Venue software pricing: Tripleseat and 12 others compared

On the paid plans a venue could plausibly run on, one building can spend from $335 to more than $4,500 in its first year on venue software, before card fees. The bottom of that range buys contracts and payments with no floor plans, and about $590 is where a floor plan starts to be included. Tripleseat publishes a starting price of $375 per venue per month, which is $4,500 a year before add-ons. Every price below is what the vendor’s own page said on November 9, 2026, and where a vendor publishes no number, the table says so.

We sell one of these thirteen, so here is how the numbers were gathered

I’m Daniel Pitner, Director of Sales at EventDiagram, with twelve-plus years in the event industry, mostly on the side that books venues. We sell event floor plan software at $49 or $149 per property per month, so we compete with the floor plan part of several tools here. We sell no booking, contract or payment tools, which makes most of these products something a venue would run alongside us.

Nobody asked these vendors for a quote or bought these products for this article, so these are list prices and a negotiated deal can differ. An AI research assistant opened the vendors’ pages on November 9, recorded what they said and drafted this article, a second one re-opened them that day to check the figures, and I read the result before it went up. We left out software-directory figures because they disagree with the vendors: one listing put a product at $4 to $32 a month when the vendor’s page says it starts at $150.

How much does Tripleseat cost?

Tripleseat’s packages page says it starts at $375 per venue per month, with unlimited users and no paywalled tiers. Floor Plans, Direct Book, Venue Marketplace, Insights and Tickets are add-ons priced in the sales conversation, and the page does not state a contract length, a setup fee or a card processing rate. Several comparison articles updated this year still say Tripleseat has no public price, so check the date on whatever you are reading.

Ten of thirteen venue tools publish a price, and three make you ask

This table lists each tool’s published price as of November 9, 2026, what the price is charged per, the commitment and any setup fee. Vendor names link to the page the price came from.

Two details change how to read that table. Event Temple and Releventful do not say what their starting price is charged per, so ask before you compare it with a per-venue price. And Cvent’s paid plans carry a 12-month commitment even when billed monthly, so the $150 Pro plan is an $1,800 decision on the monthly route.

One building pays from $335 to more than $4,500 in year one, and the floor plan is the swing

This is our arithmetic on the published prices, for one building with one user, on the lowest plan a venue could plausibly run on, for twelve months. Card fees are left out and get their own section below. Floor plans are in their own column because that is the line item most likely to surprise you.

Add a second user and Caterease goes up by $336 a year plus another $200 launch fee, while Tripleseat, Perfect Venue and EventDiagram do not change. Adding event spaces works differently from tool to tool. Tripleseat and Perfect Venue price by venue or location, so a third ballroom should not move the published number, but confirm that a “venue” means a building. EventDiagram’s Small Venue stops at three event spaces and Venue at ten, and a bigger building is a custom quote.

Floor plans are where the price list stops being simple

A planner choosing between two venues usually asks whether the layout works, so the floor plan is rarely a nice-to-have for a venue. Vendors handle it in four different ways, and each one prices differently.

• Included. Planning Pod says floor plans are included rather than extra, with guest seating assignment, though it no longer publishes what the subscription costs. HoneyBook includes 2D and 3D plans on Essentials and above, still rolling out, with PDF as the only export.
• A paid add-on. Perfect Venue sells a 2D add-on and its own site gives two different prices: $149 a month in a blog post and $199 on its About page. Get it in writing. Tripleseat’s main pages list no Floor Plans price, and a Merri-branded page on Tripleseat’s site lists venue memberships from $150 a month with unlimited users.
• A connection to someone else’s tool. Caterease charges $25 a month per integration, and you should expect the partner’s own subscription on top. Releventful connects to Cvent Event Diagramming or Planur and draws nothing itself. Event Temple lists SeatPlan, EventFlow and Cvent.
• A separate product. Cvent Event Diagramming and EventDiagram draw the plan and leave bookings to whatever you already use.

If you already pay for a CRM, ask what it costs to add a to-scale plan and who draws your event spaces. Which tools fit which kind of building is a separate article.

Card fees can cost more than the software

Only some vendors print their card rates, and those rates can outweigh the subscription. Perfect Venue publishes 2.9% plus 30 cents on cards, plus its own 0.5% on Professional or 0.3% on Premium. Take 20 bookings of $10,000 each, paid by card in one payment. On Professional that is $6,806 in fees, nearly three times the $2,388 subscription. The $10,000 is only an example, so put in your own average, and check whether you pass the fee to your client. Perfect Venue’s ACH option is $5 per payment on Premium, which is why a large final balance is worth moving off a card.

Watch for the reverse pressure too. Total Party Planner adds $200 a month if you do not use its payment product, which is $2,400 a year on top of the listed plan. As of November 9, Tripleseat, Caterease, Event Temple and Releventful print no current card rate on their pricing pages, and HoneyBook’s pricing page gives two different ones, 2.7% plus 10 cents and 2.9% plus 25 cents.

If your floor plans run through Prismm, check this now

Cvent’s current page says new events have been Cvent Event Diagramming only since August 26, 2026, and existing Prismm events stay editable through June 2027. That date has already moved once, so older articles quoting December 2026 are out of date. The page says nothing about third-party connections. Total Party Planner still lists a Prismm export, Caterease still shows the AllSeated logo and Perfect Venue still advertises the integration. HoneyBook is the exception with a date of its own: its Prismm integration retires December 30, 2026.

The tools that will not show you a price

Planning Pod used to publish prices. An archived page from February 2025 shows $149 a month on an annual subscription for its venue product, but today its pricing addresses lead to a demo request, so treat that as history. iVvy and Momentus quote every customer. iVvy’s own estimate of the market, which is a vendor’s view, runs from $60 to $300 a month for small venues up to $1,000 and more for multi-venue groups, with one-time implementation of $3,000 to $15,000.

Eight questions to ask before you sign

1. Does “per venue” mean per building, or per event space?
2. What is the term, and does it renew automatically? How much notice ends it?
3. What is the setup fee, and what does it include?
4. What does the floor plan piece cost, and who draws my spaces?
5. If the plan comes from a partner, what do I pay the partner?
6. What is the card rate, who pays it, and what is the ACH cost on a large balance?
7. Can I export every booking, contract and client record if I leave?
8. How does the system handle a ballroom that divides into sections?

What I would do at each size

With one event space and one or two people, start with the cheapest tool that handles contracts and payments, and add a floor plan only when planners start asking for one. With two or three event spaces, you need a real multi-space calendar. Perfect Venue’s blog describes a calendar that shows booked spaces, so ask to see it across yours. Releventful lists space management in its quoted Full Suite, so its $150 Core price does not answer the question. If your building sells on layout, price the drawing separately from the CRM. Our Small Venue plan at $49 a property covers up to three event spaces, of which we draw one, and Venue at $149 covers up to ten, of which we draw up to five. Both have unlimited team members and no contract, and neither replaces your booking system. If you came here from Cvent’s side of the market, see what Social Tables costs.

These prices get re-checked each quarter, and the date at the top changes when they do. If a vendor’s number has moved since then, tell me and I will fix it.