Reserved seating plans, e-tickets, phone bookings and instant reports — with no monthly fees and no booking fees for your audience.
Everything a society front-of-house team needs, from first night to final curtain
Amateur theatre companies, operatic societies, youth theatres and community drama groups across the UK run their ticketing on Your Box Office — from panto season to festival runs. Your audience books their exact seats online 24/7 and receives e-tickets instantly; your committee sees live sales figures per performance; and the money is paid straight into the society's bank account as tickets sell.
The reserved seating plan builder recreates your theatre, church hall or school stage row by row, with price bands and concessions per section. General admission works too.
Committee members see live availability, allocate seats instantly — blocking anyone else from buying them — and take cash or cheque. Loyal patrons who always ring up are never left out.
No waiting for a settlement after the run ends: card payments go directly to your bank account as tickets sell, and live reports show revenue per performance for the treasurer.
No monthly fees and no booking fees added to your audience's tickets. One production — unlimited performances — is £90 +VAT; annual plans cover a full season up to unlimited events for £400 +VAT; or use Pay As You Go at a flat 4.5% + 20p per transaction with nothing upfront. Full details on the sell tickets page.
Picture a 120-seat hall over a Thursday-to-Saturday run: 360 tickets at £10 is £3,600 through the box office. Your audience books in couples and groups — call it 140 bookings — so card processing at 2.7% + 20p per transaction comes to roughly £125, and the Starter plan covers the whole production for £90 +VAT. All-in that is about £235 — around 6.5% of ticket income — with the audience paying face value, no booking fee added. On Pay As You Go the same run costs about £190 in transaction fees with nothing paid upfront. The treasurer watches the money land in the society's account night by night as tickets sell, instead of chasing a settlement after the get-out.
Figures are illustrative; card processing varies slightly with basket size.
More than a seat picker — the tools a front-of-house manager actually needs
Build an allocated seating plan of your theatre, church hall or studio — every row, aisle and restricted-view seat where it really is — with price bands and concessions per section. Playing a different venue next run? Save a plan for each.
Allocate and hold seats for patrons, sponsors, the director's family or press night before general booking opens — a held seat can't be bought by anyone else, and you can release unused holds back on sale at any time.
On show week the live plan is your house management: see what's sold and what's left per performance, take a phone booking and seat it while the caller waits, and hand the door team an exact picture of who sits where.
Am-dram runs on volunteers, and your box office software should respect that: no training courses, no committee member glued to a laptop, no patron left behind because they don't do the internet. Several members can share the box office, the loyal patrons who always ring the same number still get their usual seats by phone, and the treasurer's report writes itself. Whether you're a NODA member society or an independent am-dram group, staging a spring musical, an autumn play and a Christmas panto, one account covers the whole season — and because there are no monthly fees, it costs nothing in the quiet months between productions. When the next show is cast, put tickets on sale the same evening.
It scales down as gracefully as it scales up. A one-act festival entry, the youth section's showcase, a fundraising concert in the rehearsal room — each takes minutes to set up alongside the main season. And your audience doesn't have to change a thing: regulars who have booked by ringing the same volunteer for twenty years can keep doing exactly that, while their grandchildren book the same seats from a phone at midnight. Every sale, however it arrives, lands in the same seating plan and the same report.
Yes. The seating plan builder is included on every plan. Recreate your venue row by row, set price bands per section, and let your audience pick their exact seats — or sell unreserved general admission if you prefer.
There are no monthly fees. A single production with unlimited performances is £90 +VAT, annual plans run up to £400 +VAT for unlimited events, or Pay As You Go has no upfront cost at a flat 4.5% + 20p per transaction. No booking fees are added to your audience's tickets.
Card payments are paid directly to your society's bank account via Stripe as tickets sell — you are not waiting until after the final curtain to bank the money.
Yes. Your front-of-house team see the live seating plan, allocate seats instantly so nobody else can buy them, and record payment by cash, cheque or on the door.
Set up your society's box office in minutes — free to register, and your first event can be on sale today.
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