Who runs on Venuo

One engine. Three shapes of event.

Venuo is the same tool underneath — create the event, sell the tickets, scan people in. What changes is your room. Find yours below and read how it works in your vocabulary.

Profile 01 — Workshops & courses

The same class, every Saturday.

You teach "Advanced Fermentation Workshop" in a studio that seats twelve. Materials cost money up front, so an early-bird price that closes a week before the session is how you buy jars and cultures without floating the cash yourself. And at the door, you know half the cohort by name.

01
Recurring sessions, not one-offs

Duplicate last week's event, move the date, done. The same class every Saturday should take seconds to schedule, not a fresh setup each time.

02
Early-bird windows that fund materials

Early Bird $18 until Mar 7, then General Admission $25. Sale windows open and close on schedule — you never flip a price by hand at midnight.

03
A small door, not a turnstile

Twelve attendees, one phone, a name you recognize. Scan the QR or tap the name on the list — the admitted count updates either way.

Evening workshop — studio table
A Saturday on Venuo
Early Bird $18.00 · sold out8 / 8
General Admission $25.004 / 6
Admitted at the door11 / 12
Profile 02 — Niche conferences

Two tracks, three tiers, one queue at 9:00.

"Indie Game Dev Meetup #12" is 180 people, a morning and an afternoon track, and a badge table at the door. Your tiers do the persuading: Early Bird drives the decisions that fund the venue deposit, General carries the middle, VIP covers the speaker dinner. Day one starts with a real line at the entrance — and it has to move.

The early-bird window, doing its job
Early Bird
$18.00
Feb 1 – Feb 28
60 / 60 — sold out

Gone in eleven days. That's the venue deposit covered before March started.

General Admission
$25.00
Mar 1 – Apr 1
112 / 150 sold

The price everyone sees after early-bird closes. It switches over automatically.

VIP
$60.00
Mar 1 – Apr 1 · quota 20
14 / 20 sold

Small quota, speaker dinner included. Scarcity you set, not a gimmick.

The 9:00 queue, and the badge moment

Two staff phones scanning, one counting. Each scan prints to the badge table in under a second. If the venue Wi-Fi drops, scans queue on the device and sync when the signal returns.

142 / 180
admitted, 9:24 AM
38
still in line
Community hall — volunteers at the door
Why the fee model decides it
400 suggested donations of $5.00$2,000.00
A percentage platform keeps$200.00+
Venuo keeps$0.00
Profile 03 — Community & NGO events

Donations at the door, volunteers behind it.

"Sunday Community Breakfast" doesn't sell tickets — it suggests a donation, and half the room gives exactly that. The budget is zero or close to it, and the door is run by volunteers who have never seen your setup before this morning. This is a supported way of working on Venuo: a pay-what-you-want ticket is just a ticket type with an open price.

Donation-based entry, not fixed price

Set a suggested amount, let people adjust it, or come in free. Every admission still gets a QR and a place on the list — a $0 ticket checks in exactly like a $60 one.

Volunteers on the door, no training

Door staff get a check-in-only login: point the phone camera at the QR, see green for admitted, orange for already scanned. No sales, no revenue, nothing else to learn.

A hall with bad signal is normal

Basements and community halls are where phone signal goes to die. Scans keep working offline and sync when the connection comes back — the queue at the door never waits on the network.

What doesn't change

Same loop, same money rule, every room.

01
Create → sell → check in

Every event on Venuo runs the same loop: a public page for your event, ticket types with prices and quotas, buyers who check out with just an email, and a phone camera at the door. Workshops, conferences, breakfasts — the shape changes, the loop doesn't.

02
$0 of ticket revenue

No service fee, no per-ticket fee, no percentage. Incumbents take 10–16% of gross — on a $20 ticket that's about $3.12 gone before costs. Venuo charges one flat monthly price and never touches a ticket sale.

03
Money into your own account

Ticket revenue settles directly into the payment account you connect — Venuo never holds it. Your money arrives on your provider's schedule, not ours.

Whichever room you run, the first event is free to create.