booking system for concerts and performances

Live music, concerts, and performances have a unique atmosphere—but good event management begins long before the spotlights come on. Ticket sales, capacity management, and communication with attendees are the foundations of a successful event, whether you are organizing an intimate jazz evening, a rock festival, or a series of classical concerts. A modern online booking system allows you to manage the entire process clearly, professionally, and without unnecessary administration.

What you need to manage ...
  • Ticket sales for specific dates with different price categories (VIP, standard, standing, seating, early bird).
  • Selection of a specific seat in the auditorium, section, or row directly when purchasing a ticket.
  • Monitoring occupancy and venue capacity to prevent overselling.
  • Fast attendee check-in by scanning QR codes, without queues or paper lists.
  • Automatic delivery of tickets and practical information about the venue.
  • Online payments via a payment gateway, as well as the option to purchase tickets with cash.

Ticket sales are often one of the most demanding logistical challenges for organizers—especially when handled by phone, email, or only in person at the box office. Online sales fundamentally transform this process. Tickets are available 24 hours a day, allowing attendees to purchase them at any time from the comfort of their homes, pay by card, and immediately receive a ticket with a QR code. The system automatically monitors occupancy, eliminating the risk of overselling or chaos at the entrance. For organizers with limited staff, this saves a tremendous amount of time—instead of taking phone calls and manually keeping records, they can focus on preparing the event itself. And because tickets are digital and can be stored directly in a mobile wallet, there is no risk of losing or forgetting a printed ticket.

The benefits of online sales are also reflected in the economics of the entire event. Dynamic pricing—such as lower prices during advance sales and standard prices for cash purchases at the venue—encourages attendees to buy early and helps you plan more effectively for expected demand. If you organize a concert series or a tour with multiple dates, the system allows you to manage all events in one place and offer attendees a clear selection. Automatic reminders before the event then reduce no-shows while helping you stay connected with your audience. After the event, feedback surveys are sent automatically, allowing you to collect feedback and build authentic reviews—a powerful marketing tool for future events.

Key features for concerts and performances

Organizing concerts and live performances requires a reliable solution for the entire ticket lifecycle—from the initial purchase and seat selection to entrance check-in and post-event feedback. The features selected below cover all key aspects of organizing live events and help make every performance a seamless experience—for attendees and organizers alike.

Tickets

Even though the reservation system works with the concept of a "reservation", it can just as well handle everything related to tickets. A ticket is simply a specific form of what a reservation means within a particular business.

Tickets

A reservation in the reenio system doesn't have to mean just a booked slot in a calendar – it can also mean a ticket. It's just a different way of looking at what you're offering customers, what they're buying, and how the whole process then unfolds.

Every reservation carries everything you'd expect from a ticket – a unique code, a QR code for quick check-in, and information about the time and exactly what it can be used for. From this perspective, selling tickets is a fundamental way of using the reservation system. A ticket is often understood as a document that, for example, matches the visual identity of an event and also contains additional information. All of this can also be provided in the reenio system, where you can create your own design for the reservation confirmation = the look and content of the ticket.

The customer receives their ticket by e-mail right after payment, can save it to their Apple or Google Wallet, and you simply scan it with the mobile app at the entrance. If you want to sell tickets for events, it's really nothing more than a reservation with online payment and a custom confirmation design.

Event: Seat reservation

Even though the name of this event type sounds limited, the opposite is true. It's a type with a wide range of possible uses, where the customer visually chooses specific spots on a map, either as a one-off or within a time interval.

Event: Seat reservation

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Give customers the ability to choose a specific spot directly on a map of a hall, restaurant, or car park – whether for the entire event, or just a selected time period.

This event type lets you create a map of specific places and other elements, from which the customer chooses for themselves where they want to sit, stand, park a car, and so on. There are then two ways to book: either for the whole event at once (a classic ticket sale for an event with a specific seat), or for any time period, where the customer chooses a specific time from and to together with a place (e.g. booking a table in a restaurant or a parking spot). It's suitable for concerts, balls, theatres, cinemas, restaurants, room rentals, shared offices, or parking spaces.

A strong feature of this event type is also its pricing, where the price depends on the category of the place on the map, to which price variants or conditional prices can also be added. Combined with generating a separate reservation code for each booked place, a separate ticket is then always created for each place, labelled with its specific location on the map, so individual attendees can easily be checked in separately.

Dynamic pricing

Conditional prices, price variants, discount codes, and so on – this is all part of the extensive options for how the price of a reservation is calculated. Combined with online payment, it's a significant business and marketing tool.

Dynamic pricing

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Set prices for customers exactly to match your offering – different customer categories, discounts for longer bookings or bookings made well in advance, discount coupons, and any combination of all of these.

The price of a reservation in the reenio system doesn't have to be just a single fixed number – the system provides tools to price your offering intelligently and precisely, in line with how your business works. You can set different pricing categories, for example admission for an individual or a family, which are then automatically factored into the reservation based on the customer's choice.

On top of that, you can tailor the price to the specific circumstances of the reservation – for example, giving a discount to customers who book well in advance, or setting a different rate for a longer stay or rental. Thanks to a custom booking form, you can then easily offer add-on services or a discount for a selected group of customers.

For marketing campaigns and controlled access to selected events, discount coupons are useful, with their own settings for validity and number of uses – whether it's a one-off promotion, a loyalty discount, or a closed group for whom you only open up an event when the corresponding code is used.

The power of this pricing approach lies in the fact that all these tools can be combined and used together as needed. The final price always reflects exactly how you want to offer your services and what the customer themselves chooses.

Online payments

Being able to pay for a reserved service through an online payment gateway is now the standard. Customers today are used to paying quickly and securely in online shops and expect the same comfort when booking or ordering services online.

Online payments

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Let customers pay for their reservation or tickets online right away, before the service is provided – faster, more convenient, and with the certainty that the reservation will be paid, and therefore used.

The reenio system allows you to require prepayment as part of the booking process, so a customer's reservation only becomes valid once paid. You decide yourself whether online payment is mandatory, or whether you leave it up to the customer to pay on site. With mandatory payment, you can set a deadline by which a new reservation must be paid, otherwise it is automatically cancelled and the slot is released for another customer.

For online payments you can choose from several supported payment gateways. The reservation system then handles the technical connection and communication with the chosen gateway, but all business and formal matters are handled directly with the payment gateway provider – you keep the money you receive under your own control, in your own merchant account.

  • GoPay

    An online payment gateway offering a wide range of payment methods, from card payments to fast bank transfers, Apple Pay, or Google Pay.

  • Comgate

    Another Czech payment gateway that also operates in other European countries. Its payment methods vary and cover common needs.

  • Stripe

    A global payment gateway that is becoming increasingly popular. It offers fast integration and approval, so you can start accepting payments within minutes.

  • Bank transfer

    A special type of payment method where the reservation system itself can generate a QR code for payment and then automatically verify and match received payments.

After a successful payment, the system automatically marks the reservation as paid and generates and sends the customer a payment document. The reenio system offers a wide range of options and features for working with payments, including exports, refunds, and more. However, it should be noted that reenio itself is not an accounting system.

Event: One single event

The easiest event type to set up and use, offering a booking for a specific, fixed time from and to, including an optional capacity limit. A customer always books the entire listed event.

Event: One single event

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Offer customers a reservation for a fixed time slot with a limited capacity – ideal wherever more than one person needs to be able to attend an event, but not more than you're able to serve.

With the Full single event type, a customer always books the whole event as set, i.e. a fixed time slot from – to, with no option to choose a custom time. This is typically an event with a higher capacity, taking place at a fixed time – suitable for sports events and lessons, seminars, lectures, concerts, exhibition openings, one-off courses, workshops, or tours.

For this type you can also enable a so-called waiting list, where a customer can still express interest in booking even after all available capacity has been used up. This event type also supports creating recurring reservations and supports online events.

Google and Apple Wallet

Today's customers are used to having everything quickly available at hand. Thanks to support for Google and Apple Wallet, they can save a ticket, reservation QR code, or coupon directly to their phone without needing to print a document or search for an e-mail.

Google and Apple Wallet

Offer customers the option to save their ticket, reservation, or coupon directly to their phone, in an app they already know and use – Apple Wallet or Google Wallet.

The reenio system lets customers add the QR code for a reservation or ticket directly to their Apple or Google system wallet, so the customer doesn't need to look up a confirmation e-mail or print a document – the code is saved right on their phone, where they can easily find it when they arrive.

The same option can also be used with coupons – meaning QR codes for gift coupons, discount codes, and punch cards. For a coupon that's drawn down gradually, this solution has one huge advantage: the customer can see their current balance directly in their phone's wallet.

For the customer, this is primarily about convenience and a lower risk of losing or forgetting a ticket or coupon – for you, it means a somewhat smoother and faster check-in process for tickets and coupons.

Cash register and payment terminal

When online payments aren't enough and you need to accept payments on the spot, the cash register feature comes in handy – issuing and printing a receipt, processing a card payment through a terminal, and so on.

Cash register and payment terminal

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Handle payments received in person on the spot too – mark a reservation as paid, generate an accounting document, and print it directly on a POS printer, or accept a card payment right away through a connected payment terminal.

The cash register feature lets you mark a reservation as paid directly in the administration, even when the payment took place outside the online payment gateway, for example in cash at reception. The system can then issue a corresponding accounting document for the payment received this way, respecting the configured document numbering, and so on.

For card payments, the system can also be connected to a payment terminal (SumUp, GP Tom, Comgate), which means a payment request can be sent to the terminal directly with a button in the reservation detail, and after a successful payment the system automatically marks the reservation as paid, creates the payment and document, and sends the customer a confirmation by e-mail, just like with payment via the online gateway.

Mobile check-in app

The mobile app for Android and iOS is a significant addition for running your business efficiently and making full use of the reservation system – especially if you're using QR codes for reservations and tickets. Checking and checking in a reservation then becomes a matter of seconds.

Mobile check-in app

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The reenio mobile app (Android and iOS) is mainly used for quick and easy on-the-spot online check-in of individual reservations and tickets. It also includes an overview calendar of reservations and a customer list, so a reservation can be found even without knowing the specific code.

The app is therefore intended for administrators or other users (e.g. temp staff, front-of-house staff, receptionists) who need fast, hands-on access to data and information. This also means that a user doesn't need access to the full system administration to log into the app – a special authorization QR code can be used to log in instead.

A reservation code is primarily scanned as a QR code using the mobile device's camera, but it can also be entered manually or looked up. For larger numbers of visitors, it's a good idea to get a mobile device with a hardware laser code scanner – scanning is significantly faster and more reliable. Combined with automatic check-in mode, where, if everything about the reservation/ticket is in order, the code is automatically marked as checked in a moment after scanning, this becomes a very fast helper.

The app can also check in individual places within a single reservation (e.g. specific seats), and besides reservations it can also handle redeeming coupons or punch cards by scanning their code.

Customer reviews

Feedback from customers is very important. Automatically sending a satisfaction survey shortly after a reservation takes place is thus a very powerful tool that fits well into the overall marketing of a business.

Customer reviews

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Want to know how satisfied your customers are? Just send them a request for a review once the event has ended. The reservation system can help with this and can automatically send, store, and process satisfaction surveys from customers.

Gathering feedback works by combining two features – a review form and custom messages. The review form defines the custom questions of various types that you want answers to, as well as a star rating. This form can then be linked to a custom message, which ensures it's sent to the customer according to defined rules and based on a specific event.

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Are you wondering if an online reservation system is right for you? Check out the FREQUENT QUESTIONS or the DOCUMENTATION pages and try out the reenio system.