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 is $0. 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
Every feature below is in the free plan. No 'enterprise tier' that gates the capability you need once you start growing.
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)
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)
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.
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 hello@tripstub.com. For the first 100 museums migrating, Boris personally oversees the CSV import, membership migration, and cutover. 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.