Theater-first ticketing for school productions & community theaters
Sell tickets online, manage orders, and check in your audience from your phone. Publish general admission shows yourself, with guided setup for reserved seating.
Explore checkout and staff tools. No account needed.
Best fit: 150–1,200 seat houses · 4–20 productions a year · lean teams, real lobby pressure.
For schools and community theaters
The drama teacher selling tickets between rehearsal and third period.
The team managing a 12-show season with 3 staff and 40 volunteers.
How it works
Share your show page so patrons can choose a performance, select tickets, and pay online. Set up and publish general admission shows yourself. Reserved and hybrid seating require HouseLights review and activation before public sales.
Scan tickets at the door. Use the box office to take cash for general admission tickets and issue complimentary tickets. Give your team access to the tools they need for show night.
Find contact details, add notes, and look up past orders. Your next box office manager can pick up with the records your team has already built.
Inside the Rehearsal Room
Choose general admission or student tickets and adjust the quantities. Try the ticket-selection screen yourself before you create an account.
Explore the demo shows
Simple pricing
No monthly fee or per-event fee. Patrons pay the platform fee as a separate line item at checkout. Stripe card processing is deducted from your proceeds.
Your proceeds are $20 less Stripe card processing.
Before your first show
Reserved and hybrid seating are available through guided beta setup. Build a draft seat map or ask HouseLights to build it for you, then submit your show details and seating chart for review. HouseLights must activate the setup before you can publish reserved tickets for sale.
The box office supports cash sales and complimentary tickets for general admission. For card payments or reserved tickets, direct patrons to online checkout on their phone or a staffed device. Card-reader payments are not currently available in the box office.
When seat exchanges are enabled for your organization, you can move tickets to seats at the same price with no exchange fee. Managers can waive an exchange fee. Exchanges that change the ticket price or require an additional payment are not yet supported.
Patrons pay the HouseLights fee of 5% plus $0.75 per paid online ticket, added to the ticket price. Stripe card processing is deducted from your proceeds. Cash sales at the box office currently have no HouseLights fee. Free and complimentary tickets also have no HouseLights fee.
Have a question about your show or need setup help? Email George at george@houselights.app.
Practice first
Explore checkout and staff tools, or build a draft seat map. No account needed, no live sales. Create your account when you are ready to set up your own show.