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Venue Admin track

56 lessons, in order. Each one links to the help topic it teaches, a task to try on your own venue, and a three-question checkpoint.

  1. 1.
    The venue hub — navigation and quick links

    Venue admins can orient themselves in the venue hub and navigate to any major section.

  2. 2.
    Creating an event (series + occurrence)

    Venue admins can create a new event series, add an occurrence, and publish it.

  3. 3.
    Editing events: pricing tiers, pricing categories, and status

    Venue admins can update ticket prices, add pricing categories, and manage event status.

  4. 4.
    Managing promo codes (event-level and venue-level)

    Venue admins can create, edit, and monitor promo codes with windows, limits, and tier scoping.

  5. 5.
    Adding team members and managing capabilities

    Venue admins with canManageUsers can add staff, set capability flags, and understand how the role/capability model works.

  6. 6.
    Building and editing seat maps (layouts)

    Venue admins can create a seating layout, add a room first and then seats and sections, assign pricing tiers, and save it for use on an event.

  7. 7.
    Signing in as box office staff

    Staff can log in, reach the box office dashboard, and understand what they can and can't access.

  8. 8.
    Checking in guests with QR scanning (web browser)

    Staff can open the web check-in page, scan a QR code, and handle common check-in results.

  9. 9.
    Looking up or creating a patron at the box office

    Staff can find an existing patron, create a new one, or proceed as a guest — and understand the badges shown.

  10. 10.
    Selecting seats and pricing categories at the box office

    Staff can pick reserved seats or GA quantities, assign pricing categories per seat, and see the running total.

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    Payment methods at the box office (card, cash, check)

    Staff understand the available tender types, when each applies, and how to record a single-tender payment.

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    Exchanging a ticket to a different performance

    Staff can exchange one or more tickets from one performance to another, compute the price difference, and settle the payment.

  13. 13.
    Completing a sale and what happens next

    Staff understand the success state, what emails are sent, and how to find the order afterward.

  14. 14.
    Refunding a ticket (box office staff view)

    Staff understand what refunds they can process, the role limits, and when to escalate to a venue admin.

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    Managing attendees, exchanges, and refunds from the event page

    Venue admins can view the full attendee list, exchange tickets, process refunds, and export the guest list.

  16. 16.
    Promoting an event (social publishing and calendar distribution)

    Venue admins can draft and publish event announcements to X/Twitter, Facebook/Instagram, and external calendars.

  17. 17.
    Cancelling a show and refunding every order

    Venue admins can cancel a performance, refund every order in one pass, and settle the cash, checks and credits that have to be handed back by hand.

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    Archiving a show and finding old ones

    Venue admins can tidy finished or abandoned shows out of the events list, find them again later, and put one back.

  19. 19.
    Sold-out shows

    Venue admins know what buyers see when a show sells out, how to mark a show sold out early or hide the label, and how the box office sells the last seats.

  20. 20.
    Waitlist for sold-out shows

    Venue admins know how buyers join a sold-out show's waitlist, how freed seats are offered to the first confirmed person whose party fits, and how the box office Waitlist panel works.

  21. 21.
    What a show made: profit and loss for one performance

    Venue admins can see the revenue, costs and gross margin of a single show — ticket take-home, bar money and artist payout — on one page.

  22. 22.
    Bar sales for a show

    Venue admins can see what the bar took during a performance, which items sold, and how to widen the window Noctern counts as that show's sales.

  23. 23.
    Distributing a show to local calendars

    Venue admins can submit a show to local music calendars, alt-weeklies and listings sites, approve the copy Noctern writes, and track what was accepted.

  24. 24.
    Event images: the hero image and the gallery

    Venue admins can set the main photo a show is sold on and add an optional carousel of extra images under it, including photos copied from the artists on the bill.

  25. 25.
    Early access codes (presales)

    Venue admins can let members, subscribers or an artist's list buy before tickets go on sale to everyone, with a code that works only inside a window they set.

  26. 26.
    Arrival windows (staggered entry times)

    Venue admins can split a show's capacity into timed entry slots so buyers pick when they arrive and the queue at the door is spread out.

  27. 27.
    Multi-day passes

    Venue admins can sell one ticket that covers several nights of a run — a weekend pass or a festival pass — at a price they set.

  28. 28.
    Selling food, drink and merchandise with a ticket

    Venue admins can add menu and merch items buyers order alongside their tickets, grouped into categories, from a venue template or per show.

  29. 29.
    Venue profile and settings

    Venue admins can update their venue's public profile, configure branding, set up seasons, and configure exchange/transfer policies.

  30. 30.
    Connect your Meta (Facebook) ad account

    Venue admins with the Meta ads permission connect the venue's own Meta business and pick the ad account, Facebook Page and pixel that event ads will use.

  31. 31.
    Promote an event on Facebook and Instagram

    Venue admins with the Meta ads permission create a paid Facebook and Instagram ad for a show in the venue's own ad account, activate or pause it, and read its results.

  32. 32.
    Patron custom fields — defining and using them

    Venue admins can create venue-defined fields on patron records and optionally show them at checkout.

  33. 33.
    Integrations overview

    Venue admins know which external services connect to their venue, which they configure themselves, and which support sets up.

  34. 34.
    Connecting your Toast point of sale

    Venue admins can connect Toast's read-only Standard API Access credentials so bar sales are attributed to events alongside ticket revenue.

  35. 35.
    Ticket delivery methods and the mail fee

    Venue admins can configure how buyers receive tickets, set an optional mail fee, and let the box office waive it with a reason.

  36. 36.
    Box-office surcharge

    Venue admins can add their own percentage surcharge to card sales at the box office and the door, and keep every cent of it.

  37. 37.
    Day-of-show upcharge

    Venue admins can add a flat per-ticket amount for tickets bought on the day of the performance, exempt specific tiers or categories, and let the box office waive it with a reason.

  38. 38.
    Asking patrons how they heard about you

    Venue admins can turn on an optional "How did you hear about this show?" question and read the answers in the Channels report.

  39. 39.
    Sending email from your own domain

    Venue admins can register their venue's domain so confirmations, reminders, receipts and campaigns arrive from the venue's address.

  40. 40.
    Printing tickets on a Boca printer

    Venue admins can connect a Boca ticket printer at the box office and confirm it works before the first event.

  41. 41.
    Sponsor logos on tickets

    Venue admins can add sponsor/ad logos to the print-at-home ticket and confirmation email, with per-show overrides.

  42. 42.
    Learn tracks and the trainer view

    Venue admins can point staff at a self-paced training track and see who on their team has finished what.

  43. 43.
    Embed your events on your website

    Venue admins can copy two snippets — Upcoming events and Calendar — onto their own site as separate iframes.

  44. 44.
    Managing gift certificates at your venue

    Venue admins can view outstanding gift-certificate liability, issue cash/check/comp certificates, and adjust, void or resend an existing one.

  45. 45.
    Connecting your Square point of sale

    Venue admins can connect a Square account via OAuth so bar and concession sales are attributed to the right event alongside ticket revenue.

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    Arrival windows — staggering when guests turn up

    Venue admins can split a venue's capacity into timed arrival slots buyers choose at checkout, as venue defaults or per event.

  47. 47.
    Turning on comps for your box office

    Venue admins can decide who may give a whole box-office sale away free, and understand what a comp does to reports and payout.

  48. 48.
    Confirmation instructions and your card statement name

    Venue admins can write the parking/doors/policy notes shown on every confirmation email and printed ticket, and control the venue's name on a buyer's card statement.

  49. 49.
    Deleting a venue — the Danger Zone

    Venue admins understand why a venue that has ever taken money can never be deleted, what a true delete removes, and the safer alternatives.

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    How your venue gets paid — the Payments card

    Venue admins understand the two ways a venue is paid — Noctern as merchant of record vs. the venue's own Stripe account — and what changes under each.

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    Setting up memberships

    Venue admins can build a membership program with priced levels, free-ticket rules and a standing discount, and put a Become a member button on the public venue page.

  52. 52.
    Menu and merchandise templates

    Venue admins can build reusable menu/merch templates once and attach them to events as add-ons, instead of retyping them every show.

  53. 53.
    Allowing offline card sales on the Door POS

    Venue admins can let the Door POS take card payments with no internet, set the per-sale cap, and understand the Stripe Location requirement and the risk involved.

  54. 54.
    Your venue's sales tax rate

    Venue admins understand the venue's single combined sales-tax rate, where it comes from, when it refreshes, and how to force an update.

  55. 55.
    Branding your event pages

    Venue admins can put their venue's colours, logo, tagline, font and cover photo on every event page, or import them from their website.

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    The venue calendar

    Venue admins can see every performance on one month view and add their own entries — closures, private hires, holidays, holds — so nobody double-books the room.

Finished everything? Open your completion page — it prints on one page with your name, venue and the date.