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Kintana vs Seat Engine
Your own desk on your domain — or a venue ticketing partner with websites and white-glove support.
Seat Engine is a US venue ticketing platform built for comedy clubs, music rooms, theaters, and exhibits — pairing event tools with custom website design, embedded checkout that keeps fans on your site, email marketing, merch, and a hands-on partnership model with phone support. Kintana is for comedians, promoters, and venues who want checkout, CRM, marketing sites, and email on their own brand and domain — with a workspace they control worldwide, not only through a venue ticketing provider. Seat Engine fits when you want a dedicated US venue partner to run your box office and site; Kintana fits when you want one desk for performers, promoters, and venues — with your list, mail, and ops under your brand.
Often a fit if you are…
- Comedians and touring acts who want their own domain checkout and CRM — not only a venue’s Seat Engine storefront
- Promoters running multiple rooms or bills who need settlement and roster tools in one workspace
- Venues outside the US — or teams who want the same stack for comics, promoters, and rooms without a venue-only contract
Side by side
Kintana vs Seat Engine
| Kintana | Seat Engine | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand & checkout | ||
| Checkout on your own domain | Embedded on venue website | |
| Full marketing site (bio, tours, pages) | Custom website design + hosting | |
| Custom domain for your brand | Pro plan | Venue-branded site + storefront |
| Fans stay on your site through purchase | ||
| Audience & CRM | ||
| Contact on every order in your workspace | Attendee data in venue dashboard | |
| Tags, segments, and campaigns built in | Built-in email marketing | |
| Email drips & broadcasts you fully control | Promote events from email | |
| Export data / tenant-isolated workspace | Venue reporting & exports | |
| Operations | ||
| Stripe Connect payouts to your account | Venue payout workflow | |
| Event inventory & on-sale management | ||
| Integrated merch store | ||
| Marketing insights & reporting | Analytics + AI assistant | |
| QR check-in & door scanner | Venue check-in tools | |
| Request-a-show & tour tools (performers) | — | |
| Promoter settlement & multi-act roster | Venue event management | |
| Dedicated phone support & onboarding | Email + docs; Agency onboarding | |
| Pricing & migration | ||
| Free tier to start | Free startup / sales-led onboarding | |
| Transparent self-serve pricing | Published plans + fees | Contact sales for quote |
| Import prior buyers / contacts | CSV import + migration support | Venue transfer support |
| Live Seat Engine sales sync | — | N/A — source platform |
Why teams switch
What changes after migration
Built for performers and promoters — not only venues
Seat Engine is venue-first with a partnership model US clubs love. Kintana gives comedians, promoters, and venues the same workspace: your site, your checkout, your list — whether you own the room or tour through it.
One desk for site, mail, and ops
Seat Engine bundles ticketing, websites, email, and merch for venues. Kintana keeps CRM, segments, drips, sites, and door tools in one tenant-isolated workspace — without tying your brand to a single venue provider’s ecosystem.
Works beyond one market
Seat Engine’s strength is US venue partnerships and hands-on support. Kintana runs the same stack in Sydney, London, or Toronto — with Stripe checkout and migration paths from Eventbrite and other platforms while you switch.
Move from Seat Engine
Move from Seat Engine
Export contacts and order history from Seat Engine, import into Kintana, and run your next on-sale on your own checkout and site. We can walk through venue or performer migration on a call — Agency plans include hands-on setup.
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