Center Stage Software

Center Stage Software makes ticketing and box office software for theatres, arts venues and other event organisations. Its core argument is that venues should hold on to their own ticket income and service charges instead of passing them to an outside ticket agent. The company is based in the United States.

What Center Stage Software offers

• Wintix — box office software for selling tickets, reporting, fundraising, managing members and keeping a relational patron database.
• Webtix — a branded online shop where patrons buy tickets, classes, events and merchandise.
• Scantix — scanning of tickets at the door.

Who it works with

Its clients range across venue sizes and types, with community theatres prominent. Tacoma Little Theatre, Alton Little Theater and the Old Opera House Theatre Company and Arts Centre are among the customers it quotes.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Software business since: 1988, after the founders wrote tools for their own box office in 1985
• Recognition: a survey by Carnegie Mellon University's Arts Management and Technology Lab placed Wintix and Webtix among users' preferred box office tools