (and zero per-ticket fees) cover our hosting and backup costs, nothing more. Or deploy it yourself with no license or royalty fees.

Cultivate long-term relationships

Selling a ticket to a customer is just the first step. Cultivate your ticket buyers into regular customers, then subscribers, and ultimately donors and supporters.

Get paid quickly

Patron payments go directly into your organization's Stripe account. We are never in the path of your revenue, we don't see your patron's credit card data, and we don't collect “convenience” fees.

Integrates with best-of-breed tools

Automatically import Goldstar or TodayTix sales to cultivate new patrons, create marketing campaigns using MailChimp, and add a show calendar and real-time ticket availability to your theater's WordPress-based Web site.

Flexible event types and seating

Events can be in-theater, livestreamed, or stream-anytime. In-theater events can use either general or reserved seating. If you can make a spreadsheet, you can make a seating chart.

No long-term commitment, and you own your data

You pay nothing until you start selling tickets, after which it's month-to-month. If you decide to leave, we'll send you all of your patron and purchase data immediately. Audience1st is 100% open source and all of its data formats are documented.

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Contact

Have questions? Want a demo? Email us at info@audience1st.com. We're happy to provide testimonials from the organizations we work with now and set up a demo for you!