The three Monday-morning headaches we optimize away. If you run a museums business, you've probably had all three this quarter.
$0.30 × 180k tickets = $54k/year. TripStub charges no per-ticket fee on any plan, and the Starter plan is $0 outright. For most regional museums that's a substitute-teacher program or an exhibit conservation budget line.
Special exhibits need gentle pacing — not a hard 'slot sold out' cap. TripStub's soft-capacity timed-entry lets you release tickets per 15-minute window and throttle when you see a queue building.
Schools pay by purchase order on net-30 terms, not credit card. Your current ticketing platform makes your education coordinator call the school every time. TripStub's school-group flow is quote → accept → invoice.
"ACME at $0.30/ticket × 180,000 tickets/year is a full-time staff salary. What we actually need is timed-entry, memberships, school groups, and gate check-in that works. Not a hardware partnership. Not a Salesforce integration. Just the core ticketing."
— Composite museum director, Recurring theme from our regional-museum conversations
The core toolbox is free for everyone on the Starter plan. Where a feature belongs to Growth or Scale, we say so below — and it's always a flat monthly rate, never a per-booking fee, never a commission.
Timed-entry admission (soft-capacity)
Release X tickets per 15-minute window. Soft-cap means the system warns, doesn't hard-stop, so your ops team can manage the actual throughput.
Annual memberships (rolling out, Growth plan)
Renewal automation, tier gating (student / individual / family / patron), blackout dates for special exhibits, gift memberships with a custom message at activation. Shipping this quarter.
School-group invoicing (rolling out, Growth plan)
Quote with custom per-student pricing, chaperone comps, and bus drop-off window. Accept → auto-invoice with net-30 terms. Tracked per school district.
Donation upsell at checkout
'Add a $5 contribution' optional line at checkout. Tracked separately from ticket revenue for your accounting team. Tax-deductible receipt auto-emailed if you're a 501(c)(3).
Gate check-in + member lookup
Scan QR at the gate, or type the member's name to look up their annual pass. Works offline — no WiFi required at a lobby desk.
Exhibit ticketing + member pre-sale
Special exhibit ticketed separately with member-first pre-sale windows. Members see availability two weeks before the public does.
Push inventory once. Let availability fan out to the channel managers and OTAs your travelers already use. Channel-manager distribution is a flat-rate Growth module — no plan takes a per-booking cut.
Museum association directories
Own-site ticketing
Google Things to Do
TripAdvisor Attractions
Local tourism boards
Reciprocal-network directories (coming)
If you're running on ACME, Blackbaud Altru, or a homegrown system and want to switch, email [email protected]. For the first 100 museums migrating, Boris personally oversees the CSV import, membership migration, and cutover. The migration help is free — no catch; we want a reputation with regional museums.
Run the numbers on your actual volume. Most operators we talk to save $8k–$35k/year just by skipping the per-booking fee.